You know, I’ve got an idea. Why don’t get go and get naked on the beach and kick around some footballs. BUT let’s set’em alight first!
😉
I kid ye not. Dan Lane, one third of the founding trio at Howler Tech is taking a week out up in Whitby. I’ve been there once in the winter and it was not hospitable. Anyway, it looks like it’s a roaring place. For Dan captured the following, via QIK, last night:
Yes. Folk kicking flaming footballs around. I watched avidly. In fact you can actually see my comments there on the video’s page. The streaming was impeccable and maybe 2-3 seconds delayed, good enough for me to be able to ask Dan some questions and for me to hear him answer quickly — kudos to 3UK (I wonder if the local cell tower was particularly unstretched up there in Whitby, I reckon Dan probably increased Whitby 3G traffic for 3UK by about 2,000% last night).
Smart.
How are they picking up the flaming balls? Last I remember, fire is HOT…
I was wondering that too
I took the videos on my Three UK X-Series Gold N95 (as well as a load of photos that were autmoatically geotagged and uploaded using ShoZu) but I was also using my Three UK Mobile Broadband dongle a lot.
The event was Whitby Gothic Weekend (feel the angst!) and considering the huge number of alternative folk that are also very successful geeks I'd guess that mobile usage was up across all the networks (I'd love to see figures if any networks are reading!).
My T-Mobile Web 'n Walk contract was bloody useless… calls kept dropping (with decent signal) and the data usage was pathetic!.
As for Maffball itself, it's not really a planned thing it just tends to happen… the balls are actually toilet rolls soaked in paraffin and yes, they are picking them up!… it's been going for years and so far nobody has been badly hurt and there always first aiders, buckets of water and plenty of savlon 😉
Always good to have a safety adult…
Always good to have a safety adult…
I took the videos on my Three UK X-Series Gold N95 (as well as a load of photos that were autmoatically geotagged and uploaded using ShoZu) but I was also using my Three UK Mobile Broadband dongle a lot.
The event was Whitby Gothic Weekend (feel the angst!) and considering the huge number of alternative folk that are also very successful geeks I'd guess that mobile usage was up across all the networks (I'd love to see figures if any networks are reading!).
My T-Mobile Web 'n Walk contract was bloody useless… calls kept dropping (with decent signal) and the data usage was pathetic!.
As for Maffball itself, it's not really a planned thing it just tends to happen… the balls are actually toilet rolls soaked in paraffin and yes, they are picking them up!… it's been going for years and so far nobody has been badly hurt and there always first aiders, buckets of water and plenty of savlon 😉
Always good to have a safety adult…