Running today.

I did post this on Facebook, but lots of people have said they didn't see it.

I'm running today!

Dear All my Friends.

Would you please buy me a cup of coffee?

I know it's a strange request, but we all do it every day, in Starbucks, Costa, Office, Cafe, or in our local coffee shop, and we don't think much of it we queue up, buy a coffee or buy two if we're with someone.

Some of you know me well, some of you not so ,much, but I'd like to think you'd buy me a cup of coffee? (or skip one today?)

No, how about if I said I was homeless, and didn't have a kettle this morning to make a hot drink on a cold day? Still won't buy me a coffee?

To reassure you, I'm not after a coffee, and I'm not homeless, but I am after the price of a cup of coffee.

In my local coffee shop, it's about £3, but I'm happy if it's cheaper or more expensive in yours!

I'm taking part in this years Vertical Rush raising funds for Shelter on Tuesday 5th March 2013. It's partly for my company (however they are sponsoring me with the time off I'm also leading a team to do the same)

Vertical Rush is the original and ultimate tower running challenge, with participants racing up 920 steps to the top of Tower 42 – one of London's tallest and most iconic buildings! We would be so grateful if you spare price of that coffee (sponsor me please) using the link below:

http://www.sponsorme.co.uk/ianwatkinson/shelter-vertical-rush-hns-team.aspx

Please help us raise funds for this valuable charity's work. Shelter believes that everyone should have a home, they help people find and keep a home and they also campaign for decent housing for all. Shelter is needed today more than ever:

Over 57,000 children are homeless in London
Every two minutes in the UK someone faces losing their home
1 in 115 households is at risk of homelessness

PS If you want to go old school sponsoring and do a penny a step, or a pound a floor, that's fine too!

Many thanks in advance for your coffee! Rest assured this is the first time for a long while I've asked for sponsorship, It will be quite a while to the next one, so don't worry, not a regular thing!

Shelter Vertical Rush - HNS Team - CharitiesTrust

www.sponsorme.co.uk

Charities Trust works with companies, charities and individuals to help all of them get the most value from every £1 

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Customer Service in action

So, after trashing my last pair of cheap primark shades, yes I know but for £2 each, a tenners worth lasted me nearly a year.

So I decide last night to get some new pairs.

I quite fancy some flashy new prada ones, but at £170 a pop, and with my record for leaving them places or breaking them, that's a no no

I end up at www.replica-sunglasses.co.uk

Don't go there yet, let me set the scene.

It's 11:30, I just want to order some shades and go to bed.

I goto the site...BLARING MUSIC..

Ah like wtf! where's the mute button.

Q:Now what moron designs a site with no mute button?
A: http://www.dreamshock.com/ apparently, now they might have been told not to by their customer, but frankly I can't see it really.

Perhaps someone from dreamshock can comment?

Now, go have a look, find the mute button?

that's right, you're not missing it, it's not there.

So I drop the guy a line.

What's the with blaring music?

I get a reply.

Jason- Eye Dezigns - jason@replica-sunglasses.co.uk

Thank you for your comments,we have over 500 individual customers per day and your the first to give those comments,the fact that you find them annoying is of no concern ,and the fact that you wright a email at 11.35pm to tell us shows us that you have nothing better to do with your time .




So not a, wow, we hadn't noticed, thanks for pointing this out, a big, you're a customer, we have some of those bogg off.


and yes, whoever it is, can't manage to spell write...

So, I politely pointed out, I'm sure the digg crowd would enjoy this, it's given me some laughs, and I'm sure everyone will want to know what to expect from customer services there....

Phones phones phones...Iphone N95 N95 8GB K850i Why can't I find a phone... N95 8GB vs N95 vs K8050i vs Iphone vs G600 Isync

Why oh why Can't I find the perfect phone?

I mean apple are pretty good at Stuff, Nokia have been doing it for a while, and  even  Sony Ericsson have made some good phones..T61 anyone?

So what do I want out of a phone.

Works with a Mac and Windows. I use a Mac for home, corporate culture dictates Windows.
Great battery life. There is no point having the greatest phone in the world if it lasts five minutes.
Good Camera. Note not a great camera. I've got several good cameras from Canon and Sony that whilst a few years old, still whoop all the camera phones out there.

however again it's no good having the greatest camera in the world, and being the best photographer in the world, and witnessing Kylie Minogue being abducted by Aliens if the camera is in a bag sitting at home.

So what are the contenders and how do they stack up.

Apple Iphone
Nokia N95
Nokia N95 8GB
Sony Ericsson K850i
Samsung G600
LG Viewty. LG KU990

Ok lets get the easy ones out the Way.

Samsung LG.

