Zambucco's World

10/04/2011

2011-04-10T20:50:00.001+01:00

Hamble common

10/04/2011

Sunset over anti aircraft gun

Saints new sponsors

2011-03-18T08:18:00.001Z

Testing Amplify

2011-02-09T14:38:00.001Z

my firs test using amplify. I copied some text from my blogger account

See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/apjss

02/12/2010

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Muslim prostitute

2010-10-26T17:18:00.000+01:00

Some of you will remember my old friend Chris Smith from Moorhill School, we knocked about quite a bit. Well he lives in Florida nowadays. He was back in Southampton and we met up. Considering Chris was, how can I put this "a little bit naughty, mischevious maybe" it came as some surprise when he produced this card, yes my old friend is now an ordained minister and henceforth shall be known as 'Rev Christopher Smith' Only in america!

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Spinnaker Tower

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Not bad for a camera on a phone Nokia N900

On the beach Old Portsmouth 10.10.10

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Yes she i wearing a bikini! Look carefully there are people in the water

Meaty bit of kit

2010-10-09T12:06:00.001+01:00

I saw this parked up outside the docks

Hey big boy

I want one of these a bit pretentious but that's me

St. Mary's

2010-10-02T14:17:00.001+01:00

Big win today please lads

Chapel End

2010-10-02T14:05:00.001+01:00

I could only get a ticket for the Chapel end today

2010-09-26T02:48:00.001+01:00

2010-08-15T12:32:00.001+01:00

'The Truck'Probably the most unusual stretch limo on UK roads. I loved? driving it

My bum's so hungry, it's eating my dress

Okay not a limo, but a fine piece of bodywork.

'THE TRUCK'

13/08/2010

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My boy on his first night out in town. It must have been a good night, he came back with two black eyes!

KindGirls. Clean pictures galleries of nude girls

2010-08-05T00:27:00.000+01:00

KindGirls. Clean pictures galleries of nude girls

29/06/2010 test from E66

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Test

Epic or Tragic

2010-06-23T10:34:00.001+01:00

The new liner Norwegian Epic, it's a monstrosity, it's tragic

Tanga by Girls of Desire

2010-06-07T16:52:00.001+01:00

Tanga by Girls of Desire

Blogger Buster: Add a "BlogThis" button to your toolbar

2010-06-07T16:48:00.000+01:00

Blogger Buster: Add a "BlogThis" button to your toolbar

Sunrise Ocean village

2010-05-17T06:30:00.001+01:00

Paper, rock, scissors

2010-05-14T13:06:00.001+01:00

British teen barbie

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Civic Centre @ Dawn

2010-05-04T05:35:00.001+01:00

Woodmill at dawn

2010-04-23T06:25:00.001+01:00

I drove past and saw this, it deserved to be recorded

Celebrity Equinox

2010-04-20T17:29:00.001+01:00

It's a monstrosity

Sunrise in Bitterne

2010-04-11T07:18:00.001+01:00

Sat waiting for a job 7am in a car park in Bitterne, the sun has slowly risen up and I can feel the warmth. Ladies and gentlmen it's going to be another lovely day

Countdown's new babe

2010-04-06T06:09:00.001+01:00

I switched the tv on 6am and thi sis what I was greeted with she is gorgeous

Wemberley

2010-03-28T16:21:00.001+01:00

Just arrived inside filling up nicely

Wemberley!

Saints fans coming up Wembley Way

Wemberley

First look inside the staduim

Wemberley

Teams on the pitch

Saints 2 Carlisle 0

Half time

Wemberley

5 minutes after losing the Carlisle end is empty

Wemberley!

2010-03-28T09:41:00.001+01:00

I'm here COYR

Half time St. Mary's Saints 0 Swindon 0

2010-03-16T20:56:00.001Z

Taking felching to a whole new level

2010-03-16T15:53:00.001Z

Stunning

2010-03-07T10:55:00.001Z

Another stunning morning in Southampton

Mastory testing successful

2010-03-03T23:16:00.001Z

Well MaStory is now set up on the N900 and will publish to Wordpress and Blogger accounts yeeha!

Add an image for good mesure

Om nom nom nom

2010-02-25T22:32:00.001Z

Facebook

Southampton water at dusk

2010-02-20T17:58:00.001Z

COYR

2010-02-12T12:27:00.001Z

Proud to be a Saints supporter

The answer to the earlier question!

2010-01-14T14:45:00.001Z

Thanks to Michelle Bundy

What does this babe look like? Wait and see!

