Keane - Somewhere Only We Know - Lyrics

Keane - Somewhere Only We Know - Lyrics

I walked across an empty land,
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand,
I felt the earth beneath my feet,
Sat by the river and it made me complete,
Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on,
So tell me when you're gonna let me in,
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.

I came across a fallen tree,
I felt the branches of it looking at me,
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on,
So tell me when you're gonna let me in,
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin,

And if you have a minute why don't we go,
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything,
So why don't we go, somewhere only we know,
Somewhere only we know.

Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on,
So tell me when you gonna let me in,
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin,
And if you have a minute why don't we go,
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything,
So why don't we go, so why don't we go.

Hmmm yeah

This could be the end of everything,
So why don't we go, somewhere only we know,
Somewhere only we know,
Somewhere only we know.

Gizmo Project makes all VoIP to landline calls free. Forever. - Engadget

Gizmo Project makes all VoIP to landline calls free. Forever.

You must have Gizmo Project to make the calls, and the person you are calling must have it too. They must fill in their landline number in their profile for you to call that number for free. You also both have to be 'active' users, i.e. you can't setup an account for someone, login once, configure their profile and then call them for free forever.

Still beats Skype's 'US-only, this year' offer.

Optimus keyboard

All I want for Christmas is an Art. Lebedev Optimus keyboard. This thing looks cool.

Quick update on life

Back in January I predicted that this would be one heck of a year for me personally (and indirectly, my girlfriend Dew), and now we're in July I think it's time for me to give you a quick update.

So this year I have:

• handed in my notice at work,
  
• decided to move back to the UK,
  
• worked for 4 months,
  
• took 2 months holiday,
  
• went to England for a wedding,
  
• went to Berlin for 4 days,
  
• proposed to Dew while we were there (she said "Are you serious?" before saying "Yes!"),
  
• spent a week in Kamari, Santorini (Greek island),
  
• finished at work and started at my interim place of employment,
  
• went to a wedding in Constance,
  
• planned our move back to the UK,
  
• started looking for a house, and
  
• started planning our wedding (well, Dew's been doing most of that).
  

We're back in England for another wedding in a couple of weeks and we're extending our stay there to look at places to rent in the Blackpool/Preston area. We hope to find somewhere within that week so we can move in around mid-August. We're looking for someone to take over our appartment in Germany so we can stop our rental payments by September, otherwise we're stuck paying until November. The expectation is that Dew will go back to where she worked previously (before she came to Germany) and that I'll find my next job in or around the Manchester/North West area.

Once I'm settled in my job and we've sorted out where Dew's working we'll be starting to look at buying a place of our own. The wedding is planned for July/August 2007 and more details will be available for invitees nearer the time.

Then there's the question of kids, and when we're gonna start sprogging mini-me's, but that's another post for another time... ;)

Hope you enjoy the update, there'll probably be one more when I get my next job, then it'll be back to the usual non-personal, boring links you're used to. ;)

Galileo GPS Satnav codes cracked

The secret codes used by Europe's Galileo navigation satellite have been broken by researchers at Cornell University.

"Security by obscurity: it doesn't work, and it's a royal pain to recover when it fails," says Bruce Schneier.

Police arrest cement soccer ball pranksters

Police arrest two pranksters who filled soccer balls with cement and left them around Berlin.


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Weindorf was a transport disaster

What a night.

I don't often post about personal experiences and don't consider this site a venting outlet but I have to get this one off my chest.

Now I'm normally very positive about the transport system here in Germany but tonight has been one of the worst experiences I've had in the 10 years I've lived here.

We (my lovely other half and I) went out into Stuttgart tonight for the Weindorf (wine village) and had a cool evening of eating Flammkuchen and drinking wine. Just after 10pm we were in the process of moving from one wine tent to the next when we noticed the sky had gone very dark and the wind had picked up quite a bit. We made a snap decision to end the night early and go home before the storm kicked in. As we were walking out of the Weindorf area the wind really hit in; tablecloths were blowing away, glasses were being knocked over and the staff were trying hard to tie things down or pack things away quickly. Progressing through Schlossplatz to the U-Bahn station we also saw plastic chairs blowing across the square and the amount of dust and muck being whisked around was blinding.

We fought our way down the the U-Bahn station, took the U-Bahn from Schlossplatz to Hauptbahnhof, got there around 10.15pm and expected to get the 10.35pm S-Bahn to Boeblingen. Fortunately there was a train just pulling in that was going as far as Vaihingen (on the way home for us) so we decided that instead of hanging around the hot and crowded main station, we'd get on this train and wait in Vaihingen.

We got off at Vaihingen (platform 2) at 10.30pm and made our way across to platform 1 to hang around. By this time the storm had whipped up a bit and we spent the 20 minutes until the next train watching the lightning overhead. After 15 minutes there was an announcement that the incoming train from Herrenberg to Plochingen (the other way) was not going to show up due to the storm, and that all passengers waiting for that train should take an alternative one to Stuttgart where the service would resume.

5 minutes later our train arrived on the wrong platform, and everyone ran from platform 1 across to platform 2 to meet it. The driver informed us that he was going no further, and that there was no power to the lines further down so we should wait for an announcement from the station master.

Back to platform 1 and a 30 minute wait for the next train. There was no announcement made and everyone was getting iritated. The next train also came in on platform 2 (despite the boards still advertising Herrenberg trains on platform 1), and we all dashed across in hope. Alas, once everyone had got on the train the driver announced that he was also going no further, and that there would be no more trains that evening in that direction. He said there would be a bus service put on to get people to Boeblingen where you could go further on the trains again.

Another 30 minutes passed at the bus stop, and about half the people waiting gave up and called taxis to get home. We stuck it out and were about to do the same when a bus finally arrived. It was full (not even standing room) and we wondered about whether we'd be able to board, but happily they all got off and we were the lucky ones who managed to get on board and get a seat. When we pulled away there were still at least 2 more bus-loads of people still waiting. It took us another 30 minutes to get back to Boeblingen where we took a taxi home from the station. Alas, to top it all off we couldn't even get to our front door as the street was blocked off due to building work, so we still got drenched in the last 100 metres. :(

VVS did a shockingly bad job of dealing with the situation, but afterwards we both wondered how this would have gone if we were in England. Would we even have got home in 2 hours? I doubt it...

How fast can you type?

See how fast you can type. I can do 55 words per minute (with 5 mistakes) using a qwerty keyboard (I've stopped using Dvorak since I left work as it's too much hassle swapping back and forth for different users at home).

Extortion virus code gets cracked

The Archiveus extortion virus has been cracked.

"The 30-digit password locking the files is 'mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw'. Using the password should restore all the hijacked files."

"Now the password has been uncovered, there should be no reason for anyone hit by this ransomware attack to have to make any payments to the criminals behind it," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for security firm Sophos."