News

Boycott Scotland Tweets using Libya URL

0 Comments 24 August 2009

I can’t be the only Domainer (person who buys and sells domains) in Scotland or indeed in the world who didn’t raise a smile last few days at the anti-Scotland and anti-Libya Tweets sent with a link to read more using a Libya based URL, yes that’s right muppets if your going to post this kind of thing then might not be the brightest idea to post using bit.ly or ow.ly domains, note that these 2 fine companies at not Libyan but use URLs end in .ly and that is the Libya domain space.

Now I have to make something clear, Abdel Baset al Megrahi released by Kenny MacAskill is not anything to do with every day Scots, to be honest most of us couldn’t give a crap as anyone with half a brain will know 1 guy didn’t bomb the plane so we have all been stitched up like kippers. Why is no one interested in finding out the people and country behind this, or is it that they know and politically it doesn’t suit the UK or USA??? Scots have enough normal every day problems to worry about than this International jiggery pokery.

Friends

Knockhill Racing with Team Sunshine.co.uk

0 Comments 17 August 2009

On Sunday I was invited along to the British Touring Car Championship at Knockhill Racing Circuit by Chris Brown to see his Team Sunshine.co.uk race. Chris Brown for folk don’t know him is a part owner of the holiday firm Sunshine.co.uk that started after he famously sold the Affiliate site HolidayWatchdog.com with fellow Sunshine.co.uk owner and affiliate Chris Clarkson.

I had a wicked day out at Knockhill, brought my camera along to try a bit of car action shots, and Chris even gave me a free lesson on how to take a photo that has the car in focus and the background blurred. I really need to spend more time on the other side of the dial on my Canon 40D and less in Photoshop to get these kind of effects

It was really interesting what goes on behind the scene, the crazy amount of work between each race to get the car ready and just how many people that takes. And the tyres, think they cost about £160 each and they burn almost a full set per race and they have 3 races per meeting, so no more complaints about me buying a new set once every 2 years

Everyone on the team was really nice, you could feel the passion they had for the team, was also interesting to see the amount of fans stopping by for the meet and greets, indeed I had to laugh at a few of the dads coming up and saying there 3/4 year old really wanted to meet them when clearly it was just an excuse for them to hide there star struck excitement LOL Another nice touch was the drivers gave out Sunshine.co.uk bags to everyone that visited the stand and kids that stopped by for autographs even got a free Sunshine.co.uk cap, these are very good high quality stitched caps, so had to blagged one for myself

Thanks for the invite guys and good luck with the rest of the racing season, maybe a couple more Podiums

Family

10 Years Married

0 Comments 07 August 2009

10 years married today to Leona, and I posted this on 07/08/09 at 10:11:12 LOL thanks for the cards and stuff in the post, and yes I can’t believe it’s been 10 years also

Internet

Broadband Map UK

3 Comments 30 July 2009

If you’re looking for a new home and the wife is busy working out if the local schools are good, if the shape and sizes of the house suits and your thinking “screw all that will I be able to get fast broadband access” then I have found the site for you. Sam Knows is a site I used for some time but I never noticed it had a Broadband Map of the UK. But not only that the Broadband Mapping is set up on Google Maps so what you actually get is a rather cool way to work out if your house will approximately work with what speeds of broadband and if you can get access to Cable Broadband also.

Check out the Broadband Mapping on Sam Knows.

Internet

TinEye Reverse Image Search

0 Comments 13 July 2009

Found TinEye the other day for reverse image searching, basically you can stick in an image or a logo and it will check it’s database to see if it can work out if any look similar or the same as the image you put in. Pretty handy for doing a basic search to see if a new logo is original or a copy of something else. However it’s still in beta and only has a fraction of images online so it’s far from perfect. I fully expect Google or Bing to snap this up or copy the idea at some point down the line.