2010-01-14T12:58:00.001Z

Merry Xmas

2010-01-13T10:24:00.001Z

One for the guys

05/01/2010 farmyard orgy spotted in Argos

2010-01-05T07:24:00.001Z

04/12/2009 a beautiful crisp winter morning on Southampton water

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04/12/2009

2009-12-04T08:45:00.001Z

04/12/2009

It comes in threes

2009-12-03T07:03:00.003Z

HOW ABOUT THIS:

after yesterday's excitement it was decided that I will work split shifts, 05.00 - 10.00 14.00 - 19.00.

This entailed me going to bed slightly earlier so I could get up at 04.30, I managed to slip away at 22.30, although this was slightly late I knew I would manage. So fall into a deep sleep about 23.00?

Alarm duly wakes me during a dream where Megan Fox's clothes were falling off. I am strong I do not snooze I GET OUT OF BED! switch on iron, switch on kettle, switch on heating, jump in shower. make coffee, iron shirt, get dressed.

Check watch, 25 past mmm not bad,, oh hang on watch has stopped, it shows 12.25 check time on mobile yes 12.25!!!. Notice text message has arrived.

I''ve only woken up to the text thinking it was my alarm, I've been asleep 1 frickin hour! Now I'm up and ready to leave for work WTF!

Go back to bed, can't get to sleep, toss and turn wak eup feeling like crap and very late.

Life eh? You gotta laugh

02/12/2009

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My boy Drew having his first with his Dad

02/12/2009

2009-12-02T21:14:00.001Z

02/12/2009

19/11/2009

2009-11-19T20:57:00.001Z

WTF back boobs

24/10/2009 sat here in my cab listening to cry me a river by Justin Timberlake, what dross.

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24/10/2009

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12/10/2009 using pixelpipe from the Nokia N95 again. It seems much harder to use than the Android version.

2009-10-12T19:18:00.001+01:00

Here is an image to accompany this blog

10/10/2009

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Alum Bay

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part of our gorgeous day out

24/09/2009

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View from the corner of the bar, where I can observe

The bay of Southampton

2009-09-24T11:27:00.001+01:00

lovely place to have a break

QM2

2009-09-14T16:15:00.001+01:00

Isn't she beautiful

2009-08-23T21:46:00.001+01:00

Peter Rhodes bookshop

2009-08-13T10:28:00.001+01:00

Funny letter from Inland Revenue

2009-07-30T22:33:00.000+01:00

This is a real reply from Inland Revenue the UK. The Guardian newspaper had to ask for specialpermission to print it.

Dear Mr. Addison,

I am writing to you to express our thanks for your more than prompt reply to our latest communication and also to answer some of the points you raise.

I will address them, as ever, in order.

Firstly, I must take issue with your description of our last communication as a begging letter. It might perhaps more properly be referred to as a "tax demand". This is how we at the Inland Revenue have always, for reasons of accuracy, traditionally referred to such documents.

Secondly, your frustration at our adding to the "endless stream of crapulent whining and panhandling vomited daily through the letterbox on to the doormat" has been noted.

However, whilst I have naturally not seen the other letters to which you refer I would cautiously suggest that their being from "pauper councils, Lombardy pirate banking houses and pissant gas-mongerers" might indicate that your decision to "file them next to the toilet in case of emergencies" is, at best, a little ill-advised.

In common with my own organisation, it is unlikely that the senders of these letters do see you as a "lackwit bumpkin" or, come to that, a "sodding charity". More likely they see you as a citizen of Great Britain, with a responsibility to contribute to the upkeep of the nation as a whole.

Which brings me to my next point. Whilst there may be some spirit of truth in your assertion that the taxes you pay "go to shore up the canker-blighted, toppling folly that is the Public Services", a moment's rudimentary calculation ought to disabuse you of the notion that the government in any way expects you to "stump up for the whole damned party" yourself. The estimates you provide for the Chancellor's disbursement of the funds levied by taxation, whilst colourful, are, in fairness, a little off the mark. Less than you seem to imagine is spent on "junkets for Bunterish lickspittles" and "dancing whores" whilst far more than you have accounted for is allocated to, for example, "that box-ticking façade of a university system."

A couple of technical points arising from direct queries:

1. The reason we don't simply write "Muggins" on the envelope has to do with the vagaries of the postal system;

2. You can rest assured that "sucking the very marrow of those with nothing else to give" has never been considered as a practice because even if the Personal allowance didn't render it irrelevant, the sheer medical logistics involved would make it financially unviable.

I trust this has helped. In the meantime, whilst I would not in any way wish to influence your decision one way or the other, I ought to point out that even if you did choose to "give the whole foul jamboree up and go and live in India" you would still owe us the money.

Please send it to us by Friday.

Yours sincerely,
H J Lee
Customer Relations

Mango Thai Restaurant Southampton

2009-07-14T21:19:00.001+01:00

Mango Thai Restaurant Southampton. One of the best kept secrets, a lovely informal Thai restaurant, excellent food, nice friendly english staff, not that it makes any difference. I thoroughly recommend a visit.

