This is Omar’s blog

The thing that always gets me about surfers (now i say that really generally) is that surfing is their focus. Completely and utterley it’s their reason to be. I don’t know why it strikes me most about them but it just seems to. I just love that, admire that.

Just a thought.

Not sure where i first heard of The Postal Service, though know that i think about it, it may well be from here but i’m not entirely sure. That’s not the point though, though the album is great ( a kind of beeping lovelyness - that won’t be to everyones liking. Anyway, it had occured to me i now have three versions of their song Such Great Heights on my iPod now. The orginal, the Iron and Wine cover that was featured on the Garden State soundtrack and finally a rather impromptu version i found via Digg yesterday by Ben Folds. The Ben Folds version has a kind of infectiousness about it that i really like.
All Youtube links (of course.)

Finally got around to updating my index.html on chotoye.com after it got hacked somehow and i got accused of supporting terrorism. I used Comic Life (examples of it there) which is a cool programme that lets you make comics and instructioanly things and single pages like mine from your own pictures. So you can put thought and speech bubbles and text boxes and stuffs. Bonus is, it was preinstalled on my Macbook. It seems a little squashed and doesn’t seem entirely right but still…

I caught the Squid and the Whale yesterday at the Guildhall and it was great. The whole thing, the whole tone of the film, the snippets of music were wonderful. All the more for seeing it by accident, i thought something else was on. It’s essentially about a family going through a divorce in the mid-80s. Jeff Daniels is the most pompous arse ever as well.

The album is Anthony Rother - Popkiller. Word up for the recommendation Jon first and Alex second.

Entirely worthwhile piece here by Nick Hornby entitled How to read where he muses on the reality of reading.

If reading books is to survive as a leisure activity - and there are statistics that show that this is by no means assured - then we have to promote the joys of reading, rather than the (dubious) benefits.I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you’re reading a book that’s killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren’t enjoying a television programme.

It’s all true and well worth reading

I give my consent for the University to send my work and/or personal data to countries not governed by EU Data Protection Legislation for the purposes of such investigations.

And i have visions of my work and personal data being sent to some dodgy country and tortured…. “tell us, do you know about being involved in cheating?? Do you want to go to Guantanamo?”