// April 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Reviews
I can’t see any reason why people such as “Insurance_Jobs”, “alcoholabuse”, “prostatecancers” and “christianwebsit” are following me on twitter. I presume it’s all some long winded attempt at being able to spam me in some way… but I have to say I’m not sure how…
All very confusing.
// April 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Random Stuff
I felt the urge to buy it the other day… That is to say 26point1.com, and it now sits in the same stable of domain names as thisroadclosed.com (a spontaneous purchase for no reason), theworknetwork.co.uk (the domain that was going to be used to destroy the hold that recruitment consultants have on my industry), planetrunners.net (from my days as a nike+ junkie), alongwithme.com (the domain for adding sub-domains to - kill.alongwithme.com), onaire.com (the domain for a Leeds based social network) and yourbigblackbook.com (my domain name for a facebook killer - before facebook).
If you have any thoughts what I should do with any of them then please let me know…
// April 29th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Random Stuff
Or more importantly, does no pain = financial shortcomings. In the aftermath of my initial root canal surgery yesterday I would have definately said that these things were true…
Then I got to thinking about the number of pain killers I’ve taken since my tooth started to hurt 9 months ago.
30 Nurofen Plus cost around 6 quid, of which at one point I was happily, against orders, taking 10 a day. So that was 6 quid every 3 days… So, extrapolating that over 9 months I could have taken at least 2000 pills… which is 66 packs (sounds about right…), which is about 400 quid.
So, the fact that my tooth is going to cost me 650 quid to fix is almost worth it - in another 12 months I’d have spent that on painkillers.
// April 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Random Stuff
As I’ve already said this week - money for me at the moment is something that is better than it’s probably ever been. Which is to say it’s looking like I’m not going to be owing shit loads of cash until I’m 60. However I never for a second thought that a credit report would reveal the following…
Yes, a FOUR star credit rating with a score that is almost 90% of available! Quite flabbergasted!
// April 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Random Stuff
Can someone tell me why if IE7 is a critical update that is now pushed as part of Automatic updates, why it isn’t included in Windows XP SP3 - SP3 is supposed to roll up all previous updates I believed?? Seems a little odd to me.
UPDATE… And then of course it’s even WORSE when the IE7 update won’t appear at all in Windows Update because you’re on XPSP3 and you “should” have it by now…
// April 22nd, 2008 // No Comments » // Random Stuff
Hey, it’s early enough in my life and career that I can still get very excited when I see my name in print. And it turns out I’m in print again - albeit in “industry jazz mag” Precision Marketing - but I’m happy at least. Search for my name over in the Analytics peice they’re running this month. Woo.
// April 21st, 2008 // No Comments » // Random Stuff
Over the history of my lifetime I have spent stupid amounts of money on things that I neither needed, or even necessarily wanted. So much so that by the time I reached 25 years old I was somewhere in the region of 50k in debt. Without a house, and without an expensive automotive vehicle it was really hard to understand where that money had gone and to this day is probably the most annoying thing about the situation I find myself in financially.
Well, about 3 years ago I woke in the morning to a letter from a debt collection agency that said I owed then 12k and that if I didn’t pay within a week I’d be taken to court and bum raped for everything I owned in the world. Now of course that didn’t happen as I responsibly called them up and arranged to pay them back the money that they had purchased from a loan whose direct debit had managed to somehow get cancelled. A loan from a company I must say who didn’t try to contact me about the direct debit being cancelled even though they had an address, an email address and 3 phone numbers for me. So in the responsibility for the debt I’m taking joint responsibility with the lender (Egg by the way, utter bastards).
Anyway, the point of this post is that I have been recently thinking about this debt and so decided to call the debt collection agency up and find out how much I owed them. To my utter surprise it turns out that I’ve got less that two thousand little pounds left to pay them before I am free of their grasp on my life. And that is easily accomplishable this year. I am a super happy bunny.
The best day for finances in a long time.
Now all that is left is my Norther Rock loan which stands at 3200, my Lloyds TSB loan which stands at 10,000 quid, and my Goldfish Credit card which stands at 980 quid… Then it’s onto the “soft” debt (i.e. money I can still draw against) with Cahoot - of which there is 10k. So, 25k left… Wooooo… Not feeling quite so happy now :(
// April 20th, 2008 // No Comments » // Reviews
Quite frankly the most politically incorrect and absolutely brilliant adult comedy of the last 12 months. All three leading men - Fienes, Gleeson and Farrel - are absolutely awesome, especially the latter who having spent the last few years doing hollywood crap makes his character completely believable and delivers him with comic genius, his dulcet Irish tones saying the words “midget”, “retarded” and over and over again “fuck” coudl easily have made me cry with laughter. Brilliant. 9/10
// April 12th, 2008 // No Comments » // Random Stuff
Anyone who follows my twitter or facebook will know that I spent all of last week in Cannes, France taking part in the annual MipTV Content 360 Live Pitching Competition and trying to convince the panel from the BBC that our idea was the best of three in our category.
For anyone who ever finds themselves in the same kind of situation I would recommend that you follow the routine that I went through all week when I saw the competition. Tell them how easy it was. Tell them how the idea was submitted as something tantamount to a joke and how you never expected a simple idea like yours to be picked. Then tell them your presentation was the culmination of 60 minutes work and how the words to go with it were written in about 15 minutes in the half an hour before you went on stage. These things did nothing but seemingly piss off the guys from Wyndham Leigh who were pitching in our category.
Anyway, after 5 days and 2 presentations twentysix won. So all is once again well with the world. 15,000 euros development fund and big smiles all around… Go me!
// April 5th, 2008 // No Comments » // Random Stuff
Last night I had the pleasure of having a few drinks with Ryan at the local Vodka Revolution. While he was taking a little wee break I was nosey enough to be amazed by the conversation that the threesome sat opposite from us were talking about. A place where “welfare” equated to your home being paid for if you didn’t have a job. Where if you didn’t have a job you were paid 400 pounds each month for food and clothes. A place where if you had and lost a job, the welfare purse paid you 80% of your salary for a year. A place where it seemed Adam and Eve could quite easily have come from.
Now, taking a step out of my body the drunken haze that was me interrupted them and asked there where this mythical place was.
Turns out it’s Sweden. These crazy Swedes then progressed to tell me how they loved Little Britain and Catherine Tate, at which point I lost all faith in their society really being that perfect.
So, turns out that these folks were a weird combination of Christians and Muslimites. The Muslim people (the actual Swedes) were very apathetic about it (as you would have to be sat in a bar and drinking alcohol) and the chap even ate pork! To me though the real star of the evening was the Christian chap who proclaimed that he wasn’t a believer, then came to Leeds where he had no one to talk to and so went to Church to the youth club - was scared by the crazy black women who arms to the sky would run up and down the aisle and after a few weeks was convinced of the existence of God. Who but God could create these crazy black women?
Seemed like a really bogus reason to believe. But, each to their own.
