eBaytastic

So eBay take out a full pae advert in Metro today saying they are having a Christmas Treasure Hunt. The code word for today is ‘REINDEER’ and that you should use your ingenuity to try to win a designer watch every two hours!
So doing a quick search for reindeer (as you do) I came across a man selling ‘reindeer food’ surely a scam. Then of course there is item number 5942611997 which is definitely a scam and only one of many spammers trying to cash in on eBay’s advertising I guess. It’s titled ‘Turn ?3 ($5) into ?10,000 ($18,000) This really Works – Try it for yourself ‘
So until eBay puts a report this auction now button I gess people are still gooing to be worried about fraud. Moreover new people looking at eBay because of their advertising are going to be getting mixed messaging.

grrrr

So last night at around 10:30 there was a commotion outside. Not sure what was happening but some people shouting. Then later lots more commotion so my interest was piqued and I took a peak outside. Outside there was a police car in the middle of the road and a police man taping off the gardens below the flat. Some more commotion later and yet more police and more tape and more cars and vans.
Not sure what was going on at all but it continued on way after I should have been asleep but with all that noise that proved impossible. Unlike me actually as I normally fall asleep instantly my head hits the pillow.
So anyway needless to say when the alarm went of at 7:00 this morning I was still wanting for sleep and not a happy bunny.
I looked out the window and nothing of the night before was noticeable. no police tape, no police, no cars and no vans.

note to self: manchester trip overdue

I’m thinking maybe May would be a good time to visit! Failing that I could just buy the calendar and not visit at all…
On an entirely different note.
Christmas presents are hard to find for some people so when I found the ant farm thing and liked it I figure I should just buy it and then see who I haven’t got a present for yet. I think my neice might not like it though!

bryan/brian

So I read recently that Bryan Brian McFadden was hooking up with Guy Chambers in the hopes of being the next Robbie Williams.
Listening to Irish Son earlier it strikes me he is much more likely to be the next Brian Bryan Adams.

note to self: be more festive

Okay so Meg and Dave have outdone themselves this year. Like VD only more festive… It’s ‘Tis Cards.

flickr and firefox

So I was playing with the search in Firefox the other day and I decided I wanted to be able to do a basic flickr tag search from the search bar. So here it is a

Firefox search plugin for flickr.com

note to self: when you want something doing…

It looks like makelovenotspam are not the only people with server problems today. Flickr.com seem to be having major issues with their images not displaying. So if you are missing some images from the right hand side of this page now you know why!

make love not spam

So Lycos decided it would be a good idea to fight back against spam. Something every person using movabletype will know about. I’d love to hit the comment spammers where it hurts.
Sadly the makelovenotspam site has now been hit by a denial of service attack.
What goes around comes around!
Oh the site is down but if you really want the screensaver and are using a Mac (and let’s face it why wouldn’t you be?) try this link instead.
http://download2.makelovenotspam.com/screensavers/MLNS_screensaver_en.dmg

note to self: nothing is simple

So I got an email reminder my oyster card was due to run out. I went online and ordered a new yearly one.
It didn’t charge.
I checked online and realised it was my old one that stopped working in the summer…
so now I have to manually do it for this week at the station and then order it again online for the new one.
meanwhile my refund will now automatically happen after 10 days.
grrrr

runlondon

NAME: IAIN
RACE NUMBER: 17142
POS: 8925
5K TIME: 0H 26MIN 39SEC
10K TIME: 0H 53MIN 7SEC

yeah try to ignore the fact that I messed up the form and autofill added my email not my name! So if you want to see me cross the finish line you need my name @8letters.co.uk and my surname – if you don’t know either of those then erm… why do you want to see me cross the finish line? LOL! Head on over to runlodnon.com and follow the instructions.