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Lunch Break Browser Updates

Here's a selection of great plug-ins for your firefox browser.

If your not using mozilla firefox, you can download the latest version here

1. Download Statusbar
This statusbar changes the way that downloads work. They'll now appear on the bottom bar of your browser

2. Gmail Manager
Allows you to log in to all of your gmail accounts without changing the page.

3. GooglePreview
Shows the web pages as an image in your google and yahoo results.

4. Gmail Space
Lets you use your 2.5GB of gmail space as a hardrive of stuff for yourself. Accessible any place, any time.

5. Split Browser
Split your browser into different sections so you can view 2 pages at once

6. Tab Catalog
Click on this button to change tab:



7. Tab Effect
Changes tabs in a graphical way


8. VideoDownloader
Download videos from youtube, dailymotion etc onto your hard drive!

3 things to change

Here is a non-extensive look into 3 things that should be changed in football.
1. Holding the ball in the corner with 5 minutes to play:
Nwanko Kanu was famous for doing this when he came to the premiership, and there have been many others since. I want to see the back of it. It is not Football. They created the pass back rule, they created the 6 second rule, and they should impose a rule here. Maybe a similar time-based rule, that you can only be in the 'zone' between the area and the touchline for 5 seconds, or leave it to the referee's descrection to give a foul the other way. It is unsporting, it is unentertaining, I don't like it, surely no one does.

2. Diving: but first lets do what we can

I think that there will probably always be the opportunity to cheat in football by persuading the referee, through act, that you have been fouled when you haven't been. But I think there are some things that can be done to stop it being so regular or so sickening.
Firstly, use injury sin-bins based on time on the floor. If a man is hurt whilst shopping androlls around for 2 minutes on the floor in anguish he cannot get back up and continue to walk down the high street. If a footballer does it, it should be assumed that they are in total pain and either a forced substitution should take place, or else they should 'require' 10 minutes recovery time on the side of the pitch. That would take care of the exagerrators.
Secondly, if a player is guilty of diving, he should be treated with as much contempt as if he had been caught paying the referee off before the game. Let us not foget that he has indeed cheated. The dives posted below, especially Thierry Henry's, and a whole host of others should warrant 4 match bans. That would be a deterrent for the Ronaldo's of the world.

3. No quick free kicks where a wall has been set up

This should never have been allowed in the first place. The keeper is obviously going to set up the wall by checking one of his posts.
A free kick was never supposed to be more valuable than a penalty.
The way it is working at the moment puts too much power in the hands of the referee as it is his decision whether they can or can't take the early free kick (and the subsequent goal)

Tuesday Randoms

It happens almost every game in the Premiership now, and people have come to accept that diving is 'part and parcel' of football. Need it be?
Regardless of whether it should or shouldn't be in the game, here is an opportunity to look at some of the outrageous dives that we have gotten used to.

• This is Henry's dive from the other week. Its one of the worst.
• Here are a collection of dive's from the world cup
• This is an advert for a Ronaldo Action Figure following his world cup antics. "The Number 17 Portuguese Action Figure"
• Here is some insight into the Italian training camp
• And how could I create a diving list without the one and only Didier Drogba. Here is a diving competition between him and Lehmann

Lunch Break Trailers

Here is a selection of films that are a recommended watch, although I have only actually seen Little Miss Sunshine out of them all, I will be watching the rest soon.

Number 23 stars the one the only Jim Carrey in a thriller based around a man who becomes obsessed with a book that appears to be based on his life







Babel stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael García Bernal (the quality guy from Ammores Perros). I haven't seen Babel yet, but the trailer looks good.







Little Miss Sunshine is a film about a disfunctional family who travel to california for a beauty competition for their daughter to enter.







An Inconvenient Truth stars the man who introduces himself as "I was the next president of the united states", Al Gore. It is a documentary about the effects of global warming. Watch the trailer at least.






Blood Diamond stars Leonardo DiCaprio in a moving film about conflict diamonds.

