Please let me know if you know different from this list:

Not responded:
Kate
Olivia
Hannah
Matt

technorati tags:Edgehill

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Ok I'm at home ill so I'd thought I'd make a list of things left to do for this reunion.

1. Make sure everyone who said they're coming is coming. This means ringing round .. damn it.

2. Figure out who needs lifts. So, who wants to get a lift with me? I'll come pick you up in the morning and you can help set up. That means you, Sam and Simon.

3. Find some tents.

4. Figure out toilet facilities

5. Figure out how we're going to get music over there.

6. Find out what time people are coming and decide whether it's worth having the bbq at the beach or across the fields, because some people might be arriving late and they probably wont be able to find the beach.

7. Make sure everyone knows directions. I've got an idea of tying something onto the sign that points to my house so you can't miss the turning down my lane. Maybe the curtains I stole from the staff room ;)

8. How do we keep the beers cold!? HOW!? Maybe find some crude form of ice bucket.

technorati tags:Edgehill

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So the guy tells me I'll get my packge on Monday.

The track hasn't been updated by 11.30am so I ring up. The woman says she's not 100% sure and rings the Exeter branch. They say that they couldn't find the package in the morning and only found it an hour ago after all the trucks had left. FUCK THEM ALL. Now they SHOULD be delivering it tomorrow, and if not, I'm am going to go to Exeter and whip some postal service ass.

technorati tags:City, Link, Suck, Ass

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I don't know why it's called that really, but I'll go with it.

Here's a list of who's coming, not coming, and who's yet to be invited or who has been and hasn't responded yet...

People who are coming:
Dan
Simon
Alice
Emma
Emily
Sam
Mark
Tom
Sarah B
Gav
Tim
Claire
Rachel
Catherine
Helen
Indi

People left to invite:
Kate
Steve
Tibbs
Darren
Matt
Lucy?
Annalisa?
Frid?

People left to respond:
Sarah J
Olivia
Hannah
Pirrie

Not Coming (Gay):
Cheryl
Madikay
Evans

The question marks are because I don't know if inviting them will lead to other's not coming...we want to maximise the number of people at this reunion .. so if it means sacrificing an invite for one person in order for 10 people to come .. so be it. Let me know if you think some should/shouldn't be on the list aaaand if you can, invite those who havn't yet been invited, and ask those who havn't yet responded. And let me know so I can update my list. I feel like Santa.

technorati tags:Edgehill, Reunion, Dantonbury

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I hate City-Link. They came on the 17th, but no one was home. They didn't leave a card; they should have done that. They didn't deliver the next day, the guy at the depot I spoke to seemed to think they didn't usually do that, but from my experience they have always done that whenever I've ordered from them and no one has been here the first time. So because I didn't get a card I didn't realise they wouldn't be coming the next day (Friday). I saw on their site track that the parcel had been returned, I checked it Friday while I was home and I didn't see it had been dispatched so I was pretty pissed off. When I got home Saturday morning and found it hadn't been delivered I decided to ring them .. I'm sure they employ stoners. Anyway, they guy said the earliest they can deliver my camera now is Monday. Fuckers. At least someone is going to be here whether it's myself or a parent. And the City-Link stoner seemed to think the driver would need my phone number .. perhaps they didn't come to my house at all and just gave up because they're too retarded to follow road maps and signs. Or because they're a bunch of pikeys.

Did I tell you about Mushu? He doesn't have aids. Seriously.

I can't believe they called a kid's film's dragon Mushu.

Mushu is not only a type of Chinese soup, but can also be used to mean acts of foreplay, or in general, engaging in acts of a sexual nature with a member of the sex which you are attracted to.

"I got mushu from your mum last night."

"I want some mushu"

"Mushuuuu!"

technorati tags:City, Link, Mushu

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When I say "other woes" I really just put that there so that I could say "I don't have any other woes" and rub it in your face that I only have one problem. That's right; one. Not ninety nine. That makes me better than Jay-Z and therefore a hiphop legend.

