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Those Three Words

2010-11-26T07:28:00.001-08:00

There are three words that you don’t tend to hear all together at the same time: apple mac repair. Why is that? Is that because Apple’s are much smoother and better than PCs and don’t break down ever (so the legend has it...)? Or is it because these three words are whispered in dark corners of the planet, by people who love Apple’s and don’t want to see Apple’s reputation as perfectly engineered beasts tarnished? Hmm, probably. That’s my theory, anyway, and until I see further proof brought to my attention that’s staying.

Me, I have some shocking news for you: I have a PC and have always had a PC: worse, I have never even been within five feet of a Mac and have never caressed the sultry keyboards that are said to be housed upon them. In fact, even worse, worse times infinity, I have just bought a brand NEW PC, and get this? I didn’t even consider buying a Mac!

See, to my mind, a computer is a computer, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the new Windows 7 operating system. It’s smooth, fast, and altogether reliable...So far at least...

So why, then, is there such a war going on? And I do mean WAR. If I am in the same pub as people with Mac’s then I genuinely fear for my and my family’s safety if they look over and see my computer lacking the legendary Apple sign on the front. And I wish it didn’t have to be that way, I wish I didn’t have to feel afraid when carrying my PC laptop in busy crowds in public, but alas, that is the way it always has been, the way it always can only be.

Be Cool, Please

2010-10-20T02:24:00.001-07:00

There is a lot of fuss made about what is and isn’t cool (there especially is if you go to a party comprising of people ten years younger than you: it’s basically a Comedy show ). It changes drastically from year to year, and even day to day there can be discernible differences. And that’s not even taking into account the location. For example, due to the cultural trappings of religion, time and space and fashion, what may be considered a barn-storming beauty of a hair-cut in Outer Mongolia is considered a heinous atrocity worthy of the death penalty in LA.

Here is a list of things that used to be considered un-cool and are now considered quite the done thing to do.

1) Being thin: back in the day, when all paintings were dark and monstrous and depicted either a) orgies and feasts or b) feasts disguised as orgies, being thin was extremely frowned upon. Yes, back then BUXOM was the way to go if you were a girl, and big and dominant looking was considered the thing if you were of the male standing. How times change.

2) Not being married and having a sexy sleep-over: this was very much forbidden, and in some cultures all you had to do was so much as THINK about a sexy sleepover with your lover to get certain parts of your anatomy chopped clean off...

3) Being rude, patronizing and generally awful (especially if you were in “business”): before The Apprentice came along and made it perfectly acceptable to be a rude, nasty business man or woman, it was generally considered a bad move to be anything but nice. Now, thanks to a whole new breed of morons, all that looks set to have changed for good.

4) Not taking over countries because you were nice: newsflash now, back in the day nice did not exist. You wanted a country? Just because you had nothing better to do than slaughter innocent people and wipe them off the face of the earth? That was perfectly acceptable. But nowadays, the feeling is much different. Nowadays it’s perfectly cool to not take over a country and just have your own.

Long Forgotten Hero...

2010-10-20T02:22:00.001-07:00

This post is not boring and not stale. It is not about the current state of gas oil suppliers and how Katy Perry has a new song out which is essentially the same as all her others, but just messed with slightly. It is also not about global warming, the environment, how to repair a catalytic converter or why all squirrels should be shot on sight because they are a nuisance (This is not a One Show Style post, I’ll have you know, and for the record this here writer does not endorse shooting any animal unless it is attacking one’s face and that is the only solution, but if you must do this then for goodness sake be careful...).

No, this post is about something that so few people write about that it is, quite simply, utterly CRIMINAL. For this post, dear reader, is about hot chocolate, and I do NOT mean the group.

As I sit here, right this moment as I type this, I have a hot chocolate beside the computer just begging to be drunk. And it’s not just any old hot chocolate, I’ll have you know. It’s a cup made from the exact right amount of hot chocolate powder (Cadbury’s of course) and hot milk and hot water.

It’s perfection in a mug, basically.

I decided to write about this for one simple reason: hot chocolate has long been craving the success and public reputation it so strongly deserves, and who should beat it down commercially day-in-day-out? Why, coffee, of course. That caffeine assisted little addict that wants us all to be hooked and will stop at nothing to snare its victims.

Coffee is such a show off, isn’t it? Latte, Espresso, regular, tall, black, with cream. The mind boggles as to the dark depths that coffee will sink to. But hot chocolate on the other hand...Hot chocolate is pure and doesn’t need to show off. It is made from finest chocolate and inspired by old folklore and is the perfect accompaniment to a late evening treat.

It is time, people. Stop this coffee nonsense and support the pride of chocolate for once!

JLS The self entrerprizing boy band

2010-07-30T04:18:00.001-07:00

Who would have thought that the once famous boy band “take that” came away with ony one hundred and fifty pound pocket money in there hay-day? Unbelievable but true. And theres more. Apparently other famous boy bands also sang for peanuts whilst their managers went and siphoned of the real money. This was reported by non other than the BBCs entertainment reporter, Mark Savage and posted on the BBC web site!

Apparently the best way to go about entering and surviving financially is to swot up on the entertainment business, get a degree and don’t let your managers know too much. Preparing for your financial long term future by investing also helps. So financially sound behaviour such as buying property and making sound investments instead of boozing the night away and buyig fast cars that depreciate just as fast is the way to go.

So instead of living for the here and now getting chemical skin peels and fast cars, having fun with the music biz and all the perks it brings these youngsters should be financial savvy and look towards tomorrow. Tell me seriously how many pre age 40s actually think of such things whilst they’re famous and seemingly on the road to riches?

Apparently there is such a breed of new young enterprenure musicians here and succeeding. They have with unbelieving ears heard of the prior misfortunes of those boy band s that have gone before and are armed with industry knowledge, educated, talented and don’t let potential financial vultures shuch as entertainment management get too close.

They are called JLS. Looks like they’re here to stay for the long term having had a third succesful number one song in the UK called “The club is alive”. Watch out US and the rest of the world. They may be on their way to conqering the music scene in your town soon.

Too Much Is Never Enough

2010-06-21T09:22:00.001-07:00

Most of us say “I don’t want to be rich–no–I just want to be comfortable and not have to worry from day to day” but the question is, if we had that would we be really, truly happy, what if money really grew on trees?

I overheard an interesting conversation at the train station the other day. Well, no, that’s a lie. In truth the conversation was dull and not worthy of being repeated, but the effect it had on my brain – I was slightly tired and bored enough that eavesdropping felt really quite satisfying – was a funny one. It made me laugh, to the extent that I had to pretend I was really sad and this laughter was some adverse effect of it. Here was a man who was complaining because his boat was going to cost a lot to repair because of a rock it had hit. His solution? “Don’t spend too much money fixing up the damn thing, spend the money on moving that damn rock before I hit it again!”

The truth, for me at least, is that I would love to have unlimited wealth like the boat-rock guy, even for a day. Because surely we never have enough money do we? No, it would seem that too much is never just enough.

More opinions on this can be found at the following post.

As for actual money trees, who knows? With genetically modified stuff making huge advances daily, it really wouldn’t surprise me if they started popping up in certain places.

Secret Room

2010-05-27T07:47:00.000-07:00

Going to my nana and granddad’s was boring up until I was about eight years old (all they talked about was golf and cyst removal...). One time, a few months after my eighth birthday, my nana whispered in my ear “would you like to see inside the secret room!”

Would I ever!

I had never been allowed inside the secret room before, and for good reason. Adults were allowed in it (because adults weren’t generally hyperactive and liable to destroy everything inside the secret room as I had had a habit of doing with everything I touched), but I was not. Because of this I had always been forced to sit in the living room while the adults all looked in the secret room.

Until this day–

Nana pushed the door open and said, “please don’t destroy anything, ok? These are my pride and joy.”

I nodded. I was lying of course. At any moment I might get the urge to break something. But as we entered the room and I saw what was in it, I knew I would never want to break such beautiful, sweet smelling, incredible alien things.

The secret room was filled with plants. It was a jungle of them! Small ones, red ones, orange ones and spiky ones. There were cacti, many kinds of flowering plants and things which looked like props from a film set. Ever since that day I have helped nana in her secret room, watering the plants and planting new seeds. We both love it. I’ll be sad when nana is gone and the secret room looses its magic.

Enigin Has Its Head Screwed On

2010-05-11T06:05:00.001-07:00

I remember being an apprentice. It was horrible. Like being perpertually passed by a car which keeps repeatedly driving through a massive puddle and soaking you for fun. Only instead of water, being an apprentice involved being saturated in ridicule and being paid atrociously for it. Every day there was a new joke on us poor sods: first came the “can you get me a long wait please, mate?” followed by a three hour wait (it should have been a stupidly long wait, really). Then came the ever-popular “we need a few litres of Tartan paint, don’t come back until you have some! If it doesn’t come out in stripes right away then we don’t want it!”

Reading the following article about trainees brought me back quick-fast to those hellish days.

Thankfully, Enigin treat their staff with a bit more respect and I’m sure not one of them has ever been asked to go and buy some Tartan paint. And we need that, badly, because trainees are important. The last thing we need to do now we’ve got our world in such a state is put the younger generation off the idea of joining up forces with an energy-saving company!

In a perfect world, they’d teach energy-saving at school. It seems ridiculous to me that hours are spent baking cakes (shoddy cakes at that, not that cake-baking is not an important skill, of course), yet How To Help The Environment classes are a million miles away from happening.

But give it time. The way Enigin are going, they’ll be opening a school soon enough and creating (or growing?) a new super-breed of energy saving children who will save our planet from the clutches of Global Warming at the very last moment!

A Bad Thing, A Bad Thing!

2010-04-14T05:35:00.000-07:00

Recently, on the train, I was reminded again of our Great British culture of ignoring our fellow human-beings. We really are experts in the field. True trailblazers. It doesn’t matter what situation you stick the average English man in, he will show a brilliant aptitude for not even acknowledging your presence.

I know it’s not everyone who is like this, so don’t get all uppity (as I am English and I know loads of great English people), but I say this for good reason: I was on the train in London and I wasn’t sure where I was going–If I had gone too far or not far enough. So I asked the people nearby. “Good day,” I said, imitating someone out of a Charles Dickens novel for no apparent reason but I thought Well I’ve started now so I may as well continue this, “Would you mind telling me if we are at Oxford Avenue yet?”

They all looked at me as if to say Man that Cosmetic eyelid surgery went really wrong...Then they turned away and it seemed they were wondering if they’d actually seen anything at all.

Then the train stopped, the doors opened and the three of them got off. I shouted at them of course, thinking they hadn’t heard me. And what a state of affairs it was! One simple question was all I wanted, and even that was too much!

So, next time someone asks you a simple question, please be polite. You never know, you might need a favour when you’re somewhere and completely lost.

Know Your Stuff

2010-04-08T09:00:00.001-07:00

Certain things make you think someone knows what they are talking about, don’t they? You look at the smiley London-based plastic surgeon and you think he knows something about the British association of cosmetic doctors, I bet. You look at the sharp suit and you think that the businessman knows all about finance. You look at the firemen at the blazing inferno and think “I bet he’s seen this a million times before, he’ll have those poor people out in a minute!”

But alas this is not always the case. For every businessman who knows everything there is to know about finance, there are a few who (and this appears to be fact) haven’t got the faintest idea. And for every fireman hero I am willing to bet there are a few new ones who haven’t seen a blazing inferno before, and are as clueless as anyone would be.

MPs are obviously no exception to the rule. Want to read about what MPs don’t know about all things technical? Then hit the link and find out: http://boingboing.net/

There are two arguments, of course. Number 1 is that the MPs can’t possibly know about everything they talk about and Number 2 is..well...that they should make it their business to research things they know nothing about–especially as they are apparently making whopping great decisions about it that affect all our lives.

Personally I am going with Number 2, because it can’t be so hard, can it? No. You can either get someone to advise you on things, or you can sneak in to a nearby electrical goods store wearing a hoody and listen in on the conversations of the young and digitally knowledgeable. Easy.

Claims

2010-04-08T07:23:00.001-07:00

I have friends who have claimed to get in to fights. Not just scuffles outside night-clubs but full-on movie-style brawls with stuff getting smashed, blood going everywhere and all that carnage. Ones where the crowd begins with cheering, and after a while the cheering dies down as everyone begins to realize that this is serious. You probably have friends like this too. So what do they all – both my friends and your friends that is – share in common? Not a difficult question. Usually they have these characteristics: they’re hot-headed, not afraid to speak their mind, and look like they can throw a good punch. In other words, they are the people you want around you when a ‘situation’ arises. Or are they?

A situation arose the other day for me. Broad daylight in town, Kev and I were walking down the street past a running accessories store when a gang of youths rushed out from around the corner and half knocked Kev over. One of them said something as he went, and Kev answered it with a “what’s your problem mate?”

Now, I thought I was in capable hands at this point, but then–I hadn’t seen Kev’s face. I felt safe for about a nano-second, until ‘I ain’t afraid of nothing Kev’ turned to me and whispered “Leg it!” And so we did, we legged and legged it. Until eventually the youths were lost and so were we – we were stuck down some dingy passage-way I had never seen, hiding (make that cowering actually) behind a bin.

I turned to I ain’t afraid of nothing Kev and said, “Kev?”

