Dear Santa...

Tonight's challenge is to take a few minutes to watch this video clip, then tell me that you don't want one...

Just doing my bit...

I'm a bit late on this one really and should have mentioned it earlier, but yesterday evening I took part in earth hour. Not heard about it? No surprise really as it didn't seem to get much media coverage. I just happened to read something about it on... well, you know where.

The idea was that everyone, wherever they are in the world, should vote earth by turning their lights off for one hour from 8:30 to 9:30pm and I went for it whole heartedly. When the time came, off went the lights, TV, DVD player, cable set top box; I even unplugged the laptop and ran it on battery power for an hour. I'm not too sure what I achieved as I'm already quite frugal with the power I use and I doubt any global leaders were peering in with concern to see how fast my meter was spinning. At the very best I've maybe saved a few pence of my next electric bill.

I also read this morning of another eco-initiative, but I can already state categorically that I will not be taking part. Monday 27th April marks the start of Walk to Work Week 2009. Now I'm all for contributing towards a good cause, but this goes a bit above and beyond the call for me.

At a steady 3.5 mph it would take me 10.5 hours to get to work, that's 21 hours both ways leaving me 3 hours to spend at the office (where presumably I would feel the need for sleep, or maybe grab a bite to eat). Were I to step the pace up to a 5.5mph jog, then I would only travelling for 13 hours of the day.

Now by coincidence, my daily running machine programme alternates between both of the above mentioned speeds (albeit on a steady incline) but I usually find that after the first mile or two, I've pretty much had enough. Now that would barely get me to the neighbouring village let alone to work, Not to mention the harmful CO2 I would be exhaling in huge quantities along the way.

The Americans and Australians have a much more modest approach with a walk to work day. At least that way I could just take the day off...

Will you please change the subject...

I'm sorry guys, but there's no denying that it's considerably easier (ok, lazier) to blog at 140 characters at a time, but I will keep coming back whenever I've done anything more exciting than eat, work or sleep.

I've got Mum and Dad coming over for Sunday roast tomorrow to celebrate Mother's Day and I've already managed to get the chocs and flowers sorted earlier this morning. So once I'm finished here, I need to get all of the the weekend chores out of the way today.

So until next time, here's a couple of things that made me smile, courtesy of the the very same application that's been keeping me so distracted of late.

Firstly this one, via the great tweeter himself, Stephen Fry, which throws the whole Twitter and Blogging habit into question

Secondly this one from Jason Manford (8 Out of 10 Cats team captain) for no other reason than that it really made me laugh...

Tee Hee...

More lazy blogging from me I'm afraid, but I just had to share this link that I picked up from Alan Davies on Twitter earlier...

How Cool is This...

Not exactly sure what I'd use it for, but I want one...

Yes, I'm still going on about it...

More about Twitter I'm afraid. No, I'm not afraid, just enthusiastic about it.

I got a better idea today of just how many pathetic people there are out there who have set up Twitter profiles in celebrity names and then imitate them in order to pass false or misleading information out to their fans. What can they possibly get out of that? Pricks.

But don't let that deter you. On a lighter note, I had my first tweet from a genuine celebrity today, which more than made up for any earlier irritation.

Now I know a few of my regular visitors have looked into this already and signed up, but for those who are looking for a little more info, have a listen to this guy, Evan Williams. The clip is about 10 minutes long but it's well worth listening to as he knows what he's talking about. Well I guess he ought to seeing as he is a co-founder of Twitter.

Incidentally, he is also responsible for Blogger, without which I wouldn't be sharing this with you right now...