So yeah, trying to get car insurance until I go to uni, which should be the 26th of September. But the thing is .. I don't even know if I'm going to get into university until the day after my renewal is due. That kind of sucks ass. If I am going to uni I need insurance for about a month and a week, we'll call it two months. I've found that on More Than I can get insurance at £17 a month on a basic level ... that's all fine and dandy, but, if I want to cancel my insurance before the end of the one year period, it's going to cost me a massive £55. So that would mean I'm paying roughly £95 for what is, in effect, 5 weeks of insurance. £19 a week? For insurance? I don't think so. Based on a 51 week year, at £19 a week, it would cost me £969 to insure my car. This past year my insurance cost me £360 - that's £7 a week. So, why the hell should I have to pay almost three times as much (on a week-by-week basis) for insurance, when I now have one year's no claims bonus? It just doesn't make logical sense. Maybe I should start my own insurance company and insure myself for £0. Then if I do ever crash I can pay with the money I saved by not paying for insurance every year. Or something.

If anyone knows of a company that will insure me week by week or month by month without a cancellation fee .. for my sake, let me know! Preferably by Wednesday.... or at least Thursday.

technorati tags:Car, Insurance

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Maybe not funny, but I was something.

I was looking over all my old articles a while ago, and a few of them are actually pretty funny. And I was pretty good at photomanipulation. I found one picture where I changed the words "Send A Card To Tony" to "Send Anthrax To Tony". Pretty clever. At least I must have thought so at the time. Then there's my article about how much kid's drawings suck. It actually made me laugh 'cause I'd forgotten what I'd written and how good it was.

So that made me think ... I'm a damn good writer.

The end.

Or is it?

So yeah .. more old styleeee articles to come perhaps, if I can find the right motivation.

Something that's pissing me off at the moment is human nature .. like those gay ass emotions that wont quit. Well they quit .. for a time, then something sparks it all .. then you're fucked for another week while you try to think of anything but what you're thinking of. And what the hell is the point in that? Why can't I think what I'm thinking? Because what I'm thinking will ultimately depress me because I'm thinking I want something that I can't have .. so why the hell does the human body and brain do that to itself? Why does the body knowingly depress itself? What the hell is my brain trying to prove to itself .. that it can survive pain and conflict and a lack of oxygen? I think that must be the answer .. and if it is .. I'm pretty sure that makes me God .. or at least a super hero.

The real end.

Or is it?

Yes .. yes it is.

technorati tags:BitterDays, life, superhero

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Ok, everyone needs to keep the 17th free and the 30th free.

Here's why...

The 16th is my 18th Birthday, but it's a Wednesday - not a great going out night really. So Thursday .. Quigs is open a bit later and drinks are cheaper, plus Q Club is open. It's also results day. So after results I'm going to the pub and inviting everyone to join me. Then we stay out until everywhere in Bideford is closed. I figure that gives us a good 13 hours drinking.

For the 30th I'm going to try and organise a big "Edgehill Reunion" with everyone (or those that can/want to come) we were with from L5th to U6th. This will be held (hopefully) at my place, in a field, with tents, booze and music. We should have a bbq on Duckpool beach in the evening then head back to mine. It will be bring your own booze and bring your own food. BYOBAF? Something like that. And it's a no non-edgehillian thing - that is, no boyfriends and girlfriends if they never went to Edgehill with us lot ... so yeah, no boyfriends and girlfriends. Or parents/brothers/sisters/pets/children/uncles/aunties/cousins/toys/glass doors.

So yeah, keep the dates free, and spread the word. The more people the better!

technorati tags:18th, Birthday, Quigglies, Party, BBQ

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So tonight at work I managed to watch two entire films. Remember people, I was paid for that. We got some Pringles and Maltesers and a few cokes, and watched one of the better films I've seen in a while; Lucky Number Slevin.

