Archive for January, 2006

Vodafone Value - Sign up for Stop the Clock!

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Calling all prepaid (Ready to Go) Vodafone customers! Get thee to My Vodafone or call 1800 666 777 immediately to sign up for Stop the Clock before the madness ends on 16 March 2006.
I do not work for Vodafone and I don’t own any shares either, but this one’s a no brainer. For the rest [...]

One Million Blogs

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Following on from the runaway success of The Million Dollar Homepage, a guy called Dave has decided to have a go at becoming a millionaire by building a page featuring One Million Blogs.
I noticed a few referrals from the site in my logs and lo and behold, my little pink flower icon [...]

House Hunting

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

I thought the day would never *ever* come, but I have just started looking for a *little* house. I know nothing about such things so I have a lot to learn! Any advice and tips from those who have survived the process would be much appreciated.
So far, I have been working on my [...]

Google API Gone Gaga?

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

I use the Google web search API a lot in a certain application. It has been good as gold for ages but since the New Year it has gone ape. It works intermittently at best, and even putting a 60 second lag between queries does not seem to do any good. The infamous “502 bad [...]