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The “Ultimate Top 10 Sci-fi Aliens” program was on Friday night in UK on SkyOne. What do you think of the list??? any missing???

• 10 – Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew)
  – Star Wars
• 9 – Zaphod Beeblebrox (Mark
  Wing-Davey) – The
  Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
• 8 – Thomas Jerome Newton (David
  Bowie) – The Man Who Fell
  To Earth
• 7 – Kosh (Ardwight Chamberlain)
  – Babylon 5
• 6 – The Emperor Ming (Max von
  Sydow) – Flash Gordon
• 5 – Maya (Catherine Schell)
  – Space:1999
• 4 – Dr Who (William
  Hartnell, Patrick
  Troughton, Jon Pertwee,
  Tom Baker, Peter
  Davison, Colin Baker,
  Sylvester McCoy, Richard
  Hurndall, Peter Cushing, Terry Marsh,
  Paul McGann and Christopher
  Eccleston) – Dr Who
• 3 – Spock (Leonard Nimoy)
  – Star Trek (The Original Series,
  Movies & Guest on The Next Generation)
• 2 – The Queen Alien – Aliens

Click Continue to find Number 1, but before you do can you guess what the Number 1 might be?

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The first week or so with my new 6600 has certainly been an eye-opener compared against my old 7650. While I still like some part of the 7650 the extra memory and brighter screen are major bonuses of the 6600.

One downside I have noticed is that I am charging the 6600 more regularly possibly due to smaller battery. This could also be due to the fact I am playing more games, and sending lots of texts (get 500 free a month).

I also paid a visit to J2K Symbian Themes website and downloaded lots of themes. A few days later I deleted all but Blue Final PRO by AEFox and changed wallpaper to a photo of my Nephew who is at time of writing 13 days old (Ahhh!).

I am also taken more photos than ever (mostly ones that later I bin) thanks to the 32Mb memory card which compared to the 7650 is vastly bigger although I may in near future purchase a much bigger card.

The easiest task by far though was copying my phone numbers I had on 7650 to the 6600. This was made so simple with iSync on my Mac. I set up the 6600 as the main phone and then just a click later had all phone numbers and their thumbnails restored.

Well it’s back to playing with the phone……………….

Well, it was time for a upgrade and last week O2 phoned me about getting a tariff with them (I am currently with Vodafone on PAYG).

So when she first phoned, I asked what “Symbian” phones she had on offer. Well, in the nicest way she said she had no idea what that was, but if I looked on the O2 web site I could see what I wanted. At the time I was a bit dubious (and still will be until phone arrives), but asked her to phone back later in week so I could have a proper look.

Out of the phones on offer, the best upgrade for free was the Nokia 6600. But I will be keeping my Nokia 7650 for know.

Friday while on the Isle of Wight I had a long lie in and was not up until nearly midday. When I did get up I found my dad clearing the hotels swimming pool of leaves, etc.

We then had some lunch and watched some TV for a few hours. At 5:30 we ordered our tea from Mr T’s Pizza Shed. My dad had a large doner kebab and I had the bellybuster (12oz (339g) ribeye steak chargrilled and served in a pitta bread with salad and chips) although with no salad but with garlic mayo. Yum!.

In the evening we headed over to Bembridge where the Isle of Wight Radio Society (IWRS) meet. We spent a few hours there chatting to everyone. My dad even knew some of the members and is thinking of joining and trying to get his Amateur Licence. We was shown the rooms and one had the transmitting stuff in and soon they were getting contacts from as far away as Japan. I was given a go using the club call (G3SKY) and made 3 contacts although I can only remember one that was in Germany.

I would like to say thank you to everyone at the club for making me feel very welcome and I am sure I will be along to the club again when on the Isle of Wight.

Was up before 9am (yes even on a day of flexi-leave) so we could make an early start to Portsmouth. We got to Portsmouth about 11:30 and after I said my goodbyes to my grandparents until Sunday then I was onto the Fast-Cat but had to wait nearly an hour as I missed the 11:20 sailing. From Ryde was a quick train ride to Shanklin then a Taxi to the apartments were my Dad works.

When I arrived I gave my dad some presents for his recent birthday. I was also allowed to use one of the Flats (for free) at the hotel apartments were my dad works.

A little while later a friend of his came around and invited us down the pub with a Chinese meal afterwards. About 5pm we headed for the pub and after about a couple of hours we left and got the Chinese meal. Then a quick stop at the Off-Licence I got a 5ltr keg of beer.

The evening was spent watching the Czech Republic vs. Portugal match, but of course the team I was rooting for lost (I had Czech Rep. in sweepstake at work I actually got a share of third prize as there was no 3rd/4th place play-off). After the match ended we then watched a Glastonbury video (Chemical Brothers were great).