…my birthday! 😀 😀
Month: May 2003
My first Amazon purchase
Call me strange, but despite having been an internet user for over 4 years now, I have never bought anything from Amazon (sponsored link). Until now.
I ordered the book “Just For Fun” (sponsored link) by Linux creator Linus Torvalds last night, and it’s due to arrive tomorrow morning. I’ve read bits of it in bookshops (although nowhere in Bradford appears to sell it) and decided to go out and buy it. After all it is my birthday on Sunday.
Talking of money, now that I can get back into my PayPal account (after my two week hiatus), you can now donate money to me, if you are feeling generous. Although I’m on track to finish the year with at least £600 in my current account, any extra will be gladly accepted.
Okay, I’ll stop begging now 🙂 .
Paypal Hiatus
I’m on an enforced break from PayPal. As you may or may not have realised, the old blog has deceased, due to a hack attempt which saw almost all of the data on the host server being deleted. It’s also deleted my account information, so I have no FTP or email access to that account. And my PayPal account was with that email address.
What’s more, it wouldn’t accept my password. I’m sure it’s correct because it’s worked before, but PayPal was having none of it (I’m hoping that didn’t get hacked too). But, there is hope. I’ve gone through the password recovery system, giving over my Switch card number, and a new password will be sent by snail mail. Unfortunately, being based outside the US means that the password will take 10-14 days to arrive, and it will be sent to my home address, so I’ll have to phone my parents when it arrives.
It’s annoying, but I am relieved that even if you can’t remember your password and have a duff email account, there’s still a way out.
Back from Cambridge
Man, I’m exhausted. Six trains in one day is a lot 🙂 .
The meetup went well – I got to chat again to some of the editors I saw last year, and also got to meet some new faces who I’d previously only known by their user names. It’s always fun when you first meet people and meetings like this trying to work out who people are.
There are a couple of photos: 1 and 2 – regular readers will probably recognise me.
Plan for this evening are to catch up on a day’s surfing, possibly play Worms, and then sleep. Not very interesting but I don’t feel capable of doing anything else.
Off to Cambridge
I’m going to Cambridge for the day to meet some people from the ODP, like I did last year in Birmingham. It should be fun, but I only have just over half an hour to get ready 🙂 .
A couple of links for the morning: not only can you rent Chris Pirillo’s chest, you can rent his mind, too. Payment via PayPal.
And Jake has linked to a SearchEngineWatch article telling you how to do well on Google. I don’t necessarily agree all with it (not mentioning your company name in the title tag is silly in my opinion, as it defeats the point of having that tag in the first place), but there are some good tips, so it’s well worth a read.
And now if I don’t get a shower, I’m sooo going to miss my train. Toodles.