I have recently seen the video from British Heart Foundations 2 minute campaign. A 2 minute video that could help save a life, after showing the symptoms of a Heart Attack.

In the event that you suffer these symptoms or witness them, dial 999 for an ambulance. Sit the casualty leaning against an wall with their knees bent. Chewing on an asprin helps thin the blood reducing the undue pressure, so consider this option.

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Further to my last post, I thought that I would explain the theory behind thunder and lightning, in real basic terms.

Last night, whilst watching the Thunder Storm, the Security Guard said about a customer who told him that thunder and lighting is caused by clouds colliding. At which point I burst out laughing!

Actually…I can’t be bothered to write something, so thank you to fate.is.killing.me from Yahoo Answers in Canada for writing such a brilliant answer. In fact I will post it here!

The sky is filled with electric charge. In a calm sky, the + and - charges are evenly interspersed thoughout the atmosphere. Therefore, a calm sky has a neutral charge.

Inside a thunderstorm, electric charge is spread out differently. A thunderstorm consists of ice crystals and hailstones. The ice crystals have a + charge, while the hailstones have a - charge. The ice crystals are pushed to the top of the thunderstorm cloud by an updraft. Meanwhile, the hailstones are pushed to the bottom of the thunderstorm by its downdraft. Thus, the thunderstorm’s + and - charges are separated into two levels: the + charge at the top and the - charge at the bottom.

During a thunderstorm, the Earth’s surface has a + charge. Because opposites attract, the - charge at the bottom of the thunder cloud wants to link up with the + charge of the Earth’s surface.

Once the - charge at the bottom of the cloud gets large enough to overcome air resistance, a flow of - charge rushes toward the earth. This is known as a stepped leader. The + charges of the Earth are attracted to this stepped leader, so a flow of + charge moves into the air. When the stepped leader and the + charge from the earth meet, a strong electric current carries + charge up into the cloud. This electric current is known as the return stroke of lightning and is visible to the human eye.

and lightning causes thunder….

You see a flash of lightning across the night sky. Five seconds later, your hear the rumble of thunder. If lightning and thunder come from the same source, then why don’t they occur at the same time?

Actually, they do occur at the same time. The time difference that you sense is due to the way sound and light travel. Light travels extremely fast (300,000,000 m/s). In fact, it is faster than anything else. Sound travels at a measly 343 m/s through air. Therefore we can see light in an instant, but it takes a while to hear thunder.

Sound has another disadvantage because it tends to bounce off molecules in the air. This makes the sound travel in all different directions. The further away the source of the sound is, the more the sound gets distorted.

Therefore, when you hear rumbling thunder, the lightning bolt was far away. When you hear a crack or boom of thunder, the lightning bolt is close to you (<100 m).

http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080611045936AAV7HxL

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Last night, I was stuck on the late shift at the BIG Tesco in Chichester. And then the lightning started. At first, I thought that it was someone taking a picture with the flash (from the other side of the carpark) but I kept seeing them, and then it became apparent that it was lightning.

The immense lightshow caused havoc for Brighton and Hove, with the Fire and rescue service receiving 52 calls in 1.5 hours as the heavy rain began to flood the streets of East Sussex. 2 houses also had lightning strikes on their roofs.

The lightning struck very close to the Palace Pier, the racecourse and the Royal Sussex County Hospital (as shown in the picture)

Those in Newhaven had hailstones the size of marbles damaging property and ruining gardens.

For some truly amazing pictures, click here for the Daily Mail’s article!

Picture Copyright (c) The Argus

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In this post, I am going to write about some of the stuff I had planned to write about, but never got chance. So, here goes.

Mighty Boosh Festival
Right…a music festival, hosted and run by a comedy act. Is that even possible? Well, The Mighty Boosh might be the only group with the capability to pull this stunt off. Rachael, Vikki and I woke up nice and early to catch a morning train. Buying breakfast at the station, and eating on the train we set off towards Tonbridge.

Despite a few threats, the weather managed to hold up, giving immense heat from the sun. Yes, this may have resulted in everyone sunbathing beforehand! There was a few hardcore fan who went the whole war, resulting in a few Tony Harrison heads wandering around. Rachael caused quite a stir with her Silver Wellies, so much so that people even started singing about them!

Robots in Disguise had a good crowd throughout the elecro-punk music . Someone I was speaking to (via tinterweb) said that Gary Numan seemed to remind him of Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails. Me not knowing this Trent guy, I wouldn’t know!

Har-Mar Superstar certainly intended to shock the crowd! He got right down to just his underwear at Rachael’s disgust. Luckily, Vikki and I went to watch Frankie Boyle at this time, so therefore missed the rather bad striptease.

Peaches also played a short DJ set, but the crowd really weren’t interested so close to the Boosh coming on stage. However one song did catch the attention of the crowd. I am not even going to put the title here, but contact me and I will let you know!

Now time for the Legends…The Boosh Band started with Future Sailor and Electo Boy. They had a fairly musical routine, with comedy acts as Old Gregg, The Funk, Bollo and Naboo came out. The moon made another appearance and sang his song, with a twist. Bob Fossil and Har Mar did a dance and rap off and other amazing acts.

