Personal

My Name in Binary

0 Comments 03 August 2010

This is my name in binary.

Clarke Duncan = 01000011 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101011 01100101 00100000 01000100 01110101 01101110 01100011 01100001 01101110

Handy to know The thing is it’s probably the most common version of my name around the world with details being transferred from computer to computer

General

C is for!

5 Comments 01 August 2010

Following on from a bunch of tweets (1, 2, 3, 4) I posted today talking about traits, I remembered that thing you would do as a child based on your name, where you would take the letters of your name and put down traits next to each letter, you know C is for etc. I am pretty sure most of mine would have been big headed positive traits but after you done it, you would look at it and think yeah that’s me LOL so here I go, what would it be now I am an adult? Using my first name only let’s see;

C = Conscientious

L = Loyal

A = Achiever

R = Responsible

K = Kind

E = Entrepreneurial

On you go; it’s your turn, post your name and positive traits as you see it, it’s like you’re a kid again back when I was a kid I am pretty sure I would have picked “Cool, Loyal, Ace, Radical, King, Excellent” nothing bigheaded like

Work

Competitions

0 Comments 05 May 2010

Thought I might as well stick up a few posts on the various things I do for “work” Thought I start with what I consider to be the more “fun” side of the business but quickly became a lot more work and a lot less fun. UK Competitions as you may have guessed is a competitions website that lists, well competitions.

UK Competitions started September 1999 as an off shoot from Free UK Stuff, but only really got its own database driven site in 2001, up until then it was all manual updates, fun times

So some of you will be thinking “how can this make money”, a few of you will have partly guessed that the banner adverts on the site makes some revenue. However the real money making comes from people taking part in competitions, some sites will pay anything from 20p per person taking part in a competition to upwards of around £1.20 depending on the quality of the people taking part and how much information they are willing to give to take part in the competition. The companies then use this information to market to the people who took part be it offers, news or even free samples and of course 1 lucky (or several) person will win the main prize.

I have won the odd competition myself back in the early days of the site, I used to take part in everyone that I listed, however as I no longer list the competitions I hardly ever take part, mostly just Industry based ones but tend not to be so lucky with them, have had the odd prize but some people are just way more lucky at these things

News

Flights over the UK Today

2 Comments 20 April 2010

I took a few screen shots from an App I have on my iPhone called Plane Finder. Basically what it is doing is tracking flights over the UK and some parts of Europe. What’s interesting is watching what was going on at different points but the most interesting is what happened when the Air Space over the UK was meant to be closed. So how come some flights are flying and if they have a magic trick aka fly higher or lower why are all airlines not allowed to do that. No idea, all I know is I am glad I never went away this Easter.

08:05 Before Air Space Ban in UK is Lifted

10:09 Flights Flying Out and Coming In

10:09 Closer Look at Scotland

11:12 Less Flights

12:14 Less Still Again

13:08 Europe is Busy as we close our Airspace

18:02 Our Airspace is closed but look at all the Flights

News

I Hate Iceland – Neds Live On The News

0 Comments 15 April 2010

Live on Sky News this morning, Scotland’s view on the Volcanic Ash is broadcast to the world

The James Matthews @SkyScot from Sky News then tells everyone that this is basically normal as you get lots of drunks at 8:45 am in Scotland, well done James your a local and you reinforce the stereo types, just because it’s true doesn’t mean you should tell everyone

But this is not the only time Scotland’s finest has interrupt the news, check out these classics. I can’t however find the one when the Neds interrupt Cathy Jamieson the Minister for Justice in Scotland, that was great .