Supercod - Personal Blog

These days eBay selling stuff you no longer want is a lot easier, even taking the photo of the item has become simple task as more and more people these days have a digital camera.

I was showing my sister how to list items via eBay and I was shocked to see just how simple they have managed to make it, years ago when I used to buy and selling stuff on eBay for fun you had to know a bit of HTML to get a half decent listing, these days it’s one simple page that you fill in, upload your photo(s) on that page and press the button and your listing is live… costing around 25p to list the item.

So instead of letting your old stuff gather dust, waiting for the day you chuck them out, why not chuck them up on eBay and make a few quid.

On Friday night I enjoyed an evening at Hamilton Park Racecourse with some of the crew from Paid On Results, was one of our works trips out that we try to arrange every month or so, this being the first one I actually made it to, last one was Ten Pin Bowling.

It was a really good night out, Hamilton is just South East of Glasgow, so it was a quick train ride from the office, I let everyone leave 30 mins early to attend (should get employer of the year LOL) when we arrived we got our passes, headed off in to the ground for a couple of pints, a look at the first horses being walked around the paddock before it was off to select our bets.

We had a great view of the finishing line from the bar and there was plenty of bookies on hand to take bets close by, after the races where over, 6 in total (I managed to get a 50% strike rate, winning 3 out of 6 races) we went outside to watch Sophie Ellis Bextor doing a small performance on the stage at the racecourse, pretty much everyone was in good spirits, dancing away especially when she rounded off with Murder on the Dance Floor, when I was looking around me I was thinking, if the kids of these parents all dancing away could see them now they would be mortified, classic dad dancing from every quarter, don’t get me wrong wasn’t all mums and dads, loads of young people attend the horse racing, was a far few hen party’s and a couple of girls had the designer dresses with big hats on, I think they have got confused thinking it was ladies night where you are expect to wear that type of stuff, the night we went along was called Braveheart Night and can pretty much where what you like. Anyway was time to head back to Glasgow, quick stop off at Bar West next to the train station, a small band playing cover tracks was on. All in all a very good night was had by all.

Way hey, opened my mail and found 2 lovely cheques from NS&I Premium Bonds for the May draw, always good to get a tax free prize from the Government, my total win was 1x£50 and 1x£100. I use Premium Bonds as away to keep any money I am due to pay in personal tax each year out the way so I don’t try and spend it, and Premium Bonds are great for this because while you can access your money in about a week or so you have to complete a forum to get at it. Premium Bonds are basically like taking part in National Lottery only the 2 main prizes are limited to 1 million each and win or lose you always get your money back unlike the Lottery, so if you like taking part in the Lottery I would recommend that you seriously look at Premium Bonds, it’s a bit more costly than a lottery ticket to take part but like I say you get the money back, gambling without ant risk, so guess that’s not actually gambling.

If you need to access your health records be they at you GP, a hospital or your dentist. You can apply under the Data Protection Act 1998, as you have a legal right to access your health records.

Now you will probably have a cost to pay, around £10 administration charge is common and if you need a copy of records, notes, results and x-rays then you will probably be charged a photocopying and administration charge however you can only be charged a maximum of £50 in total for this.

You will have to submit your request in writing to the practice / GP surgery and should send the letter recorded delivery keeping a copy for yourself, and you should receive a response in 21 to 40 days, legally they can’t take any longer than 40 day to action your request.

Give your full name, address, date of birth and contact number, and state when you are requesting the records from, this could be all records they hold on you however in some cases this may only go back only 3 or 6 years depending on who it was and what work/advice give was undertaken.

Remember this applies to any health professional, be they GP, dentist, optician or intuitions like a hospital.

The Rangers Riots in Manchester, here is the video’s from CCTV and people’s mobile phones uploaded to Youtube, I am sure more will be uploaded over the coming days but it gives you an idea what happened when the Boys in Blue attacked the Boys in Blue. Never seen anything like it, Rangers “fans” attacking Rangers fans and one Police Officer gets a kick-in as he foolishly stays behind to take the mob on single handed, you can see the CCTV footage you probably seen on TV and then a guy out of his flat filming it from the other side as you clearly see a Rangers fan helping the Officer get out the area dragging him down the street.

Simple fact is Glasgow and Manchester is so close together it made the trip down easy for the Neds and with the big screen failing it gave them all they needed to kick off mini-riots, however some of the footage shows Police Officers randomly giving fans who are standing still doing nothing the odd kick-in, think the Police had their own mini-group of trouble making Neds in their ranks getting paid to dish out some random violence. Wonder how many of the kids in the crowd got injured, it’s a shame as well as it all started off looking like a great day out on the TV.

Will add more video’s if I find any decent quality videos.

UK Playstation’s have started to update today with system update version 2.35 installing it’s self on machines, apparently this update will improve the system stability during the use of some ps3 software, find out more at the official playstation site.

I am sitting here listening to a few tracks from my Sigur Ros collection and I was wondering how many people actually know who they are? Well probably not that many, indeed my wife doesn’t like the music. However believe it or not if you live in the UK you will have heard music from Sigur Ros as they some of the Staralfur track from the album Agaetis Byrjun has been used by the BBC in the “reinforcing the brand” commercials you see between BBC programs. Anyway worth checking out if you are into all kinds of music but definitely avoid if you not got an open mind when it comes to experiencing different types and styles of music as this stuff is very different from anything main stream.

Note: I have not used the Icelandic letters as it will take ages looking around the character map for them.

A new patch was released for World of Warcraft, mostly minor changes to sort a few issues out, however most notable additions include “New Teleport/Portal to Theramore and Teleport/Portal:Stonard spells for Mages” and the Arcane orbs in the Void Reaver fight now show in the combat log, so add-on’s will once again work for this encounter in The Eye. You can view the full patch notes for 2.4.2 at the official site.

Well that’s me finally switched away from Nildram to Zen Internet as my ADSL provider. Have been with Nildram for many years but the signal of their down fail happened many moons back when the service would have problems connecting to the World of Warcraft servers in France, but in more recent times they got bought over by Pipex and they in turn are owned by Tiscali and that’s when some of the more annoying issues started to appear, basically they switched all the Nildram customer on to the Pipex network and what basically this meant was that you where paying top dollar for a second rate service, you know the same cheapo service that your average person who has no clue about Internet providers would expect accept you would be paying pro-consumer prices and that was why I finally made the move to Zen Internet. Zen was on my short list many years ago when first picking an ADSL provider but at the time Nildram was who I went for, so here is hoping Zen works out as there is very few good providers left, so far so good!

Graeme sent me this link for a free tool from Microsoft called SyncToy v1.4 (Also in 2.0 beta version, but have not tried that) that allows you to copy, move and synchronize different directories on your computer. This is ideal if you want to make sure you copying backups of your digital photos as I know with more and more people using these types of camera’s it’s very easy to lose you photographic work, indeed I think I currently keep around 3 back ups in different places of the photographs I take and even then I am sure I have lost a few, so this tool should be incredibly helpful in taking the manual labour of oh keeping backups.