Simon says

Having received pearls of wisdom today in quotes that seem fresh out of a Morgan Freeman film from a decorated British war hero, I found it only fair to share them.

Having met Falklands Veteran Simon Weston, I could see why companies like ITN, the BBC and a recruitment campaign for the police, love using him to send a message.

The Welshman comes across emotive but sincere in a firm voice, telling a story which he has probably told countless times before, as though it was yesterday.

After suffering 46% burns, enduring countless operations and battling PTSD and depression, not many are more qualified to define the word success than the public figure.

He told me: “Success is not measured by mansions, Aston Martins or Bentleys – a true measure of success is the improvement between where you once was and where you are now.

”Nothing in life is guaranteed, life doesn't owe you anything except the chance to have the same opportunity as the man next to you.”

Outlook is bleak for the unpopular geek

It is happening everywhere...

Since the recent blogpost I wrote about the Miliband brothers being labelled 'geeky' - my prophecy claiming that everyone will soon wear rimmed specs and chequered tops is coming true.

For a start, rather than going out on the town, drinking and snorting cocaine, 'cool footballers' for Chelsea and Man City have spent their weekends playing Xbox 360 hit Modern Warfare 2.

According to reports the players 'take the game really seriously' and 'communicate through their headsets and discuss battle plans'.

But it is not the first time the popular computer game in the Call of Duty series has made an emergence into popular culture.

A popular rap song written by Lil Wayne was remixed by a computer game fan to include lyrics from Call of Duty and received over 30,000 hits.

Keeping it real

Talking of rap - at a recent concert I went to at the Liverpool Echo Arena, cockney-jack-the-lad Professor Green turned up, wearing huge black glasses matched by a chequered shirt that wouldn't look out of place at a Star Trek convention.

The Clapton-bred, talented lyricist, swaggered around the stage preaching hip-hop to hundreds of female fans, wearing uncharacteristic clothes.

But I'm not trying to prompt calls of 'sack the stylist' because this morning the BBC have published a feature article on a new genre of music which continues to blur the line between 'cool' and 'geeky'.

Emerging genre

The genre is called 'Nerdcore' and it has been labelled, hip-hop for rhyming geeks.

Nerdcore MC Madhatter McGinnis told the BBC that geekdom is simply becoming more mainstream.

"My personal take is not that nerdcore is getting big but that the whole world population are becoming nerds," he said.

Just wait until Eminem stops rapping about gangster bling and having blonde b*tches to being a computer king and solving system glitches.