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Guess That Movie: Coming Soon….

November 3, 2003
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Question MarkComing soon to a web site near you – the next round of Guess That Movie…

Yes – after lawrie correctly recognised Guess That Movie 70: Scream III, the next round of Guess That Movie is nearly ready. I was hoping to have it ready today, but machine slowness prevents me from playing a movie to grab a screenshot. But what I’ll do tomorrow evening (promise!) is preload a dozen or so images and try and set them on a timer system so if my workload stays high (which it looks like it will for at least the next couple of weeks), then at least the next round of Guess That Movie will be available.

So until tomorrow – try and recognising what product this TV advertisement was advertising (25 points for the brand, 25 additional points for the product): “Do me a favour, plug me ….”.

Personal: Well, I went out last night…

November 2, 2003
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Last night (Saturday), I went out “on the town” for what I think is the first time this year (yep, it’s already November!). Started getting ready around 6pm (bath, have dinner, shave, have hair wash, shave again, get trousers on, shave annoying bits I’ve missed again, get shirt on, use razor yet again), just missed the 10pm bus so I had to walk into town (it’s was chilly, but not cold): got into town and then went to the Creation nightclub on Churchgate in Leicester (Churchgate is practically all pubs and clubs down one side). Spent around 45 minutes in there having 2 “Red Square” Vodka bottle drinks and then headed home (since it was raining I caught a taxi).

Blarg! Seems a bit of a waste doesn’t it! I think I spent more time travelling that actually time at the nightclub: but it was very packed and I just wasn’t too much in the mood: plus going on your own isn’t that “fun” either. I need to get out more!

Snippet: Microsoft Frontpage 2003

October 26, 2003
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As much as my hatred of Microsoft Frontpage is known, I must admit I’m seriously thinking about MS Frontpage 2003 [Order from Amazon.co.uk] amazoncom:B0000AZJV8 . Why? Well until now the “horrible code” it produced and the very templated look of the sites (I can usually tell within seconds if it’s a Frontpage site) has put me off even considering maybe getting a copy – but an advertisement over at Slashdot which pointed me towards this Flash Demo of FP2003 is seriously making me reconsidering. Clean code, “code snippets” (something that my “editor of preference” – EditPlus doesn’t yet offer), regular expression search and replace, “split screen editing mode”, Accessibility checking, and XML data connectivity…. *drool*.

Only two things are putting me off at the moment: The £153.49 price tag (how much!?!?) and the fact it’s a Microsoft product. Oh well, I’ll just have to do without for now.

Spam: Telephone Soliciting II

October 25, 2003
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Further to a telephone call I received (along with some of you) on the 16th of September, I have just received the following letter from ICSTIS (the regulatory of premium rate telephone numbers in the UK) which basically states the company has been fined £10,000 and barred access to “The Prize Warehouse”‘s service for twelve months (so it’s quite a breach: checking action they’ve taken against other companies shows an “average” of around £1,000 fine and 6 months barring).

Success! Just shows – if you complain to the right people you can get the scumbags removed! I’m just waiting for the response from The Telephone Preference Service and mwhhaa! I’ve actually just received a spam SMS text message to my mobile phone (which is registered with TPS) so I’ll be sending off another complaint in the next day or so.

Read on for a copy of the letter.

Continue ReadingSpam: Telephone Soliciting II

Work: Job Offers

October 22, 2003
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Wow. Even though I’m currently in full time employment (and actually just had a pay rise), I’ve had a number of job offers in the last 5 days. £20,000, £24,000 and the last one is £26,000 (oh, and there was also the “1 week contract for £1,000” telephone call). People want me and it’s nice to feel wanted 😉

However, I like it in my current position: it’s near to home (around 30 minutes walk – others are in London and Kent: if one was in Leicester or in a certain town in the South West I might have to think about it), the staff are nice (even my new biatch – don’t ask, but I’m sure a couple of lurkers here know what I mean by that 😉 ), and it’s doing what I enjoy. Of course, the job offers are relate to what I enjoy doing AND are much more money (nearly double what I’m currently on) but.. but…

I’m sticking where I am for the time being (although my boss does know in around 6 years I’ll be looking for another job OR if I make several millions a month from self-employment), but I can’t deny the offers are very tempted. I just want to know why in 6 months unemployment I didn’t receive a single offer from these companies *grr*.