It's been the end of two eras over here in Rob Ville, Land of Rob.

1. The old video rentals (well now DVD rentals) is gone. After all these years of being now nothing. Where will Rob get his saturday videos now? Yeah that was clever wasn't it? Yes go and buy a company and then go bust yourself. (I say that because the old video place was taken over by another company before this happened but it was still there at least.)
2. This proberly only affects people in the UK. The old official nintendo magazine was given the boot er quite a few months ago. Nintendo wanting a new look so it basicly sacked everyone and gave the official branding to another magazine company. Sniff it was fun to read. Look the 2 editors: the old and the new. Although the new mag is good it'll never be the same. Still it's only a matter of opinion which is better Tim Street or Lee Nutter.

So gone is the old Nintendo official magazine (nom) and here to stay is the new Official Nintendo magazine (onm).

See there's both teams. And look there's Rob still mourning the loss. Let's just hope that that photo isn't real. It would be shameful. Hear that Rob? Shameful. Baby. Crying over a magazine. Yes Rob you've fired me so many times another time won't make any difference.

Look, see what Rob finds.

Here's a fact I bet you never knew about Rob. Yes a prefect at school. Wow this must mean that he was a smart, intelegent, first class student. Right? Wrong.

So how did Rob of all people receive this honourable role? Simple he applied for it in the second last year of school didn't get it but, like everyone else who did the same, he was automaticly made one the next year. Simple. Don't ask me why.

What did this mean? It meant that Rob wore this badge and helped out in er two school events which were parent evenings (oh and he proberly, he can't remember, only helped out in one of them). Pretty pointless really. Still it was nice a blue.

More news about the war against the flab.

It's been over a year since I declared war against the flab (fat whatever) and I must say it's great when it suddenly hits me how much I have lost.

I look in the bathroom mirror every morning and see well a fat guy looking back. Then I stand next to a wall mirror and see that I don't look that large at all. What gives? Still it was great when I bought a new shirt a found that a medium size fitted very well instead of a large or extra large. I also descovered that I had lost about 8 inches off my waist (paty time I think) and even then those new trousers are a little on the large size.

My BMI says that I am... Wait for it... Over weight. Well you can't win them all can you. Well I could but first I must attack the NHS. Who's with me? No one? Ok ok I won't attack hospitals ok.

People these days. No sense of violence. Why in my day... I won't continue because I will be lieing.

So long pepsi/coke

A problem of Rob is his lack of sleep. Now he is trying something new and bold. Even daring. Having already lost five stone since last year (he's weighs 12 stone so his still fat. Oi fatty.... I'm fired arn't I?) he sets out on a new challenge...of sorts.

Yes he's given up the pepsi NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well his rules are that he can only have two cans a day one for lunch one for dinner. Pity. Still we must wait and see if this sacrifice shall not be in vain and Rob can sleep again.

Sorry

Rob has lost the pictures for the camera story thing but sicne they were on the computer they must be around here somewhere. Hey wait I know. It was you wasn't it? Yes don't try to deny it I know that look. So where did you hide them eh? Well I can wait here all day until you hand them over.................................It's going to be a loooooooong wait.

Now before we begin let me say one thing. I do not recomend doing this. For one thing it gave me a shock. It hurt. Funny though it made my finger feel as though it was being burnt but when I let go the feeling went no pain at all no burn of any kind.

Question: But how can this thing give you an electric shock if there's no power supply?
Answer: Quite simple really. At least I think I have the answer. I tell in a minute.

It's really interesting opening these thigns up. I hvae no idea what's what but still it is fun.

The story of the camera is that the lens jammed. It went a little funny jamming once or twice but still worked. Then suddenly the lens jammed and would not go back into the camera. The cmaera would turn itself off automaticly when the lens didn't respond. Besides I got a new camera.

The must have been some kind of greasy stuff in there. Look you can see my finger print on the screen.






Now without the front you can see how I could get that shock. It's not marked but you can see it to the left of the lens. A long grey thing. Took me a while to figure out what that long battery thing was and when I did I hit myself for my stupidity. You see I'm used to seeing small capacitors like the ones they teach you about in schools. I got the shock when I tried to remvoe something after I relised that I had really destroyed the camera. It was at the back hidden by the circuitboard.

Also you can see that I used no work bench, instead used my leg and a table. Still I got the job done.

I think I'll leave it there for now. I'll bring more in the next few days.

A wonder though the old camera.

Rob once owned this camera. Kodak easyshare c340. He took many pictures with it and was pleased with it (mainly). It was simple and easy to use and gave great pictures that looked so clear that they looked clearer than the real thing. Only four problems could Rob find with it:

1. Autofocus: tends to focus on wrong thing. Caused a lot of grief when making the lego film.
   
2. Screen would make it appear as if the picture would show up fine then you'd find it was too dark or something. All cameras do this though (I think).
3. It took wierd batteries that were hard to find: crv3 type. Cost over ten quid but made the camera work very well and for a long time.
4. It broke.

With the year long warrenty out of date (supprise supprise) it suddenly stopped working. That is to say that the lense would stay out and not go back in when the camera turned off then it would not go on because of that.

After getting a new camera Rob thought, let's take a look inside. It's quite amazing inside. We think we found the problem. Ha ha we even attempted to put it back together after Rob had a sudden sense of guilt. It's a camera Rob, it's not alive. Oh even after finding a spring and didn't know where it went and seeing all the screws we tried anyway. It now lies on Rob's table broken forever. Ha ha we snapped something. We didn't even get the chance to ponder over what went where.

Come back as we put up a small tour of what we did with pictures. Oh and people from Kodak are reading (very very very unlikely) please don't sue just kindly aksed us to remove this post and tell us to never make anymore. Hey I don't want to be in trouble with the law.

Rob did say that he was on a weight loss thingy. Well here is an update if you are interested. Rob has lost 2 and a half stone since he begun back in July. Not bad for a start eh?