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Where are the best places to go skiing in Europe?

2009-04-29T03:00:00.000-07:00

Where are the best places to go skiing in Europe?

These skiing destinations are my recommendations based on the places that I have been skiing.

Les Arc, France;

Serre Chevalier, France;

Courmayeur, Italy;

Megeve, France;

Chamoix, France;

Portes du Soleil, France;

My own snow sports website provides a bit of useful information about skiing and snowboarding in Europe. The website has links to interesting and informative external websites that I believe are some of the best on the web. The website is still work in progress but if you want to view it, you can here: www.james.byethost15.com

Ski Forums

For any skier or snowboarder that wants to join a ski forum, I recommend joining SnowHeads http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/. This forum has very knowledgeable skiers and snowboarders on there. There is always someone who will reply to your comments and they provide valuable information. I definitely think SnowHeads is the best forum that I have found for snow sports.

Ski Job Info

Anyone who is looking to get away for the winter and work in a ski resort should definitely visit www.natives.co.uk. This site provides people with information about how to get ski resort jobs and explains the best ways of going about it. On my ski website (www.james.byethost15.com) I have a few other useful websites that might be of interest if you click on the links section.

Ski Websites

The best places to go skiing or snowboarding all depends on what type of person you are and what preferences people have. Therefore, when you are deciding on a snow sports holiday it all depends on what level of skier you are, who you are going with, whether you want a relaxing quiet resort or one full of après ski activities, and most importantly whether you want easy or challenging slopes.

When deciding where to go for your next ski holiday there are so many place to choose from, therefore it is a good idea to do as much research as possible so that you can find your perfect ski resort. To get a sense of how many possible ski resorts there are to choose from in Europe you can visit this page at skicow http://www.skicow.com/ski-region/Europe/3

Useful Ski Websites: www.directski.com, www.crystalski.co.uk, www.markwarner.co.uk

I recommend you read these Times Online articles:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/holiday_type/winter_sports/article646363.ece by Mark Frary: who describes the best ski website to visit.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/winter_sports/article4848012.ece by Belinda Arche: who describes the top 10 weekend ski destinations

My Ski Website

Baring in mind I am still building my website, I still have some useful info about ski resorts to visit and informative websites to go on. The Name of my site is TopTenEuropeanSkiResorts, and if you would like to provide any feedback about my website, I have designed a quick questionnaire of 10 questions that you can fill in if you want:- http://www.my3q.com/go.php?url=jayjimmyjames/70648.

If anyone wants to leave any comments about which ski destinations they think are the best places to visit, feel free.

Talks on TED

2009-03-23T08:44:00.000-07:00

My favourite talks on TED (www.ted.com)

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED is a company that sets up conferences so that the greatest minds in the world can give talks at annual TED events, and share their ideas with the world.

These are TED talks you must see (Amazing Talks):-

Brian Cox: What really goes on at the Large Hadron Collider
YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uKZWnJLCM

Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other "Mathemagic"
YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4vqr3_ROIk

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Barry Schwartz: The real crisis? We stopped being wise
YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-zdh_bQBo

Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM

Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data
YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM6XIICm_qo

Ze Frank: What's so funny about the Web?
YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMkJVXi7Rp8

Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better
YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpc-t-Uwv1I

Al Gore: 15 ways to avert a climate crisis
YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDiGYuQicpA

The Best Songs from TV Adverts

2009-03-21T10:45:00.001-07:00

The Best Songs from TV Adverts & The best ways to find the songs you love

There are so many good songs on T.V. so I thought I'd list a few of the best ones. If you want to find a song thats on an advert on TV, I recommend that you use http://answers.yahoo.com/. However, the best way to find the answer to the name of a song on TV is to use the google search engine (www.google.co.uk), and type the name of an advert or a description, and type the words Yahoo Answers at the end of your search criteria.