“What now?” he asked, still badly shaken.

“I thought you were tough as nails!” I replied.

He sank to the floor making a moaning noise. Then he looked up. “I am usually,” he said, “but those were teenagers! Everyone knows not to mess with them!”

Troublemaker

2010-03-26T04:10:00.001-07:00

It’s hard being one of those people who just attracts trouble. It might sound sort of glamorous, but it isn’t. It doesn’t matter what I do—or what I try to do—I end up getting in to quite a lot of trouble. My mother used to say it was my face. I think she resented having to say this because her and I were like a carbon copy of one another (the only difference being that towards the end of her life she had more hair coming from her nose than me: it was almost a ‘nose beard’. Strange considering she suffered from Female hair loss on top), so when she told me off she inadvertently told herself off. And it can’t be much fun having to look at a copy of yourself that doesn’t have a nose beard and tell yourself off, can it? No, it must have been very tricky. I can see why she was never in a good mood.

Mum used to say “You could get in to trouble in a padded room tied up!” To test this theory out, the week after my fourteenth birthday she tried this out. Sure enough, after ten minutes of being locked securely inside a room, while tied to a chair, trouble started to show its pesky face. It was a mouse that had appeared from nowhere, you see, and its constant scurrying over a load of matches lying on the ground had sparked a small flame. Mum had to rescue me from the blazing inferno, hence after that I joined the circus. You’d be surprised how much people pay to see someone get themselves in to trouble.

And The Bad News Is...

2010-03-23T02:26:00.001-07:00

CGI: three letters that changed movie-making in ways once unfathomable. Before Computers revolutionized the way we created worlds, and the entire set had to be constructed with pure grit and determination, movie-making was confined to what could be built and taken down in a small period of time. And it wasn’t only a time issue. The process was also limited by space and storage. Large sets were needed to create the films of old, something which has become a thing of the past thanks to powerful technology which allows enormous amounts of data to be stored on the most miniature portable devices.

But even CGI isn’t free of problems. As with everything there is the good and the bad. And when CGI is done badly, you wonder why they didn’t just build the set and be done with it...

You’d think that terrible CGI would be something confined to the low-budget pictures, but here’s the bizarre thing: some of the biggest films—and the biggest studios in the business are no exception to the rule—are badly flawed pieces of junk, too. Why? For several reasons: usually bad CGI can be attributed to the makers wanting to make the film seem as real as possible, in which case the fluid graphics can seem disturbingly realistic, completely out of place, and as fun to watch as a day spent having a sand-blasted Rhytidectomy (face-lift to you and I). Another reason why CGI goes wrong is simple: the filmmakers simply get carried away with the unlimited possibilities on offer, overworking the movie to the point that it seems anything but realistic.

Be Unique

2010-03-19T09:54:00.001-07:00

Most companies have one web-site or blog. It’s usually fairly basic, looks like it was designed by an ambitious (yet atrocious and colour-blind) GCSE student, and has all the charisma of one of those horrendous people who think they can sing and prove they can’t on national TV, then moan about it. Most companies, I said. But some actually bother to get a proper web-designer in. Not only a web-designer, but someone with proper hand-eye coordination who hasn’t got braces. Someone who knows how to make a snazzy site the right way! Energy-saving company Enigin know all about The Snazzy. Not only are they fans of wielding the latest environmental information but they are also not scared of putting pink and black together, which is never a bad thing. What next people, red and green? Watch this space, because it may well happen.

One of the best things about companies who have a few web-sites / blogs is that the sites are inter-connected, and each one will tell you about another. That way, you don’t need to keep five or six different addresses in your head: you simply click on whatever interests you and that way you find yourself somewhere new, reading something interesting.

The aforementioned post talks about the launch of Enigin TV (or, as they like it to be known, e-tv). It’s a great idea. By catering for people who prefer vision and colour and sound to the written word—so about half of the population, then—they can appeal to all age groups. It’s fantastic. Suddenly, people with the attention-span of a bored goldfish have no excuse not to tune in and learn something.

Leave Deserts Alone!

2010-03-18T07:20:00.001-07:00

I’m not sure if I really believe in the idea of reincarnation, but if I was to say I did, I think I would also surely say that I do not want to come back as a desert (I don’t mean a dessert, because if I had to be eaten I happen to think there are far worse things I could come back as, such as semolina, brussel-sprouts, or, the pinnacle of nastiness, Marmite). Deserts have had a very tough time of it throughout history, don’t you think? Not to mention movies make them out to be an absolute nightmare, when in fact it’s us humans'and animals'fault for not having the evolutionary gumption to be able to exist in them. What did deserts ever do? And look at how they are! Expanses of golden sand, all the space in the world under infinite blue skies, and they still get it in the neck and are incorporated in to a vast number of derogatory sayings such as “this place is deserted, it sucks!” and “what a desert–let’s go to Ibiza”; now, if I was to come back as the Sahara Desert, say, then I think the knowledge that being known as the world’s worst place to be would tip me over the edge and make me sink (no pun intended) in to myself and never be able to get out: I’d just get sad. Is it any wonder that no life grows in deserts? Could you support a thriving eco-system while reincarnated into a lonely abandoned place where nobody but the bravest arab goes?

Of course, there are other much more important questions in life than this, such as “who bends bananas?” and “where did the man from the Del Monte adverts end up? I haven’t seen him since that bloke on the Milk Tray adverts disappeared in to the night time”.

So I have finally been paid for that last photography job that I did, you all know what that implies, it’s about time to hit the mall and pick up that new outfit of gore running wear that I have been waiting to get. Carvell, are you up for a trip to the high streets this week?

Interview

2010-03-09T03:16:00.000-08:00

I’m not sure why, but usually I don’t get nervous before a job interview. I think I tend to go in with the attitude that I’m interviewing my interviewers, why do I want to work for their company? So rather than seeing it as some formal meeting with me in the spotlight, I’m looking to them to persuade me that I want to leave what I’ve got at the moment because working for them would be better.

However, come Friday morning, I find myself checking everything several times. I know I closed the window, but did I? I know I turned the gas off, but did I? I get out of the flat and half way down the street and still I have to go back, I know I double locked the door, but did I?

I try to breathe deeply. It’s okay, I tell myself, this is just the same as any other interview, it’s just me meeting a couple of people and us all asking questions. Simple. I’m still jumpy though and my pep talk isn’t doing anything to convince me that this will be okay.

When I arrive at the company, a very nice woman makes me a cup of coffee and I can’t pick it up because I’m trembling. Why? I ask myself but I don’t have an answer. I’m called into my interview room. The interviewers are friendly enough and I start my presentation on hr management software. I lose it a bit half way through, but manage to pull it back together. I’m then asked questions, given scenarios, asked to do a role-play and just as I think it’s all over I’m given a written test before I can finally leave.

I walk towards the bus stop thinking that it didn’t really go that well. A bit disappointedly I then tell myself if I get the job I get it, if I don’t, I don’t.

Just as I’m heading back up my street my mobile rings. They offer me the job. I’m amazed and delighted. A new life awaits me.

Home: Where Sam's Heart Is?

2010-02-22T08:25:00.001-08:00

What a beauty of a question this puppy is!

Where do you begin with it, eh? What would Sam Beckett do if he ever went home for good?

Call me odd, but I never asked myself this question when I was growing up, one of the generation addicted full-throttle to the eponmous, unforgettable Quantum Leap: I just always assumed that Sam would never go home, and if he did he’d be so used to traveling—plus all those weird things happening to him day in day out—that going home would actually be worse than being chased by the military, or dodging bullets and ferocious Great White Sharks (confession: that may just be my imagination talking–) Yeah, going home might be a chore. I can’t imagine Sam settling into an office job very easily, can you?

I mean, what do you do with yourself after years of being warped back and forth through time? Going to the shops, no. And even venturing to the theatre wouldn’t cut it; even the most exciting incarnation of Joseph and His Technicolor Dreamcoat must surely pale into insignificance when you’ve lived the life Sam Beckett has–

That said, there is one thing I would do if I was in Sam’s shoes: I’d go to an old school reunion and gloat in the faces of all those people who’d disbelieved I’d ever make something of my life; “What have you been up to then? I am in finance,” a posh swine might ask. “Oh, this and that,” I’d reply, holding back an eternity of smugness. Then, just as he’s about to walk away I’d make a small cough and say, with punishing indifference, “I have been traveling a bit actually, yeah. Like to EVERY COUNTRY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD ABOUT A THOUSAND TIMES. It’s a hard life, isn’t it? So how’s finance then?”

Worthwhile All The Way: www.theenigin.com

2010-02-18T07:02:00.001-08:00

This blog impressed me a great deal and to be perfectly honest I didn’t expect it. Here is why: The majority of web-sites seem to have some kind of ulterior motive for discussing things like climate change, world peace, energy consumption and such, but the guys and girls at enigin, from what I can gather, just really care about the world we live in and want you to care about it too. The site is a very good place to start if you want to know how to reduce your carbon footprint, or even if you’re not quite sure what that is and what it constitutes. Even if you consider yourself emboldened with knowledge, you’re sure to find a great deal of positive information here which the folks at Enigin make it their business to find out and pass on to you.

Another great touch is that the site is very simply laid out: clean graphics, no advertisements bombarding your screen, no flashy wording or unnecessary garbage—it really is just simple, easy to digest information. Enigin’s goal is very simple: communicate real issues and information in a down to earth way, presenting the facts and not doctoring them to benefit one opinion over another. Hit the link and see what all the fuss is about.

And Enigin don’t deny they are a thirty strong team; they aren’t going for the whole indy, single person against the word angle. Behind the firm are many talented and honest writers who write their blogs in a very personal and touching way. You’d be a fool to miss out on this fantastic site.

Mulling over Mr. T

2010-02-10T03:01:00.001-08:00

If you’d have asked me back in the day—back in the day is the mid 1980s, if you’re too young to remember—what Mr. T would be up to in 2010, I’d have told you he’d still be a house-hold name, still loved by millions, and still the hero of every boy who’d seen the A Team (and I may even have told you he’d definitely be President of the United States, something which I still think would have been quite a good idea, providing someone with a more passive and stable mind was about to advise on using weapons). But alas I fear that is not the case; much as I and many others loved the A Team, I rarely hear talk of it these days. When I bring the subject up it tends to get a luke-warm or comical response; has everyone forgotten what Mr. T was all about? How cool he was? I know he’s now the face of Snickers, but come on, is that really a bad thing?

While perusing the forums I found an interesting discussion which brought memories of Mr. T flooding back by the dozen; has Mr. T sold out?

A good question, but how do you answer it? Let’s start with the ad: in the ad in question, Mr. T. flies over a house in a helicopter and assaults a skinny white man with a barrage of Snickers’. Then he shouts, in true angry Mr. T fashion, “Get some nuts!” That’s pretty much it. What’s wrong with this picture? Well, aside from the fact Mr. T. was terrified of flying and unlikely to be hanging out of a helicopter for any amount of money, nothing much. Wasn’t that what Mr. T. did best? Tell people to do stuff in an angry, impatient, all-action way?

OK, so maybe Mr. T has sold out, I can’t deny it--I love chocolate so I’m probably biased. But if ‘selling out’ means messing about in helicopters and getting a lifetime supply of Snickers, I can’t see anything wrong with that, even if you love chocolate only just a bit.

Musing on muses

2010-02-09T02:13:00.001-08:00

As I was reading a book whilst having my breakfast this morning, I began thinking about muses and the role that they were said to have played in inspiring some of the great artists, thinkers, and writers of the world. How many times have we heard a creative type say that they were ‘just inspired’, or that their muse had guided them in creating their masterpieces?

The notion of the muse, after all, is nothing new. Stemming far back from proto-Indo-European times, there have been mentions of spirits or goddesses whose role was to inspire people into creating art. For the Ancient Greeks, the Muses were 9 goddesses who together embody the very essence of the arts. You can see the influence of the muses in our words such as ‘to muse’, ‘amusement’, ‘music’, and ‘museum’. Clearly, the muses have, at least to some degree, had an influence on us and on our society.

But, thinking about it, if all of our great works of art, music, and literature, came not from the composers who created them, but rather from the guidance of a muse, are they still as valid as they would be if they stemmed from the genius of their credited creators? What would it mean for the arts if the muses were in reality the ghostwriters for the arts, while our well-known artists and writers were lucky enough to get the credit for someone else’s work?

Surely this has implications for, I suppose, the purity and the validity of our arts enterprises. If artists are not really artists, but rather vessels for the ideas and dreams of another, and their creation is out of their control, what does this mean? Should we still enjoy their work on the same level? Perhaps they, unlike us, are simply better at channeling these muses’ ideas, and without people who can do so, we would have no arts culture at all.

Just found this online contest where the prize is resorts. Everybody should really put your names in, this would be a wonderful way to spend this winter!

Pile On The Weight For Your Hubby!

2010-01-08T09:22:00.001-08:00

Sometimes I just hate being a girl! Why is it that men can eat whatever they want and we can’t? They can sit and trough their way through a McDonalds’ meal, a couple of chocolate bars and a bag of crisps without a care in the world. And me? I only have to look at a cream cake and I put on two pounds. Why is it that us ladies have to sit around chomping on lettuce leaves while men have their fish and chips? Sigh, it just isn’t cricket.

