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Footbo
Jun26

Footbo

Do you like football? Do you like social websites? Do you like social football websites? Do you like reading posts promoting social football websites by people who are promoting those particular sites because there’s a competition going on at the moment where people who post about those social soccer sites and mention a certain competition might just win a weekend package in London including taking part in a penalty shoot-out against Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia? You do! Brilliant! Footbo is a new social site in open beta testing at the moment that is trying to connect football fans from across the globe without resorting to nasty chants and throwing Molotov cocktails. What starts off as a visually attractive means to produce your own detailed football fan profile – who you support nationally and internationally, what players you like and how you rate them, your dream team if you had Abramovic’s money, etc. – becomes quite a bit more once you explore the website more fully. Related news feeds and pictures and video footage of football games, adverts, or interviews are available when you want on your home page once you’ve signed up and you can then indulge in all the usual web2.0-style socialising you like through hosted blogs, wall posts with friends, and joining user groups. Dance partners must, however, stay a respectable distance apart and may only hold hands; this particular rule may upset you if you’re a Brazilian. Probably one of the most enjoyable aspects of the site is the predictions game system which is currently running alongside the European Championships. I’d like to say that I’m doing particularly well at predicting the outcome of the various games going on between Europe’s finest. I’d like to say that. At the moment I’m predicting that Germany will lose 3-1 in the final to Russia. You’ll be able to see after Sunday just how much I know about football when that’s shown to be horribly, horribly wrong. In addition to showcasing your football preferences and bizarre beliefs about how good Ronaldo is (any Ronaldo, pick a Ronaldo) and meshing social networking with the beautiful game itself, Footbo also serves as a comprehensive repository of footballing knowledge. Wiki entries for teams (from the major leagues in nineteen countries) and players can be edited or added to by any user but you are forbidden from altering Wayne Rooney’s height to under four feet tall on pain of torture. If you join up then look out for me – my Footbo profile – and add me as a friend. It’s the social thing to do, after all. Failing to do so would...

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Creating A Successful Blog
Jun24

Creating A Successful Blog

All eskimos smell. While this isn’t a successful website of any description it does do a reasonable job of faking it to the untrained eye and, luckily, eye training is a dying profession. This doesn’t mean that I don’t know how to run a successful website, though; I simply choose not to. Creating a new blog or website and turning it into something that people will want to come back and visit time after time itself takes time and effort and, basically, I’m a lazy so-and-so. However, if you’re marginally more inclined to do something worthwhile than I am and are keen to create a blog and make a success of it there’s no reason why you can’t if you follow the simple tips and tricks I’ve outlined below. What Is A Blog? Blog is an acronym created from Boolean Logic lOgging ThinGy, a date-based, diary-like system of posting content that relies upon the site owner following standard, logical boolean conditions in order to determine whether to actually publish what they’re thinking about or not. For instance, on this site my blog rules are quite short and simple: IF (voicesCommandIt OR medicationOutOfDate OR shirtCollarTooTight) crud.Publish(); You’ll need to determine your own blogging rules early on and write them down so you don’t forget. I recommend a pen of some sort and something on which the pen can write, such as the back of a hand, possibly your own. What sort of people do you want to visit your site? Tailor your rules to appeal to these people. Here are some popular blogs, their target audiences, and their rules: Wil Wheaton · Middle-aged women who fancy William Shatner or Jonathan Frakes but will settle for less · IF (mentionsFamily OR mentionsStarTrek OR mentionsOneOfTheCoreys) emotionalMemory.Publish(); Darren Rowse · People who actually think it’s possible to earn money on the internet, hahaha, no, seriously, they’re still out there · IF (wordBlogInArticleAtLeast50Times OR newWayToRewriteArticleWritten10TimesAlready) blogBlogBlog.BlogPublish(); Michelle Malkin · Klan members · IF ((antiWomen OR antiDemocrats OR antiForeigners) AND noTruthWhatsoever) hate.Spew(); Once you’ve hit upon your rules, it’s time for you to start posting content on your blog. What is good content? How do you keep producing good content? Write Regularly People don’t like turning up at a website or blog that interested them in some way a few days or weeks ago only to find nothing has changed. It worries those people. They start to think that you might have slipped in the bath and are lying there still. This then makes them contact the police, if they know roughly where you live, and the police will then check up on you. Suppose...

