27 Jun 08 1st week over

My first week back at THE BOX is over. It wasnt so bad Its am awesome feeling knowing that i am gonna get paid at the end of next week and from then on until i leave.

It has really taken it toll on me, im so out of touch when it comes to manual labour its untrue! My feet hurt, my legs hurt, and i am exhausted.

BUT

Im happy

I haven’t had as much time to spend on the business stuff as i wanted, but thats mainly been due to me being knackered - as i get more into it and as i get fitter i wont be as tired, and will be able to carry on doing both mekulbox stuff, and our stuff - without a hitch.

Off to lie on the bed now, as i have 3 hours at WW tomorrow updating their shop.

Please boost my balloon to help me win the worlds first internet balloon race!

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24 Jun 08 The Wheelbase Motor Project - Nottingham

I was sat watching the news and eating my dinner with Gem and Bonnie, when something about the “Wheelbase project” came on. It showed a grass track nova that had been “done up” to be used in grass track, banger style racing - COOL!!

The wheelbase project is;

“an innovative project based in Nottingham working with young people aged 14-25 years old who are at risk of crime and social exclusion”

The kids who they interviewed on the news were all boasting about how they “dropped out of school” or used to “always get into fights” - one kid even confessed to setting his teacher on fire…

HOLD ON A MINUTE

So let me get this straight, these kids have dropped out of school becasue they were dragged up rather than brought up, and in payment for being a wart on the arse of society they get to play about with cars instead of sitting in a boring classroom listening to some boring teacher drone on about boring subjects that are, well, boring?!

Well thats it then!

KIDS! If you want a career in the motor trade or you just cant be arsed to work hard at school, all you have to do is set your teacher on fire, smash a few school windows and kill any farm animals your school may keep! Simple! And as a reward you will be able to tinker about with cars, build grass track racers and even race them!

WHAT THE FUCK?!

These kids chose their own path, they chose to be scumbags, so why waste money on them? Yeah sure, a few of them have reformed, a few of them no longer wish for all their teachers to be dead, but that doesn’t change the fact they once did, and it certainly doesn’t make all the things they have done wrong, right.

About ten years ago me and my mate timmyroob went on something very similar, called “The Wheels Project” - you never know, the wheelbase project could be a spin off from that? And we spent our entire 6 weeks holiday visiting scrap yards, making a off road buggy and learning to drive a transit van round a field.

All sounds like fun doesn’t it? Well we had to pay (cash money) to go on it, and the miscreant that was on it with us was one of these oxygen thieves, and he got to go on it free.

I remember it boiling my blood back then, and today seeing that the Wheelbase project is set to roll out nationwide - well lets just say boiling point has been reached, and its bubbling over the sides.

I cant possibly be the only person in the world that finds this both unfair, and a complete piss take. Genuine hard working kids get nothing like this and have to PAY OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKETS to do cool shit like this, but little bastards that set teachers on fire get it free.

Its bullshit!

Tags: angry, Rants

23 Jun 08 The start of the future

With a title like that, you would expect me to now go on about how loads of cool stuff has gone off and im now a millionare or summat. Well, unfortunatly, that couldnt be further from the truth!

I started back at mekulboxx today! Im not giving up on the business(es) - i just have a lot of things i need to pay for and the only way to do it is by working shifts, plus trying to fit the business related work in between, somewhere.

It does feel like i have taken a few steps back though, but like people have said to me its for the best as it means i can pay all my little debts off and get my car working.

Once i have all these debts off my back, and im mobile, then i will be able to take advantage of a lot more stuff. I will have a pickup and i can charge people to move stuff, i can do garage clearances, alsorts! I’m quite looking forward to it to be honest, but not more so than just being able to get in a car that own, and drive it when i want

Thats all i keep thinking about when im slaving away doing some proper hard graft

17 Jun 08 Faked her own CHILD son’s death?!

When i was recently at my cousins wedding, my cousins brother (who is also my cousin lol) introduced me to his new girlfriend. She seems lovely, and they get on very well - which is awesome considering the shit his ex - the mother of his son and daughter - puts him through.

I wont go into too much detail as i suppose its his private life, but she has fucked him about let right and centre! And even though they have been split up a while, he is still paying for it (literally).

Anyway, i went to fetch some overdue sponsor money from my mum, and she enlightened me of the latest development in the scenario. My uncle told my mum to be wary of getting any calls from her, because.. get this..

She has told all her work colleagues that her SON has died from an asthma attack!

They have even done a collection for her/him!

Just to let you know, the child in question is alive and well, and this latest spout of mindless stupidity is surely her taking things a few steps too far?!

Its one thing to run up debts without telling anyone, then dumping them on people - but LIEING about your sons well being is probably the lowest and most outragous thing i have ever heard anyone to of done.

If this doesnt sway the courts, then the justice system in this county truely is a pile of dog shit.

Tags: Rants

07 Jun 08 Because advertising is a war!

Since the dawn of the internet, there has been many quirky ideas for new ways to advertise your business. Million doller homepage was one of them, he had a really clever idea that was sure to both give people exposure, and make him a bucket load of cash.

Me and dave are working on the next online advertising revolution that will sweep the internet all over the world.

Because advertising is a war!

