Archive for November, 2008
Blog Pictures
5 days, no it can’t be that long since I posted on here can it? OK I am sorry for the lack of posts this week. I was asked to take a look at blog pictures today, at first I thought well what is the point of a service like this, I have never been [...]
A pittance of time
I just received this via an email, i think as Rememberance day is coming up it is worth watching/listening to and nothing more need be said. I think its a few years old but I never heard it before a-pittance-of-time
Good bye NHS
Here in the UK we have the National Health Service, the idea being that medical treatment is free. Our government has announced yesterday, after pressure from people who have been told the treatment is to expensive, that if people wanted to top up their treatment privately and still receive the rest (affordable) treatment from the [...]
Gone are the adsense ads
I upgraded WordPress to the latest version today which involved reactivating some of the plugins I had previously installed. Over the past few days I have been pondering about removing adsense from my blog so when it came to re-activating the plugin today I decided to drop adsense. Why? well because it was not earning [...]
I’m Bloody fuming
Sorry but I am. Back in July 2006 a customer of my sites cgiscripts4u.com and 5centpixels.com asked me if I could write a Meta search engine script for him. We agreed a price and I coded the script and showed him a demonstration of it. He then decided it was too slow for what he [...]
Car hire can be such a rip off unless you ask
OK that title doesn’t make much sense so I will try to explain. As you know I visited Spain for the past few days and I had to hire a car. The agreement was pick up car with a full tank of fuel and return it empty and this appeared to be the norm with [...]
A big thank you to the best droppers around
I would like to thank all those that have dropped on my blog over the past few days while I have been away. It is great to know that there are others that like visiting my blog and/or are willing to drop on me knowing that I was unable to recipricate the drop. thank you [...]
Rights for smokers
I am not a happy chappy today. As you know I have been away for the past few days, well I actually visited Spain for a few days and returned today. On my return journey I was flying from Gerona back to the UK and I had arrived in plenty of time to return the [...]