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On Easter Sunday I went to the Doctor Who experience in Cardiff Bay. I forgot to take a picture of the outside but basically it looks like a giant worm.

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I’ve just spent an hour looking at camcorders. There are so many to choose from and it seems almost impossible to decide.

Part of the problem comes from budgeting. Say I set a budget of £150. Then I find a camera that’s just £10 more. Well £10 isn’t a lot so I can say £160 is the budget and I start looking for stuff in that range – then I find stuff just a little above that and so on.

I think I’m going to get the Panasonic V100. I’ve watched a review of it and it looks good. The reason I want a camcorder is to make you tube videos. I’ve uploaded two already, using a digital camera, and the sound is not great. I’ve tried video editing of course, like in the one below, but its just a little bit more than my poor computer can cope with – it crashed twice last night.

At work I can’t have a pen and paper with me at all times. So sometimes ideas seem to pass me by. Yesterday as I worked all these ideas sprang to mind but most seem now to have slipped from my brain. So if you can, as I’ve said before, write your ideas down.

I will be starting on you tube in the not too distant I’ve just be wrestling with the computer a bit. See you soon.

I watch You Tube videos every day. This probably comes under the category of a waste of time. Of course You Tube has a massive variety of videos some are vlogs, some are educational, and there is a lot of rubbish too.

Vloging, and You Tube in general, is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. I just have two problems…

I’m a little camera shy. When speaking with someone I can talk fine. It doesn’t matter if its at work, university, or just generally out and about that’s fine. The exception is if I want to ask someone out. Then I freeze up faster than… than… well faster than a writer trying to find a useful metaphor for the end of his sentence.

When I’m using a camera words just don’t flow. Writing a script might help but I imagine the freeze reflex would still be their. Its like when someone asks you: ‘What is your favourite food?” – and suddenly you can’t seem to remember the names of any foods at all!

Now assuming I could get over that fear I come to the other problem. This is that I’m not much of an extrovert. My favourite vlogers wave their hands around they are excited by stuff. I tend to have all the outward emotions of Mr Spock.

I do get excited by things, like the fact that Doctor Who is starting again in a little while, and yes I do jump around sometimes  – but doing that on camera… no.

I would feel too self conscious.

So when I’ve figured out camera set up or how to put voice over on top of pictures I will perhaps, maybe, start doing you tube

I happened to be passing Burger King yesterday. There current slogan is ‘Have it your way.’ This to me seems like an odd phrase to advertise a company.

When I think of that phrase the first thing that comes to mind is an exasperated person giving up on giving advice. As in the sentence ‘Fine, have it your way, but don’t come crying to me when it all goes wrong.’

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Every now and then I get a strange desire to buy something. I will search the web for that something and usually decided that I don’t really need it – or I get a headache from the searching.

Well as you can tell from the title I’ve been thinking of getting an iphone. The only reason I can come up with for wanting one is that they’re cool!

I could technically afford it, well just about, but the question I keep coming back to is what can it do that a cheaper (and much cheaper) model cannot?

There is a more important question though… What do I need? When your looking at phones, or any technology, you are bombarded with all this information. It doesn’t necessarily matter if the phone has all these marvellous features if all you want to do is call and text. For that you could just get one of the old Nokia 3310s – the were cool once and you still occasionally see one. I think it would be harder to find an iphone 1.

I want a new phone partly for Twitter. Sometimes something witty will occur when I’m out and about. By the time I get home the moment has passed or I’ve forgotten what I wanted to write.

I have found a phone that would do what I want. It’s quite old but still seems good but doesn’t have to cool factor. So maybe I’ll continue looking. As we all know with technology the longer you wait the better tech you can get.

Didn’t get round to posting yesterday – sorry about that. Its been a bit of a strange weekend. University was cancelled because of the snow so I suddenly found myself with a free Friday and Saturday.

The good news is I’ve got a lot of writing done and I’m quietly confident about how its going.

It looks like the snow will be with us for another couple of days at least. Going to work tomorrow will be slippy but if I can get their without braking something it will be a victory!