And then there is exercise. I go to a lot of effort to make sure that I stay in good shape; jogging, aerobics and cycling. Yet he hardly does anything at all- and still stays thin! Aaaargh! It is all so frustrating!

It seems extremely unfair. There is a huge amount of pressure on us all to be ‘the right shape’ whereas most guys just seem to think they can still be a ‘love god’, no matter how fat they are. Society seems to be a lot more tolerant when it comes to the shape of men. They can be fat, bald and bloated but, apparently, it does not make the slightest difference to them being totally irresistible. Well, that’s a load of tosh and we should let them know it!

Maybe we should all just let ourselves go. Why should we spend so long trying to be shaped like a little hourglass for our fellas when we seem to get so little in return? If there is a job that needs doing around the house you have to ask them a dozen times before they get round to sorting it out (and that is if they ever do!).

The Eleventh Commandment.

2010-01-06T09:24:00.001-08:00

The amount of people that attend church on a regular basis has been steadily decreasing over recent years. It would appear that this generation do not have any great desire to keep Sunday as the Lord’s day. The Church of England has been very concerned about the decline in parishioners for quite a while. Now, a priest in North Yorkshire has come up with a brand new way to make going to church far more appealing!

Father Tim Jones, from York, has sparked outrage by saying that shoplifting is alright if you are struggling for money. The parish priest of St. Lawrence and St. Hilda in York told his congregation that if they had to steal from a shop then it would be more ethical to target a large supermarket chain.

He is actually quoted as saying; ‘I would ask that they do not steal from small, family businesses, but from national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices’. I’ll bet that Sainsbury’s just love this guy and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it came to light that Tesco had put a contract out on him!

Do I really need to say what I am going to say? Probably, there is bound to be someone who thinks that Father Tim is actually right... The church are supposed to abide by God’s rules aren’t they??? ‘Thou shalt NOT steal’ springs to mind.

When you are a priest, you have principles; and when you have principles you should stick to them. The amount of parishioners may be in decline but the church must still adhere to its teachings. You cannot start moving the goal posts around just to suit the game; if the church do begin to change their rules then it all makes the Christian faith a little bit empty and pointless, doesn’t it?

I think I have a compelling answer for what we should sort out for Nancy’s party. Who would be up for a surprise trip and spending a bit of income on some ski resorts.

The Meaning of The Dojo.

2009-12-03T01:54:00.001-08:00

Until I read this post I had no idea just how serious the discipline was concerning a Dojo. Respect is something that should be learnt by us all and if this is the first lesson in things like Karate then I think that is great. Anything that teaches discipline to people definitely has my seal of approval.

Eastern thinking is renowned for its wisdom and because of this it attracts a lot of people who are looking for some meaning in their lives.

A ‘Dojo’ is a Japanese term which literally means place of the way. It can be a training place for many different styles of martial arts.

One last thing, all of you who are into a more planet friendly lifestyle really need to look at this. Enigin PLC has some really amazing ideas for companies who are concerned about thier environmental impact, they may be my new favorite company.

Face-Off With Facebook.

2009-11-12T01:52:00.000-08:00

I think that I have to agree with this post about Facebook. I know a couple of people who have got hundreds of ‘friends’ on it. It’s all a bit weird if you think about it.

Maybe befriending people that you don’t really know is a sign of loneliness? I don’t really think that it is normal behaviour... Mind you, it is not the fault of Facebook; it is how people use it.

You could say the same thing about mobile phones; they are really useful things to have but they can become an absolute pain if people spend half their lives sending text messages.

Understanding the Unusual.

2009-10-22T01:53:00.001-07:00

Goths are fascinating creatures. Even if you do not like the darker things in life, you cannot deny that they have got a certain strange appeal.

After I had read this post I felt like I could understand them a little bit better. It must be quite a lonely existence at times and I am sure that it isn’t a whole lot of fun having people laughing at you.

Dressing up in things that are a bit more unusual must take a lot of courage. Even though I am not a Goth, I still admire them for being brave enough to stand out from the crowd.

Cattoo.

2009-10-15T05:27:00.001-07:00

As I am a big fan of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ pictures, I was bowled over when I came across this blog about a Cheshire cat tattoo.

The colours in the tattoo are amazing and the expression on the cats’ face is great. Out of all of the examples of body art that I have seen, I think that this is one of my absolute favourites.

If you like tattoos then this page is definitely worth having a look at. I shall be looking into McGee’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ later. If this artwork is anything to go by then I am in for a treat. Who knows, I may even change my background from my Battlestar Galactica Wallpaper!

Automatic Writing - splurging the days events

2009-04-27T03:22:00.000-07:00

so there we were, sitting in the horrific monday morning meeting. or HMMM. as it had become appropriately named. why. why do we have the meetings at such an horrific time. 8.30am. is the boss not human? does he not have a life outside of the office? he certainly seems t

he type to live life to the full. heck, he has so much energy he could power the whole building in a power cut.

ok. back to real life. the agenda has been passed round. the week ahead. targets. budgets. planning. staff bonuses (yes, we all perked up for that one). and finally, finally we near the end. AOB. what is it with abbreviations anyway. doesn't anyone know how to write in full. I mean, word processors are quite sophisticated these days. you can programme in abbreviations to auto-correct and produce the actual words. magic eh!

anyway. wow. I'm easily distracted today. some words were just repeated. was I meant to hear that? team building. that was it. we're going on a team building course which everyone hopes will remove the enormous gap between them and us. the void separating management from us minions at the bottom of the pile. we all have tension headaches because of the red tape, endless meetings and discussions (most recently the headache has been about the freestanding vending machine that appeared one monday morning right outside this very meeting room. now we can all get bored in the meetings and fat at the same time. next there'll be posters around the building offering rapid weight loss classes.

back to reality. the boss is speaking. he's talking about an away day where we'll all bond. has he actually asked anyone if they want to do this? we would all just prefer to have a day off. spend some quality time with our families instead of erecting the company banner stands and listening to The spontaneity shop sell us their expensive corporate acting workshops that promise to make us happy.

any more AOB....no response. meeting over. sixty long, wasted minutes. now we all have to play catch up until the next meeting where we'll once again slip into a parallel universe of eternal happiness inside our minds.

Bell Ringing: Campanology is Fun!

2009-04-02T01:32:00.001-07:00

The posh term for church bellringing is: "Campanology" - a word these days which is usually resticted to pub quizzes/crosswords and most 'campanologists' tend to call themselves ringers or bellringers.

Unfortuantely the general public cannot just wander up a random tower, pull a bell and hope to know what to do with it! The right way to go about it is to contact your local tower with bells - usually by searching through DOVE: dove.cccbr.org.uk/home.php and arranging a time when you can go and visit.

The best thing about church bellringing is that anyone from any profession can learn and the gamut runs from cosmetic doctors to someone who looks after dog insurance in London! It is also completely ageless. We had a situation recently when one of our more experienced young ringers around the age of 12 was explaining something quite complicated to a less experienced but older ringer in his 50s. The older ringer had complete concentration and, when asked afterwards, said he was able to understand more clearly what this young ringer had explained to him.

The "anyone can learn" idea creates a wide bell ringing social network. You can travel up and down the country even around the world (such as New Zealand, Australia or America) arrange to ring at a tower on a practice night and be welcomed by the local band. This gives us a chance to experience different places the general public do not usually get access to, explore new areas and make new friends. One recent example of such social networking is when a couple - who are both ringers - went to New Zealand and rang in various places such as Aukland and Wellington. In one tower, the captain asked where in the UK they were from; on hearing their reply, the captain said he knew some of the couples' ringing friends who had travelled there a few years earlier!

Bellringers who learn at a young age and go to a university can join a ringing society. These are located all over the country and one such example is the: "University of London Society of Change Ringers" - (www.ulscr.org.uk). This society arranges activites such as outings/tours usually for a day or weekend - (visiting another region and ringing in the surrounding towers), social evenings (ice skating, cinema, laser questing, dinners, picnics, treasure hunts...) and anything else society members suggest!

In a nutshell, bellringing is an enjoyable, social and mentally stimulating hobby that anyone can enjoy at any age.

Laser Hair Removal and Alice in Wonderland

2008-10-14T08:25:00.001-07:00

Can anyone tell me how much laser hair removal costs? I’m getting so irritated with shaving my legs every couple days. Hah! I know that is common gripe from women, but seriously– it takes me a good thirty minutes every few days to get myself feeling clean and fresh. For me, it is not a physical or appearance thing, merely a personal hygiene preference. I hate body hair! All types of body hard. I’m wondering what it would be like to have laser hair removal all over my body.

On that note, for all of you that said I would regret my tattoo, you were wrong! I am still not interested in removing my gorgeous tattoo.I have a rendition of the Cheshire Cat as pictured in American McGee’s Alice in Wonderland on my left calve. It takes up my entire calve and is very detailed. It took seven and a half hours of pain on this bad boy. I had a great tattoo artist though at a place called Warlocks. We had to take smoke breaks during because it was a bit intense. Still, I go for my touch ups once per year and get it looking nice again. It still looks gorgeous.

For those of you that have not placed American McGee’s Alice in Wonderland, give it a try. The gameplay is nothing impressive but the artwork is just absolutely overwhelming. If I wasn’t getting older and a mother of three boys, I would probably get all of the characters from the game around my calves.

The calve is a great place on your body to get a tattoo if you are considering one, and trust me, if you have a good, you'll never even consider tattoo removal. I never wear skirts or shorts, so no one ever knows I have a tattoo until I explicitly show it to them. Since I have had the tattoo, I have had three children and lost more than a hundred pounds. My calve, since it was so muscular to begin with, barely experienced any changes. Some very minor touch ups to the tattoo (under an hour) took care of all the very minor distortions.

Weight Loss Woes

2008-09-29T09:29:00.001-07:00

What am I doing worrying about weight loss

when the entire financial infrastructure is falling down around the ears of the politicians who supported the schemes that contributed towards its downfall? Why should a few extra pounds matter when there’s world hunger, child abuse, wars, and other untold misery in every newspaper I pick up?

It’s the current magazine trend that's to blame of course. The magazines that make me look at myself and ignore the friendly, happy person who rarely says a bad word about anyone but instead focus my attention on my flaws. This brings up an interesting question – am I less worthy of positive attention than my children. Every day I contribute towards my children’s self esteem by pointing out their strengths. I know they have things they’re not so good at and we work at those, but I focus on the positive knowing that their self confidence is more important than being able to tie their own shoelaces.

Somehow the logic that I have in parenting issues is lost when it comes to myself however and I although I don’t much like the way many of the celebrities look, I mentally buy-in to the image of how I’m supposed to be. This naturally leads me down the path to mentally beating myself up about how far I am from this image. Suddenly I'm thinking about having botox or going for a lunchtime smart lipo session, where I would never normally consider such a thing.

The funny thing is that during the moments when I’m not a media follower, I actually like who I am. I like what I wear. I like what I eat and don’t see any reason to change my eating patterns just because some person in a movie, or worse, wife of a football player, tells the world that their way is the only way to be. The fact that this or that celebrity has done very little in the world except give out these opinions and doesn’t really look that great anyway, seems irrelevant to the magazine industry.

Meanwhile I have to decide whether to grabble with the extra pounds and put some concentrated effort into losing them, stop reading the magazines, or alternatively accept that I’m a good person just as I am, and if I’m happy with how I look then who cares what anyone else thinks!

The Terminator movie - still got it!

2008-06-03T06:45:00.000-07:00

Flicking through the television the other day, I caught some of the original Terminator movie. Now I remember the Terminator movie quite well from when it was first released almost 2 decades ago, but I’d forgotten what an amazing movie it actually is! It really is good. Of course many of the special effects have dated quite badly, but getting down to the nuts and bolts of how the effects were done, there were a surprising amount of things that were done by camera work rather than relying on CGI – because CGI wasn’t around in the same way. The best example I can give you is the beginning when Arny first arrives as the terminator. There is lightening flashing about (bit dodgy), but the big landing is just a camera pan across to where he is sitting surrounded by smoke from his transfer. It still looks really good, and hasn’t dated because there are no special effects as such, he has used camera work and theatrical effect to bring across the action. It really is quite clever.

Inspired by seeing some of the first one, I decided to go on to watch Terminator 2 - Judgement day. Again, what a great film. In terms of being dated however, made in 1991 they set the end of the world in 1997 to make in not that far away. Judgement day has already happened! That was slightly weird to see, and I loved the mushroom cloud sequences. More than anything else though, I loved the change in the character of Sarah Conner. In the first movie she is the scared freaked out woman. She spends the movie running and relying on the strength of those helping her (namely Rece), and whist she does find inner steel, she does spend the film running. I love the fact that in this movie, knowing what is to come she has become hard as nails! She is rock solid, and takes no prisoners... and she looks great! I’m not sure if the actress doing it had a face lift or something, but damn she looks good in it.

I think I will at some point have to watch the third one again, but since I haven’t I’ll withhold my opinion till then.

