Know Yer SKA music? Then take da Quizzzzz!

OK all you music fans, so how well do you know your SKA music? Probably pretty well, but just to be sure to be sure, why not have a go at the little quiz I set for you all earlier today.

Of course, said quiz is supposed to appear directly above ye on this blog but I can never be certain with Blogger so, if you can't see it there, then click on this link to higher knowledge or view it on another browser or on yer mobile and have a punt!

Let me know too how ye fare out because, you never know, you also might be the lucky winner of a pint of Tu ... aaah forget it!

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Do rocksteady, sports fans!

We interrupt this programme ...

... to bring you an important commercial message!

Well, following on from yesterday's post, I decided to run up a little self-promotion video using the software I came across earlier this week and have on trial for a whole three more days. So, here it is now, down below! The basic story is that I'm a commercial writer and I'm in the market for some freelance work! I cover a multitude of disciplines, so nothing's out of bounds.

It's been a while since I've been blowing my own trumpet, hence this 'no-expenses-spared' surge towards the limelight. Expect to see this in cinemas near you from today. OK, well, on FB, Twitter and Linked-In, anyway, - and maybe even in stranger places - like here for example! Less of this but ...

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Get the last of the Cheeky Charlies, now!

Muckin' About!

There're some mighty fine software tools out there to help you get the best from your website or blog page or whatever ye need these days. I was snooping around online this morning, trying to find something to animate a point, and I stumbled across this thing called Videoscribe.

It's been around a few years now but I'd never used it before so I had a quick go at it and found that it allowed me to run up the wee intro vid you see below after only a couple of minutes of fiddling around. Of course, it's not free (I availed of the seven day free trial) but if you are often in the business of putting together presentations and that sort of thing then it's probably an overhead you could comfortably carry.

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It's getting easier to express the complexity of our digital lives!

Boleyn Over!

This evening, May 10th 2016*, West Ham play their final game at The Boleyn Ground, more commonly known to most football fans as Upton Park, before moving to their new home at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, four miles down the road. As the football aficionados among you all know, The Hammers have been playing at Upton Park for well over 100 years now so, irrespective of any progress, money or success that the move and the future will bring, it is the end of an era for the majority of their dyed-in-the-wool supporters. No matter what fate awaits the club in its new home, things will never be the same for these fans again.

I watched a video this morning on The Guardian website about how the move will affect the lives of the local folk in the east area of London where West Ham have resided since 1904, and who have followed the team all their lives. It's a pretty moving piece and I recommend you have a look because I think it offers a stark and universal reminder of what it is like to have a core part of your heritage taken away from you - something we in this town might also know a thing or two about. It probably underlines as well the easily forgotten fact that success and winning can often be an unworthy replacement for what being part of a strong community, bound by a common passion, can bestow on each one of us. It's indeed a sad day. Come on you Irons, all!

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* and on May 10th, 1980!

PS. West Ham subsequently won their last game at the Boleyn beating Man Utd 3-2, thus setting themselves up for a spot in the Europa League if they took a point from their last game. And did they get that point? Did they f*%k! Lost to Stoke on the last day of the season! Forever blowin' bubbles!