So I admit I a not really a Sherlock Holmes follower, the first time I sat down to watch or look at anything to do with Sherlock Holmes was the latest movie which I really enjoyed.  The interesting thing about the latest version to made by the BBC is that they bring Sherlock Holmes into today’s time and you kind of see him meeting Dr Watson but he has actually come back from a tour in the army.

At first I admit I missed it on TV however I caught it on BBC Iplayer and was originally put off by the length of the episode as it was an hour and half long and to me that sounded a little to long for a series type program but as I started to watch the episode the time seem to fly by, you just wanted to know what theories Holmes was going to come out with next.

So would I recommend watching it?  Yeah even if your not interest in murder mysterious or the Sherlock Holmes stories I would recommend checking it out and seeing what you think of it because I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4pgh

Why do I blog?

Well if the truth be known I don’t actually know.  The blogs have become a bit patchy of late due to no urgency to do them but thinking back over the time I have been blogging the reason for doing it has changed.  When I first came up with the idea to blog it was something to use up a hosting package that I had bought to practice something that I was doing in my degree and that was web design.  I kind of did a few things before moving into blogging on here but nothing really took off, then I saw all the bloggers out there that made money and thought why not?

So I setup the blog in order to make money, however if your thinking about that now I wouldn’t because unless you’ve got something unique your not going to make enough traffic in order to make it profitable, there are odd people that do make it but you need a following and being unique gets you that.  Not saying that I don’t get traffic I just don’t get enough to make money.

So why do I carry on doing it?

Well the truth is I do as something to do I can go weeks without wanting to do it or I can go weeks with posting a blog post everyday, its really depending on how I feel, it is mostly away of letting off steam about stuff in the news and technology.  Although must admit it has got me through some tough times, due to the fact it was something else to focus on.

Would I say a Blogs a good thing to have?

Definitely its some where you can voice your opinions on something or help people with stuff they don’t understand, the web always give you an out to other people that are liked minded so why not give it ago and see what happens specially if you decide to get your own domain submit it to google and just see what happens.

Was really looking forward to this film but never got chance to in the cinema, if I’m honest it wasn’t what I was expecting as there wasn’t a lot of rugby in the film.  It was a political statement and how Nelson Mandela used the rugby team in order to unite South Africa.  It is set in a time where the colour of your skin would dictate who you could speak to and the jobs you could do.

All in all it was a good film but if your looking for a Rugby film this film is probably not the one for you.  If your looking for a political film that shows you Nelson Mandela at work with the insight on how to use sport to close gaps in society it is definitely for you.  I wouldn’t write this film off as it is an interesting film just not quite what is build.

Well what to say Tweetdeck is an application for Twitter that helps you keep up to date with everything you want on Twitter.  It really has made me consider twitter in a different way and want to use it.  The look into Twitter Applications was brought on by my new found interest in Ubuntu and its new social networking adaptations.

The application in Ubuntu is called Gwibber and to be fair to Gwibber it does a really good job however Tweetdeck runs on all operating systems and you can sign up to it to keep all your columns meaning you log in on multiple machines and you will have the same thing without having to manually add them to each machine.

I feel at home with Tweetdeck just a word of warning be careful what search columns you have because I had one for the World Cup and I get 100 tweets coming every 2 minutes.

Try it and see: http://www.tweetdeck.com/