In one word – AMAZING! Next time, I vow to take more money as everything is so pricey!

Pass Plus
On the same day as we got back from the Mighty Boosh Festival, I did my Pass Plus. For those of you who don’t know what Pass Plus is, it is a 6 hour course of lessons aimed at those who have passed their driving test. It covers motorways, town roads, country roads, adverse weather conditions, Night driving and Dual carriageways.

Well…it was certainly adverse weather conditons as on the first part, we had to slow right down to 30MPH on a motorway due to the speed of the rain. Finally the sun came out, and normal 70MPH resumed!

I extremely recommend it, maily because it knocked £300 off my insurance!

Work
Just to let you know why Blogging seems a bit side-tracked at the moment. During these holidays, I am working 7 days a week to raise enough money to spport me through University. I am continuing with my work at Tesco, but have a second job at West Sussex County Council. That is why posts seem a bit delayed.

I will write about the other stuff I have had planned soon. Honest!

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…as the futures bright, the futures orange. In other words I am all-white.

OK. Enough of the colour puns…but those who talk to me on msn will know that I am feeling colourless, as in I have lost my colour.

I had an occupational health last week, where I was told I am colourblind. I didn’t really take much notice until I realised that it will affect my life. It is unlikely that I can train to be a Paramedic anymore.

I don’t feel like posting much, considering the last 6 havn’t appeared (So i have been posting - meh!)

Coming up is a report on another new iPhone!!!!

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I have been asked this question severall times, and it has been really bugging me that very few people know the difference between a Laptop and Notebook.

If you were to ask a teenager of todays culture, the answer is usually “Nothing, they are the same thing” This is what was drilled into me. Think of it as the Tomato Tomato Potato Potato (where the second of each word is in an american accent)

Then, if you were to ask an old Computer Science or IT teacher, the answer you would be given is “The size and power. Laptops are portable desktop computers, and notebooks are ultra portable laptops used for work only due to lack of power”

So…who is right???

The dictionary definition of a notebook is;

A light, portable computer that is generally thinner than a laptop.

So far, we are now thinking that the IT teacher is right, however…in modern days, there is just no difference. Technology is smaller. Small enough to make handheld computers more powerful than desktops i know!

The term “Notebook” is becoming new term for laptop in current society, and there is absolutey no difference anymore!

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Scottish Ambulance Service is currently being criticised for losing a disk containing highly sensitive data.

The disk, containing all the details from over 1 million 999 calls (which is ever call since February 2006) was being delivered by a TNT Courier, and went missing after leaving the Paisley EDC.

The disk included the following:

• The Callers Name
• Casualties Name
• Casulties Date of Birth
• Location of Incident
• Phone Number used to call
• Names of crew dealing with call (Call taker, dispatcher, duty officer, ambulance crews, stations etc.)

You know…the sort of stuff which a identity fraud would LOVE to find, especially for use with health insurance scams.

The Scottish Ambulance Service said that all the data was encrypted and was password protected, so that all 999 details would be near on impossible to expose.

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On the 24th April, Messenger:mac 7 Was released by Microsoft. Unfortunately, due to Microsofts dissapointing version 6 which did not support webcams, I moved to using Mercury Messenger.

Mercury is more of an IRC IM, and is therefore slightly different. Anywho, I went to download Mesenger:mac 7 today, only to find Microsoft had not yet included it. It was very disapointing to see Microsoft can’t keep up with Technology. It has now, however, been included for the Corporate users, but considering I am a personal user I suppose I will go back to Mercury.

Microsoft…Please work alongside us Apple users, unless you want us to move onto apple software!

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It was about 2 weeks ago when Steve Jobs, and the Apple Crew released the Apple iPhone 3G.

Luckily, I have had a chance to play on one of these already, and am almost 100% impressed. The new software itself is very good, with not only the ability to play higher quality games, but also more day-to-day functions like the new ability to search through the contacts, which the iPhone 1st generation did not include.

The main new feature of the new iPhone is the GPS. It seemed fairly accurate to use, however did reduce the battery life a fair bit quicker than I was expecting.

The phone is using faster technology, and Internet pages are noticeably quicker due to the 3G features. Apparently, the official Apple Inc. pages are the slowest to load!!! However due to it being software powered, the phone can be updated easily.

Like a Mac, the iPhone uses Apples Mail program to look after your Email accounts, meaning that you can work away on your Emails whilst out and about. However unlike a blackberry, the iPhone is able to work with GMail’s HTML features and not strip them out. And with the touch screen, scrolling your finger across the screen is much easier than a scroll bar like my HP IPAQ.

A few things I don’t like

• The Camera needs to have a zoom and auto-focus. And 2MP is nothing with today’s technology
• Apple are not using the metallic look like their iPods, but the back is made of moulded plastic, which does not have the same “executive” feel to it.
• The Price…I am a student!

I could have written more, but don’t like to bore! All I can say is I WANT ONE. So if you are feeling kind, all cheques payable to Tom Dimmock.

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Right, I have had input into what I should use my blog for, so once the new design kicks in you will see!

But more importantly, I passed my driving test yesterday! Am so happy about it!

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