Absolutely Average

I heard this on the radio this morning and thought it quite amusing

The phone rang this morning, it was girl from a re-mortgage company. Conversation went like this.

Caller: Do you have a large mortgage on your home?
Me: No actually, I’ve nearly paid it all off.
Caller: Well then are you interested in consolidating all of your loans & credit cards into one easy payment?
Me: I’m sorry, but I don’t have any debts only my small mortgage
Caller: Ok then, how about a loan to make some home improvements?
Me: Funny that but I’ve just had some work done and I paid cash for it.
Caller: What about a new car sir? Are you considering a loan for a new car?
Me: I don’t need one, I’ve got a fairly new Ferrari in the garage next to my Triumph motorcycle.
Caller: Just one more question then sir. Are you looking for a wife?

Some of you may notice old posts registering in the recent updates list. Don’t panic, this is due to me correcting problems incurred during the import process (when I imported the Textpattern database into Wordpress). Images and such were not being displayed correctly but I am editing them a few at a time so they will all be corrected eventually.

13 reasons Scouser hasn’t done a Thursday 13 for months.

1. Work, lots of new things happening, release of new games consoles means new products, which in turn means lots of extra work
2. Illness, since June I have had a major flu virus at least 3 times.
3. Christmas, we went away for Christmas & I didn’t really have time to access a net terminal.
4. Designing sites for a couple of bands.
5. Spam - Using textpattern I found I became a major target for the comment spammers.
6. Re-design this site, new theme and transport it over to wordpress.
7. Configure my new server, learn how to use it and then test it with some unimportant stuff prior to transferring everything over.
8. Transporting all my sites from my old server to my new one.
9. Blogshares. I spent far too much time playing at this. I feel now that I have over $1.4 trillion the fascination has worn off
10. Family and other real life matters.
11. Lack of imagination and planning. I blame this on work.
12. World Domination plans keep getting in the way. Every time I wanted to post a TT something happened around the world that needed my attention. You just can’t get good reliable henchmen nowadays.
13. And finally just plain laziness.

Unleashed back in October 2006, Google Docs & Spreadsheets has everybody’s favourite search engine doing battle with the evil that is Micro$oft. With Docs & Spreadsheets users with google accounts can upload or create their own documents or spreadsheets and store them online, share them with friends and colleagues or even download them to their desktop in a variety of formats. Upload / Download formats including Word, OpenOffice & PDF. You can even publish the results to your blog (many of the blog APIs are supported).

Ok folks, the site is now on the new server & has been transferred over to Wordpress. As you will no doubt notice, the theme is not quite complete yet but at least it’s nearly there. Also I have installed SK2 (Spam Karma 2) to help combat the spam comments.

Now that my new server is now up and running properly I will be able to dedicate more time to World Domination and I can promise you all that the SPAMMERS will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Ok I’ve gone and bought myself a new server (a second hand Cobalt RaQ4 for anyone who’s interested) so there may be some interruptions to normal service as I migrate my sites over to it.

I did hint a while ago that I was going to migrate this site over to wordpress and being pre-occupied with world domination I didn’t get around to it. Well that was a HUGE mistake as I found out recently when I found 800 spam comments, this was not a real problem until I found that after deleting the said spam I had also inadvertantly deleted the most recent genuine comments.

Anyway I digress, back to the new server. I have to install MySQL and other bits an pieces first but then I am going to migrate this site first, but this time I am also migrating to wordpress to stop the spam. When that is complete and I know it’s working properly then I will start migrating other sites as and when I have the time.

To all of my loyal, readers prepare yourself for a new look world domination site as I will also be changing the theme and adding some yummy new features (all to be revealed in the near future).