Thoughts: Singapore and F1...

Good evening,

Welcome to this edition of The Life of Bryer. This post is all about the Formula 1 again, this weekend sees the night race in Singapore. I've decided to post my thoughts about this great aspect of night racing. For years NASCAR has been having race weekends taking place at night under flood lights. Formula 1 have been doing it since 2008, and you have to say, it's spectacular to witness. 

I have attached some great photos from the practice and qualifying sessions that have happened so far from the track. The cars just look soooooooo much better. The aspect of rain and road tarmac with the speeds of F1 is a dangerous cocktail, one wrong move and a concrete wall will really hurt you.

So what is going to happen in tomorrow's race? I hope we see another fantastic race between the championship rivals. This is the closest season in my living memory. Five drivers all in with a shout of winning the championship. My money is going to go with a McLaren driver, just because I think that the Red Bull drivers have both lost the ability to mentally close off a race.

I know this is a short and to the point blog, but it's just a quick one while dinner cooks. So if you fancy trying your hand at F1 racing and have a Xbox 360, PS3 or a PC, check out the newly released F1 2010 game from Codemasters. If you want a competitive edge to your racing, check out my little project. XboxF1.com, great guys, and great racing to be had. We have prizes and giveaways through out our season. 

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XboxF1.com Season Preview

Hi race fans, 

For those of you that don't know, I started a website about 3 months ago, that is designed to bring the thrills and spills of the Formula 1 championship to Xbox Live. The new F1 game from Codemasters is due out this week and it's looking absolutely amazing.

So what have arranged so far at XboxF1.com? Well in the last fortnight we have really ramped up our preparations. We have got the majority of the rules finalised, just waiting on our review copy to appear from Codies, so that we can tinker with the online rules and lap levels. We haven't had the uptake we were expecting, so to encourage people to play with their mates, we are introducing "Teams". Now at the moment we have 12 drivers that will be split into 6 teams, with each team being randomly assigned a team from the F1 grid. You get no preference, you just get what comes out the bowl. Will be an amazing principal, if everything runs smoothly. We still have slots open for European racers, so please visit the site and get involved. To visit the site, please just click the XboxF1.com button at the top of the page.

 

So having seen the game running now, from videos posted on YouTube, I cannot wait for a little run around the new Silverstone layout, which I must admit, no one seems to have raced around from the YouTube videos. 

We look forward to seeing you on the track. 

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The Meaning of Life...

Good afternoon, 

How are you all on this lovely wednesday lunch time? I have spent much of the morning thinking about a age old question. What are humans? While being at work, I have the perfect spot to people watch from location here in Poole. Literally thousands of people walk past the window every hour. So I can't help but think about life and where we all started. 

You see many different types of people. Little, large, obese, skinny, healthy, unhealthy, emotionally drained, estatic. It's amazing what you can tell from someone by watching then for maybe 30-45 seconds as they walk past the window. It's also amazing to realise the character profiles you build up from seeing the same people on different days, wearing different things, and acting in different manners.

I know this is a pretty random blog post, but the next time you get 10 minutes to yourself, pop yourself on a bench in a busy area, and see what I mean.

It's weird! 

F1 2010 from Codies is nearly here...

Good evening blog readers,

This evening I thought it was about time I posted something about the up and coming F1 2010 game from Codemasters. Any one that was watching the BBC 1 coverage of the Italian GP at the weekend will have seen Jake Humphreys and the Hamilton brothers slogging it out on the Xbox 360 version of the game around Monza. The game is looking amazing, the best recreation I've seen of Formula 1 in a long, long time! There is a extensive career mode, all the latest teams and drivers and what looks like an AMAZING online game. So if your interested, drop over to http://www.xboxf1.com and take a look.

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Google is the future, no matter what Apple do!

Good evening blog readers, 

Thanks for again taking the time to read what I'm thinking. Well tonight's topic of conversation is Google's rise in the operating system market with Android and Chrome OS. So how many readers are using Google Android, or have heard of Google Chrome OS? I'm pretty sure most of you have used a device using one of the above. So what is Google doing to reel us all in to their awesome systems? 

Well I think that the reason for this is simple, we are the internet generation, and want everything yesterday. Google's Android operating system for mobile phones provides us with email, calender, contact sync, Facebook and Twitter all built into the devices which run Google Android. So what does Google have planned for the future? Well it's hard to say, Android 2.2 aka Froyo is blisteringly quick, and is a great sign of things to come from the dev studio.

Google Chrome OS is a web centric operating system. I'm downloading it now as we speak to try on my netbook. If it works with the wireless and built in mobile internet adaptor, I'll do a extensive test.