I'm not going to ruin the plot for anyone who hasn't watched it yet, but I will say that the plot is pretty damn good. The beginning starts sort of in the past .. then it goes further into the past, and then comes back. You've got to pay close attention to the beginning; you wont understand it at first, but by the end of the film everything will be clear. I bet you can't figure out the ending before it happens .. you're just not prepared for it.

I wont say too much but the way that Slevin is seen by the audience through most of the film 'till the end is what tricks us .. we believe that Slevin is who he says he is because he never says anything otherwise, to anyone .. not that we see anyway.

So yeah .. a good film over all.

technorati tags:Lucky, Number, Slevin, S7evin, Film

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So at the moment I'm learning to speak Mandarin and Arabic, working hard at the chinese restaurant every night and raking in just under £7 an hour thanks to those beautiful tips, and trying to get fit again by running in the mornings.

Mandarin Chinese is, dare I say it, fun to learn. Learning? Fun? That's right. Well I find it fun anyway. Trying to talk to the chef's in their native language is quite fun .. or funny at least. At first I asked them if they spoke "Mandarin" or "Cantonese" in English. The one who speaks a bit of English didn't understand so I said "errr.. "ne hoi shoire putongwa ma?" (that's roughly how it's pronounced) and he said "huh? putonghwoi!?". I replied yes and he said "yes yes putonghwoi!". The other chef doesn't speak a word of English so I don't think he had a clue what was going on but he was smiling along cooking a chow mein anyway. Maybe he just enjoys smiling to himself .. who knows. So yeah, I taught the English speaking chef that "The Common Language" (putonghwoi) is called "Mandarin" in "Yiymone" (English). I think I need to work on my tones more, but he got the jist of what I was trying to say at least. The reason I'm doing this is that one day I'll hopefully return to Hong Kong and tour China. Of course in Hong Kong they speak Cantonese, but Mandarin and Cantonese are supposedly similar, so I shouldn't have too much trouble getting around in Hong Kong when I visit there.

Arabic is coming along very slowly. I can say about 5 words, where as with Mandarin I could probably hold a very simple conversation about what language people speak, and how people are health wise, after an hour and a half of work. Maybe it's because I'm using different systems to learn each language. Arabic I'm using "Rosetta Stone" which utilises the microphone for you to mimic the person speaking. The program measures a bunch of vocal stuff and tells you how accurate you are. It can be fooled though and I don't think it's highly reliable. Plus it's done on pictures, so I don't really know what I'm saying in English. I could be saying "Father", or I could be saying "Man". I don't know. Either way it seems to be a much slower learning process. The reason I want to learn Arabic is that I'm currently looking into a job in MI6, or The SIS. I'm guessing that a lot of the work would be based in the middle-east, due to them being fucked up and wanting to attack us and all. They prefer if you have a second language, so why not make my fourth language Arabic? Then I'll be able to do the job I want.

I tried holding a conversation on the internet with a French person the other day, and to my suprise, I could understand quite a lot of what he was saying. Although I only speak un peu de Francais, what I have learnt from my time at Edgehill has mostly stuck with me. Hell, I can even remember the opening paragraph to my GCSE French oral. Maybe I'll try brushing up my French skills at some time in the future, perhaps when I'm more competent with Mandarin. It can't hurt after all.

So work is going good too, not much else to say. We did get prank called for the first time ever today though. It was someone trying to do that bit off "Dude, Where's My Car?" where the Chinese woman is going "aaaand theeeeeen? And then? AND THEN? AAAND THHEEEEN?". They didn't pull it off very well 'cause they were just screaming down the phone and I couldn't really hear what they were saying. I wasn't sure if it was Tong Fong trying to get our food order for next week, so being the competant worker I am, I passed the phone over the Moira, who told them to call Bideford and then hung up. If I was fast enough I would have replied with something witty from the film in retalliation. To tell the truth I wasn't quite with it for half the night. I have the sweetest job in the world. It's easy, it's sometimes fun, and I get to watch films when it gets quiet. Plus free food and drink.