Test twitterfeed

2009-07-13T23:16:00.001+01:00

This is a blog update from my mobile using Shozu, then it's link sent to twitter via twitterfeed. Hopefully

Southampton art gallery, taken from my cab

2009-07-13T23:13:00.001+01:00

I took this picture whilst sat having a break.

Test blog for Twitterfeed

2009-07-13T22:50:00.001+01:00

From blogger web site, this is a test blog to test twitterfeed. hopefully this blog will show in my Twitter tweets, as a link

Panorama002

2009-07-12T20:52:00.001+01:00

Crystal Castles

2008-10-30T20:13:00.002Z

I was working on a building site, There was a lot of music playing. One guy was playing a lot of metal and thrash metal, amongst this I heard this strange energetic music, it sounded like Atari or Nintendo games on acid. He informed me he was sat in a marquee at a musical festival in Norway (or some Scandinavian country) when this music started playing, it was Crystal Castles.

He ripped me a copy of the album and I fell in love. Maybe not every ones cup of tea, but I think they deserve a bigger audience, so check out the link.

Thorpe Park

2008-10-17T15:32:00.002+01:00

A few pictures taken at Thorpe Park. I was here with Penny, For Moniques 15th birthday treat, along with 2 of her friends.

Drew's Prom

2008-07-11T22:06:00.002+01:00

Drew's Prom

2008-07-11T21:58:00.000+01:00

Handsome man!

2008-03-18T02:41:00.000Z

Taken a long time ago!

Old photos of Steve

2008-03-18T02:39:00.000Z

Cheek clencher

2008-03-17T22:57:00.000Z

"A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed.

He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom. While he's in there, the husband tells his wife:

'Listen, this guy's an escaped convict, look at his clothes! He probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck.' If he wants sex, don't resist, don't complain, do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is probably very dangerous. If he gets angry, he'll kill us. Be strong, honey. I love you.'

To which his wife responds: 'He wasn't kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me he was gay, thought you were cute, and asked me if we had any Vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you too!!'"

Funny maths lesson

2008-03-17T22:53:00.000Z

"A professor of mathematics sent a fax to his wife. It read:

'Dear wife, You must realize that you are 54 years old and I have certain needs which you are no longer able to satisfy. I am otherwise happy with you as a wife, and I sincerely hope you will not be hurt or offended to learn that by the time you receive this letter, I will be at the Grand Hotel with my 18-year-old teaching assistant. I'll be home before midnight. - Your Husband'

When he arrived at the hotel, there was a faxed letter waiting for him that read as follows:

'Dear Husband. You too are 54 years old, and by the time you receive this, I will be at the Breakwater Hotel with the 18-year-old pool boy. Being the brilliant mathematician that you are, you can easily appreciate the fact that 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes into 18. Don't wait up.'"

Free air guitar

2008-03-17T22:45:00.000Z

Newcastle management

2008-03-17T22:38:00.000Z

We think Saints have a problem, this is a recently released picture of the management team at Newcastle.... Keegan and Wise!

Greg

2008-03-03T07:56:00.001Z

Sorry Greg not the most flattering of pics!
Used to test 'Shozu' a new system for uploading content from my mobile to various sites. It works!

50th bash

2008-01-31T12:25:00.000Z

A picture from my 50th birthday bash. More on my Picasa web pages

50th bash

Me

2006-10-09T09:58:00.000+01:00

For those of you who have asked, this is what I look like

Netiquette

2006-10-09T09:43:00.000+01:00

I looked up email etiquette on the Web and found many sites, yet only one of the ten sites on the first page of Google dealt with the real issue around email etiquette. However, I did find that theres even a new word for it now - Netiquette. One site had 32 rules (of course with links to other pages for a fuller description) for email etiquette and yet they still missed the main point!

What is the REAL issue on email etiquette? Well, before I answer that, read the following statement:

I did not say she stole the money.

Now read it aloud to yourself (doesnt matter if anyone else is around, they wont know what youre doing).

The key question: What is the meaning of this statement? What did you interpret from this written statement?

Did you think that:

* "I" did not say she...
* I did "NOT" say she ...
* I did not "SAY" she
* I did not say that "SHE" stole
* I did not say that she "STOLE" the money...
* I did not say she stole the "MONEY..."

Starting to get the picture? You see, whenever we put words on paper (or, in this case, emails), they can be interpreted in many different ways - and often are! In fact, the legal profession (with apologies to anyone of a legal nature reading this) has built an entire industry on the interpretation of the written word. Signed any contracts lately? Notice that they almost never have punctuation and even when they do, they can still be interpreted by two independent people quite differently?