The Tower of London - a childs prespective

2008-04-20T15:50:00.001-07:00

This bank holiday I went to the Tower Of London With my friend to see the crown jewels. It was cold and raining all day and once it snowed but we didn’t care because we had lots of fun in the Tower Of London. The Tower Of London Was built in the Protestant times as a way of keeping all the swords and guns safe from the French, because in the olden times there was a war with the French so they built a castle and then everyone was safe. Then guy Fawkes came along and attempted to blow up Queen Victoria Using some Catholics. This made the prime minister at the time, Henry Four, very cross indeed. So they decided to put Guy Fawkes in the Tower next to Anne Berlin and some priests and they put him on a rack and then he said sorry. Then there was some fireworks, then there was the great fire of London And all the rats went away. Then Henry the 6^th came along and he had 8 wives and he was married to William Mary and there was a diamond mine. Then the queen came along who is the queen now of all the land but she is old now. When she was young in the olden days they put the crown on her head and she had a golden cloak. I learned a lot in the Tower Of London About history and about England. There were lots of people there from other countries also learning about history and about England. There was a picture of one and he had a big black spot on his face. Acne laser treatment hadn't been invented back then so they were all quite ugly. My favourite fact that I learned in the Tower Of London Is that medieval people were really little also they slept sitting up it said this on one of the notice boards in the room. And I said this to my friend and she didn’t believe me she said they didn’t sleep sitting up they were just really short but then I said to my mum that they slept sitting up and she believed me. The crown jewels were best because they were shiny and the gift shop was second best because you could buy a shiny ring. Also I liked the cafÃ© where we had scones and tea, but I got my tea from the vending machine because it was cheeper. Also at lunchtime we had noodles. Written by Jules. (Class 4) At work they have arranged for a discount at an omnilux light clinic for all cosmetic surgery to make us all into clones from Hollyoaks. While I have in the past expressed to the company how difficult it is being surounded by so many uglys, I have to admit I am both surprised and pleased that they have finally moved on it!

This bank holiday I went to the Tower Of London With my friend to see the crown jewels. It was cold and raining all day and once it snowed but we didn’t care because we had lots of fun in the Tower Of London.

The Tower Of London Was built in the Protestant times as a way of keeping all the swords and guns safe from the French, because in the olden times there was a war with the French so they built a castle and then everyone was safe.

Then guy Fawkes came along and attempted to blow up Queen Victoria Using some Catholics. This made the prime minister at the time, Henry Four, very cross indeed. So they decided to put Guy Fawkes in the Tower next to Anne Berlin and some priests and they put him on a rack and then he said sorry. Then there was some fireworks, then there was the great fire of London And all the rats went away.

Then Henry the 6^th came along and he had 8 wives and he was married to William Mary and there was a diamond mine.

Then the queen came along who is the queen now of all the land but she is old now. When she was young in the olden days they put the crown on her head and she had a golden cloak.

I learned a lot in the Tower Of London About history and about England. There were lots of people there from other countries also learning about history and about England.

There was a picture of one and he had a big black spot on his face. Acne laser treatment hadn't been invented back then so they were all quite ugly. My favourite fact that I learned in the Tower Of London Is that medieval people were really little also they slept sitting up it said this on one of the notice boards in the room. And I said this to my friend and she didn’t believe me she said they didn’t sleep sitting up they were just really short but then I said to my mum that they slept sitting up and she believed me.

The crown jewels were best because they were shiny and the gift shop was second best because you could buy a shiny ring. Also I liked the cafÃ© where we had scones and tea, but I got my tea from the vending machine because it was cheeper.

Also at lunchtime we had noodles.

Written by Jules.

(Class 4)

At work they have arranged for a discount at an omnilux light clinic for all cosmetic surgery to make us all into clones from Hollyoaks. While I have in the past expressed to the company how difficult it is being surounded by so many uglys, I have to admit I am both surprised and pleased that they have finally moved on it!

Wierd week

2008-04-07T09:14:00.000-07:00

It has been the weirdest week at work, I have honestly felt like I have been on an episode of neighbours or some kind of comedy sitcom. It started on Monday with this team building thing that we all had to go on. It sounded like fun to begin with, but when we got there it turned out we all had to wear bunny ears and do a role play where we experienced the world as we would if we were the afore mentioned animal. Seriously. Afterwards we all jumped the guy who was supposed to have carefully planned it months in advance. Turned out he’d forgotten, and in a panic had done a search for corporate events London and booked the first people that were free that day!

So after we got back to the office, I realised that grace wasn’t around. Now Grace would have looked great in a pair of bunny ears. Its widely acknowledged that she is the hottest thing in the office. Seriously, she’s beautiful, great body and is a bit if a melon smuggler. Anyway, it seems the internet was going to strike again. Grace had gone on a client visit to Birmingham, but before going she’d done a search for breast reduction Birmingham and whilst up north where no one could talk her out of it she’d gone and done it! She could have had any man in this office, and she was something we all looked forward to seeing in the morning, and now all we could think of was how much better she used to look. I know this is very un pc, but my world that surgeon should be done for crimes against humanity. There was a slim chance that karma was going to balance things out for us with Jenifer having the female hair loss treatments, which did work well in fact. However there is only one Grace and she’s ruined it for all of us.

So now I’m sitting here just waiting for the end of the week, already. My only solace is to know that the little bunny rabbit in me knows that it doesn’t matter what someone looks like, as long as they have good bunny bearing hips.

France Deserts Princess Diana

2007-11-11T07:10:00.001-08:00

How sad, and historically how out of character, that the French are willing to stand their ground! In the trial currently debating the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the French have finally garnered their courage together in order to fight another country trying to impose their methods onto them! Unlike the world wars, both first and second, where the French capitulated without much of a defense, they are rallying around protecting their paparazzi’s right to prey on anyone they feel the need to, without having to answer ongoing repercussions in the country to which the person belongs – regardless how long it takes!

Aside from wondering where France finally found a voice to say “no”, I wonder why they do so now at the defense of photographers who could turn out to be a large part of the cause of Diana’s death. Although I suppose that France won’t want that death on her hands so it’s probably better for them that the rest of the world just thinks they are but we can’t prove it!

Whatever the outcome of the trial, the events of that night – as Prince Harry said – will never be known. Too much water has had time to run under the bridge, and too many people have had time to forget, and also to “remember”, events as they really happened. One of the only things that will be known for sure at the end of this trial is that France has protected key people who could have either implicated themselves as part of the cause, or have implicated someone else as being the reason the world lost a great lady.

Ow, a little news on the work front. This is what I’m going to change next the insurance pet page

Tourism in the Middle East

2007-11-08T01:00:00.001-08:00

The Middle East has always been a newsworthy area that on the one hand delights us with the evocative; spices, veiled women and Arabian Nights. On the other hand, the political and religious conflict of the area has always served as a dampener on the area’s cultural and historic draws. Nevertheless, as a frequent traveller to East Africa and the Sub-Continent, I have often been through the Middle East either as a transit passenger in one of their many airports or have actually stopped off for a few days and so chalking up a respectable list of countries in Arabia.

For an area so vast however, a few days spent in some of their principal cities cannot describe such a vast land. Added to that, the biggest country in the region, Saudi Arabia is virtually off limits to the casual tourist. The Middle East in some respects, is not the most accessible part of the world, but with the growth in world wide trade and the fact that their economies need to diversify away from oil, many of the countries in the area have started to promote tourism as a means to diversify beyond hydrocarbons.

Tourism in the Middle East, due to their economies’ development is relatively expensive and they can keep away the average backpacker. Along with a ferocious daytime temperature, people are often put off before they have closed the guide book. The Middle East, despite the ravages of capitalism still retains a lot of its traditions. The hospitality is still something that can astound the casual visitor and even in the biggest cities in the region, there is still a genuine kindness and respect amongst the inhabitants that would be hard to find in the West. The area’s relative safety, even in cities such as Cairo or Dubai is something that today still amazes me. The cuisine as well, especially once you venture beyond Egypt is something unforgettable.

And one thing that is vastly underrated about Arabia is the natural beauty of the land. Despite population growth, most of the Middle East is sparsely populated. This has left it with a landscape that is unspoilt in the riches of nature. There is something breath taking when walking along a moonlit coast with a small village behind you and the vast ocean in front. The Middle East is an area of serenity, that is hard to find anywhere else on Earth and one that provides delightful surprises at every turn.

Re-finding my inner Chess player

2007-09-25T10:04:00.001-07:00

Chess really is a game of kings and champions. I used to play at school all the time, I was even in the school internal team and played in a school competition. As an Adult I haven’t touched chess since I was a student, but I have recently really re-discovered the wonder and brilliance of the game! At a beginner level it is quite simple if you are both beginners. As you progress and get better however, the potential complexities come into play and you can really start doing some really clever moves and have some great games! You can choose to play chaotically or carefully depending on your mood. Sometimes being ridiculously agreessive will win you the game, other times playing tactically will bring you victory. It really is an excellent game, and I am very glad to have re-discovered it. If you haven’t tried it in a while I highly recommend it! I’ve found you can play in alot of cafes and bars now... perhaps you always could I’ve just never notices. So next time your in a bar and you’re a little bored of the usual conversation, have a look to see if there is a chess board in the room. You might find your surprised at just how good the age old game actually is.

Getting an expense account

2007-09-25T08:42:00.001-07:00

The expense account is a wonderful yet dangerous thing! You want to use it, I mean that is what it’s there for, yet to take the piss with it is to invite destruction of the most complete kind! So how do you find the line? I know some people who will forge receipts, spend huge amounts on dinners and claim that it was a client who drunk himself into sillyness, and almost outright steel by pocketing most of the money directly claiming it as allowable expensis. At the other end I know people who not only are completely straight up, but don’t spend the money on those things it’s actually meant for! They use their own money instead either out of fear of reprisal, or because they don’t feel they deserve to have things paid for onm their behalf by the company.

Ultimately I think there is a middle ground. The money is there to be spent, and that is the only thing that money is useful for – spending. You can’t eat it, you can’t plant it, so you should spend it. However, I’m not sure that those who really do take the Mickey will last long. I guess I’ll find out soon enough!

Death of the shop

2007-09-19T01:35:00.000-07:00

My sister is thinking about selling her house, discussing it over drinks a friend suggested that she should sell it online! So I had a look online and I found this article! Now I know that you can buy most things on the net these days, furniture, batteries – hell you can do your weekly shopping virtually now and it magically turns up on your doorstep, it is great. But something like a house – surely that’s too big to do on the net, it’s the kind of thing where you’d want a human helping you to deal with it – right? Well apparently not!

I looked into it, and you can pay an online website to do it for you, and even better there are community sites where I can sell my house for free! Yes – for no cost at all! Which means that if it doesn’t work out you loose nothing. I’m starting to sound like an advert here, but I’m just astounded at how eclectic the internet market place has gotten. I’m thinking about selling my motorbike, and the only place I think I’ll advertise it is Ebay. I’ve never sold on ebay before so I don’t know how it works or what it’ll cost me, but again a friend recommended it and it does seem to make sense for a direct sale.

So with everything being sold and bought in the online market place – does this spell the end of real shops?

Saving Life Time Through Typing Speed

2007-06-27T06:46:00.001-07:00

I’ve worked something out so blindingly obvious it seems silly that no one has pointed it out to me before. I spend a fair amount of time on this computer typing away for one reason or another. Now It takes me a certain amount of time to type things out, but I’m a fairly fast typer so that’s no big deal. BUT if I could touch type I would be even faster. Maybe not that much... but how much time would I save cumulatively? If I could type something that would take an hour, in, say 50minutes, I’d save 10mins. If in a day I did, say 6 hours of typing, that would be sixty minutes. That’s an hour, no big deal yet. However, calculate that over a five day week, that is five hours. Over four weeks that is twenty hours – that works out at two and bit Extra days per month i would have if I could touch type. Over a 48 week working year, thats 240 hours – that is thirty 8hour days!! That is a whole extra month per year! So I think that I’m going to go and learn to touch type... if any of you guys are interested let me know. We could sign up to class together or something. Let me know!

Some days I wish I lived in India

2007-06-01T03:03:00.001-07:00

Today at lunchtime today I was sitting on the floor in the stock cupboard sorting out some stationary. It's a warm beautiful day today, and a friday which always makes me really relaxed. I was leaning against the cabinet, paused for a minute and closed my eyes while I enjoyed the calm and quiet of the space. I awoke about 20minutes later having had a really great lunchtime siesta! It was great! I came out of that cupboard feeling so relaxed, refreshed and alert. I really think that lunchtime siesta's are a great idea, like they do as normal in spain or india. It really made my day.

I think next week I might have to start doing a daily pen collection from the cupboard.

We're about to have our 10 year annual review by the senior partners, and to 'celebrate' the company is offering to pay 80% of the costs of going to a laser tattoo removal clinic for any employee who has a visible tatoo! Abigail, the MD's secretary is thinking of having a boob job - and I suspect that the company will definatlely hold to their promise of providing a discount! Good luck to her!

Changes

2007-05-29T04:33:00.001-07:00

I've been listening to counting crows as a band for well over a decade now, and I still like their music, I really do. It's changed alot, but I like the new work for different reasons to why I like their old songs. More than that, I think I've changed. Even their really old stuff, I listen to with different ears and so I hear different things in their music. I read a different message, get a different feeling, remember diferent memories, am inspired to different daydreams.

Try it, go back and listen to some music you haven't listen to in a long time, but really listen. It'll help you see not just the change in their music, but help you guage the changes within yourself.

Keith ate all the pies I swear its true. Fatty wants us to do anything extra with the nuts and bolts section.
I think the new design they're proposing is awful, but hey, same old thing day in day out, you know?

