• “Chasing Cars” (original: Snow Patrol):  
• “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (original: Green Day):  
• “New York, New York” (original: Frank Sinatra):  
• “Ain’t No Sunshine” (original: Bill Withers):  
• “My Way” (original: Frank Sinatra):  

I’ll add songs as I produce them.

For the fellow recording nerds…

Sound card: Roland UA-55 Quad-Capture

Condenser Microphone: Audio Technica AT2020

Backing Tracks: Sunfly and Monster Hits Karaoke cdgs

DAW Software: Cubase 5

Coming soon…
“Close To Me” (The Cure), “Sweet Caroline” (Neil Diamond), “You’ve lost that loving feeling” (Righteous Brothers), “Love Me Tender” (Elvis), “Your Song” (Elton John)

Enjoy! (hopefully lol)

Alan

That’s the good news. The bad news is I need to now spend a fortune replacing my wardrobe. I wore a really nice shirt last night that fitted well two months ago. It now looks like a bloody is  draped over me . I’m quite tall so if you are even ideal weight you tend to look under weight. The bean pole effect. Therefore I am going to take the diet a bit easier and now go to phase two (which really should have been part of the diet process) and that is to register at a fitness center and tone myself up and rebuild some muscle tissue. I doubt I’ll get a six pack back but at least I the beer belly will be well and truly gone!

Using operators  ‘+’ and ‘-’ can be useful for filtering in and out search terms.

eg. “hotel hannover +booking”

Enter the above in google without the “”. This will show you all sites where you can actually book a hotel. The’+’ means the following word must be included on the page.

You can also use the ‘-’ operator.

eg. “hotel hannover -booking”

This will show all results that don’t have the word booking in it. You can mix and match with as many ‘+’ and ‘-’ operators as you want.

Lets say you land on a large site and need to find a specific bit of information. They do not however have an internal search feature. To save you a great deal of time trying to find the page you want through the normal navigation use the ‘ site:’ function by Google.

eg. type into Google

site:tommy-in-hannover.de gaga

Basically after the site command and the domain name enter a space and then the word you are looking for. The above will bring at the top of the results my blog entry on lady gaga.

There are also not so well known Google tools such as Google trends
http://www.google.de/trends?q=abakus

Google Insights
http://www.google.com/insights/search/

Both of the above are useful for checking out keyword trends, what is hot and what is not.

There are quite a few other Google “lab” tools which can be found at…

http://labs.google.com/

If you speak German and want to know the basics for ranking high in Google check out my tutorial…
http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/Suchmaschinenoptimierung/grundlag.htm

It’s out of date but most of the content is still relevant.

That will do for now me thinks.

Good points:

1. Some decent cover bands
2. Good atmosphere generally
3. Toilet facilities were fine (there again I’m a man)

Bad points:

1. Got too full at times
2. The different band stages were too far apart
3. my shoes were in a right state afterwards. Got there and they were black got home and they were gray (hell of a lot of dust.).
4. Not much variety food wise by some stages.

We are going to the new house tonight to have another look and at least start on room planning. I’m, taking my camcorder with me so we can do some planning when we get back. The cellar, with a bar and small cinema, is my baby. I know what I’m doing with that area. The rest of the house however will not be so easy. Which walls to break through, which rooms are the study/work rooms, which room to take for a bedroom, do we want a fitness room etc.

They reckon moving house is in the top 3 of stressful activities anyone can do. Behind death in the family and child birth. We are 3 months away and can see what they mean!

The statistics are unfortunately a couple of years old (2007) but I doubt too much has changed in 2 years.

Here some highlights…

• 15% of the 507,981 population of Hannover do not hold a German ID/passport (ausländer)
• The most foreigners in Hannover come from -  you guessed it – Turkey. With 19,042 equating to 3,7 % of the hannover population.
• Followed by the Polish with 5,263
• There were on 01.01.2007 a total of 522 Americans in Hannover
• There were on 01.01.2007 a total of 903 Brits and 76 Irish in Hannover
• The largest age group of foreigners in Hannover are between the ages of 27 and 44
• The region with the highest density of foreigners is Linden-Süd (31.7%) followed closely by Hainholz (30.5%)
• The region with the lowest density of foreigners is Wülferode (1.6 %) followed by Waldheim (3.3%)
• The region with the highest ratio of foreign women compared to men is Waldheim (62.3%)
• The highest ratio of foreign men can be found in Misburg-Süd (61.4%)

There are some other interesting demographics in the pdf and it well worth a look.

If anyone can find a more uptodate version please let me know.

So, I’ve decided to simply cut out carbs after 8pm, increase my fitness activities (I currently only play badminton for 2 hours on a monday evening) and cut out anything with more than 3% fat content. I will keep you posted in this thread on my progress.

My goal is to lose 10 kilos before my birthday in mid September. That will put me at around 90 kilos. Still sounds a lot to many but bear in mind I’m 6′5 (1.95 m). It is according to various charts my ideal weight.

I’m going to miss the cheese fries in Henrys Grill and I tend to snack a lot. A particular snacking favorite of mine  are sour sweets and crisps. It is going to be tough but I reckon my will power is strong enough (he said lol).

Alan