A bit of this and a bit of that

Time has come for us to sell out old BMW which according to an old blog post, we’ve had since April 2006. We’ve got another car, and really don’t need a second one. I’ve been looking for different ways to sell my car, but I was thinking of putting it up on Netcars.co.uk, which seems [...]

I’m in Malta at the moment, so much time to post, but wanted to drop a quick "Merry Xmas" and wish everyone a prosperous New Year. Here’s a cute card I was sent:

See you all soon! Have a good one!

I’m sitting in Gatwick at the moment without an Internet connection, but I’m writing posts for my blogs thanks to Windows Live Writer. I’ve blogged about this in the past, but it’s the first time I’ve used it in an offline mode, saving my posts as Draft so that they can be published to my [...]

Spam has become a certainty today, just like death and taxes. I start my day usually by deleting a couple hundred spam emails and delete more and more through the day. It’s not too bad, but when I go on holiday (like I did last week), I come back to literally thousands of spam emails. [...]

Camille is spending some time at our house in Staines as we have some construction work going on at the moment. What we are doing at the moment is using the space in the garden (which was a pool till now), to actually convert in to some office/living space. It’s not quite an apartment, but [...]

Hmm .. I just realised that my Geowidget plugin is broken. It’s supposed to show you a map you select on the sidebar of your blog, but it’s not actually displaying anything. Time to pull out the toolbox and find out what’s wrong. Will keep you posted.

Isn’t it great that you can just get a loan online? In the past you used to have to go to a bank, fill in lots of forms and wait for ages to get approval. Nowadays it’s much simpler. Say you were looking for lower car payments for example, Rate Genius is a website that [...]

Don’t you just hate it when a company offers you something and fails to deliver? Camille placed an order with Dell for a couple of laptops for her brothers who have been saving for months on end now. They spoke to a salesperson over the phone, worked through what they wanted and were promised delivery [...]

Following that last post, I did a quick trawl around the Web and came up with some interesting options for Audience Response Systems. There seems to be a pretty large market of vendors selling wireless devices that can be used for anything from conferences to TV shows. According to Wikipedia, here are some advantages:

Improve attentiveness
Increase [...]

One of the things that always impresses me when I attend a Microsoft conference is how important it is for them to solicit feedback from their audience. They even go as far as offering prizes and other incentives for people to submit their feedback forms. It’s all about guaging how effective you’re being which is [...]