How difficult is it to build an Isync profile for your phones? Even if you just shared the details out, lots of people can make them.

You don't support the OS I use..I'm not buying your phones and will tell others not too and why.

Nokia N95.

Too short battery life.

You can kill it with phone calls alone in two hours.
If you turn everything on, 60 minutes.
For a £500 phone released in 2007.
Nope.

K850i.

I've got a K800i. It's a great phone. 3.2 M camera, great battery life hunch back...

So the K810i improved on that, better battery, sleaker, better buttons.

So my expectation was, K850i, K810i with 5MP Camera. Superb. A phone camera, rather than a camera phone. Which was exactly what I was looking for after the disappointment of the flash in the pan N95.

How wrong was I.

Sony Ericsson have taken a wondeful phone and fiddled with it. The UI is broken hard to use, and easy to misue. On the UK vodafone one, every time I pick up the phone it brings up contacts or vodfone live.

Can i get it to auto lock? Perhaps, I can't seem to find out how.
Can i get the camera to automically select best shot each time..nope. It always goes back to it's default and that's it.

I decided to upgrade the firmware, and now found that the 34 music files and the 30 or so photos I had on the memory card now overwhelmed the phone and it could not see them as I get an indexing of files failed due to lack of memory which is the same as a lot of people on the new firmware out a couple of weeks now. Plus I have to pay for an Isync client, and I can't easily get the photos off the phone or music on it. Thanks Sony.

So finally, which to knock off it's perch next?

N95 8GB or Iphone...

Lets go with the unexpected, lets do the Iphone.

Btw, if you're expecting a happy ending to this post then look away now.

Iphone.

Great phone.
Now why only a 2MP Camera? I mean 2MP? That's so 3 years ago and don't give me the memory life or battery issue, running a higher density ccd shouldn't affect either drastically.

But what lets the Iphone down most is..

Nope not 3G.
Nope not EDGE.

MMS and SMS.

This is where the Iphone shows apple to be a computer company not a phone company.

If you send me an SMS with a Telephone number in it, you know what I'm likely to want to do with that number...yup call it.

Apple don't think so.

How about forward it..wrong again.

Edit it? Wrong again.

Plus no MMS, which hey they might fix.

So finally onto the N95 8GB.

So they've fixed the dodgy wobbly buttons.
They've fixed the screen, it's even bigger.
They've mostly fixed the battery issues now, being relatively careful, you can easily eke it out to one day now.

But in their infinite wisdom, they've taken the shutter off the camera.

So wether it be the 640x480 camera in my first camera phone, or a 5 megapixel camera phone photo from an N95, they call look bad with finger marks on the lens or a big scratch on it.

Gah.

Roll on the Iphone 3g 16GB SMS/MMS special, or the N95 16GB with lens cover and bigger battery. Phone are getting there...just not quite yet.

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Men and Women are equal?

Not mine, probably not orignal, but definately amusing..


As everyone who is old enough to be in college should know, women have one a very strange power over men. No matter what people say, women are better able to control their sex drives and they use this power over men for all sorts of reasons.

The following is a fun story by chief at Ofuzi I read a few months back about a guy with a funny analogy about this sort of thing. Just read it:

One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into
bed.

Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says “I don’t feel
like it, I just want you to hold me.”

I said “WHAT??!! What was that?!”

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear…

“You’re just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me
to satisfy your physical needs as a man.” She responded to my puzzled look
by saying, “Can’t you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in
the bedroom?”

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with
her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big
unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on
several different very expensive outfits. She couldn’t decide which one to
take so I told her we’d just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to
compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We
went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond
earrings. Let me tell you…she was so excited. She must have thought I was
one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because
she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn’t even know how to play
tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, “That’s fine, honey.”
She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.
Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, “I think this is all
dear, let’s go to the cashier.”

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, “No honey, I don’t feel
like it.”

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled
WHAT?”

I then said “honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You’re
just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy
your shopping needs as a woman.” And just when she had this look like she
was going to kill me, I added, “Why can’t you just love me for who I am and
not for the things I buy you?”

Apparently I’m not having sex tonight either.

Install Vista now...

You know this pictures just going to make you want to upgrade to Vista right away...

Also, I don't know what's scarier..that I know every single one of these OS's...hell I've owned boxes that ran all of these OS's

or the fact that I can spot that one is missing..I'd hate to think what Freebsd is going to be....

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Apple vs Nokia...

Nokia's iPhone -- no, seriously - Engadget

So would you buy the Iphone from apple the creator, or from Nokia, the phone company that's copying...

Well depends on which ones available first in the UK really, oh and with HSDPA as well...no super 3g, not buying it...

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