New Blog Started - Cartmco & MMC Ltd's Gadgets 'N' Technology Journal

Hi everybody, you might guess that I don't update this very often, well I have started another blog for our business that I hope will get updated allot more often.


For now I'm gonna abandon this ship!!!


See you at: Cartmco & Media Main. Co.'s Gadg'N'Tech Journal (Web Blog)

I've recently got back from Holidaying in Lindos, Rhodes. Myself and friends have been staying in one of the villas I created a promotional website for, which can be viewed here.

Before I left I started a several auctions accross the board to promoted my on-line shop - www.cartmco.com we now have over 4,000 items that are generating much interest everything from Garage/Workshop & Industrial Tools & Equipment to Audio, Visual and Computing Items

All this of course is geniuine and is not a promotional stunt, I am a website designer and would love feedback on improvments to my sites, as for me at the moment I have recently moved house, I've recently moved out of the city into the picturesque English countryside, should add a bit more inspiration for my blog.

Mark of Respect in the US on Times Square 

What a Day!

Well today started off like any other but the terrible attacks on our capital, London were a shocked us all, especially after last weeks Live 8 concert and London winning the Olymics in 2012 (not that I was that interested in that... after all they had to find something to do with the Millenium Dome!). But still the attacks could have been allot worse if it had'nt been for precautions put in place to tackle terrorist attacks and for the calm nature in which most people acted. I also think that judging by the way the attacks we're carried out around London and the number of fatalties (still quite a number, but possibly could have been more) that all didn't go as smooth (or chaotic) as the terroists expected - which is kinda good, I mean no dis-repect by this comment just trying to look on the bright side of things, after all I work in London quite often and could have been so easily caught up in such tragic events, especially as I was due to go with my sister to the Queen concert in Hyde park tommorrow - but thats now been cancelled!

Anyway I did get to see The War of the World tonight and was amazed how good the film actually is (it's not even cheesy!).
Some scenes are almost accurate to the book (if the book was based in 2005 instead of 1899 of course). The martian tripods are amazing and very unearthly, their communication noise they make is more Accurate to how HG Wells discribed it rather than Jeff Wayne. I just feel that the way in which the tripod moves in the film, the black smoke, the heat ray - the way it evaoprates people and the handling machine's is just how H G Well imagined it. Also Tom Cruise is excellent in this film - it's probably the best film he's done. It's definetly Sci-Fi-Horror genre and much better than cheesy Independence Day!

Keep Watching the Skies, You Guys!

GreenDay Rocks!

I have to say it because its true! Coldplay are overrated. Lets face it Chris Martin marrying Gwenth Paltrow was a very good PR stunt for a bunch of Muse wannabes.

They were beaten by the Crazy Frog in the UK chart a few weeks back.... shows how over hypered and inaccurate the UK charts are to even consider placing the latest Coldplay track at No 2 and then to place the Crazy frog over it just makes the whole chart idea seem laughable.

Anyway I went to a very good concert last weekend, yep you guessed it 'GreenDay' and they rocked! Only thing was they didn't get around to playing 'When I come Around', but they did managed Basket case, which was great as well as a very extended version of Minority. Great I just wish I could have ended up with Billie Joe's guitar like that 16 old did! (imagine that on eBay!). I did also love their polictal views on President Bush - nice one!

Smaller story I was offered a ticket to see U2 in Manchester City football ground last Wednesday. I grungingly parted with £50!!!!! for that, however it was worth the experience, supporting acts were Idlewilde and Athelete both of which seemed to do a good job. U2 (or Bono and The Edge and lets not forget the drummer and bassist, so you too) were good but their usual-inflated-ego-selfs (Bono started boring me to death with his stupid acting and Live 8 promotion between acts - he kept saying 'we are all equal' - Okay Bono your so equal get off stage then!).
Anyway at least I can say I was there... and 'Sunday, Bloddy, Sunday' is their best song by me.

Anyways I upload some pics from my Phone soon, cheers for now!

You can't take away a King Size Mars Bar!!!!

Star Wars face masks have annoyingly been appearing in Toilets all over the place (note the picture was taken quite fast - I didn't want to look like a weirdo in the bog!) 

Okay today for me was stuck-in trying to produce an ecommerce website, I did managed to get out and on to site today, I did the regular backup and updates and then came back (well actually I then got stuck on the M32 for half and hour!).
Quite a busy weekend too! I seem to be working more and more days of the weekend recently in order to stay on top of my work load!!

Any way after hearing about that Glazer fellow buying Manchester United (their own fault for turning a football team into a PLC - what do you expect, of course billionaire investors are goinging to want to take over, after all at least the yanks can now confirm they own "MAN-CHEST-TER United".

I came home and turned on the bbc website - I was devistated to find out that Tony Bean's evil imperial forces (which includes the Sun and Mirror empire and the BBC) have got rid of the king size mars bar (why?).
Not just happy with being UK president, Mr Bean's got his eyes on something else now 'a dictatorship'... and just when we've almost achieved a hung parliment... he starts to take over the house of lords.