In other news, I almost crashed again today. Well, almost crashed for the first time; the other times I did actually crash. Some twat decided to pull out right in front of me. He realised he wouldn't make it and stopped leaving me to slam on the breaks and skid around him. It was the sexiest skid ever, and it scared the hell out of Moira. The guy pulled away before I had chance to get out my car and wave my hands around and shout a lot, which was a shame. So yeah, I saved Moira's kneecaps 'cause she was in the passenger seat and would have been the one getting smashed. I think I deserve a medal or something.

My sleep pattern is fucked up and I'm eating like I'm anorexic or something. Seriously, two meals in three days can't be good for you. And they wern't even meals - a portion of chips and barbeque spare ribs. I dunno, I'll sort myself out soon.

Anyone that wants to go for a drink sometime give me a call/text/email/msn/bebo/comment .. it's always good to catch up. And always good to drink.

Also, I urge you all to download Flock so that you can keep track of all the photos your friends upload. It's really nifty...honest! I'm going to install bluetooth again soon and tranfer all my phone pics, and take more, so that should make for some interesting (maybe) viewing.

Comments welcome! .. infact they're expected. Like tips really.

technorati tags:Life, Update, Mandarin, Chinese, Arabic, Travel, Running, Drinking, Work

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This reminded me of a video Tim showed on his blog a while ago featuring OK Go in the back yard, dancing. This is also Ok Go... dancing on treadmills. The song is "Here It Goes Again".

Does anyone else hate "Smile" by Lily Allen? Does anyone else wish she would just die?

Seriously, I hope I never have to hear her damn song again. It just encourages women thinking they're all so great and they can do whatever they want. Here's a news flash for you women, especially with their men. I don't even know what she sings about but she makes this guy cry then laughs at him? What the hell lady? Bloody Nazi. Women like her should get off their high horses. They're not special, they're just arrogant and annoying. They think they can do anything ... tough break bitch, women can't do everything men can do. I'd like to see you try and get into the penis modelling business. Yeah, damn right you better shut the hell up and get off the radio, the TV, the internet. Everything I value .. she's infiltrated it all .. it's all ruined. Everything. All I need is a guillotine. And some sleep. Currently I've been awake for over 37 hours. I think it's going to end up being over 58 hours awake before I get some sleep. Damn it.

Anyway .. back to the music. Scott Mills has said that this song will be the first song played for the dance at weddings in years to come. Anyone heard it? It's called "No Strings" by Lola. Let me know what you think, and if you find a video of it (not the dance remix one) please post it. There is a copy on her site, but I can't be bothered to try and rip it right now.

technorati tags:Lily, Allen, Smile, Music, Ok, Go, Dancing, Treadmills, Radio, Lola, No, Strings

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Latest release at time of writing: Flock 1.7.4.1

Not many of you will have previously heard of the new browser "Flock". It's based on the latest Mozilla Firefox code (so it has the same security updates etc, can potentially utilise the same extensions and feels the same as the 'fox), but it's not a rip of the code. If you havn't tried Flock, I recommend you do so. You can download the latest release here.

Alternatively you can download the latest nightly build (they do a new build every few hours, without any really noticeable implementations, just code changes and bug fixes) here

So what's so great about Flock? We all know Firefox is a great browser and certainly revolutionised the web, what's Flock got to offer that Firefox hasn't? Sam told me that he wouldn't even consider downloading Flock because Firefox does everything he wants from his browser, that is, store his favourites, and he wasn't interested in anything new unless it could give him a blow job. Admittedly, Flock can not give you a blow job. But don't let that put you off, Flock has many great features that Firefox doesn't incorporate, and hopefully this post will open your mind a bit and encourage you to give Flock a chance. I know it's not for everyone because it offers stuff that some people don't need, however, it's known as the "Social Browser", so if you use the internet, the chances are Flock has something to offer you.

