Dag 760: Heard, Duffy, Blatchford, Luxford, Rabie

I wasn't planning on doing a post tonight, but I've come to bed and while deciding what dvd I wanted to watch before dropping off into the eternal slumber of the neophite, I decided to see what was on TV. The answer is that some sort of common wealth games or something is on, and if the names in the title seem familiar to you, it is because you too are watching a group of women in very skimpy bathing costumes riding around on bicycles followed by some camera men on mopeds filming their bottoms. Each bottom has the name of its owner written just above it. Some of the bottoms don't have very much covering them at all. I didn't know this sort of thing was called sport.

Apart from watching women's butts I have also been to a few concerts of late and have a few more coming up. I have created a mysql database to store details of all my concerts in and will be adding these to it in due course, however, I still need to learn how to retrieve this data and display it on a web page. But once I learn how to do it there will be a top website featuring all the gigs I remember going to along with photos, thoughts, memories etc of the gig in question, appearing on an internet outlet near you.

Recent Gigs:
My latest Novel
St Judes Infirmary
The 55s
Goldfrapp
GoldFrapps support group - can't be botherd to find out who they were at the moment
Sigur Rós
Amina

Coming up:
The Australian Pink Floyd
Gary Numan

I should also like to add that these bathing costume clad women are now off their bikes and running along the road. Their bathing costumes are made out of very thin material and the cameras are now filming them from infront rather than behind.
Some of the girls are quite a long way behind the ones at the front.

The other thing that has taken up some of my time lately is http://www.myspace.com/. It took me 3 attempts to get mine set up with the right name etc and each time I deleted my incorrect account I have to wait a day or too before I could try setting it up again. I eventually got it up and running and found I already had one friend called Tom. It seems he is the sys admin or something and you automatically get him as a friend when you sign up. Although I was grateful that at least I didn't have zero friends, but it did cause me some stress too. What are you meant to do with Tom? Obviously, I don't know him in real life, so am I meant to keep him as a friend or is he some sort of demo friend that I should delete once you know what I am doing? Obviously, anybody visiting my profile will know that he isn't my real friend and would know I was really a saddo.

I felt a bit strange for a few days as I only had my sham friend and as far as I knew none of my real life friends had got a myspace account. But then I thought to myself, "Air must have one - I can't believe he hasn't got this far in life without having one". So I typed in a few possible myspace profile names, but they all belonged to other people. It looked like I was the only person I knew with a myspace account - which is a pretty lonely state to be in.

Some time later I saw a feature that will read you gmail address book in and allow you to send an email to each person telling them that if they don't set up a myspace account pretty soon and set me up as thier friend I will begin to look like a really sad individual indeed. During the import I got a message saying air already had a myspace account. I knew he wouldn't have let me down, it was just me not being able to do a proper seach that had failed me from finding him before. So, to send a friend request in ro Air was, with me, the work of a moment. Unfotunatley my imprt them bombed out so I never got to send my blanket email, but I now had the chance of getting a real friend to go with my token Tom friend.

Once I had sent the friend request out I was hooked and wanted more friends. So I sent one out to Sigur Rós too. I don't know any of them, but they already had 59958 friends so I hoped they might be able to squeeze little old me in there (and I would just sit at the back and not say very much).

I should add that I do not know the correct protocol for getting friends on mypace so I may well have done it all wrong, but as yet my request to them is still pending.

Meanwhile Adrian had come up with the goods and set up his own myspace account and put in a request to me.

So with that accepted I had 2 real friends, 1 pretend friend and a pending request with Sigur Rós. At this point I thought the right thing to do was sever my ties with Tom and go it alone. I felt very guilty removing him as a friend and I would just like to say no hard feelings were intended and I really enjoyed the time we were friends.

This brings us up to date. I have a myspace account with 2 friends and 7 people have viewed my profile and 5 people have listened to my songs. And, although Sigur Rós currently have 59958 friends I am not one of them.

So I still don't really know anything about the myspace etiquet, but for some reason I have a real desire to have more myspace friends. So if you know me or you are in one of the groups I really like - please be my myspace friend.