By now you may have guessed what the golden rule of email etiquette should be:

"If the message has any emotional intent or is likely to have an impact on the receiver's emotions, look for another way other than email to send it."

Generally, this will mean face to face, or, failing that, over the phone or by video hook up, video cam, etc.

Emails should only be for fact, logic, and reason. I have seen so many innocent (on the surface) emails start wars of words between consenting adults that, if they weren't so serious, would almost be laughable. In fact, I have seen a situation where two colleagues who once had a very good relationship eventually deteriorate to the point of legal action over each other's interpretation of a simple email message.

Emails are unlike any other written word - they are not books, newspapers, or such where a great deal of thought has gone into the written word (and which are often accompanied by a visual image). Nor are they read that way, but keep in mind that they can be re-read by the receiver many times over!

Often they are written quickly and sometimes without review, yet they have replaced much of the face to face communication and phone communication that once made up so much of our interpersonal relationships. For example, how often do you see people sending emails to one another when they are in the office next door to one another or at the next desk or cubicle, rather than speaking with the person directly?

But emails also lack all of the nonverbal communication that is going on all the time as we talk face to face with one another and which helps us understand each other. Numerous studies have revealed that in face to face communication, in terms of interpreting the message that is being sent by one person to another:

* 55-60% is through the nonverbal signals that are being picked up
* 35-40% is through the tone of voice being used
* 7-10% is via the actual words that are spoken

Another recent survey disclosed that up to 37% of a first impression is based upon the speaker's tone of voice. On the telephone, that number rises to 80% or higher.

So, if we have a message that is meant to be motivational, confrontational, or in any way intended to impact the behaviour or feeling of the receiver, where does that leave us with emails as our means of communication if we can assume that only 7-10% of our real message is getting through? As one writer put it, "This makes email a unique medium. The lack of nonverbal clues makes it easy to misinterpret something, but we're not careful enough to avoid these misinterpretations because email feels so instant, easy, and accessible - just like talking."

As I said earlier, if you want to truly influence someone's thinking or impact their behaviour, my suggestion is to see the person face to face, or, as a fallback, by some means of voice/video connection.

Well, that may be okay when we KNOW that we want to impact the other person's feelings. But how do we avoid unintentionally impacting their feelings? (By the way, using any amount of "smilies" or similar at the bottom of your email, or as is creeping into emails at the moment, at the end of sentences, will have no positive affect - in fact they may even work against you).

Other than being as courteous as possible and re-reading the message carefully before sending it, the main word to avoid in your message is "you" - particularly used in the past tense. When used in the past tense, often "you" infers blame for something that the receiver has or has not done. Perhaps we do not intend it to be inferred this way, but that's what happens.

Moving away from emails for a moment, think about the last time you had a really heated argument with someone. Often what triggers such an argument is one person inferring blame by using "you" too often. "You never do that for me," or "you always miss my appointments." Pretty soon the other person joins in with their own "yous" and what started out as a genuine and positive conversation deteriorates into an argument. My bet is that when you really think about the last argument you had, the word that was used more than any other was "you" - and it was used in the past tense!

Those of you who have done any assertiveness training will know that replacing "you" with "I" can be very powerful and without offending the other person. As a simple and quick exercise, I'll leave you with the task of rewriting the two "you" statements I used earlier - "you never do that for me," and "you always miss my appointments" as "I" statements. This technique takes a little practice, but can improve the effectiveness of your email communications dramatically.

So, I would suggest that we can have as much etiquette around things like "salutations," "CCs" etc., and we can add as many "smilies" as possible, but unless the real meaning of the email is going to be received in the same way it was intended, then think again before sending it.

I'd like to get some feedback on email etiquette, so please email me via The National Learning Institute.

Like most of us, Bob Selden gets hundreds of emails each week. As MD of The National Learning Institute, he has written this article in the hope that it helps you with your email communications.

[Article Source: EzineArticles.com]

Inaugural Blog

2006-02-02T22:33:00.000Z

Well as usual, I have been surfing and have come across something new. This seems cool, I will look at this, wow it is cool, I'll sign up.
All good intentions, "I am going to have a blog" I think to myself, "it will be so cool, I will write down all the crazy stuff that whizzes around my head" Then the reality hits, I have actually got to do it now! Do I have enough time? Can it wait until later? Then I remember my new mantra

DO IT, DO IT NOW!!

So here I am 10.35pm writing this, I had planned to go to bed early tonight, finish off watching a film (the name eludes me 'big blue' maybe, but Jessica alba is very hot in the diving sequences).

So I am finishing my first blog now, with the intention of updating every day, well every other day, okay okay, a couple of times a week, definitely not less then once a week. We'll see.

As it is the first, I am trying out the new functions so here are a few favourite piccies