When you first start Flock you get what looks like Firefox with a fancy new skin and search box, and a couple of extra buttons on the toolbar. These are the photo and news buttons. I recommend that you customise the toolbars to add "Favourites" on there as well, for easy access. As of yet they havn't added favourites to the sidebar (something which is awesome with the All-In-One Sidebar extension). So let's explore these new items.

Photo Sharing
More and more people are taking photographs these days, and keeping track of them all can be a real hassle. If you have a Photobucket or Flickr account, or even if you don't, the Photobar is some great work. If you have one of these accounts you can upload your photos through Flock using the uploader. The uploader lets you edit the filename, description and size, chose the folder and crop or rotate any image from your PC or the web, just drag and drop it into the uploader or chose it through the file browser. The photos you set as public will then be shared with the world.

To view someone else's photos you don't even need a Flickr or Photobucket account. You can either search for a username by clicking on "View Another Person", or if when you however over a photograph you see this symbol in the bottom left corner: it means that photo is hosted on either Flickr or Photobucket, and you can hover this to show:
(Alternatively the button will show up in the right side of the Location Bar)
Once clicked it will bring up that person's Photostreem in the Photobar for your browsing pleasure. You can then add them as a favourite by clicking the star which you can see at the top left of the photobar. This will add them under your "Photo Favourites" list, and you will be notified when they add more pictures, another section will appear saying "New". In addition the photobar button on the main toolbar will display an orange coloured circle on it to tell you that there is unviewed content. This is the same for the News Reader.

Feed Reading
Flock can automatically import your live bookmarks (and all your bookmarks) from Firefox if you chose, so don't worry about that being an inconvenience; it really isn't. The news button on the toolbar will have an orange circle on it if you have unread items.

You can easily add new feeds by clicking on the button which appears in the location bar when a feed is available. This is perhaps best shown by the news reader tour on the Flock website. Flock comes ready with a bunch of feeds already installed which can be kept or easily deleted depending on your personal preference. It's safe to say that this certainly works better than Firefox's method, and if Live Bookmarks are important to you in Firefox, the Feed Reader in Flock will seem like heaven to you.

Favourites Toolbar
The favourites toolbar is displayed, like in Firefox, below the location bar. However, Flock's version is a little different. As you can group your favourites into categories, the favourites toolbar lets you select which category of favourites to currently display on the bar. This is done using a little drop down feature, as you can see from the following pictures - click on them to enlarge them.

Here you can see that the collection "Favourites Toolbar" is selected.

When the arrows are clicked it brings up a drop-down screen. This shows all the collections that are in place in the favourites manager, which we will get to soon. As you can see there is a "From Firefox" collection, which is all my bookmarks imported from Firefox. You can create any number of collections and switch between them easily on the Favourites Toolbar. In this case I will chose Firefox and Mozilla Links to switch to.

And as you can see, Firefox and Mozilla Links is now displayed on the favourites toolbar.

This means that the favourites toolbar no longer has limited space, you can have as many bookmarks as you want on there, just a click away!

Favourites
Favourites has been vastly improved in Flock, and there are many, many new features. Along with the favourites toolbar in the Favourites Manager. This is easily reached if you place the "Favourites" button on the toolbar, or you can go through Favourites > Manage Your Favourites

With Flock you don't really need to organise your favourites unless you use a lot of organised collections to display on the Favourites Toolbar. This means that you can favourite anything you like. How do you favourite? It's so simple, you just click on the blue star at the start of the location bar, it changes to orange, it's now a favourite. If you double click the star you can save and tag the page. Tagging allows for a more powerful search. For example, you could run through a bunch of pages and tag them "Unread" along with whatever else you want to tag it with. Then you can use the search function in the Favourites Manager and search "Unread" to bring up all the pages that you tagged with that - then you can read a page, double click on the star when you have finished and change the tag from "Unread" to "Viewed" or something similar. You also have the option to add a description for the page, and share it if you wish.

