I’ve always been a PC kind of guy, especially when I’ve worked in a design agency and have been surrounded by Mac loving design nerds all claiming their Macs were infinitely better than my PC. I felt I had to defend myself, even though yes the PC and Windows in general has, shall we say, a few issues.

However I’ve also always been an ASP guy as opposed to PHP, yet have found myself recently straying down the PHP path for it’s somewhat better support and fewer security holes.

For this reason I will at least promise to look at a Mac, if only to complain and criticise at every step. In doing so I wanted to look for used macs and found this very Amazon influenced website dealing in used macs and Mac parts.

Great if you like that sort of thing. I’m new to the whole G4 lingo (thinking they were a pop band) so have to start from scratch when it comes to working out what is what in terms of Mac products. Luckily they seem to have everything catered for on the website.

The thing that did draw me in though was the video editing section. I have been trained on the PC system Avid so know what a professional video edit suite can do, yet again everyone I speak to harps on about how the Mac is better at editing videos as well. DV Warehouse has a lot of choice in this department so if I want to go down that road I won’t be stuck for options.

I’ll start small though and use a Mac laptop for a week as a test. I’ll let you know how I get on.

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I don’t usually bother with this sort of thing as I’m not one to put much weight in the whole ‘New Year’ kind of festival. However, as I’ve had one of the most turbulent year’s of my life so far (getting divorced, changing job, moving 200 miles away etc) I figured I’d pledge to take control of my own destiny. I’ve compiled a list of things I aim to do in 2008, you could call them New Year’s resolutions, you could call it a hit list.

Whatever you call it, these are my aims for 2008.

1. Stay in credit and even save up some money
   My whole married life I was struggling financially, the reasons for that are self explanatory, but now I’ve finally managed to get into credit I aim to stay that way.
2. Get a written apology from Royal & SunAlliance
   RSA took over a year to fix my car, it still needs the door fixing but I’m having trouble getting a quote as the garage is only open when I’m in work. Funny that. So I aim to get that fixed and to get a written apology from them.
3. Receive compensation to the tune of a few thousand pounds from Direct Line Insurance
   Direct Line were responsible for my car being off the road for 17 months when my ex-wife committed fraud against them. Due to them I had to buy a new car and keep paying off the loan for my old one. They will pay me compensation and send me a written apology.
4. Get a written apology from the CSA
   These guys are morons. Pure and simple. My ex has lied to them about what I have and have not paid. They will be made to understand this and I’ll get them to apologise to me in writing.
5. Take WhatDVD to the next level
   This is the first work related one. I aim to make WhatDVD.Net the biggest online reviews website in the UK. I know what I must do, and it’s entirely achievable.
6. Those ideas for websites I’ve got… make them!
   I’ve got a massive list of domain names and corresponding ideas for websites that I’ve been sitting on for some time. They’re not making any money the way they are, they need building. I will aim to complete all of these this year.
7. Don’t get married
   Obvious really. I aim to not get married this year. This one’s important.
8. Crush my enemies
   This is a bit of a vague one, but covers things such as Torfaen Council who want to charge me Council Tax for a house I not only don’t live in, but couldn’t even enter it at one stage. I have a recorded phone call where I told them I didn’t live there and I gave them my contact number. They’ve ignored that and have tried to take me to court. These are the kind of enemies I’m referring to.
9. Make a living from Affiliates
   Over the past few years I’ve been at a stage where I’m almost able to live on my affiliate earnings. I know everyone who has done this will advocate me to take it on full time, but I really don’t want to do this from a personal point of view if nothing else. I want to continue working as my job is very related. However, I still would like an Affiliate income that could be considered a decent wage.
10. Diversify
    This is perhaps the most important one of the lot. Over the years I’ve become far too reliant on Adsense for my Affiliate income. Should the worst happen I’d be proverbially screwed, so I need to branch out into the other networks and CPA based revenue streams.

So that’s it, my aims for 2008. There are some sub-aims, or specific details to some of them I don’t want to elaborate on here but I know what they are. Hopefully I can hit all of these in 2008, if I do I’ll be a very happy guy indeed.

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In the interests of offending anyone who isn’t Christian I’d like to wish EVERYONE reading this a merry Christmas. If you are Christian I can offend you too by saying that Jesus doesn’t exist and this time of year is only kept alive by ITV so they can show Bond movies on TV.

Whatever you celebrate, be it Connery, Moore or even Dalton, have a happy James Bond day.

Just for the record, I’ve written this a few days in advance. I’m probably pissed right now unable to stand, so here’s to me!

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