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The Rangers Riots in Manchester, here is the video’s from CCTV and people’s mobile phones uploaded to Youtube, I am sure more will be uploaded over the coming days but it gives you an idea what happened when the Boys in Blue attacked the Boys in Blue. Never seen anything like it, Rangers “fans” attacking Rangers fans and one Police Officer gets a kick-in as he foolishly stays behind to take the mob on single handed, you can see the CCTV footage you probably seen on TV and then a guy out of his flat filming it from the other side as you clearly see a Rangers fan helping the Officer get out the area dragging him down the street.

Simple fact is Glasgow and Manchester is so close together it made the trip down easy for the Neds and with the big screen failing it gave them all they needed to kick off mini-riots, however some of the footage shows Police Officers randomly giving fans who are standing still doing nothing the odd kick-in, think the Police had their own mini-group of trouble making Neds in their ranks getting paid to dish out some random violence. Wonder how many of the kids in the crowd got injured, it’s a shame as well as it all started off looking like a great day out on the TV.

Will add more video’s if I find any decent quality videos.

UK Playstation’s have started to update today with system update version 2.35 installing it’s self on machines, apparently this update will improve the system stability during the use of some ps3 software, find out more at the official playstation site.

I am sitting here listening to a few tracks from my Sigur Ros collection and I was wondering how many people actually know who they are? Well probably not that many, indeed my wife doesn’t like the music. However believe it or not if you live in the UK you will have heard music from Sigur Ros as they some of the Staralfur track from the album Agaetis Byrjun has been used by the BBC in the “reinforcing the brand” commercials you see between BBC programs. Anyway worth checking out if you are into all kinds of music but definitely avoid if you not got an open mind when it comes to experiencing different types and styles of music as this stuff is very different from anything main stream.

Note: I have not used the Icelandic letters as it will take ages looking around the character map for them.

A new patch was released for World of Warcraft, mostly minor changes to sort a few issues out, however most notable additions include “New Teleport/Portal to Theramore and Teleport/Portal:Stonard spells for Mages” and the Arcane orbs in the Void Reaver fight now show in the combat log, so add-on’s will once again work for this encounter in The Eye. You can view the full patch notes for 2.4.2 at the official site.

Well that’s me finally switched away from Nildram to Zen Internet as my ADSL provider. Have been with Nildram for many years but the signal of their down fail happened many moons back when the service would have problems connecting to the World of Warcraft servers in France, but in more recent times they got bought over by Pipex and they in turn are owned by Tiscali and that’s when some of the more annoying issues started to appear, basically they switched all the Nildram customer on to the Pipex network and what basically this meant was that you where paying top dollar for a second rate service, you know the same cheapo service that your average person who has no clue about Internet providers would expect accept you would be paying pro-consumer prices and that was why I finally made the move to Zen Internet. Zen was on my short list many years ago when first picking an ADSL provider but at the time Nildram was who I went for, so here is hoping Zen works out as there is very few good providers left, so far so good!

Graeme sent me this link for a free tool from Microsoft called SyncToy v1.4 (Also in 2.0 beta version, but have not tried that) that allows you to copy, move and synchronize different directories on your computer. This is ideal if you want to make sure you copying backups of your digital photos as I know with more and more people using these types of camera’s it’s very easy to lose you photographic work, indeed I think I currently keep around 3 back ups in different places of the photographs I take and even then I am sure I have lost a few, so this tool should be incredibly helpful in taking the manual labour of oh keeping backups.

This is the follow up to my post Glasgow Dentistry, in my search for a new Dentist in Glasgow that offers private treatment. On Friday I visited a dentist in Patrick, now I might as well start with saying that I was not all that impressed, his idea of private treatment and my idea where not the same, wasn’t even in the same league, indeed it felt like I was paying for private treatment and getting NHS levels, now that’s not what I am after. Yes I want to save money but I also believe in to two sayings “You get what you pay for”, however you might not need what your paying for so always check and the other saying is “a fool an his money is easily parted”, with them in mind I know it’s striking the right balance of expecting to pay the going rate for private work but also making sure whoever I pay is giving me the time, care and quality of work I am after and is why I interviewed a few dentists to get one I would be happy with.

So today I visited another dentist, for an examination including x-rays, what struck me about the dentist I met today was that he didn’t want any clues as to what might be the issue, but instead went on a journey to evaluate every tooth, giving feedback on each and basically saying if no work was needed, is something need just cosmetic work, if a tooth had anything worth highlighting but was not a concern at this time and of course most importantly anything he felt needed work sooner rather than later. Now what was very good about the Neil Campbell the dentist in question was that not only did he come across confident and knowledgeable but he understood what I was looking for, i.e. a good job with the correct time taken to do it, and went over different options and what likely times and costs would involve.

Now most importantly he diagnosed the area I am having a bit of concern with, I am not in any dental pain right now because of it but I can feel niggling under current of something not being right, however as I said he correctly identified the two fillings that need work and will be undertaking removing the current filling in the back and adding a dressing to see if any infection is present and if it can be dealt with. Also noted in this examination and was clearly demonstrated to me was that I have another filling that needs replacing at another side of my mouth but can wait until after the initial work is under taken. The dentist I visited in Patrick on the other hand missed loads of stuff and clearly demonstrated that being fresh out of the Dental School doesn’t mean you’re trained in the latest techniques, I think experience helps a great deal in a dentist.

So if you found this blog in your search for a Dentist in Glasgow, then I am happy to recommend Neil Campbell who is based at the Ralston practice of A K Watson Dental Surgeons, phone number is 0141 882 1771, they also undertake NHS work as well as Private.

Today we took Adam to see the Thomas & Friends Show at the Edinburgh Playhouse. Leona had won a competition in OK Magazine for family ticket to see the show at a venue of your choice. The seats were in the stalls, and a couple of rows from the front and dead centre, with a great view of the stage, so very good seats.

The show was as you could imagine very much for the kids, however 90 mins with a break in the middle is probably too long for the average age of 3/4 attending however I guess if it was any shorter then parents would not be chuffed (pun intended).

Anyway Adam enjoyed himself so I guess that’s all that matters, all thanks to Leona entering, OK Magazine and HIT Entertainment for the free tickets, cheers!

Here are the UK sponsor codes for Burnout Paradise City that I have found so far, they work on PS3 and I am pretty sure if they are the same for Xbox 360, they probably are, maybe someone reading this can confirm.

Gamestop Car

B179 8M20 XA09 80FF

Steel Wheels Car

Z891 4K88 IN25 79AA

You will get the Gamestop car when you have your A Licence and Steel Wheels car you get that when you have your Burnout Licence.

When researching how to create a favicon.ico file (you know the little image you see in the address bar of some websites) I found the following website Dynamic Drive to be very good when you are looking for a favicon generator. The creator allows you to convert from gif, jpg, png and bmp files and can even deal with transparent gif or png files also.