I’ve never really been into this but I had the idea of the concept of “Big Brother” for it for a while before it actually came out, I thought about something like that making people live in front of the cameras like many old computer games, and many old films.

I played a game on on the old Commador 64 called CAT MAD ahahaha it was like a 2D Big brother. I had the idea to run it as a TV show. Should have sold the idea to channel 4 way back then Oh well…

I also think I read somewhere that Channel 4 have the rights to big brother for 14 years?! Maybe less, not sure. But my Idea would be… On the last series get in actors but channel 4 don’t tell the public and then they all have a huge fight, large sex orgies stuff like that, someone fakes a death it’d be crazy. Then at the end Channel 4 announce its a huge fake. I think that would be a great idea, slightly like the whole “war of the worlds” thing, but a modern version.

It’d show how many people live their lives by this sort of thing and blow it open so it’d also destroy the concept of it ever being real again so therefore maybe it’d be a good idea!

I think at least one series they’ll put in a fake an actor who’s told to do things but i think they may get the public in on it… not sure.

I think Davina Mccall is MASSIVELY over rated and over exposed. Not really very good, but seems to be loved by everyone? Why? She’s got better as its gone on and been shaped by the programme itself but to be fair she was awful from the start. And if you chuck anyone in from the start on it they could do it.

Right anyway thats my Big Brother rant over! Hahahaha

Feel free to comment.

Olly

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After using eBuyer for many years doing self builds buying components and general bits and bobs from here – www.ebuyer.com. I decided it should all come to an end about 2 years ago when ebayer offered the Acer PC’s complete systems at such an amazing prices. Great builds which saved me hours of headaches and tinkering, simply plug and play and upgrade if required.

After reading the reviews on eBuyer and my old PC starting to slow down I decided it was time for me to upgrade. I bought this MAXDATA RIG here:

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/cat/Home-PCs/subcat/Intel—Core-2-Duo

I was amazed by the price! A geat deal, the build quality is fantastic, also screwless sides to get into the pc itself. I really enjoy VISTA contrary to what a lot of people think its nice and smooth and looks great! I’m slightly concerned about security issues but am behind a hardware firewall on my router currently so thats slightly better.

I think there are a few compatibility issues with Vista, so I’ve heard (software) but I’ve not run into any of these yet. Everything opens instantly on clicking it and it’s a great PC!

I also bought a Point of View 7600GT PCI-E (Quick find code on ebuyer.com – 106578 it was on offer but now sold out) plugged it straight in and also an extra Gig of RAM (quick find code on ebuyer.com – 82244) installed these no problem, after my 1st boot. Quick tip the RAM is a bit of a tight squeeze behind the HDD but simple enough.

After getting this up and going I decided I wanted a bit more (always the case lol) so have now ordered another stick of RAM another HDD (Quick Find code on ebuyer.com – 94403) and a new 22 inch wide screen Samsung monitor.

After being out of the scene of building PC’s for a while and reading an Over Clocking article on my very processor at:

http://www.techspot.com/article/13-intel-core2duo-e6300-e6700-overclocking/page7.html

(Thanks to the guy who originally posted this on ebuyer.com in the reviews)

I realised this PC is capable of A LOT more! I am unsure if the BIOS is unlocked and capable of over clocking. But in the article they recommend DDR2 6400 RAM and I’d just bought myself what I thought was enough – DDR2 4200. Slightly annoyed at this and I guess I’ll have to replace ALL the RAM if I decide to go for an overclock. Maybe the powerpack too? Please let me know! Post a comment!

I know this question has been asked before but has anyone tried the overclock on this RIG with the standard DDR2 4200 533mhz RAM?

I’m going to post pictures of my finished rig in the next couple of days so keep a look out, also going to have the 22″ Samsung Monitor soon too and will try “dual screening” it with my current 19″ Neovo monitor Should be fun and well worth a look.

Feel free to comment.

Cheers!

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Yesterday I ran a Google search for “Ollysblog” to check my ranking and see what else was coming up. Recently I’ve had some references and also some reviews which has all been very exciting, but when I searched it yesterday this came up, please read it, it’s funny:

(*quick tip – if you want to buy something for money you “BUY” it, but if you want it doing for a certain time then – when can I get this done “BY” – BY the way that info is free.)

So basically this person wants a site like mine! In that case why not ask ME!?!? I mean, I made it! Or is this person trying to CHEAT at university?! Hmmmm…

Well either way to ask for it to be done for $50 – $100 – Hahaha, i’d laugh you out of my site, I am offended that my work may only be worth that. But to I suppose the justification for its low price this is that it is going spoil it with shitty boring cricket images slapped allover it! Which in turn will make it much, much less popular!

Oh well good luck with that – Oh and if you want me to do it, as you’ve not asked me 1st it’ll cost £1000 per page

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I really enjoyed this project and feel that it shows how I have excelled within Multimedia Communication and Design.

I feel that I have been able to create a full advertising campaign for my website as strong as any graphic designer as well as develop a fully functioning website with animations and Adobe flash content.

I have showcased my flash skills on the website and within the banners I created as well as the header of the site itself.

I have also created a CD that will run as a promotional tool for the website as my 3rd Artifact.

I achieved my goals I set out within my project brief, I am slightly disappointed that I couldn’t get the website to be a fully functioning with the database but as I explained that is more of a computer programmers field than a multimedia designer although I wish to go on from here and learn PHP and SQL database design. I think it also makes my project stronger as it showcases a cross field such as graphic design as well as web design.

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I created the join/add team page slightly different to the rest of the site for the reason of when browsing teams the flash intro would reload each page refresh so therefore after a while it would create a nuisance of itself so i dropped it for this particular page. I also created this page to browse the teams by the sport much more easily.

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After trying to create a database with SQL an PHP I was unable to do so, I did plenty of research into using another “template” and product to create the desired affect but my programming knowledge wasn’t strong enough to get to grips with learning a new language in a month and create a whole database on top of designing the website as I set out to achieve.

I managed to find some products that offered database management and I was able to install these onto my server but were not up to scratch, they were very buggy and I could not implement them to the site I had designed and use the database for what i needed, the closest i got was with a PHP script that was open source called “Xoops” but the database was for single people and it was more like a dating webpage than a team sports page, so I stuck to the plan and continued to create the website as a finished polished template and I also created web advertising for the site. The site showcases my ability to create websites and also my strong ability in Flash. Unfortunately we did not cover PHP or SQL within any modules, but my site is full operational as a showcase of my web design capabilities.

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