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Cheap Ebay Crap
Jun21

Cheap Ebay Crap

In these days of deepening economic crisis and impending (but secret) asteroid strikes it’s important to save what money we have for only the necessities in life and one of the remaining seats on the Earth Escape Arks (don’t tell anyone). And that’s why I do all my shopping on Ebay. When I’m looking for cheap tat then there’s no better place to order crud I’d never buy from a real person in a real store for fear that someone might see me. Of course, trawling through Ebay’s mountain of categories for those bargain items that have been missed by other people or are still under the price you could get them for brand new is a laborious and thankless task. Time-consuming. Heart-breaking, even, when you find that one thing you were really after approximately three seconds before or after the auction ends. Which is why – when I shop on Ebay – I make use of Lastminute Auction, a wonderful little site that strips out expensive purchases and simply supplies you with stuff ending in an hour at under one of whichever currency it is you’re using. Why! Look at some of the cheap items I very nearly almost considered buying! But didn’t. Naruto Anime UZUMAKI Long Pillowcase Cosplay Nothing shakes me out of a coma quicker than the threat of cosplay. A Buy It Now price of one whole British penny piqued my interest and sent shivers up its spine before tickling it under the chin and pulling out an errant nose hair, although the shipping costs of nearly six of Her Majesty’s pounds subsequently took that interest and held it under water until it had stopped jerking. Was it a pillowcase? Was it a costume? Was it a pillowcase that doubled as a costume? A costume for limbless people? I had to know but, alas!, the description was less than clear and I regretfully had to pass on this particular purchase. As the proud owner of a home and the embarrased every time I look out the back window owner of what some people might term a garden it’s no surprise that Lastminute Auction’s Home And Garden section always attracts me. Although that might have something to do with the way it shows off a lot of leg. I like that in a selling category. Other categories take note. Brown ChocoCat Shower Cap for Adult Ladies Bathroom When you see an item for sale that includes superb selling keywords like "adult" and "ladies" and "shower" and, of course, "brown" that is still available for the bargain price of just 89p then you’ve got to look closer....

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Not Thinking About Things
Jun18

Not Thinking About Things

"We should come up with a new word." "A new word? A new word for what?" "I don’t know. Something that doesn’t have a word." "Okay. That makes sense. Avoids duplication. So, what doesn’t have a word?" "There’s loads of things that don’t have words." "Can you name one then? It might make this process of coming up with a new word a little faster, after all." "I can’t think of one right now. Can you?" "Nope. Certainly not an object anyway. I’m pretty certain they all get words before they’re let out into the wilds. It’s to limit confusion among the general populace." "Not an object. A concept then! A word for a concept that has no word." "I’m not even sure what a concept is. Mind you, I am drunk at the moment." "Oh yeah, me too. I think all the objects and concepts around drunken behaviour probably have words by now." "So drunken concepts are off the table. We still need a thing or a concept or a something that isn’t one of those things that doesn’t have a word so we can come up with the word for it." "I simply cannot think of something that doesn’t have a word." "Me neither." "You know what? Sometimes I find that you can get the answer to something by not thinking about it. Perhaps we should try not thinking about something that doesn’t have a word so that we can come up with the word." "Sounds like a plan. Here’s to not thinking about something that doesn’t have a word in order to come up with a word for the something that doesn’t have a word when we finally think of the thing that doesn’t have a word by not thinking about it." "Cheers!" "Cheers!" "Bingo!" "What?" "Bingo!" "Yeah, I hate to break it to you but Bingo is a word for the thing that is Bingo. That’s how words for things that have words works." "No, no, no. Is there a word for deliberately not thinking about the thing you need an answer for in order to think of the answer?" "I don’t think so! By Jove I think you’re onto something there!" "I mean, obviously the Germans will have a word for it. Probably around a hundred and twenty letters long with a literal translation of Secret Hidden Lightning Brain Think Answer. But we don’t, I don’t think. At least I’ve not head of one." "I’m sold. Okay. We’ve got a thing that doesn’t have a word. The act of not thinking about something in order to come up with the answer for that thing....

