People moan about the BBC wasting money in the UK. But just then they go and put something awesome out like this from last nights Top Gear program. Watch the worlds 2 fastest road cars duke it out on the closed roads of Dubai, Saudi Arabia. The video has really helped me to make my mind up about which car I’ll be buying next when the Rover finally dies!
That’s it people, I’m of on my holidays. Two and a half weeks of not doing much except relaxing and waking up in a new port each day. I’m not sure how regular my updates will be (as if I have a schedule anyway) but rest assured I will have internet access at some point. I may even try some of this video blogging lark if I get the chance, but only if my pasty skin catches some colour, I do want to look the part! Oh and because I’ll be away I’m going to switch the RSS feed back to a full feed.
A Couple Of Thoughts To Leave You With
1. Yesterday my income was barely $1.00 eCPM in a niche where I’m paying (correction, was paying) over $2.00 a click. Me thinks that certain ad networks are now starting to take the piss (all in the name of the recession of course).
2. Why is the US dollar starting to slip against the British pound again? Every report to date has stated that the UK is in the worst possible position because of the credit crunch and yet even with huge amounts of quantative easing our currency is strengthening against the dollar? Why are people buying sterling? My guess is that the current UK government have shown that they are prepared to do ANYTHING for short term gain (and sod the long term consequences) and the markets have realised this. Strengthen, strengthen, strengthen, buy, buy, buy, ooops, total collapse of our economy. At least in America there is some notion of the medium to long term picture, short term pain for long term prosperity. I know where I’d rather be living at the moment.
I know this is quite an old video but I was talking to some people recently about this technology that gives you the most amazing 3D with nothing more than the Wii Controller/Sensor, they’d never heard of it. They wouldn’t believe me either. This takes hacking all the way back its roots, you take something designed for one use, play around with it and you end up with something infinitely cleverer than the original. Mr Johnny Lee sir, I salute you!
It’s been 8 days since I started my Sponsor A Fool challenge for the British Heart Foundation. The plan is to cover 310km in the 31 days of May using only gym equipment. This is how I’ve done:-
Shock, horror, I didn’t win the PublisherChallenge April contest. No big surprise really considering the amount of effort I put into it, life has a way of rewarding you for what you put in. Anyhoo, seeing as how I didn’t win the MacBook I decided to go ahead and buy one anyway (what’s £1200 between friends?) – I feel like writing a few iPhone apps and whilst I’m sure I could bodge together some sort of Apple Emulator on one of the many PC’s I have around the place I thought it would be easier just to buy a proper one, besides we need a new family laptop and Laura loves Macs from when she used them at school. It’s going to be a bit of a learning curve for me, I haven’t used Apple technology since I left school 16 years ago! Do they still only have 1 mouse button?
Secondly, I found out this morning that one of my old friends is due to inherit several million pounds. Remember what I just said about fate rewarding your effort? Well forget it. This lad bummed around at university for 8 years (jumping from one course to the next) before finally getting a bog standard office job. No aim, no drive, no ambition – just plod along. He should pay of his fees sometime in the next century! Well that would be the case if he wasn’t due an inheritance that’s come about from some land being sold from an extended family. So the way to get ahead in life seems to be do as little as you can get away with and fate will look after you. Not that I’m bitter of course, good luck to him I say!
Hands up who wants to sponsor me? Come on people, you know you want to.
I’m doing a challenge in May for the British Heart Foundation. Basically my gym has set up the challenge, you have to do a total of 31 kilometres in the 31 days of May using the various pieces of gym equipment. Now in my mind I consider 31 km to be not much of a challenge (to me personally), so to up the ante a little I’ve set myself the goal of doing 310km instead! That means going to the gym every day and grinding out 10 kilometres. To make it even more of a challenge I’m also taking away my option of using an exercise bike, so that means I have to cover 10km a day using only a combination of rowing machine, cross-trainer and treadmill. There is the very real possibility that I will do myself a mischief trying this, on my second practice run I was physically sick! Some people will call me stupid but this is just a natural thing for me (I’m naturally stupid), if people are going to be good enough to sponsor me then I’ve at least got to make it punishing. I will do it though, even if I have to crawl the last kilometre on the treadmill, I will do 310 km!
So why support me? The British Heart Foundation although British in name have a primary goal of seeing a world where people to not die prematurely from heart disease. They are right at the fore front in the research of cures for heart based defects and ailments. Research that is used globally. On a personal level my uncle died at the age of 44 from heart failure, as I break into my thirties it really has dawned on me that it was no age. From having the time of his life at my wedding (where he was an usher) to being buried 2 weeks later, completely out of the blue.
So each day I will go to the gym, do my exercise and then have it confirmed by an instructor. I’ll be doing regular updates on here of how I’m getting on (may scan my record sheet). So if anybody would like to sponsor me you can use the PayPal donate button below – any amount is very greatly appreciated!
If for some reason you sponsor me and I don’t complete what I’ve set out to do I will personally refund any donation and then contribute the entire amount to the British Heart Foundation myself.
| Date | Treadmill | Rowing | X-Trainer | Daily Total |
| 01/05 | 1.01 | 5 | 6.15 | 12.16 |
| 02/05 | 1.02 | 5 | 6.23 | 12.25 |
| 03/05 | 2.01 | 5 | 4.25 | 11.26 |
| 04/05 | 1.02 | 5 | 6.09 | 12.11 |
| 05/05 | 1.01 | 11.5 | 12.51 | |
| 06/05 | 1.02 | 10 | 11.02 | |
| 07/05 | 1.03 | 5 | 6.25 | 12.28 |
| 08/05 | 1.07 | 10 | 11.07 | |
| 94.63 | ||||
Hold on to your horses people, the t’internet is just about to get more interesting. PirateBay.org, the world largest bitTorrent tracker website have just been found guilty in a court in Sweden of promoting copyright infringements. Not of actually committing any copyright offences themselves but just of encouraging it, encouraging it by linking! All of a sudden there is a test case in place that makes us responsible for the content of those we link to. Remind me again what the whole internet is built on? Oh yeah, that’s it, linking! Here’s an example, you can watch illegal material on YouTube. Here’s a link to YouTube. If I was in Sweden what I’ve just broke the law, I’ve just providing you a link to a website that contains material that infringes copyright. So that’ll be a million dollar fine for me and a year in prison then? What a load of complete and utter crap!
Some people like to tell you that making money from the internet is easy. It’s not. However it’s in their interest to give you a sense of ease because then you are more likely to spend money gaining the knowledge and skills that it takes to make money. It is the whole idea of the magic bullet that drives the “make money online” niche. I don’t believe that the magic bullet exists. Never have. You want to know what I think is the biggest difference between making a fortune online and making nothing? Luck. So much in the world goes on that is totally outside of our control and it these events that can make or break you. Sure you can learn to ride them, but if at the end of the day luck decides to kick you in the knackers then there’s little you can do. With all the wishing, will and skill in the world, we can at the end of the day only piss with the dicks we’ve got.