So whats next....

So far the imperial labour forces have banned (in a vain attempt to cut down the cost of the NHS):

Mickey D's Supersize (So people have to buy 2 big macs now - makes sense)
King Size choclate bars (of course we were all eating 30 of these a day!)
Happy Hour!!!!(great one ban Happy Hour - but open the pubs all night, this way people have to pay more money and get even more drunk!)
Royal Mail trains (great one Mr Bean more traffic on the roads!!)

and etc...

So heres my prediction of the next 'banning' laws pushed through by the imperial forces:

1. Burger King Triples (I did manage to see that stupid 'Super-size me' film what a complete load of irresponsible rubbish!) The Idea: now with both Mickey D and BK slaughtered by the Media you start charging extra VAT on the products.

2. The Drinking Alcohol in Pubs (you can purchase and smell the beer but you can't consume it - the idea: firstly you can explain that alcohol has been the problem with why the NHS is so badly run and funded, then two months down the line you can blame the public for why so many pubs have closed down ands so put up taxes).

3. Reduce the size of any chocolate bar to the 'mini bar' size (this way the manufacturers can make more profit.. and so pay more taxes).

4. Close down the post office, run an even-less effcient website for people (not taking into consideration older people and those without computers or the web) sack all the Post Office staff and force them to work in call centers.
Jam-pack the roads with Royal Mail vans (this way when the media start complaining about the roads, you can blame ordinary people for the mess you've caused and charge them taxes on using their cars!).


Phew...

HHGTTG - My Verdict!

"The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on bad reviews - forget them!"

I have just been to see the Hitch Hikers film, I've got to say it is worth seeing.
Ok so the begining story is a little fast paced for those with no knowledge of Hitch hikers to under-stand what is going on. However the plot is there and although some jokes have been changed (yes the 42 joke and deep thought has been ruined a little) new jokes including the improbability drive have been welcomed in the new film (it even kinda gives a situation in which you can derive how ford called himself Ford Prefect).
Jokes that weren't in the TV series, that were in the Radio series are also supplied, you even catch glimpses of the Original Marvin - though the new is great!

The real American infulence is a kind of love story, and some explainations are missing - though the book does give you almost as many references as were in the original (what were the critics on about!)

Best of all is the Beginning "so Long and Thanks for all the Fish" song

The film is also open ended for 'The Resturant at the End of the Universe' (next movie perhaps? - Lets hope so!)

Tom's 2005 Music Fest! Stop No 1

Kates idea to franchise Barrys dad's pub!! maybe shes spending too much time at work??!! 

Tonight I begain the first of my live music tours (yes I'm listening not performing..... believe me you wouldn't want me to perform!) by going to see the 'Australian Pink Floyd Show' in my very own city of Bristol.

I just love the way the Bristol council use the excuse of building the Bristol Arena to cover the crumbiling ruins that is the Colston Hall. Basically the sound in that place is so crap that unless the band brings it's own sound team and equipment, the whole place sounds like it's the inside of a tea cup! I saw a picture of the hall in one of my Grandad's old books of Bristol - it looks exactly the same. Anyway we went for beer at half time (its a required task during any concert - alcohol makes music sound better or makes you relax you enough to fall asleep through any boring concert - though in the Colston Hall that could be quite hard - they've stolen the seats from a 'slient movie' theatre). In order to get beer we were herded like sheep (kinda ironic of the final song before the break) into what basically is the old original Colston Hall threate sounded by scaffolding to 'stop parts falling off' (its been like this now for 4 years) in the middle of the room they have a temporary beer-tent-thingy (or perminant beer tent - thats also been there for 4 years) and so when you enter this room to buy beer, there are no queues - just everyman for himself (I was amazed at the orgnisation in the Cardiff Arena, all you need is a couple of people organising a queue, they did this at Cardiff and I managed to actually get in a record 5 pints (most I've ever had in a concert) - in the Colston Hall you'll lucky to get one! Then you have to neck it becuase '-the-band-is-about-to-go-on-and-the-guy on-the-door-tells-you-that-no-beer-is-to-be-brought-into-the-theatre' - what alload of poo!
Anyway the band where the usual first class performance, and even if you're not a Pink Floyd fan, the visual display is entertaining, I actually recorded some video clips (just a few really cool guitar rifts) I have since manged to download them to my computer (using my bluetooth adapter) and convert them from *.3gp to *.avi using
a 3GP convertor produced by a company called MKSOFT.

Lastly...... Thanks Aaron for the post, you'll right as usual I should go and see the HHGTTG film (beside I like the way they've kept the radio original music that was also created by Douglas Adams).

Anyway next stop is Milton Keynes for Green day (I See you raise an eyebrow) - but that ain't until next month. I'll post something before then! (I Hope!)