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Gordon Brown Dream Analysis
Jun12

Gordon Brown Dream Analysis

He terrorises your waking life and now he’s in your dreams. Yes, I’m talking about Gordon Brown, short-term (Cthulhu willing) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. But if you’ve been plagued by dreams of the man himself and tried to find out just what they mean then you’ve been right out of luck. Until now! Don’t go to the library and hope to find dream analysis books that explain the hidden meaning behind finding Gordon Brown inside your sleeping head. You won’t find any author crazy enough to analyse the unmitigated horror of dreaming about the Scottish tyrant or any publisher daring enough to risk 42 days internment for inciting fear. But you’ll always have me! Dream Element Gordon Brown Pulling A Black Mamba From His Mouth Analysis To a Freudian specialist a snake emerging from a dark hole represents something fundamentally sexual, however even those particular sex-obsessed psychiatrists would admit the presence of Gordon Brown trumps any naughty undertones. The snake is venomous and the mouth usually issues forth words or halitosis or phlegm or phlegmy halitosis. In the dream Gordon is taking out his serpent and showing it to the world and this may be what you have to do too in real life; don’t bottle up your emotions or keep back your feelings otherwise Gordon will reappear and whip out a larger snake next time. Maybe an anaconda. Dream Element Gordon Brown Exercising On A Fiery Podium Analysis The chest expander is the most masculine manipulator of muscle manufactured by man … mever! Therefore, its inclusion in your dream represents manly traits: inconsideration, under-the-duvet farting, hiding stashes of porn, peeing on the floor, and taking nine weeks to complete a ten minute DIY job. Gordon Brown in this instance is a wannabe leader and he represents your subconscious instructing you through the power of leadershipiness to be more like a man and less the dreamy wimp you clearly are. The fire is because an electrical fault has set your curtains alight although by the time you read this analysis in the hospital burns ward you’re probably well aware that has occurred. Dream Element Gordon Brown’s Head Speeding Through A Field Of Wheat Analysis Nothing says England quite like the open green fields of the countryside at the height of Summer. Except chavs. And Daily Mail readers. And litter. This imagery represents the fourth most England-like representation of England there is, only it’s suffering the blight of low-level head flying which should make you sad and angry at the same time. I call this mood "sangry". So the dream represents suppressed sangriness. Is there something in your...

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British Gas Price
Jun10

British Gas Price

This is a very simple trick for existing British Gas customers who might recently have discovered their Direct Debit payment dates have been changed and the amount they’re paying has increased. Like me. This is not a fun-filled article filled with fun but, rather, a handy guide for dealing with British Gas. The clue is in the title which refers to the company and mentions the word "price", both of which should indicate that this particular post has something to do with the supplier of gas by that name and their method of charging customers. British Gas wrote to me. They stated in their letter: Further to our previous real and not-at-all fictitious correspondence with you we write to confirm that the amount we’re taking out of your bank with our long and dirty talons is going up by a huge amount and we’re shifting the date forward by a couple of weeks. You know … like we said in our previous correspondence with you. You remember that previous correspondence we had with you where we said all this was going to happen and that if you didn’t call and tell us we’d do it? Yeah, that previous correspondence. We honestly previously corresponded with you. Why would we lie about that? Anyhoo, it’s happening so this is confirming what was previously corresponded in your general direction and this definitely isn’t a legally arse-saving move designed to prove that any changes in the way you pay were genuinely corresponded to you in writing before they happened because that would be pointless seeing as we previously corresponded with you anyway. Guess what! Yeah, first I’d heard about it. Gas price increases. I’d been expecting it. Everything’s going up. Then again … my account was in credit and we were approaching Summer; the fleeting period of the British year when the radiators don’t need to be on and everyone eats food raw or barbecued (which amounts to the same thing usually) so they don’t add to the ambient indoor temperature by using the hobs. The Time Of Not Using The Gas Very Much. That price increase seemed a little … wrong. So I phoned. I’m like that. British Gas Price Increase So, the first question was why was my gas bill increasing by just under 50 percent when I thought I was in credit and we were approaching The Time Of Not Using The Gas Very Much? The woman on the phone checked and told me that I was still in credit by an amount equivalent to two months gas supply but that based on my previous year’s usage the amount would...

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