Flock currently offers favourites sharing services such as Del.icio.us and Shadows, so you can see how many other people like the stuff you like, or something, I don't really get the point to these favourites sharing accounts but I have one none-the-less. If you don't want to share your favourites with everyone you can just store them locally, as with Firefox, or you can chose "Share with my other Computers", to share with other PCs that you use when you have Flock and these services enabled - it will download them onto the new PC for you, so you don't have to worry about exporting and importing anything.

When you star a page it adds it to the favourites library. The library holds all your bookmarks, and each bookmark can be optionally placed in a collection, or two, or three, or however many you like. If you click on a collection it brings up only those bookmarks in that collections, it's a bit like a search. These are the same collections that act on the Favourites Toolbar.
To add a collection it's a breeze. Simply click "Add Collection" in the bottom left of the browser, and enter a name for it, then you can drag and drop bookmarks into that collection, or Star and Tag them - remember you can chose to add as many collections as you like, and add any bookmark into any number of collections.

The favourites manager incorporates a search, found at the bottom of the manager in the centre. This search is much like any other library search - you have the full library, you type in a keyword, or keywords, hit enter, and the appropriate items from that library are then shown. Perfect. No need to categorise everything into folders - tags do the work for you.

Another option which I recently discovered when playing with Flock is hitting Ctrl + i. This is probably experimental, and brings up "Bookmarks" in the sidebar (not sure if this is true if you do not have the All-In-One Sidebar extension). Right click on a bookmark (or create one if you do not have any there) and select properties. You'll see options for "name", "location", "keyword", "gestures", and description", and an option to "load this bookmark in the sidebar". Now you may be wondering why this is there - if you go to a search engine, e.g. www.google.co.uk, and right click in the Search Box, you'll see a drop down list. In this drop down list there is an option to "Add a keyword for this search". If you do this, you can add a keyword such as "Google", and then when you type "Google This is a search" into the location bar you will come up with this result. Pretty cool. I know there was this keyword in Firefox, that's why I was trying to get it in Flock, because I use it a lot. However, the way they've implemented it means that you can go to any search engine, and add any keyword, e.g. "gimage plants" would take me to Google Image, searching for "plants".
Heck, it doesn't even have to be a search engine. I use Quintessential Media Player and seeing as I use the forums a lot, I added a bookmark for the forums in this "Bookmarks" section. Under the properties section I added the keyword "qmp" and directed the bookmark at the forums main page. When I type "qmp" in the location bar it goes straight to the forums. There's also the option of adding mouse gestures. I added the gesture 'Left Right Left' to open the qmp forums. You can chose new or same tab or window. This feature used to be pretty buggy, with the gestures being removed on browser restart, but that problem seems to be fixed in the latest releases. There's no telling how much time this feature could save people.

Search
You've already seen the Favourites Manager search function; now meet the "Web Search" function. Don't let the name fool you, it's much more than a websearch. So much so that it could even make your favourites manager search redundent depending on your browser usage. To best show you how it works, I did an example search for the term "Google". As you can see, when the pointer is placed in the search page the Magnifying Glass icon changes to the Google Icon - that is because Google is my default search engine. You can change this setting by going to "Search Preferences".