1. iPod Touch Advert
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around The Bend

2. Nice'n'Easy Advert
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes

3. Samsung Pixon Camera Phone Advert
Santogold - Say Aha

4. Sony Bravia - The Bouncing balls going down the street
Heartbeats - Jose Gonzales

5. Range Rover Advert - the one in Monte Carlo
Paul Van Dyk - Times of our Lives

6. M&S Advert - i wanna marry a lighthouse keeper
I wanna marry a lighthouse keeper - Erika Eigen

7. Lynx Bullet Advert - new pocket sized lynx deodorant
Seeds - Can’t Seem to Make You Mine

8. Wilkinson Sword Bikini Quattro Advert - Womens Razor
Angela McCluskey - It's Been Done

9. T-Mobile Baby Face Advert - Typical day in the city of Toronto
Royksopp - So easy

10. Macleans toothpaste
Foreigner - Cold as Ice

11. Emirates - Dubai Advert
Black - Wonderful Life

12. Kellogs Special K - Oats & Honey - Constable Beekeeper
Turin Brakes - Fishing For A Dream

13. Next - Lady keeps changing outfits
KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See

14. Kellogg's Special K - 10 Varieties
Pelle Carlberg - Riverbank

15. Garnier Ambre Solaire - Sand-Free Protection, Light & Silky
De-Phazz - The Mambo Craze

16. Cadbury's Dairy Milk - Eyebrow Dance
Freestyle - Don't Stop The Rock

17. Cadbury's Dairy Milk - Gorilla Playing Drums
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

18. Apple iPod Nano - iPods keep getting replaced
Feist - One Two Three Four

19. Coca Cola - Three Legged Footballer
Baddest Ruffest - Backyard Dog

20. Apple Macbook Air - The Worlds Thinnest Notebook
Yael Naim - New Soul

21. Sony Bravia - Kaka Skills on 200Hz motion flow TV
Kasabian - Underdog

22. Birds Eye Simply Range - Take a Fresh Look at Birds Eye
Booker T & The MG's - Green Onions

23. Homebase - Putting a House together
Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks

24. Vodafone - How are you?
The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

25. The New Renault Clio Advert - Featuring Carminat Tom Tom
Blur - Song 2

26. The New Coca-Cola Light Commercial - Hello You
Alphabeat - Fascination

27. The New ITV4 Autumn Sports Advert
Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men

28. HTC.com - Quietly Brilliant, Mobile Phone Advert
Nina Simone - Sinnerman

29. Thomas Cook - Live it, Love it, Book it (Redknapp)
Morcheeba - The Sea

30. Walkers - Baked (Gary Linker's muscular phyique gets deflated)
Air - Sexy Boy

31. Furniture Village - 2009 Boxing Day Sale (Tag Hanging)
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile

32. LV - Liverpool Victoria advert 2010 - Green Love Heart
Sophie Madeleine - Have Love, Will Travel

33. Giorgio Armani – Acqua Di Gioia – Woman and Nature 2010
The Cinematic Orchestra – Arrival of the Birds

34. Nikons Cameras - I Am - TV advert 2010
Radical Face - Welcome Home, Son

35. Heinz Beanz - Snap Pots - Microwave Baked Beans 2010
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell

Useful Song Finder websites for Ads: www.musicfromtheads.co.uk, www.visit4info.com, www.tvadmusic.co.uk, www.whatsthatcalled.com

All songs from BBC's Top Gear

Top Gear always use a good soundtrack for its program and it is always very hard to find out what the song they were playing was in a certain episode. Therefore, I thought I would list the two most useful sites that I have found in order to find the songs from Top Gear.

http://www.tv.com/top-gear-uk/show/27682/episode.html - This website can be used to find out which episode of Top Gear you were watching.

http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear-episode-songs-season-6/06x04-june-19th-2005-a-5280 / - This website is a forum that lists every song that was played on an individual episode of Top Gear. It even has what minute the song was played at.

For Example: I was watching an episode of Top Gear and I wanted to know what song they were playing. All I knew was that Richard Hammond tests 'Mondeo man's' new favourite car, the new BMW 3 Series. This is where I used tv.com http://www.tv.com/Top+Gear+(UK)/show/27682/episode.html?season=6&tag=paginator;6 to find which episode I was watching. It turns out that I was watching Season 6, Episode 4 – Aired: 6/19/2005. Once I found this I used this website/forum http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear-episode-songs/ to find which song was playing. It turns out I was listening to the Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way at 30:23 - 31:13.

