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Archive for March, 2008
Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2008 Official Lineup Announced!
Mar 31st
Finally it’s that time of year again when the Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2008 Official Lineup has been Announced (or at least it’s supposed to have been by now) along with the sale of Reading and Leeds ticket. But what’s your thought’s? Are you going? Are you trying to refresh the offical website or ticket sites but failing to get anywhere? (happend last year) Have you managed to order your tickets yet? (I got mine in pre-sale) Or are you still on the phone line waiting? (yet reading my blog at the same time haha)
Let me know what you’re doing! 
I’ll be keep this post updated as soon as the site starts loading! 
Update: here’s the lineup for Reading and Leeds Festival 2008, thanks to NME!
Reading: Friday August 22, Leeds: Saturday August 23
Main Stage
Rage Against The Machine
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Fratellis
The Enemy
Biffy Clyro
Serj Tankian
Dizzee Rascal
Taking Back Sunday
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Anti-Flag
NME/Radio 1 Stage
Babyshambles
The Wombats
Vampire Weekend
MGMT
Reading: Saturday August 23, Leeds: Sunday August 24
Main Stage
The Killers
Bloc Party
The Raconteurs
Editors
We Are Scientists
Dirty Pretty Things
The Subways
NME/Radio 1 Stage
Manic Street Preachers
Bullet For My Valentine
Justice
Foals
Reading: Sunday August 24, Leeds: Friday August 23
Main Stage
Metallica
Tenacious D
Slipknot
Feeder
Avenged Sevenfold
Dropkick Murphys
NME/Radio 1 Stage
The Cribs
Conor Oberst
Pendulum
Reading and Leeds Festival 2008 Lineup to be announced within the hour!
Mar 31st
Yep it’s that soon already…. keep watching http://www.readingfestival.com/ and http://www.leedsfestival.com/
The Killers Headline at Reading and Leeds Festival 2008
Mar 31st
The Killers have just been announced as headliners for Reading & Leeds Festivals this Summer 2008.
Playing in Leeds on Sunday the 24th, and Reading on Saturday the 23rd, Brandon Flowers and the band will be performing much-loved hits and newer tracks from their latest album Sawdust.
Stay tuned for more news about the festival line-up…..
Tickets go on sale today at 6:45pm, so not long to go now, already got mine in pre-sale! 
Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio 2008 UK Launch Underway
Mar 19th
The UK Launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 is now underway at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham.
I Loved the Drumers that started just before Jonathan Pereras (General Manager of Application Platform Marketing for Microsoft) Keynote started, adds more excitement to the event.
In the keynote we are expected to see some demos from Julius Davies, Mark Quirk and Keith Burns.
Update 12:00: As expected in the keynote we saw some interesting demos demostrating Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Affter this I decided to stay in Hall 1 for the Core Infrastructure Improvements in Windows Server 2008 presentation with Matt Mcspirit and Jane Lewis. I’m now sitting down in Hall 3 by the Xbox Gaming Area having lunch. The ICC is pretty big, lots of halls and areas to visit, so thinking of checking out the place.
But for those of you not here, if you havent already may I suggest you check out the Microsoft Virtual Launch page:
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualevents/uk/vle.aspx
Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio 2008 UK Launch Tomorrow
Mar 18th
This week I’m on Holiday with an exciting week ahead of me.
Yesterday I started working on my new blog theme.
Today I visited Thorpe Park with my new Merlin Annual Pass. While right now I’m staying at the Arc Apartments within the Arcadian Centre in Birmingham which I must say are great value for money considering their location in the heart of Birmingham.
Tomorrow I will be at the UK Launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 at the International Convention Centre here in Birmingham then after that I will be heading home for a bowling event with work.
And this weekend I will be travelling to Alton Towers for two days of fun with mates from work!
So yeah a great week ahead of me. If anyones going to the launch tomorrow – see you there!
Exclusive Photos of BAA Terminal 5 Heathrow
Mar 11th
Last Friday I was supposed to go on a tour of the new BAA Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, but due to some kind of major technical problem the tour was cancelled the day before.
If time permits it hopefully there will be another tour arranged soon before the 27th of March 2008 when Terminal 5 opens to the public.
But for the time being I have been told that some exclusive photos have been posted on Flickr. Here’s a small selection of some of them, the rest in higher quality you can get here.
Top 10 Search Keyphrases for February 2008
Mar 1st
2067 different keyphrases were used to find my site in February 2008, here are the top 10 with the amount of times they were used plus their overall usage percentage.
| 2067 different keyphrases | Search | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| vtunnel | 2765 | 30.4 % |
| v tunnel | 360 | 3.9 % |
| sites like vtunnel | 272 | 2.9 % |
| windows | 165 | 1.8 % |
| planets solar system | 151 | 1.6 % |
| jurassic park 4 | 122 | 1.3 % |
| vtunnel myspace | 121 | 1.3 % |
| vtunnel proxy | 121 | 1.3 % |
| vtunnel website | 115 | 1.2 % |
| https v tunnel | 91 | 1 % |
| Other phrases | 4803 | 52.8 % |