As you can see, the search doesn't just search the web. If you want to do that, you can simply hit "enter" after typing your keyword and it acts the same way as the Firefox search. But there's more, if you want it. As you type the window you can see here pops up, displaying Local Favourites, Local History, and other sites to search. I typed "Google", so Flock searched my favourites for all the sites I have that contai the word "Google", either in description, tag, url, or name. It also did the same for my history, searching the name and url of every page I've visited that's stored. Flock only shows the first 4 options from each one, but there's an option to "View All", if you so wish. The fact that "Google Mail - Inbox" is displayed twice isn't a bug; I do actually have two different bookmarks called that.
The search elsewhere function will search whatever you click on. You can chose which search engines to display under the "Search Elsewhere" heading by going to the Search Preferences. You can add any of these search engines; they'll probably add more in the future, but I think you'll agree...that's more than enough! To keep the list clutter-free you can chose how many, and which ones to display on the list, from one to all of them. They're displayed in alphabetical order, as you can see.

Blogging
What an idea! Blogging from the browser with such ease. Flock currently supports blogs hosted by WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, LiveJournal, Drupal and Blogger, whilst also supporting blogs that use the APIs Movable Type, MetaWeblog, Blogger and Atom. It's a breeze to set up - all you have to do is go to "Accounts and Settings" and follow the instrcutions. Alternatively I believe you can go to your blog, log in, and Flock will realise that you can add this as a Blogging Account and ask you if you want to. It's just too easy to blog with Flock. There's a standard editor and a source editor, so whichever way you like to do things, you can. You can easily switch between them using the tabs at the bottom of the editing window. When you're finished simply hit "Publish", chose the blog to publish too, select "New Post" or "Replace Existing Post", add tags if you so wish in the Tags box, select whether you wish to visit the blog after posting and whether you want to add "Blogged With Flock" to the bottom of your post (see mine), and hit Publish again .. bingo, you're done. The spell check option has the American dictionary set as default, but it's quick and painless to download your preferred dictionary - just chose "Download More". You'll be taken here and you can chose any of the dictionaries listed to install.

As you can see there is "The Shelf", a sort of snippets bar (more about this further down) available in the blog editor. This means that dragging and dropping anything you previously saved for blogging about later is quick and easy. The photobar can not be displayed, but you can bring up the photobar in the main browser window and drag and drop from there if you wish. You can also drag and drop images from webpages.

The blog editor stays "Always On Top". Hopefully this will be optional in future releases because it does bug me a bit when I want to go back to the webpage behind what I'm typing - I can't click on the page in the background, I have to minimise the blog first.

There's also a notification options. It comes ready with Technorati.com, but you can add other services and chose whether or not to "Always notify web services of my new posts". In addition you can add tags, which display as you can see at the bottom of this post. It's easy to add tags as you can see from the screenshot.

The Shelf
The Shelf is another great feature from Flock that goes very well with the Blog Editor as mentioned earlier. Don't ask me why it's called "The Shelf" because I don't know, but it's probably something to do with it holding stuff that you can easily view, put on and take off. Just click the button that looks somewhat like an envelope but could be a clipboard: , and the shelf opens up. You can drag and drop text or images to it, or create your own snippets by pressing, suprise suprise, "Create Snippets". As you can see in the image, it's really, really simple. It's great for blogging because, for example, if you see an image you want to use later in your blog post, you can drag and drop it to the shelf for later use. Similarly, if you see an article with something interesting written in it, you can select the text, and drag and drop that to the shelf as well!

That was going to be it for this post, but then...

Whilst writing this blog I discovered yet another feature. If you have an image in your clipboard, for example if you take a screen shot, and you are using the blog editor, you can press Ctrl + V (insert) and it will bring up the "Quick Uploader" for you to upload the image to your account. Once done it adds the code to your blog. It's like they've literally thought of every little detail.

So there you have it, Flock is certainly a great browser, perfect for Web 2.0. It's got so many features to offer almost anyone, old or young, whether you want to keep up with your friends' photos or share your own, blog easily or keep better track of your news and favourites .. almost anything is possible with Flock. Despite it being in beta stage, I still recommend you try it out, it's pretty stable. You might wanted to consider getting this extension first - Session Manager - it will restore your crashed sessions were Flock to crash .. remember, it's not quite perfect yet, it is still a beta .. but it's pretty damn close.

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