Adwars! - www.Adwars.co.uk

02 Jun 08 Different google results in different places?

We do a fair bit of SEO work for ourselves and also our clients, so we monitor the search engines and check the positions of our clients in the results when searching for their chosen search terms.

We do SEO work for Wheelworx and they wanted to be on the front page of google when someone searched for Alloy Wheels. We have found that the sites move on a daily basis, sometimes more than once a day. We have had our client up to position one, then a few weeks later down to position 10.

I checked it today, and on my computer they were at position 3. I told my business parter to check and they were 5th on his computer. How can this be?

We both checked the world wise search, and the UK search on google. And both were 3rd on mine, and 5th on his. How can there be such a difference in the results even though he is literally down the road from me?

It makes it very hard for us to do reports for our clients as we are never sure if when they click on the links in the emails they will see the same results we do!

Anyone got any ideas how all this can be?

Tags: google, technical

30 May 08 Google’s New Favicon - My Theory

Many people today noticed that internet giants Google changed their Favicon from the familiar big G with a square round it, to a simpler lower case g with no border.

I scoured the internet looking for a reason why they changed it, but only found other people with the same questions as me.

Many people talk of a rebranding? but surely that would be a dumb idea due to how wel know the google logo and simpple layout/colourscheme is?

But i have my own theory behind the most talked about favicon in the world.

In the last few months i have been using Firefox 3, and they have made quite a few changes to the layout of the browser window, more specifically the way it displays favicons.

They are displayed on a grey background instead of a white one, and you can now see if the favicon is transparent or not. Googles old favicon is in a square, and wasnt (as far as im aware) transparent, so would of looked like this Blogger favicon;

This is square, boring, and doesnt really look much different from before. This is the new google favicon;

This new favicon shows off the cool white glow type thing you get when your favicon is transparent. Google would of missed out on the cool glowey shit, so in order to keep up with the times, they have updated it, and dropped the gay border so you can see the glow round the g.

But as my friend DJB quite rightly pointed out, they are suppsed to be the BIG G - maybe now they wanna be known as the little g - as written by Philipp Lenssen who pointed out that one of googles core values is to think and act like the underdog.

I guess they will officially let us know soon enough.. Maybe its just some new employee who decided to change it for the shits and grins. I wonder how much bandwith in total - across the world -this new favicon has sucked?

Wow.

30 May 08 Do you like complaining? Ranting and raving?

Do you do any of the above on your blog? If so, then join the fightfightfight network, and share your rants with the world.

We bought the domain name a while ago for use with a similar idea, but it was forum based. It was a big hit with people, and the site poddled along for a while.

Due to a lack of time we couldnt keep moderating the forum, so have sat on the domain name until something else has been thought of to fill its boots.

Both dave and myself are avid complainers, we love to moan when things are not quite right, push the boundries of customer service and see what we can squeeze from the local and national businesses we deal with as we go about our lives.

If your a blogger, and you like to rant, then make a special category for your rants and give us the link. We’ll add it to our site, and you will be sharing your rants with a much wider audience!

Get heard!

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

30 May 08 400th Post, and its a rant!

I dont know what it is, but whenever my blood is at boiling point, i take it out on my poor blog. I guess its better than shouting at my business parter, or worse, my fiancé. Its not their fault i woke up in the worst mood ever, so its not fair to take it out on them either.

I was woken by Gem this morning at about half past 7 telling me that the dog had poo’d in her bed again. Last night, she wee’d on the floor. Its the 2nd time shes ever poo’d in her bed, and its probably only the 5th time in her life she has wee’d on the floor.

Whats causing my dogs random bladder outbursts?

Its the fucking dog next door. It has to be! Either that or their fucking cats. Ever since they have moved in and their tribe of animals have been shitting and pissing on my garden, bonnie has been different. She was good as gold before, the best dog in the world. And now in the space of 24 hours she has done two things that you’d expect from a puppy, things she grew out of a long time ago.

I figure its the fact the back garden doesn’t smell like her any more? She is a bit funny about where she wee’s and poo’s really, usually only on grass etc.

Hosing down dog shit at half 7 am is not something i enjoy being woken up for.

I guess im also pretty mad that i have had to get a part time job to help pay my bills. The businesses are going OK, but they are not moving fast enough for me. I don’t want to jack it all in - and i wont - but im fucking annoyed that i have had to go out and get something part time.

I want to write a lot of other things down right now, but i wont because i will probably look back in a few hours and regret it.

400th post anyway. Yay for me.

Meh.

28 May 08 Im dreading full time driving

I haven’t driven a car on the road all day every day for some while now, although i do drive my girlfriends car every now and then. Unfortunately, i have noticed that when i DO drive on the roads by myself, i get very angry and the incompetence of people on the roads. People randomly braking, not using indicators - and just general bad drivers.

I was coming off a roundabout the other day, when some prick in a fiesta st overtook me doing a stupid speed, i stayed clear so that he wouldn’t kill me in the process. After 3 sets of lights, i caught up with him (and i was doing the speed limit!) So i gave him some “parked in the boot” action and followed him up the road. He went to turn off, and i stopped at the side of him and suggested he wind his window down so i could call him a prick.

He drove off. Of course.

When will these losers learn?

Will it take a death? Or should i say more deaths?