Shrimp Rocket versus the institute.

2007-05-25T03:02:00.001-07:00

Okay I went to see a bit of theatre sports. I hadn’t seen one of these shows since I was in the states a couple of years back. I had completely forgotten about the format and I must say it was interesting. Their were two teams of three people and a even mix of male and female. All the theatre sports I have seen had a panel of judges that decide the scores, but these guys only a ring master character who got the score from the audience in a maestro.

The show was great fun what with having some really odd challenges one being best scene done upside down and best scene done in complete silence, which was just strange what with a guy strangling a duck and using as a lure for a murder.

The victors at the end were the institute, shrimp rocket lost, clearly! Even though the whole thing just seemed really friendly.

Christine asked if its possible to do something more with the non surgical cosmetic treatments section.
I think the new design they're proposing is awful, but hey, nothings ever going to change anyway, you know?

Lindsay Lohan supports Britney Spears

2007-05-10T07:41:00.001-07:00

Lindsay Lohan attended Spears' short lived12 min set . Britney is now wearing what appear to be crazy moon boots! She is just pushing the mad boat slightly too far. I mean if this goes on, what’s next? Care bear booties? Bin liners on her feet? The sky is the limit! Or is there a intetered version of that. But since Lohan admires her so much, she might even start following her fashion advice. And that would suck, because as soon as the two of them wear it everybody is going to follow suit. No, not good weird, Britney Spears weird!

And if I start going down the street and seeing thirteen year old Britneys, I will kill myself and take them all down with me! This is maddness!! Of all the people in the world, the most dangerous one to start a trend is Spears, and there she goes, with a shaven head and absolutely no dress sense, being weird!

Not like it's cool weird! it's Spears weird!

This article was submitted by William Foster. William is the main contributor on Pretty Gritty and has published many articles concerning acne treatment london.

Missile Protection to Raise the Risks of Nuclear War?

2007-04-29T05:05:00.001-07:00

Vladimir Putin is speaking strongly against the U.S. Plan to put a missile destruction system in Poland or the Czech Republic, vowing to remove Russia from a NATO treaty limiting conventional arms in Europe if the U.S. Doesn’t withdraw the plan.

At first, a missile defense plan sounds like it would be purely beneficial; if any nuclear strikes are launched against the United States, of course they would want to neutralize them.

However, the current state of nuclear peace that we have today exists at least in part on the theory of MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction. It would be pure madness for any aggressor to launch a nuclear strike against another country when they have the sure knowledge that the other country would be able to destroy them before it goes down, too.

The missile defense system would remove MAD from any threat scenario. The United States could, theoretically, launch a nuclear attack with the assurance that the defense system would prevent retaliation.

This is a clearly dangerous situation. Even if the U.S. Were not interested in being aggressors, other countries with nuclear power would feel jumpier without the reassurance of MAD. They might be more likely to conduct a nuclear attack at any potential sign of aggression, hoping that some of the missiles would get through the defense system.

Perhaps a better solution would be to create a missile defense system that is not controlled by any one country, or several controlled by different blocs. If any missile from any country would be shot down, regardless of launcher or target, then a defense system might actually make sense and be acceptable to all.

This post was composed by Alex Henson. Alex also regularly contributes to the Bored Tonight! And has been quoted often on home information packs.

Grant the Celebrities a Chance to Fight Back!

2007-04-27T03:13:00.001-07:00

Ok, so I’m not exactly a Hugh Grant fan, he was quite endearing in the movie “Notting Hill”, but usually I get the impression of a overgrown public school boy playing a role of an overgrown public school boy! However, being charged on an allegation of throwing something at a photographer who was taking a photo he hadn’t been given permission to take seems ridiculous. What kind of message are we sending to the so called paparazzi if this is taken seriously?

These celebrity photographers think that it’s “open season” on famous people and if the famous people are out in public (or even if they're in their own homes or vehicles), then they are targets for photography. Seems to me that if the paparazzi think it’s ok to shoot unauthorized photos of people just for being celebrities, then it ought to be ok for the celebrities to fight back!

Just now the celebrity photographers are getting away with too much. I agree, it’s the public’s interest that spurs them on, but at the same time, it’s not necessary to pry into a person’s private life just because they happen to be in movies, or have become a socialite celebrity.

Didn’t we learn anything when we lost our Princess to the paparazzi?

This entry has been submitted by James Hobbs. James is also one of the main writers on Remote Brains and has started to become a authority to do with laser hair removal.

Britney Spears is cross with her dad

2007-04-23T06:51:00.001-07:00

Britney Spears, (26), the American pop singer, dancer, actress, author and songwriter is cross with father, Jamie Spears, because he is taking the side of her manager Larry Rudolph for doing what needed to be done. Last Friday Britney fired Rudolph who forced her into rehab.

Britney's dad sent an email to Page Six defending him and wrote: "When Larry Rudolph talked Britney into going into rehab, he was doing what her mother, father and team of professionals with over 100 years of experience knew needed to be done. She was out of control. Larry was the one chosen by the team to roll up his sleeves and deliver the message, to help save her life. The Spears family would like to publicly apologize to Larry for our daughter's statements about him over the past few weeks. Unfortunately, she blames him and her family for where she is at today with her kids and career. Larry has always been there for Britney. For this, we will forever be grateful to him."

Britney reply was: "I am praying for my father. We have never had a good relationship. It's sad that all the men that have been in my life do not know how to accept a real woman's love. I am concentrating on my work and my life right now."

This year Britney Spears was ranked 12th by (Forbes) in The 20 Richest Women In Entertainment. She is also considered one of the youngest stars to get a star on Hollywood's walk of fame.

I really wonder how a person can fight with his dad through a newspaper. Conflicts cannot be solved this way in public.

This entry was written by Kiri Connell, she is a contributor to Pretty Gritty and Metro-Male. Kiri is fast becoming an authority on click through rates.

2007-04-01T12:32:00.000-07:00

Iran Bullies Captives into Non-Believable Apologies!

What’s with the Iranians holding our troops hostage? Do they really think that having people they are exerting power over apologize for something is going to be believed by anyone other than the others in their country who accept propaganda as being the truth? Do they think that the educated British people will believe the apology is anything other than an exercise in humiliation for the troops?

Watching the TV reports on this my memory brings to mind an incident that happened to me as a child. Another child tore a page in a book at school, and blamed me for it. His word against mine, and he’d threatened that if I told the truth he’d beat me up. When the teacher asked about it, he made me say it was my fault. I didn’t want to be beaten up. So I said what he wanted me to say. I didn’t mean it. The teacher was smart enough to know who was really to blame and so just said “don’t worry about it”. As I see these “apologies” coming in from the hostages I see the same bully tactics that were used against me by this boy – and like my teacher, the British public as one needs to renounce the Iranian regime for their tactics, and the UN should be in a position to ensure that the captors treat our troops with respect whilst they solve the issues in an intelligent, educated manner with the people who are really responsible for the incident, the officers who gave the orders the troops followed!

On a positive note.Keith suggested I change microsclerotherapy pages

2007-03-28T09:16:00.000-07:00

Britney Spears acting like she has hair

Ok, so, I’m guessing that when you shave all your hair off you kind of say goodbye to all hair related activities. But not Britney Spears, oh no! She will act as if nothing is wrong! As she always does for that matter… she was spotted visiting a hair salon over the weekend in Beverly Hills. What a sad little life she must leave telling herself daily ‘I do have hair! It’s just that…. Nobody can see it! It’s special hair!�. I’m sorry honey, I know you don’t mean to act retarded, it’s just the way you are! But bottom line is, you do not have hair, and… really, can’t sing! Oh, don’t worry, there are places for you! Just… not among normal people!

2007-03-23T08:20:00.001-07:00

Heather Mills Shows True Confidence in False Leg

Heather Mills, who is currently going through a divorce with former Beetle Paul McCartney, is taking a stand for the handicapped by participating in the American reality show, Dancing with the Stars, despite the fact that she is an amputee. Viewers were astonished to see that it is impossible to tell that Heather has only one leg.

Not only is Mills brave to conduct a full ballroom dancing routine, which includes twirls, kicks, and dips, with a prosthetic leg, but she has also shown a rare amount of good humor when faced with the fact that many people have placed wagers on whether the leg will fall off or not. In fact, Mills participated in the betting herself.

"I've bet a few hundred dollars it's not going to come off - so I'll win some money," Mills told American talk show host Jay Leno.

It’s amazing to see what huge strides Mills has taken, despite her disability. She has refused to let her loss of a leg slow her down, and frequently participates in sports such as skiing, bicycling, and inline skating. It’s also refreshing to see that she can see the humor in her situation, and that she’s not bitter to know that much of the nation is watching her just to see if her leg will fall off.

Personally, I’m cheering for it to stay on. I’d like to see Heather win her bet.

Ow on a work front.
Well I've totally finished the overseas property for sale page

2007-03-23T08:20:00.000-07:00

Parents Tell Judge – Lock Our Son Up, and Throw Away the Key

Most of us would like to think that, no matter what we do, our parents would side with us against the outside world. But if Soham murderer Ian Huntley had similar hopes, they were dashed when his parents told a judge that they are among the people who think that he should never be released from prison.

Admittedly, Huntley’s family isn’t really the type that warming stories are made of. His parents divorced, and his brother married his ex-wife. Furthermore, Huntley’s crimes were particularly gruesome. A suspect in a variety of crimes including burglary and rape, Huntley brutally murdered two ten-year-old girls that he knew from his job working at a local school. The murders were apparently fueled by his rage at his girlfriend after the two of them fought.

Despite pressure from many parties to give Huntley a life-long sentence, the judge settled on 40 years in prison because Huntley did not kidnap the girls, but rather invited them into his home before murdering them. While 40 years allows Huntley to leave prison at the ripe old age of 68, it is still far harsher than most murder sentences. The decision is coming under strong criticism.

"The prospect of him ever being released is unthinkable. The right place for our son is in jail,” Huntley’s parents said. It is hard to decide whether that reaction is laudable for putting the good of the country over the welfare of a child, or just simply cold-hearted.

Finally we seem to be progressing with the site.
Steve has completely re-designed the microsclerotherapy clinic page

2007-03-23T07:14:00.000-07:00

Anti-Burping Pill to Save the World

Thinking of things that are harmful to the environment, gas-guzzling autos and polluting factories spring immediately to mind. What doesn’t seem quite as obvious is the breeding of cows. However, cattle produce a huge amount of methane, and are responsible for 4% of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The problem is a tricky one, since large numbers of cattle are necessary to supply the world’s milk and meat demands. Simply cutting back their numbers is a less than satisfactory solution.

Scientists in Germany have come up with a win-win solution, however, in the form of a bovine anti-burping pill that would reduce methane emissions in cows while improving their overall health and usefulness.

Methane is a by-product of a cow’s digestive system, created as grasses ferment in the cow’s seven stomachs. The anti-burping pill would absorb the methane and convert it into glucose, which would give the cows more energy and help them produce more milk.

It’s really sad that it’s so hard to motivate people to do more to protect the environment. But hopefully, a solution like this that has only benefits for the cows, the farmers, and the earth alike, will have a real impact.

On a positive note.
Lesley has redesigned the equine insurance UK pages

2007-03-22T05:00:00.002-07:00

British accent is now Cute!!

Hay ho, apparently all that is need to Succeed in the stats is to have a killer cute british accent. This I have kind of been aware fo for a long time, but a new piece of 'new' published by the BBC confirm my supsicions. Appernetly there is a amusement value to our voice, but I can kind of understnad. After listening to the american accent and then comparing the English accent (I know this is silly there are load of american accents and load of english accents ) I must say I long for the softer less fiece queens english, this is probable because I'm used to it more than anything else. I can't believe that american hate there own accents, or surely they wodul do soemthing about it. However the english brummies can't possible like there lanaguage and they seem stuck with it. So maybe they do.

Think I might go over to american and start doing some voice overs. Maybe get my own chat show, maybe marry into the Royal family.....

Finally we seem to be progressing with the site.
Brian suggested I change nuts and bolts pages

2007-03-22T05:00:00.001-07:00

Winehouse needs some time to Whine

(Sorry I though I would try a pun at least I try)

Amy Winehouse has cancelled a whole bunch of gigs, and why I hear you cry. Is she in Rehab, Has she broken her face in some kind of coked up car carsh, noooooo she split up with her boyfriend.

Apperently they couldn't hold her perfectly botox face together. Amy Spli up with Alex Jones-Donelly at the begining of this month, right in the middle of a killer load of gigs and concerts, so the poor girtl hasn't had a second to sit and cry. Personally I do feel sorry for her, I actually like Amy (which for me is a rareity) I understand it too. I suppose as you get more famous, you need to relie on the people around you so much more, rather than your world expanding it must kind of contract and when you lose someone that close it's got to be a huge chunk of your life.

But then again, she can look forward to a whole load of publicity when she starts sleeping with some has been from E17.

Ow, a little news on the work front.
Well I've completed the pet insurance pages

2007-03-22T05:00:00.000-07:00

Browns Cutting Tax!!

Well I don't think would have ever predicted it, but Gordan Brown is cutting income tax, by 2p. That even suprised me. What with all the Green issue being so big, I was under the impression he was going to raise the income tax.