The Last King of Scotland is a true story about a scottish physician who finds himself working for the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 1970s. The trailer intrigues and I will be watching this one soon.





And finally, here comes another film in the 'Oceans' series. Imaginatively called Oceans 13. I think it looks set to disappoint. It comes out in the states this summer
Oceans 13

Transfer Kitty

This summer is going to be a big summer for transfers. The question I put to you is:

Which Premiership club will spend the most this summer?


Before you have a guess, here's a list of who I think will be among the big spenders:
Chelsea: Realing from the loss of 'their' championship to Manchester United, they will inevitably react with a spot of retail therapy
Liverpool: With brand new owners promising to invest around £200 into the club, expect Rafa Benitez to sign half of Spain.
Manchester United: With the money in from the title win, plus only having spent half their budget last season, a big summer awaits
Aston Villa: In a similar position to Liverpool with their new owner wanting to break into the top 4. Villa will spend big.
The rest of the premiership: With the new TV deal, realistically anyone could spend the most. It would just take an ambitious owner, with bigger eyes than his wallet. Niall Quinn for example.

And there is more

The internet is a wonderful thing. As stated below, it is now possible to watch streaming television from all over the world using freetube. Not only that, but it has been brought to my attention by a Mr Goulding that there is a site out there with greater potential for you.
Actually, there are two.

1 of them, tvlinkmovies.com offers you a selection of the films that you could find in imdb.com. I know you'll be enjoying watching some March of the Penguins over the weekend.

The second one seemingly has every episode of every season of every series out there. From friends to curb your enthusiasm, from Mr Bean to Scrubs.

That is definately one for you to check out.

Prepare to have your world rocked...

A new web-site has opened by the name of FreeTube. It might sound like a youtube rip off, but it is far far from that, and it may change the way we watch TV.

The site offers free television channels from all over the world, broken down into categories. It is pretty quick to load each channel: when I watched SkySports News just now, it took about 5 seconds.

Additionally, and this is where you will become slightly more interested, it has Fox Soccer Channel, which hosts the premiership with 3pm kick offs included. Bye-bye TV Licence.

Go to FreeTube and select the channel that you want.

Posting on Blogger

Google has changed the way that you use blogger.

They have integrated it with the gmail service, so you now log on using your gmail account. If you don't have a gmail account, you need to be invited to set one up, so leave a comment request.

As a result, jonny has set up a gmail account, so you can log in with jonnymelee@gmail.com with the password the same as before.

Luke and Kev can log in as before, and you'll be prompted to switch to the new version.

Chase that Stag

Ok guys. Where there's wedding, there's a groom (lesbian marriages excluded). Where theres a groom, theres a stag do.
I've just spoken to Dave, aka Best Man, and it looks like that it is going to happen sometime over the weekend of the 9th/10th of June. So keep it free.
Get in touch with Dave if you wanna share the burden of organising/comin up with ideas. I know that Dave wouldn't have had a stag-do if it wasn't for Ben!

Also, check out this fight in the QPR v China game last week.

Premiership v La Liga

It is claimed on quite a regular basis that the premiership is 'The Best League in the World'.
I say: Rubbish.
When it comes to this time of the year, what you really want in your league, no matter who you support, is an open contest as to who can become champions. If you remember a few seasons ago, on the last day of the season at the other end of the table, any one of 4 teams could stay up and the rest would go down.
If you look at the top of the Premiership now, it would appear that United have won the league, and if they have not it will be Chelsea. No it won't be liverpool, neither Arsenal.
This is the problem.
In spain, 13th placed Deportivo are as close to winning the title as 4th placed Arsenal. What a better run in. The gap between 1st and 2nd in England is filled by the top 4 in Spain. The top 3 in England covers the top 8 in Spain.
In order for the premiership to actually be the best league in the world, a far greater level of competition has to be established.




Pictures taken from soccernet.com

Spare Time

I had a couple of minutes free the other night so I thought I'd do this....