Following on from a blog almost a year ago, Wired News are running an article on how a man was murdered in Nigeria’s consul in the Czech Republic by a guy who was conned out of his money as part of one of the Nigerian bank scams. It seems he’d be cheated out of his money, and had been visiting the Consul regularly for a year trying to recover the money he had lost.
Author: jane
Yesterday went to the
Yesterday I went to the Printwear and Promotion show at the NEC in Birmingham. As I said last week, most of the conferences I’ve been to have been technical for technicians so this one was a complete change as there were lots of people selling print and embroidery machines as well as the new ranges from clothing suppliers. We went to see what was on offer for the Summer offering from Igloo Life and found some possible new suppliers to supplement what we already offer. It was a long day though, Brighton to Birmingham is a long drive when you only spend 3 hours at the show.
The BBC are doing
The BBC are doing a special holiday programme on 50 things to do before you die. Currently they’re accepting submissions from people suggesting ideas of what they’ve done or what they’d like to do – I’ve submitted two, one I’ve done and one I’d love to do.
So, the one I’ve done is see an eclipse [Hungary 1999] and the one I’d love to do is see the northern lights. I’m sure I can think of many more, but I thought two was a good start 🙂
As quick search of
As a quick search of our previous blogs will tell you, we love our Tivo. But, you can’t get them in the UK anymore – bah! Need To Know helpfully provided some information in Friday‘s newsletter of a couple of build your own alternatives Freevo and MythTV. They look kind of interesting, and I guess we’ll investigate further if anything should happen to our Tivo.
So according to this
So, according to this article, Google was the number one global brand for 2002. Okay, admittedly, it was an on-line poll :-)! However, in Europe and Africa, Nokia was top, with Google not even making the top 10.
Bah Shopsmart com is
Bah! Shopsmart.com is no longer :-(. I used to use it quite a bit to compare the price of books, CDs and DVDs across the different stores. Looks like I’ll have to get used to using kelkoo instead.
Today went to the
Today I went to the Technology for Marketing show at Kensington Olympia with Jeremy. All the previous exhibitions I’ve been to have all been purely technology based (well, except for the Ideal Home Show which doesn’t really count!) and so it made a change to see a show which targets a specific sector. The exhibition seemed to be mainly full of businesses offering direct marketing services, CRM services or search engine placements. We found one company who were doing something similar to Fluid Network and so we had a long chat with them.
And just for the record, the best conference freebies were a red stress frog, and a light-up pen.
Does anyone happen to
Does anyone happen to have a copy of January’s Outdoor Photography Magazine that I could beg, borrow or steal from them? Apparently there is an article reviewing tripods that I’d like to get my hands on. Ta!
This was taken from
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This was taken from the car on Sunday night as we drove back from Margate. Just thought it was fun!
So it not enough
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So, it’s not enough that the West Pier is slowly collapsing into the sea, but the Palace Pier had to get in on the act too. Last night, one of the fair rides caught on fire, and blazed into the night sky (apparently – I didn’t hear anything about it until 10pm or so by which time it was all out). I cycled off this morning to take a look and the pier generally still looks intact. The Police said that they thought that only the Ghost Train and the Helter Skelter had been damaged, and that all the structures still seemed to be ok, although they needed the engineers to come and check it out.