It might be because it was the last budget that he probable woudl ever do. He probable want to be remeber as the person who was kind to the masses, exspecaily when he need to come across well if he ever hopes to fill Tony Blairs shoes. I however actually like Brown fo rthat simple reason. My kind of warped logic is if he isn't coming across well, not all polished and userfriendly, then the reason why he is there must be something a little more substanila like for example, he is good at his job.

I cannot stand David Cameron, person I think he is too PR. Eveyrhtign he says seems to be a copy of the Blair winning formula. He's young a viral and all that rubbish, I want my PM to be as unsecy as possible.

Finally we have had progress with the website.
Well I've totally finished the HIPS page

2007-03-21T04:20:00.000-07:00

Millionaire Ecologist – Savior or Tyrant?

Most people would say without hesitation that selling a company worth $150 million to fund environmental protection is an unqualified good deed – perhaps even a mark of sainthood. But people in Argentina Are reacting very differently to Esprit and North Face founder Douglas Tompkins’ generosity.

Thompkins has spent some of his fortune to purchase a vast tract of Argentinean wetlands, measuring over three million acres of swamp and marsh. The goal over the next two decades is to encourage the return of indigenous animals, from marsh deer to jaguars, and then turn the area into a national park.

As idyllic as it sounds to outsiders, many Argentineans are angry about this plan – and who can blame them? Not only has a foreigner bought up an enormous part of their country, but the land rests upstream from the Guarani aquifer, a vital source of fresh water, one of the largest in the world.

This poses two problems for the Argentineans – they are vulnerable to any damage or pollution done to that water source, and they fear that their resources might make them a military target in the near future. Those fears are not eased by the fact that the United States Is building a military base over the border in Paraguay.

On the one hand, Thompkins has the money and the desire to do something really amazing for our planet. Those three million acres could be revitalized to provide homes for threatened animal and plant species, and to improve air and water quality. On the other hand, having a single man control areas that are larger than some countries is a frightening proposition. The Argentinean wetlands are only one of his many gigantic estates.

While I applaud his goals and hope he is successful, I am also glad that Thompkins is not moving into my neighborhood!

Ow on a work front.
Stephen made the suggestion that I change the glycolic peel uk pages

2007-03-14T04:00:00.000-07:00

BT - Excessive Charges Outed ....at last!

So BT’s getting it’s hand slapped for charging customers a fee of £4.50 if they don’t pay via direct debit? It’s about time! Most organizations and companies have as many means of payment as they can possibly create in order to get money from their subscribers. BT has got away with this one for long enough. There are plenty of other companies out there who could pull a similar stunt and charge their non-direct debit payers a financial penalty for incurring them extra work, but quite rightly they don’t! Those other companies following BT’s example ought to be stomped on with the same vigour as BT in order that the trend be stopped before it becomes “acceptable” in the eyes of those who make such decisions – unfortunately these decision makes are probably people who pay by direct debit and for whom the £4.50 means nothing more than a cookie at Starbucks anyway.

What occurs to me is that the cost of processing the money paid by subscribers is something that BT has had to incur since it began, which was far in advance of the digital money transfer age. As they freely admit that it costs them more to process a non-direct debit payment, doesn’t it beg the question of why a direct debit payment doesn’t cost LESS than any other payment, rather charging more to those who pay by the same process they always paid? If people using direct debits are creating less of an overhead for BT, then these payments ought to receive a £4.50 rebate on their bill – isn’t that more logical?

People who don’t have bank accounts where they can use direct debit facilities are usually those who are on low incomes, or are of the older generation where this kind of banking is alien to them and something they don’t really understand. Why target these people who are already struggling with extra payments because they don’t have access to payment method that cuts costs for a high profit margin company?

Shame on you BT!

Ow, a little news on the work front.
Steve suggested I change steel fasteners page

2007-03-01T03:42:00.000-08:00

What's Good for the Hound...

Sharing the front page on the BBC news today are two interesting stories: a warning about the dangers of purchasing slimming pills on the internet, and the announcement of a new anti-fat drug for dogs.

According to the dog article, we should be concerned about the obesity that plagues “20-40 percent of the domestic canine population.� According to the human article, pills are fueling a dangerous “slimming obsession” that lead to the death of 21-year-old model Ana Carolina Reston.

Is it any wonder that we are neurotic about weight?

On the one hand, you have to wonder why dogs get a pill that blocks excess food from being transformed into fat, but humans are warned off of relying on anything other than counting calories. On the other hand, you have to wonder why people are so desperate to have such a pill in the first place.

Is it really so hard to exercise self control in our diets? Or simply to exercise?

Is the weight loss obsession fueled by the media’s portrayals of stick-thin waifs as the leading beauties in the land, or is the multimillion-pound weight loss industry behind it – or is it really all in our heads?

Anorexic or obese, why is it so difficult for people today to reach a weight that makes them happy, and stay there?

Finally we seem to be progressing with the site.
Hay, check out the new design on the problem prone skin pages

2006-12-05T03:40:00.000-08:00

Daniel Kitson music recommendation

I just got a email through for the daniel kitson mailing list I subscribe too. One fo the think that stuck out though was what he wrote about gavin osborn, a singer songwriter who had supported him on his tour a couple of years back. Basically he wantefd to give him a plug becuase he was recording his first album.

The plan is the he will record it live over two nights at the albany on the 18th and 19th of december.

I had a quick listen to his my space song and I was very impressed. I can't think who is remind me of, I got a kind of billy brag vibe about it. Anyway check it out:

Www.Myspace.Com/gavinosborn

Finally we seem to be progressing with the site.
Catherine made the suggestion that I change the thread veins page

2006-10-31T05:27:00.000-08:00

Sham War and Peace.

Bloddy hell, outsourcing really does take a hell of a lot of time: So much typing trying to exanplain everything. Look at this impressive mamoth war and peace from Sham:

[08:40] Sham (Desktop Apps): Update : for Maitland letters I need help on which data to be used from Tables(database) in the word document ?
[Offline Message (Tue Oct 31 05:16:27 2006)]

[10:29] *** "Sham (Desktop Apps)" signed on at Tue Oct 31 10:29:33 2006.

[10:32] Sham (Desktop Apps): hello sir

[10:33] Sham (Desktop Apps): i need the 14 day letter once again. After I open the file , within few seconds the application says not responding. It seems something wrong with the file.

[10:33] Sham (Desktop Apps): can you please copy the document and create new one to send me.

[10:39] nixies78: Hi Sham

[10:39] Sham (Desktop Apps): hello sir

[10:39] nixies78: sorry was having a shower

[10:40] Sham (Desktop Apps): my staff could not open the 14 day file, it hangs the machine after few seconds. Please open the document at your place and copy it to the new document

[10:41] nixies78: ow I wonder why

[10:42] Sham (Desktop Apps): may be the document is corrupt or some virus infected it. It did not asked for any enabling of macro's etc BTW

[10:42] nixies78: okay I'm send it to you now

[10:43] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[10:43] Sham (Desktop Apps): we have few more queries, can you please open the other 2 word documents

[10:43] nixies78: okay

[10:46] Sham (Desktop Apps): the chase physio report -

[10:46] Sham (Desktop Apps): Ms.Cathy Blake Of Cathy Blake Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic

[10:46] nixies78: okay

[10:46] Sham (Desktop Apps): where do I get Ms Cahty Blake is this client name ? Or Contact name ?

[10:47] Sham (Desktop Apps): Cathy Blake Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic - is this insurer ?

[10:48] nixies78: I dont' think so

[10:48] nixies78: It's hard for me to tell

[10:48] nixies78: could you list all the question that you have then I will ring Sue she will give me all the answers

[10:49] nixies78: I'll send you a invite to the computer.

[10:49] Sham (Desktop Apps): can u plz call maitland and get these details

[10:49] nixies78: what email are you one?

[10:50] Sham (Desktop Apps): #######

[10:50] Sham (Desktop Apps): whether they want it word report or access report. We haven't used in word reports in Maitland except for email attachment. Most of other reports are access reports

[10:51] nixies78: invite sent

[10:51] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[10:53] *** "Sham (Desktop Apps)" signed on at Tue Oct 31 10:53:11 2006.

[10:55] nixies78: ofr some reason the word document are chasing on my computer too

[10:55] nixies78: I'm doing a virus check

[10:55] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[10:57] nixies78: going

[10:57] nixies78: I think a access report should be fine

[10:58] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok sir

[10:59] Sham (Desktop Apps): it says invitation has been cancelled

[11:00] nixies78: er

[11:00] nixies78: I'll try again

[11:00] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:06] nixies78: okay I will ring her

[11:06] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:10] nixies78: just talking to them

[11:10] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:11] nixies78: It the physio address

[11:14] nixies78: Hi Sham can you see this?

[11:14] Sham (Desktop Apps): wait, I will come to screen

[11:14] nixies78: okay

[11:14] Sham (Desktop Apps): i am there

[11:15] nixies78: that is the details that the letter need to grab

[11:15] nixies78: Do you need any more information?

[11:15] Sham (Desktop Apps): yes, wait

[11:15] nixies78: ok

[11:16] Sham (Desktop Apps): where do u expect the print button to be placed ? On which form. Right now I had given all the buttons on print report tab

[11:16] nixies78: on this print letter tab

[11:17] nixies78: all three

[11:17] Sham (Desktop Apps): yes

[11:17] nixies78: is that okay?

[11:17] Sham (Desktop Apps): but how do i co-relate that physio's details from this page

[11:17] Sham (Desktop Apps): just a moment i will check relationship between these

[11:18] nixies78: their is only ever one physio assign to the person, theri must be a links somewhere

[11:18] nixies78: in the referral their is a connection

[11:18] nixies78: can you see ?

[11:18] nixies78: Treatment provider

[11:18] Sham (Desktop Apps): its treatement provider

[11:18] nixies78: yep

[11:19] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:19] nixies78: do you need anythign else?

[11:19] Sham (Desktop Apps): at the bottom of letter there is something junior officer

[11:20] nixies78: that can be hard coded

[11:20] nixies78: It will alway s be Kathrine

[11:20] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok, one last question i think

[11:20] nixies78: ANy more question for maitland?

[11:20] Sham (Desktop Apps): Dear Ms L Cairns

[11:21] Sham (Desktop Apps): where do I get Ms L Cairns from ? Client name ?

[11:22] nixies78: it should be the same as the person it is address too.

[11:22] nixies78: so It should have been Dear Ms Lisa Ceiros

[11:22] nixies78: human typo

[11:22] Sham (Desktop Apps): just a moment sir

[11:22] nixies78: okay

[11:22] Sham (Desktop Apps): date is Today's date ?

[11:22] nixies78: yeo

[11:23] nixies78: yep

[11:24] Sham (Desktop Apps): in the chase physio report

[11:24] Sham (Desktop Apps): Ms.Cathy Blake Of Cathy Blake Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic Dragons Health & Fitness Club Rowdell Road Northholt Middlesex UB5 6AG

[11:25] Sham (Desktop Apps): is this the Treatment Provider - contact, name, address ?

[11:25] nixies78: yes I think so

[11:25] nixies78: yep

[11:25] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok sir

[11:25] nixies78: anythign else?

[11:25] Sham (Desktop Apps): did u re-sent 14 day letter again

[11:25] nixies78: yes do you want me to send again?

[11:26] Sham (Desktop Apps): just a moment i will check email

[11:26] nixies78: okay

[11:27] nixies78: sending another one

[11:27] Sham (Desktop Apps): no its ok

[11:27] nixies78: opps sent

[11:28] Sham (Desktop Apps): plz confirm that paper size is A4 , with 1 inch margin on each side

[11:28] Sham (Desktop Apps): or its 8.5X11 inch ?

[11:28] nixies78: It shodul be the same as all the others

[11:28] nixies78: can you check your self?

[11:30] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok its A4 with 1 inch margin on each side

[11:30] nixies78: cool anythgin else you need?

[11:31] Sham (Desktop Apps): hopefully I should finish till night

[11:31] nixies78: okay Linda has just em ail me with somethign else urgent, can we find out what she wants now?

[11:31] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:32] nixies78: I have just made a new Employer entry using the �Employer Admin� section for DHL Express � Bristol Hub location. I was able to use the new entry to produce our report but then realised I had entered an incorrect email address.

When I went back in to Employer Admin, the new Bristol Hub location did not show (although the other 2 Bristol entries were there) � therefore I couldn't correct the email address. Could you please help me with what I did wrong?

[11:33] nixies78: Sham have you read that? I have her on the phone now so I can get her to show us it.

[11:34] Sham (Desktop Apps): just a moment i am thinking on what must be the problem

[11:35] nixies78: I can get her to show us if that helps

[11:35] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:35] nixies78: do you want her too?

[11:36] Sham (Desktop Apps): yes , plz . I don't recall how to go to EmployerAdmin and check that added record

[11:37] nixies78: adding a new employee

[11:37] nixies78: it a DHL one

[11:38] nixies78: can you see there are two bristol and a bristol Hub?

[11:38] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:38] nixies78: hse has just entered the bristol hub one

[11:39] nixies78: when she came to fill in this part of the form it works

[11:39] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:39] nixies78: She got the email wrong and editied it in here, whish seemed to had worked

[11:40] nixies78: she searched for it

[11:40] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:42] nixies78: this is only showing the bristol not birstol hub

[11:44] nixies78: how wodul you find the bristol hub one?

