Almost 2008...

Well, Christmas is done (and boy was it hectic!) - expect the run-down of cracker jokes early in the new year when I have a bit more time!

Have a good one tonight!

MaFt

Bradford - Town of Lies

Place names are usually fairly descriptive, for example Hill Top Road is a road at the top of a hill; Hill Top Fisheries is a Chippy at the top of a hill; Little John's Kebab Hut is a kebab hut owned by a man called John who happens to be vertically challenged.

So, from that, what would you expect Four Lane Ends and Five Lane Ends to be? Logically it would be the point where 4/5 lanes meet, perhaps at a roundabout or at a traffic light controlled junction...? Well, you'd be wrong for thinking that! Here they are:






As you can see, Four Lane Ends would be better off called "One Lane Goes Through and Two Others End" and Five Lane Ends is clearly "Six Lane Ends"...

I wonder if it's worth starting a one-man campaign to get their names changed?

MaFt

Why Did I Bother?!

At about 1 this morning I signed up to a handful of free online business directory thingy's in the hope of drumming up a bit of business. Each one, however, had a warning that they "have been receiving reports of companies phoning soon after adding a listing to try and sell advertising space, these are in no way affiliated with us".

Needless to say I've had three of these calls this morning trying to pressurise me into giving them £500 over the phone to get an A6 advert into their wonderful magazine that no one has heard of but it will guarantee over 11 contacts each week...

Reckon I'll give them a miss and just deal with customers directly for now!!

MaFt

A Cold One!

A chilly start this morning...

Upgraded!

This morning I took the plunge and updated my phone to Windows Mobile 6! No major issues to report and it actually seems to run a bit faster too but that could just be cos it's nice and fresh!

One other advantage was that because it's a new ROM and therefore essentially a nice, clean registry then I can reinstall Opera Mobile for another 30 days! I'm holding off buying this as a new version is due out soon. I emailed them to ask if I bought it now would I get version 9 for free when it was released and was told no, I couldn't... No chance I'm paying twice for it so they can wait for now!

MaFt

Proper Annoying

Virgin Broadband is currently down... Well, their official description is: "Customers across the Yorkshire region may currently be experiencing a loss of their broadband Internet services". Basically, I can get to a few sites but not any of the ones I need to... like maft.co.uk for my emails (can get them on the phone though), pocketgpsworld.com (so can't get any work done - ie no money), garminpoi.co.uk (so can't update that site and get a small amount of advertising money).

So, generally, it sucks! So I thought I'd share my moaning with you here on the blog cos Virgin let me go to blogger.com!

See ya

MaFt

Nearly Christmas!

For those thinking "it'll be Christmas by the time he blogs again" well, you're wrong. But not too far from the truth though!

Been stupidly busy sorting out poorly kids and poorly me as well as trying to get stuff sorted for the Christmas play I stupidly agreed to do...

I've been pretty busy with work stuff to - lots to do with PocketGPSWorld.com as usual but I've also recently finished the Migrant Workers Information Bradford site as well as completely redesigning the Jalapeno Drums site. The Jalapeno one is still showing the old site while we wait for domain names to be switched between hosts etc etc - all great fun...! I've also updated the portfolio part of my site at MaFt.co.uk/design so it's not been a total loss!

That'll do for now, I'll try post more in the near future!

MaFt

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