Weekend Catchup

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments

This weekend i have been taking things a little bit slower than usual. I have been doing really well so far with this blog, my aim for this month was to begin to make a post every day, this is actually hard enough for me to do however i reckon that if i keep it up i will begin to find it slightly easier. By making a daily post you know you have to do it, it is a great way of forceing yourself to do something, i have actually become far more interested in this blog now more than ever.

This month i have made a post a day, except for this past Friday the 13th because i took a day off for my birthday! I have also mentioned previously this month that i have begun to make a new design for this blog, the one i was working on was not what i wanted so i have decided to scrap it and start fresh, i hope to have it ready and live in two weeks time, lets see if i can actually meet that deadline!

I have now begun to cach up with the latest season of smallville, season 8. Unbelieveable so it is, i love this show, it is the best series i have watched in a long time.

Aswell as making a new design i have decided to make my video site a lot more user friendly,by giving it a complete redisign. This is no easy task and requires a lot of code change and css tweaks, this will take me a good while to do and will not be completed this month.

Other than the above i have been watching a few films this weekend which include: Slumdog Millionaire and Death Race. Both of these two films are great but if i had to choose my favorite from the two, Death Race would be the one to watch.

I also watched the documentary called:  Super Size Me, i have seen this before but just had to watch it agian, it gives a serious refresh of what bad food does to you.

Slumdog Millionaire

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 14th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Plot Outline

A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers

Tonight i just watched Slumdog Millionaire, i thought it was a great film and would definitly recommend going to see it. It defintily deserved winning the 8 Oscar awards this year which included:

1. Best Achievement in Cinematography
2. Best Achievement in Directing
3. Best Achievement in Editing
4. Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
5. Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
6. Best Achievement in Sound
7. Best Motion Picture of the Year
8. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

All those awards cannot be wrong! You should definitely go see it, here is a trailer below for it:

Wide Variety Of Twitter Tools

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 12th, 2009 | 0 Comments

There are so many twitter services available now you can never make up your mind on which one you want to use, some have features that others do not so you tend to use quite a few.

Here are two of my favorite twitter related tools:

The first is called: TweetBeep

With TweetBeep you just sign up for an account and add a keyword that you want to track on twitter, so whenever someone talks about a topic and include the word you are tracking you will be notified about it through e-mail. You receives updates hourly, and only get them if someone mentions your keyword, no spam is sent to you so that is great

If you own a business then TweetBeep can be very useful for you, all you have to do is track your business name and you find out who is talking about your business. Its great because if people find problems with your business you could quickly leap into action to resolve these problems before they escalate any further.

The second twitter tool i like is called: Twitterholic

With Twitterholic you can find out where you stand in twitter in rank. You can see graphs that represent the increase or decrease in your follower count. It shows you where you rank on twitterholic in relation to other users and also tells you where you rank in your current location, for me i rank second in my location.

The best thing is that you do not have to sign up to see these stats so that means less useless e-mails coming to your account. I done a quick search on Twitterholic to see where one of my other sites, TheEntertainmentClam, ranks.  To my amazement i ranked 15th in the whole of Ireland, not bad! I was expecting it to be way lower than that and didnt expect to make it on the top 100 twitterers of Ireland. I even am above sites such as The Irish Times (A Newspaper) and a few of the BBC and RTE twitter accounts, great news for me .