[11:44] Sham (Desktop Apps): is it there in the combo ?

[11:45] nixies78: we can't find it through theis form at all

[11:45] Sham (Desktop Apps): just a moment, can I take over ? I will check which table has been used for this and

[11:46] Sham (Desktop Apps): there must be record in the table otherwise it wouldn't have shown in other form

[11:46] nixies78: sure will leave you to it for 15 minutes

[11:46] Sham (Desktop Apps): ok

[11:46] nixies78: all yours

[12:05] Sham (Desktop Apps): hello sir

[12:05] Sham (Desktop Apps): r u online ?

[12:05] Sham (Desktop Apps):

[12:06] Sham (Desktop Apps): the problem is that we haven't included Address2 in the Top combo that's used for selection. And Bresthood is stored in Address2 that's why its not showing

[12:08] nixies78: Hi

[12:08] nixies78: okay what do you suggest?

[12:08] Sham (Desktop Apps): shall I added Address2 also in the combo

[12:10] nixies78: please if that will fix the problem

[12:11] nixies78: is that easy or big job?

[12:11] Sham (Desktop Apps): not so big, will do in 5-10 minutes now

[12:12] Sham (Desktop Apps): shall I do it now ?

[12:12] nixies78: how long will it take?

[12:12] Sham (Desktop Apps): 10 minutes at most

[12:12] nixies78: okay please do

[12:12] nixies78: better than having to distube you again

[12:12] Sham (Desktop Apps): yes

[12:37] Sham (Desktop Apps): hello sir

[12:37] Sham (Desktop Apps): i made the correction plz check

[12:38] Sham (Desktop Apps): the record is there and made change to show Address1 and all other(Address3,Address4) are blank that's why it was not showing

[12:38] Sham (Desktop Apps):

[12:38] nixies78: hmm okay

[12:38] nixies78: sorry what is blank?

[12:39] Sham (Desktop Apps): for the record we were searching Address3 and Address4 are blank

[12:39] nixies78: okay sometime I suppose they may be left blank

[12:40] Sham (Desktop Apps): but they won't be able to search in this list then

[12:41] nixies78: I an't find the record they are talking about still

[12:42] nixies78: how wodul I find the record bristol hub that they are tryign to alter the email on?

[12:42] Sham (Desktop Apps): i will show

[12:44] Sham (Desktop Apps): sir, plz see i am showing bristaolhub's record

[12:45] nixies78: okay so there is notign filled in at all I will ring her

[12:45] Sham (Desktop Apps): yes sir

[12:46] nixies78: she has gone out for lunch i will have to try again at 1:30 (in 45 minutes)

[12:47] nixies78: In the meantime could I discuss that change to the hairloss form I sent you.

[12:48] Sham (Desktop Apps): i am sorry, i did not make the change yet . I mean sending email

[12:49] nixies78: do you understand it though?

[12:51] Sham (Desktop Apps): on phone

[12:51] nixies78: ok

[12:53] Sham (Desktop Apps): back

[12:54] Sham (Desktop Apps): i understood about email but could not work on that. Downloaded files from site though

[12:54] Sham (Desktop Apps): i will do it tomorrow sir

[12:54] Sham (Desktop Apps): i need little more help on maitland main's report

[12:55] nixies78: okay they are at lunch at the moment. In half a hour I can call them again.

[12:55] nixies78: okay tomorrow would be okay

[12:55] nixies78: I think it is very quick

[12:58] nixies78: what is your question abotu the letter, maybe I can answer it

Then he got disconnected, DAMM Indian internet.

On a positive note.
Hay, check out the new design on the accent part

2006-09-26T05:13:00.000-07:00

Angry rock needs a little more than a large month

My friends and I just got back home from the pub. Somebody had informed us we needed to see this awesome local band that would be performing. So, we all choose to go check them out. When we got there, I thought it would be a good night. You know how you can figure out immediately if the people in the boozer are your people or not, right?

It was clear these were my kind of people and not a bunch of teenie-boppers. The music was fast and hard, just like I like it. Once the singer started, but, I was through. The bloke that just starts screaming like an idiot for no obvious reason. It makes me think less to the complete band when the vocalist does that. I like screamy songs, so don't misunderstand what I'm talking about. It just needs to be done the correct way! So, it requires skill and a special voice to do it right. You have to understand when to do it and how to do it to sound good. Therefore, if the singer can not do it right, the band just needs to give up on the idea of the screaming and do something else!

Bleeding hell, they want me to do more stuff to eshot today!! Damm Damm Damm, it's finished, it excellent leave it alone! I've come to accept this will never be finishedthey will always come up with a couple new idea they want to include.
The stainless steel website is done and me just now hanging out waiting for my next job, so the worthless blog posts. I am now going to be going back to a old project that gota couple new features in the pipe line. Eshot "the Marketing Manager Dream" Joe 's slogan not mine! I was under the impression I had finished, however no then someone goes and dreams up another crazy add on.

Little update waited 79 days for that cheque to go through!

2006-08-31T04:05:00.000-07:00

I'm to blame for crap trains.

I got guillted in to participating in a servay by a little old lady. I can't resist their little wrinkled faces. Basically she was trying to figure how they should spend the money when buying new trains.
The basic permism was simple, how nice would you like the trains to be compared to how long you would like your journey to be plus how frequent your train will come.

I probable wasn't the best person to ask, I just see train journeys as soemthing that has to be endured. I would sit on a red hot spike if it got me to my destination 5 minutes earlier. So If they impliment a kababe like seating system you know who you have to blame.

At last progress on the site.
Debs has completely redesigned the IPL hair removal pages

2006-08-20T11:46:00.000-07:00

Just let me listen to the band.

I went along to a pub with the boys yesterday evening. A few other bloke we know had informed Tom to we had to check out this starting out band that was going to be doing a gig there. So, a group of us made the choice to go check them out. I was fully expecting a marvelous evening when I got in the pub. Straight away, you can figure out if the audience is into the same type of music as you, you know what I am talking about.

Well, I could inform this was my kind of crowd, not a some Spice Girls fans or country listening hicks. Not only that, the music was booming and there were some cool death metal guitar riffs going on. I was nearly going to take off, though, when the singer started going at it. This guys just begun screeching, like that's all there's to this style of music. It pisses me off when they do that. I appreciate music with a bit of screaming, therefore don't misunderstand what I'm talking about. What I'm trying to say is screeching is really an art form! In fact, I have respect for the guys who can get it right seeing as isn't something just anyone can do. For it to sound professional, the vocalist has to understand how to do it right and have his timing sorted out. So to all the bands out there, make sure you get someone highly skilled in the art of screaming in your band, or go the screaming out!

The freaks want me to do more to Eshot today!! Damm it, it is finished, it fantastic go it alone! As soon as you think something completely finished, they just have to add a whole load of new cool features.
The stainless steel nuts site is done and me just now hanging out waiting for another job, therefore the random musings. Now i'm going to be redoing a old project again it needsa couple new features in the pipe line. E-shot "the Most powerful targeting engine in the industry" Joe 's catch-phrase not mine! I've come to accept this will never be finishedthey will always come up with a few new idea they want to include.

Lea who picks your clothes.

2006-07-18T07:26:00.000-07:00

Listen to me I have something incoherent to say....

If System of Down's Mezmerize CD is not part of your collection, you have to go out and buy it today. I had heard nothing about this band until back in 1998 when they were the warm up act for Slayer and i've been in to them since. Their self-titled first album was still some months away from release at the time, but I was anxiously anticipating its arrival. When the album was released, I was far from disappointed in it.

Their next album, Toxicity, earned the band a great deal of commercial success. I also thought this CD was fantastic. I wasn't quite therefore ecstatic with the 3rd release (Steal this Album), since I thought the group was going soft. Mezmerize, to look at it another way, is the epitome of what this band has been working toward achieving. With Mezmerize, you can still enjoy that same mad sound that belongs only to System of a Down. To look at it another way, the group hitchies it up a notch by introducing barmy fast beats and outstanding rock guitar. Like with all of System's CDs, be sure to pay close attention to the song lyrics. Outwardly, a few of the tracks (like B.Y.O.B.) appear to be fun party songs. In actuality, the songs provide scathing political commentaries and checking on current events. Nothing less would be expected from System CD.

I've been back to working on some barmy E-Shot stuff today, god understand what Joe upto we been adding tons of XML integration. I do not think, I'm not going to be put on the amazing incredible fun project they keep using as a carrot on a stick. Not that I am bitter.
Nobbie's oakedoake website is all updated, so I'm just waiting for my next job to be signed off. Joe wants to see if he can upgrade it to the point where he can justify buying a even more stupid server!!! Damm technology junky!! lord knows what were going to get it to do now. As soon as you think something finished, they just have to add a whole load of new cool features.

It’s called rap music because the ‘c’ fell of the keyboard. – A Bease

2006-07-06T14:26:00.000-07:00

Anyone can make it in Metal!!

My buddies and me just got back from the public house. Some other bloke we know had told Tom to we needed to see this amateur band that was going to be performing there. Usually, this guy is in the know, therefore we decided we'd go see them do there stuff. I thought my night-time was going to be cool when I initially strolled in. Right away, you can tell if the crowd is into the same music as you, you know what I'm saying.

It was clear these were my kind of people and not a some teenie-boppers or country two-steppers. Not only that, the music was blaring and there were a couple cool death metal guitar riffs going on. Next, the vocalist started in and my night-time was over. I mean, a few singers seem to think this type of music is just regarding screaming. It turns me off to the complete band when the singer does that. I am into screeching out lyrics, so don't misinterpret me. What I mean is screeching is actually an art form! Therefore, screeching is not something everyone can do. You've to know when to do it and how to do it for it to sound good. So to any bands out there, make sure you get a skilled screamer in the band, or go the screeching out!

A quick plug for a mates site. Steve runs a Horse insurance business, except they are just regarding to take the big leap into animal on a whole, they are going to be doing full blown pet insurance. They have invested quite a lot in the venture therefore wishing them the all the best, they just wrote an online quoting system that took them a increaible amount of time, in danger of sounding like a tacky advert, why not see how much you could save!!!

An update waited 75 days for then to come up with the money!

2006-04-03T08:39:00.000-07:00

Common sense was not on the curriculum.

We went trawling bars last night and I got ditched to go home on the night bus due to Tom running into a Ex(ditto)!! I hate night buses not only is it twice a long as going home by train, but everyone’s drunk and everyone’s a wanker. I’ve got used to it though I just get a hotdog and put up with it.

There is pretty much a ninety percent chance their will be one. Fights are common for a number of reasons: firstly everyone is drunk, secondly there are a multitude of scantly clad ladies (Massively increasing male macho factors) thirdly and probable most importantly there is a lot of mixing of social groups. You get all kinds all crammed onto a sweaty bus, midgets, Goth, pimps, goths, pikeys and to add an extra level into the mix they could be of any different county from around the world. This creates a boiling pot of anger and prejudicethat we all usually manage to keep under control.

Tonight’s fight I was quite proud of. This Oxford geek was sitting next to a bunch of chavettes, when he decided to talk to them I don’t now how it started. The bit I remember whilst I was eating my hotdogwas this comment. “You have lived here all you life and you don’t know whose Armour is buried under Canterbury cathedral” the reply to this was a simple “What!” followed by a swift smash in the month. I stood up and realised that I was a foot taller than all of them (Luckily people who start fights on night buses are all 12) I pulled the girl off him and sat down next to him and continued eating. I like to think I saved his life!

I've got a fun day tomorrow, they are giving me a cosmetic surgery introduction tour. Their taking me around all of the labs and explaining what everything does. I know I shouldn't care but it has similar feeling about it to when they showed you around the kitchens at McDonalds when you had you party their. I get to see where breast reshaping gets done and how they shave off people skin with Microbrasion. The thing I am actually most interested to see is the red light treament (they also said I can have a go on for free), basically they shine a light in your face and do some kind of rain dance and you walk out with a perfect complextion, it's true. Jenifier Lopez swears by it.

Quick note, Steve you smell.

2006-02-22T17:20:00.000-08:00

For punks about to rock ... We salute you!!!

PUNK A bunch of us went to Punk Karaoke yesterday at The Garage It was fantastic. It is a basically a punk gig but your the singer. So you can belt out your favorite songs supported by a real punk band. It is on fortnightly, but be early if you want to sing.

The band plays two sets, including your faorite old school punk and some popular songs punked up. They even provide you with the lyrics. I swear it is the most fun night out in old london town.

One thing did put me off, everyone was fucking good unlike standard karaoke where just about anyone can sing 'Erasure' crap. Most the singers are amazing . For me the highlights were definitely Simon doing 'Turning Japanese' and Colin belting out 'Hangin' on the Telephone'. Keep London PUNK!

What about various webs offerings I have been looking at. I have been working with the guy who built the website for coffee point, it's fairly cool, have a look. I recently I have been working on this website: court house clinics. What do you think?

Hay the Simpsons is on, I'm outta here.

2006-02-08T08:56:00.000-08:00

Quick list of my most vivide memories from the 90's:

Girls wore crappy lipstick such as - birthday suit, heather shimmer and coffee shimmer!

Mr Motivator (What ever happened to him?)