I hope this helps you find the song you are looking for. Just use www.forums.finalgear.com & www.tv.com

How to get a six pack

2009-03-15T09:35:00.000-07:00

There are many reasons for wanting a six pack. The main reason for men to want one is probably to attract the girls on those beach holiday's. However, a six pack not only looks astheticaly pleasing but it also indicates that you are strong and fit and have good health. For example if you are playing sports (football, tennis, skiing) or running or doing some kind of energetic activity you will notice that if your core body (abs) are in peak physical condition you will be able to enjoy that sport more and last longer at it without feeling sick or tired. This is because your abs are trainned so that they can cope with more intensive activities.

To read more about how to get a six pack Click Here!

Football Manager 2009

2009-02-24T12:51:00.000-08:00

Bugs & Faults

This years release of Football Manager 2009 has had an awful lot of bugs and faults within the game. Sports Interactive need to sort these problems out if they have any chance of keeping their loyal fan base.

I have personally found a lot of bugs in football manger 2009. It all started with Sports Interactives introducing a new way of regestering the game online in order to prevent copyright and piracy. This involved the user having to type a serial key in to an activation program called unilock / steam. However, this caused many activation problems because gamers could not activate their new versions of fm09 due to an overload on the server. People went days waiting to install and play the game due to the fact they could not activate the game.

Also, people could not read their serial keys because 0 and o looked too similar which meant people could not access their game. They had to go on to this website in order http://keylookup.fm2009.softanchorinsight.com/ decipher the activation code.

I have also encountered problems whereby the 3D match engine fails to load which causes the game to crash. The only way to get around this was to reload the game and hope it worked the second time.

The latest problem I have encountered was that when I tried to load up the game it just crashes and says that the fm2009 is running dangerously low on memory and must shut down. This problem has caused the game to be useless due to the fact you can't actually play it. Even after a re-installation of the game it still does not work.

SIGames need to fix these problems in order to keep their customer.

We need patch 9.3.0

Patch 9.3.0 will hopefully be out at the end of february 2009. It will be an official Sports Interactive path that will hopefully fix all of the bug. SI are very dedicated to updating football manager even after they have sold the game to everyone.

Patch 9.3.0 will be downloadable from http://www.sortitoutsi.net/ and http://www.footballmanager.com/

Top 10 Must Use Everyday Websites

2009-02-24T08:07:00.000-08:00

Top 10 Must Use Everyday Websites

This blog outlines the websites that must be used everyday and explains why each website is an essential tool in everyday life.

Google (www.google.co.uk) - Even though Google is a search engine it is still a website that is essential in every day life. Google is normally the very first port of call when wanting to search for a website on the Internet. You can search the world wide web from here. Many people log on to the Internet not knowing exactly what they are looking for. Therefore, this is when Google comes in to use. Many people find websites via Google by using certain search criteria such as typing in key words or questions.
Facebook (www.facebook.com) - Facebook is a social networking website that allows members to keep their social lives on track. Facebook has millions of members signed up. Therefore, this allows friends to stay connected and keep up-to-date with their busy schedules. This website is an essential tool in modern living, mainly because this is the new way of keeping in touch with each other.
The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) - This website allows people to find out anything they want about their favourite movies, tv shows or actors/actresses. This website has facts and ratings about all of your favourite old films as well as reviews of the new must see movies. This is a must use website in everyday life because who doesn't love films.
BBC (www.bbc.co.uk) - The BBC website has every thing to offer, from News and Weather to Sport and Television. The BBC News part of the website is a daily must view website because everyone needs to keep up-to-date on current affairs. The BBC News website has all of the latest local news and news from around the world. The BBC Sports part of the website allows sports fans to be the first to know about the teams they follow and track there progress. BBC users can also keep up-to-date on travel and weather, as well as watch their favourite BBC Television programs on the BBC iPlayer.