X Factor Review – Week 2 2009

October 17, 2009

Lucie How Will I Know- Whitney Houston Buy it from Amazon | Download from Play.com Not the most powerful impression from Lucie this week.  What should be a belter just didn’t have the oomph required to sell this song. However, we do need to remember that this was the opening act and that normally does generate loads [...]

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X Factor Song Choices Week 2 (17 Oct 2009)

October 17, 2009

Pretty late in announcing them this week, but here are the song choices for the remaining 11 acts following Kandi Rain’s departure last week. Not surprising to see Whitney Houston songs as she sings live during the results show tomorrow evening. DIVA WEEK Rachel If I Were A Boy – Beyonce Buy it from Amazon [...]

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Kandy Rain first X Factor Casualty

October 11, 2009

A bit of an upset for me tonight .. not necessarilly that Kandy Rain went out, but that John and Edward weren’t in the bottom two. I literally could not believe it when the Twins were the first act that was announced safe. That left me with a £10 loss on my bet that they [...]

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X Factor 2009 – First Live show assessment

October 10, 2009

Here is my assessment on the first live show : Rachel (Girls) Opened the show with Robbie Williams’ Let me entertain you. Seemed a bit of a shaky performance to me, with the lower notes not appearing to suit her vocal register too well. Her choreography was decent and overall the performance was strong and [...]

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US Petroleum Holdings – Gone Away?

October 8, 2009

I have written more than a few comments about US Petroleum Holdings and none have been too complimentary for those peddling in its shares. I don’t know whether there has been some outside pressure by official agencies, but I am pleased to see that the “official” website is now nothing more than a basic landing page with [...]

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Robbed by a Hamster?

October 8, 2009

Christmas is always a time for trying to pick out the popular toys that the kids will love. Unfortunately, it isn’t just parents, aunts and uncles … and grandparents etc. that are trying that prediction. A charitable word would be ‘entrepeneurs’ whereas a less charitable name would be a ‘shark’. Yet again, the sharks are [...]

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X Factor 2009

October 6, 2009

  Well … it is that time of the year again when X Factor mania really starts to hit. Yes, the bootcamp is over and the judges have been assigned to their categories …. and the top 12 acts have been chosen. A couple of opportunities strike me immediately from the opening rounds of betting [...]

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R4i DSi Card | R4i Adapter for the Nintendo DSi

April 28, 2009

One of the greatest add-ons for the DS or DSi is an R4i card that allows you to run homebrew (i.e. non-commercial) software allowing you to play movies, MP3s and read e-books etc. As a by-product, it also allows you to run back-ups of your games from a single Memory Card. I have already lost [...]

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Ivan Cameron

February 25, 2009

I haven’t written on my blog for a while, but I feel personally moved today to write here. Ivan was only 6 years old when he passed away, dying at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London earlier today. As I share the same name as David Cameron, I often hear ‘my’ name being called out [...]

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Zimbabwe – what it were an oil giant?

June 29, 2008

Grrrrrrrr….. The circumstances over the last few weeks have really annoyed me. Mugabbe is no better than Saddam Hussain in my view. The world condemns, but sits by and observes and Tut Tuts to the despicable regime. Short and sweet by my standards, but I can’t help thinking that if Zimbabwe were an oil rich [...]

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