Nicked from emsbabee

I don't think I look like any of these people

But anyway. It's a bit of fun.

Go see who you look like by clicking here. Go on, go on.

So I nicked this from...I forget now.

My first...

1. Crush? Paul. I even named my teddy bear after him.

2. Kiss? Stephen Wentworth. We were 7. He wanted to 'marry me' in assembly the following Friday. He made paper wedding rings for us both and everything. The teachers were even going to allow it. I took the day off 'sick'.

3. Person you said "I love you" to? Ooh. Another Paul. And I really shouldn't have done that..

4. Address? Verwood, in the deepest, darkest depths of Dorset.

5. Job? Erm pub restaurant waitress while I was still at school.

6. Car? A BROWN Austin Allegro I bought from some old bloke for £150. Allegro means 'quick'. Oh, the irony.

7. Record? Cherish by Kool and the Gang. 50p from Woolco.

8. Movie? Jungle Book (I think).

9. Alcoholic drink? Probably cider.

10. Foreign holiday? La France circa 1982, je croix.

The BBC's Culture Show has launched a quest to discover who the Great British public consider to be the greatest British cultural icon alive today.

The candidate must:

- Be living
- Have been born in the UK or living in the UK
- Have made an impact on British cultural life.

Other considerations:

- If your icon died tomorrow, would they make front page news?
- Has your icon made a cultural impact beyond their personal skills or field of work?
- Will their name be recognised by young and old alike?
- Will we still be talking about them in 10 years' time?

I've nominated Stephen Fry. I have always admired the man for his wit and intelligence and more recently for raising awareness about bipolar disorder (manic-depression, whichever you prefer) and opening up about the effect it's had on his life. He's always suffered from this in silence, but I guess felt that the time was right to talk about it - good for him. I'm sure it's helped a lot of other sufferers.

I also love his novels. Just finished reading The Liar. He's a very funny man.

I'm sure there are better-known candidates who will surely beat him to the top spot in this poll, but I'd like to see him in the running. For me personally, he's changed the way I look at certain things and I'm sure I'm speaking for a lot of people.

Who would you nominate?

Looks like this guy's desperately trying to cling onto his last remaining piece of polar cap:

Even though the sun is still shining here on the south coast, there is a chill in the air.

Time for the heating to go on, methinks.

38. Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.

Hmm. All I care is that I'm a whole 10 points less nerdy than Znerdthru.

*Scarpers*

Damn.

Good things never last, do they?

Shazam - excellent and handy little number to have in your mobile. Hear a song that you like the sound of, in a shop for example, and you wonder what it is. No problems, just dial 2580, hold it up to the speaker for a few seconds (okay, this looks a bit stupid in a shop) and hey presto, you are texted back with the title of the track and the artist by Shazam!

YouTube - Also excellent. Host to millions of video clips, personal, home made and otherwise.

Google - used to be just a good search engine. Not anymore. Ohhh no.

Someone has to come along and spoil the fun, don't they?

Because of copyright legislation and all that malarky, it looks like they are going to go ahead with the merging of Shazam with YouTube to sanitise the site and free it of any copyrighted material.

It will do this by using Shazam's extensive database to detect music as soon as it's uploaded and GET RID immediately!

Future plans apparently include doing this with film clips, too.

So, the future of YouTube is looking bleak. We will no longer be able to even use music we like to accompany home made video clips as that will also be detected and taken down.

YouTube will become nothing but a sorry collection of mute versions of home movies. A kind of internet version of You've Been Framed. (Without Harry Hill commentary.) This will mean the end of music videos on YouTube. I don't think people realise the gravity of this situation.

Boo.

I realise that record companies etc have a point, but have they really seen a marked decrease in sales since YouTube's inception? I should imagine that illegal music downloading from other sources has hit much harder. Peer-to-peer file sharing still goes on and will do forever - but they can't do much about that.

Well, I'm off to download everything I can from YouTube using Firefox before they Shazam it.

So, where do you start?

I suppose I should try to avoid swearing. First impressions and all that.

Or should I start as I mean to go on?

The erratic nature of my moods will undoubtedly see that my posts are sporadic and at times I will probably disappear for months on end. Just so you know.

And going by my previous blog, my posts will often be written without imagination, depth, clarity, intelligence, focus or any structure whatsoever. But I do aim to keep it original. I ain't no Damien Hirst.

OooOOooooh.

Bear with me...