Counterfeit DVD’s on Amazon.com

So my amazon.com marketplace order finally arrived today after a 3 week wait and it turns out to be a fake. Outrageous!
The seller has 97% positive feedback but having read further into it this doesn’t seem to be the first time they have sold dodgy DVD’s

Certainly has made me think twice about ordering from Amazon or marketplace again.

Happy Easter

My local Sainsbury’s in Balham already has easter eggs on display. Not just one or two but a whole section. It’s eggstraordinary!

TFL are bloody cheeky

“We are also providing a number of alternative bus services, picking up at stations served only by the Northern line, particularly in North London, to link with other Tube lines.”

Because obviously those in the south with less transport links to tube lines don’t need replacement buses. So out of 7 services only 1 is south of the river. Grrr.

Commuter Hell

balham station
With the Northern Line shut all day many people walked further into town until Balham to try and get the overground train into town. Sadly I start my journey here. The station was like a war zone. So I wallked to Wandsworth Common.
Not much better there. I continued on to Clapham Junction where it was not much better there either :o(
More pictures on flickr

.NET Windows XP and MSN Messenger

Okay so you have a login for your machine in XP. You sign into any .NET account and it is bound to your machine login. So he .NET login is used for MSN Messenger. So if several people use your machine and sign into MSN Messenger, then their email addresses are added to the dropdown list presented when you come back and login later to any .NET application. At first this is not too much of an issue. Until you get to the point where youhave about 50 due to you letting work buddies log in to send a message. How to delete email addresses from that list for privacy reasons or otherwise is not obvious.

So here is my quick guide. In Control Panel, select User Accounts, click on your login account, click on the Advanced tab and then click Manage Passwords. You should now be presented with a list of accounts, which are the accounts listed in the .NET login. And a Remove button. Highlight the ones you don’t want and hit the Remove button.

Easy – not ;o)

brand consultants

So I’ve decided if I ever sell my other flat I’m going to start a brand consultants. There is a particular consultancy that has been using the same old tired designs again and again. What shall we do this time? I know lets use their name in fuzzy letters and four colourways. In fact lets blend the colour ways too. So we have Holmes Place, AOL, abbey. All looking strikingly similar in theme and colourways.
Others simply using colourways and others just the name.
So I think I’m going to do this.
Anyone need a new brand?

I suggest using the company name – either all lowercase or uppercase. Then simply use a colour block or background. Finally use 3 other colours to allow you to use the brand in different ways. Preferably a blue, green, red and either yellow or orange.

If you are feeling really fancy use a blend from one colour to another.