Archive for May, 2007
We’re big fans of Weebls Stuff - the dancing badgers became an internet phenomonon. Even bigger - and more addictive - is their latest cartoon advertising Kenya. Make sure you take in all the background stuff, like the facts and figures about Kenya.
It loops, so you’ll just end up getting completly addicted…..
Click here for Kenya
As if I wasn’t behind enough already, my main work PC decided to corrupt its installation of Windows. So instead of catching up with my work I spent Bank Holiday Monday reinstalling everything, having reformated the drive.
Previous Lesson Learnt: It was so much easier this time that I could go to a recent backup and recover all my mail, favourites and setting, etc. No more tearing out of hair for me - backup your data, people!!!
So, Tuesday arrives and I think I might get some work done, once I finish off the last few items that need installing. Mostly little helper freeware tools. Then it crashes again…..
We were asked to get a site up and running in a hurry for PSG, as the deadline for HIPS was rapidly approaching.
Little did either of us know at the time what hurdles were to be thrown in our way and how the 1st June dealine would be pulled from under us just as we went live!
The site is now live - take a look at PSG’s Homebuyers Information Pack Site. We’ll just have to change the counter to 1st of August.
The site owner, Chandra Sharma, wanted to use a domain name he’d bought several years ago, homebyersearches.co.uk. After considerable effort trying to convince the ISP holding the domain that he was the owner, we thought we’d be ready to transfer the domain over to IAS Hosting and then take the site live.
Something that recently caught my eye in philately (stamp collecting) made me think about how we value the goods and services we buy.
Ebay has a very active stamp collecting community, with anything up to 200,000 items for sale at any one time. The key item that determines whether you get a bargain or not is the catalogue value (or ‘cat’). The trouble is, there are several publishers of stamp catalogues: Stanley Gibbons (UK), Scott (US), Yvert (Europe) to name a few. Each of these have their own value that they’ve calculated for a particular stamp or set of stamps, and they very often are not in line. For example, SG tend to put a higher price on British Commonwealth issues than say Scott, to whom the commonwealth is just another bunch of countries.
