What’s in a name?

Lately I’ve been taking on more websites than I can cope with, and have built up quite an extensive list of domain names that I’ve been meaning to develop. I thought if I listed them here it would some how shame me into kicking them off.

So, in no particular order, here are the domains I’ve been meaning to build websites for…

www.TheWebKit.com
www.YouveJustHiredTheATeam.com
www.ToysAnus.com
www.USBNerd.com
www.MyExIsABastard.net
www.NextHotDate.com
www.JokeMuseum.com

I also have one adult site, but I’ll leave that off for now. I see I have a lot of work to do, damn.

No cover, no deal

I recently tried to buy a personal PC / mobile phone so I could work on the go, and emailed Dell on their website to find out about WIFI access on one of their products.

No response from them, naturally.

I emailed again, still no response – so I bought one in PC World.

Now, I foolishly tried to order a laptop from them as well, so phoned them this time. They said I couldn’t get it before Christmas, so I said I wasn’t interested – at which point they changed their mind and said they could fast track it. The salesman (who had a limited grasp of the dialect) tried to sell me some extra cover, to which I refused.

He didn’t like this, he then put me on hold and promptly hung up – the twat.

Seems if you don’t buy cover from Dell, they don’t get much commission, so aren’t interested in speaking to you. Last time I’ll be using those arseholes.

Google homepage improves RSS

I just logged onto my Google hompage to check my feeds from the variety of crap websites I like to get my daily fix of junk from, and I noticed they’ve updated the way they get the feeds.

Notably, they’ve created a little + sign that allows you to view the description, which has a spanking effect on the feed from Yourcarisshit.com. I’ve been working on this feed for some time, wanting to get the car images fed through – and now it does! Check it out:

Your car is shit

The feed itself isn’t available from the website yet, as it’s undergoing a radical upgrade to make it 70% more offensive – but should be done by the weekend.

Shit cars direct to your homepage, how cool is that?

Tesco can’t be arsed again

I don’t believe it, for the second time in as many weeks I get some oik in Tesco telling me to use the self service till.

Now, if I wanted to operate tills when I enter a shop I’d have slacked off in school to such a degree that working in a tesco express was the highest achievement I could hope for. However, I don’t and I didn’t.

When I go into a shop, that has staff, is it too much to ask that the lazy fuckwits actually do the job they’re paid minimum wage for? I am not using the chavmaster 2000 self shoplift till, I expect someone to actually serve me.

If Tesco think they’re going to phase out tills in their shops, they can do so without my cash injection. Tossholes.

Steven Seagal World Tour

This is not a joke, at least not one by me. Steven Seagal is embarking on a world tour, taking in such places as Swansea, Liverpool, Tunbridge Wells and Cardiff.

You can see the full list of venues over at www.stevenseagal.com (obviously that’s your homepage anyway).

Seagal

He’ll be in my area on February 18th – now can I convince anyone to go? I would assume not, but of course, as Seagal himself taught us, Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.

Oscar nominations

The Oscar nominations are out, and the pick of them can be seen here:

Best picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best director
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best actress
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Full list here…

Now, the thing that pisses me off is why Little Miss Sunshine is nominated for best film, but the director isn’t up for best director. How can something be gauged good enough for a best film award, if the guy who made it isn’t good enough for a best director award???

If I’d made a film that was up for best picture, and I wasn’t up for the director gong I’d be kicking off bigstyle – but I reckon the chances of Cop on the Edge winning best picture are slim.

So much anger, so little time