You can remember Todd Landers in Neighbours

You wore a pair of Nike Air Max to death!

A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have fashion acessiory.

The Racoons!

You tried to do the Prodigy step. 'You're no good 4 me....'

You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210

Puffa jackets.

Girls owned scrunchies in an array of colours and tacky headbands with their names written on in thick glitter

Now for some new sites I stumbled across. Looking for love my friend has compiled a list of all the free personals available. Have you heard about the grovement new latest scheme for home buyers? Home information packs! Have a look.

Very many thanks to you all.

2006-01-22T10:00:00.000-08:00

A-ha

THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING!! I couldn't believe it when James rang me to say the great 'A-HA' are putting on another gig, in only one week. ROCK!!!! The A-Haa frenzy is sending me and Shara NUTS. I AM SO EXITED!!! Their is no way I can do any work now. Think I will waste a days hoilday all so I can sneak in early and get a good view - unless the seats are all set out. I can't wait!! This will mean I will have gone to 5 a-Ha concerts. I first got into a-Ha I think I was 8, it never even crossed my mind that I would possibly ever get the chance to see a-Ha in my life, never mind see them multiple times. It's going to be incredible. A-Ha Rock like the big one.

Here is some other groovy stuff I found by reading other blogs. Here is a selection of the worst short stories you have ever seen, they don't promise to be anything else, but can be quite amusing. This is my mates site that he designed to help you sell your house

Well I bored! Think I'll go eat something.

2006-01-20T13:28:00.000-08:00

Comic strip A.L.P.

I've found a new comedy site. It's a comic strip neatly entitled Alien Loves Predator ! It's a joke aimed at the Alien vs. Predator film franchise. It's based on when usually they would spend their time kicking each other arses in the comic they are close chums. It's features Abe the Alien (sex starve, impulsive and socially inept) and Predator Preston who normally rational and a calming influence.

Other character include Jesus, Boris and Corinna (Perston's love interest). My favorite bit is the point all they have done is used their own figures.

Here is some other killer sites I have been procrastinate with! We have all be planning to go on mass to a speed dating thing and we stubbled across this what do you think? I think the goign live date for my latest site modern Cleo is nearly here:

Very many thanks to you all.

2006-01-15T09:39:00.000-08:00

Microsoft LongHorn

I have just got this through the post. God knows who from, it appears to be a perview of Longhorn windows new operating system.

Longhorn is being considered a complete new version of the operating system, and the systems are persently being tested. However some people have managed to get their hands on copies of the system, which has cause stirs in many internet communitys. Pretty much the only thing we can tell at the moment is the look of the thing but hay!.

Some more close up shots:

Keep in mind this is a work in progress and may look nothing like the final Longhorn product. Bear in mind, major UI work, a database-based file system, integrated DVD burning and other cool features are all yet to come.

I know you've all been waiting for the groovy sites I found on my travels. Did you ever want to buy nut and bolts on bulk? A lot of my readed do, they say hey that stuff all funny but where can I get a shed load of stainless steel nuts and bolts on the cheap. Well here. Now leave me alone. Here is a interesting one. I've started to write about something called Home information packs! HIPS

I must sleep.

2006-01-09T09:59:00.000-08:00

STUFF ON MY CAT

This is funniest website ever stuff on my cat!

There is something about the expression on cats' faces that makes it so funny when you make them do stupid things. This website has really taken advantage of this. Their is such a range of photos that even cat haters will enjoy it.

Here's some cool sites I found. For Promotinal business things why not give away cotton tea towels? Every fancied getting some plastic surgery done? Check out these guys here

Anyway I'm off to run away and join the circus.

2006-01-07T14:50:00.000-08:00

Eat that frog by Brian Tracy

I have just read a book recommend to my by Alex our resident jazz singer. Strange really, it's kinda a hippie's motivational business book. However it has a strange magic to it, usually these things bore me stupid.

The basic concept is very simple the frog is a direct metaphor for work, basically the idea is that the more nasty the task is, the bigger and more ugly the frog is, the less you are going to want to consume it. The main idea is simple, if when you get up in the morning you is eat the most ugle, biggest frog you have everything past that point is uphill, If you don't the frog just gets bigger and uglier.

The whole book is about his twenty one rules. That back up this premise and make the frogs easy to eat. I really enjoyed the book.

Now for some cool sites I found. My friend has just started up a website about Jewish speeddating in London, she really good at that kinda of stuff. have a look. This is the latest property job I have been working on H.I.P.S. (Home information packs!! they will become compulsary by law in two years).

Oh well.

2006-01-04T15:10:00.000-08:00

It's 2006 lets celebrate!

New year is over! No more parties. Thank you God, I have spent all my time drunk or hung over. It was my sister 30th birthday on the 27th of December. This meant that pretty much from pretty much the begining of december to today I have been celebrating anything that moves.

My body is going into shock, if I just see a glass of wine now I start to make strange gulping noises and I do the same thing when I see any of my relatives. So I have gone is detox and won't touch anything and will get a load of good sleep. However the only problem is that my sister want to celebrate for the whole month of January!!

Now for some killer sites I found on my travels. Do you remeber Sonic the hedgehog? Well here is a online version of the game called ultimate sonic. Persently I doing a logo for a site called modern cleo but the site isn't up yet, I guess it will be at www.moderncleo.co.uk but I can't confirm yet.

Anyway I'm off to join the circus.

Do outgoing links drain Page Rank?

2005-12-31T03:52:00.000-08:00

Recently I have been involved in a rather heated debate in a forum about the effect of outgoing links on your website's PR. The discussion went on for ages just repeating ourselfs a guy called chrishirst refused to admit he was wrong, must have been hard to admit your wrong to a seemingly newbi. He was very invested in the point that:

the PR value of any page is NOT reduced by outgoing links

You can see for yourself here, you can see what I'm talking about. The argument was insane, even though I had back up every point with evidence he still refused to admit that their may be a outside chance he hadn't understood the equation.

The debate was completely ground to a halt because; He could not make sense of how the equation only looked at incoming links how the outgoing links could reduce the amount of Page Rank you have.

We beat around the bush for a long time, I tried to exaplin the way the equation worked.

There are a few things that need to be understood when figuring out how google calulates page rank:

The equation is repeated multiple times.
Each time the calculation is done it is done from scratch; no prior Page rank is worked in the equation.
The calculation is done for each individual page not site.
The green bar shown on the toolbar is just a label given to a page depending on the group that the actual page rank falls into.

Basically the way I see it is that the calculated. Bear in mind this is highly simplified (and if you want to go into specific details it is wrong).

Each page indexed by google is given a value of one; part of this value is given as a vote which is divided between all of the pages that it links to. So a new page rank is calulated. This bit everyone agrees on, pagerank is made up of vote from your inbound links.

This is where it gets slighty more complicated, the equation is repeated a least 40 times, so the pervious pagerank that has been gain on pervious calulation can be passed on. This process is repeated multiple times. So because your vote is devided between the pages that you have links to, if you link to pages that are voting for you then in the next calculation (vote) you are going to get more back than if you have linked elsewhere.

And this is the main point if you link out of your site, to a site that does not link back. The pagerank is not coming back to your site so you are going to drain/leak/lose pagerank.

Does page rank have any effect on how well your site is ranked? Well that is a completely different question.

What about various fantasic stuff I found. Here are some crazy funny dogs. This is my mates site that he designed to help you sell your house

But I better do some work. Farewell, until next time.

2005-12-27T14:22:00.000-08:00

Christmas day TV

Well it has been a shitty day for telly, usually christmas day is the one that you can rely on for good stuff. The main delights of today where Simpsons, Eastenders and Coronation Street. Pretty much like every other day.

But their was one exception �Doctor Who' Christmas special. David Tennant was staring in the role as Dr Who, I was worried he was going to be terrible he muffed a line at the beginning the �Happy Christmas' line but in the end he fantastic, in the last confertantion he was flawless.

To end with some cool sites I've been amusing myself with. Just another plug for a friend of mines site a Injured and orphaned wildlife reserve. Every fancied getting some plastic surgery done? Check out these guys here

Well I bored! Think I'll go eat something.

2005-12-23T08:12:00.000-08:00

A new seriers of Futuramma

A interview with M. Groaning and D Cohen. Has resurrected new hope that they may start work on a new series of the wacky space adventure Futurama.

Cohen Commented. "One month ago I would also have said we were going to start tomorrow. So ..." He pauses. "My current estimate is that we're starting tomorrow."

The series was cancelled because it didn't pull in the rating on national TV, however the DVD sales where massive and ongoing so their was a outcry to recommission the series. The last episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" was left at a odd point with it implying that Fry's long-standing wooing of Leela was finally over. This suggested that the story was complete. It was only suggested though and could easily be disregarded in aid of a sequel.

Here is some other cool websites using the old googster. My mate Dave has quit his job as a chef and is now working for first4sale a online estate agent, check it out. Every fancied getting some plastic surgery done? Check out these guys here

...I must go lie down now.

2005-12-20T08:04:00.000-08:00

Mighty Boosh at the pleasance.

Tomorrow, I have just been informed the Mighty Boosh is doing a theatre piece up in town. It's only eight pounds They are a legend, eight pound is far too little. They deserve more than that, that pitance not boosh money. It's just insulting, How could I hold a staright face and pay so little I will rain fury upon the the theatre and force a wad of fifties into the till. I will not be undercharged.

Just to complete your day how about some fantasic stuff I have been looking at. Just another plug for a friend of mines site a Injured and orphaned wildlife reserve. This is my mates site that he designed to help you sell your house

But enought of this, I have work to do. Bye.

2005-12-18T02:33:00.000-08:00

Dating site photos!

I have been routing through my family photo album trying to get hold of a picture of me looking handsome to put on a dating site. I don't know which on to upload I have decided on my two favorites but I can't quite figure out which one the ladies will liek the most.Which is your favorite?

This will bring in the ladies

Nah I'm just kidding, I doesn't matter you couldn't take a bad photo of me if you tried.

Here's some cool stuff I found. Did you ever want to buy nut and bolts on bulk? A lot of my readed do, they say hey that stuff all funny but where can I get a shed load of stainless steel nuts and bolts on the cheap. Well here. Now leave me alone. Every fancied getting some plastic surgery done? Check out these guys here

That all I got, leave me alone.

2005-12-17T16:43:00.000-08:00

Random Soho Jazz club

The date is now over, it didn't start to well. She was very late this was a bad sign. I have had real trouble trying to figure out if she fancied me, and turning up half a hour late without even calling is a fair sign that she was not that keen. It did kinda start off slow I suppose she went into continuous talking mode, and she can talk but there are point where she talk so fast that I can't get a word in edgeways and it started off like that.

But things changed as the night went on (that quite good since it suppose to only be lunch). She relaxed as the evening went on and conversation started to flow more easily. I gt the brus off wen tI tried to kiss her in the coffee house. But at the jazz show we start to get a little more intimate.

Then before she got on her bus home she kissed me. Thats has to be a good sign, right.

What about various fantasic stuff I have been looking at. Well if your bored their a huge selection of online games on lunararcade. A friend of mine, Kate has been rebuilding court house clinics website. have a looks see what you think.

I'm going to have to go and find some vodka. Now.

2005-12-12T15:14:00.000-08:00

I've meet Tara again.

Odd update on my love life, A couple of weeks ago I met this girl and was love struck she was very very cool. I forgot to get her phone number and went through hell trying to get in contact with her ultimately I managed to get in contact with Abby and she said to me she wasn't interested. I could get on with my life, everything is okay, that was all I needed.

So I got on with my life, went to see some friends in a show when to the pub afterwards and bang she was their! Just standing around chatting to a bunch of people that she didn't really know, No apparent reason, The Odd thing was that Abby was on hoilday and she was the only reason that Tara knew that lot.

I totally though she didn't want anythign to do with me. I played it cool, too cool think I pissed her off. Then at the end of the evening I wasn't go to make the same mistake, I asked her for her mobile number. So to gut a long story short, we are having lunch on Wednesday.

Last but not least some fantasic stuff I have been procrastinate with! Here is more craziness form the boys at walnut smoothie email joke. A friend of mine, Kate has been rebuilding court house clinics website. have a looks see what you think.

Anyway I must go work or something.

2005-12-07T01:44:00.000-08:00

Strong Bad's comedy emails.

Okay this is a messed up site, Dave found it. It's about a guy in a wrestling mask called Strong-bad. The website has loads of crazy stuff on it but my favourite bit is Strong bad's email, it's a advice column, Then he goes and chats to his mates and you get to watch the crazy goings on.

These are my favourites:

space programme

Is she be

Action figure

After the movie is over have a quick look for secert features.

What about various groovy sites I found on my travels. For Promotinal business things why not give away cotton tea towels? Here are some crazy funny dogs.

But I better do some work. Farewell, until next time.

Roll up, roll up.

2005-08-26T02:39:00.000-07:00

Well I have finally got around to it, this is my new online journal. Loads to see and do here. Well not really but their will be, it's going to be all singing and all dancing. Just you wait and see.

I know, I know, you want a taster. Ok. Their going to be lots of great stuff, a Rodeo, and candy floss stool. Tom Jones is going to open the blog, well at least some one who looks a bit like him. He's going to cut a big ribion and pronounce it open. I'm not sure where. And well have a freak show owwww

You can't wait!!!

But you'll have to.