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Racial Harmony
Since my 3 year old Xbox 360 developed the Red Ring of Death I have logged the call with Microsoft to get it fixed (for free) under warranty 4 times!
It wasn’t that they refused to fix it or anything. It was just the fact that I am a procrastinator by heart and didn’t get round to boxing it up and arranging for the item to be collected by UPS.
They only allow you a 10 day window to get the item packed and collected and I failed to even get round to ringing them each time!
So - I went and bought a new console instead! Yay!
I opted for the new Xbox 360 Elite model with the spanky 120gb hard drive and HDMI goodness. I also went for the Guitar Hero 3 bundle and rocked out a 96% complete version of Slow Ride by Foghat on my first turn. Even my beautiful wife and darling children had a go too! It’s another one of those games that I liked the look of but never really thought I would like - but it is really great!
I am still getting the old console repaired and will then sell it with the games I don’t want. I have logged another repair request with Microsoft - and I have a box in the boot of my car to package it up in. So there is no excuse this time.
Hi my name is Tao. My gamertag is Taoski - See you online!
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History Is Repeating Itself
The company that I work (contract) for have just been told that the main customer they provide support for has potentially awarded the work to someone else.
The winner of the contract is a large, global IT provider specialising in different “business strands” including manufacturing, government and automotive. They have over 289 thousand employees in more than 80 countries and have an annual revenues of over $28 billion.
They also are based from and have a large Service Desk presence in India too….
I’m sure this all seems very familiar to me and other people that know me.
Still - at least as a contractor I feel obliged to spread the message of doom and gloom to all without fear of corporate repercussions. Already people are saying how great it will be to work for a “big company” if they get TUPE’ed over with the work.
What they don’t realise is that working for a big company also means you become only one of those 289 thousand employees. And to the people sitting at the top of the tree, the 289,001th person is just a cost to them - nothing more than that. Operational need, expertise, past work history and performance mean nothing to them.
You are just a number…
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Megaupload and Torrent Blogsearch
I have just added 2 more pages to allow you to search for torrent files and Megaupload links from recent blog posts.
All i need to do now is spend some time on the design!
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Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai, starring Samuel L Jackson as.. the Afro Samurai.
Here’s some action i found on YouTube.
I like a good bit of Anime/Manga as good as the next person and this one is very cool. It’s got a slightly Spaghetti Western feel to it too. Lots of violence and blood and a few hot chicks thrown in for good measure. Think Tarrantino meets Clint Eastwood and Bruce Lee..
Enjoy it at your local torrent site NOW and check out the website too!
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My Kinda Girl
If I was to re-marry, this is the kind of girl I will be looking for!
Check out the last pic in particular!
Honey… where did you put my games and my camera?
NSFW by the way!
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Adsense tips
Here are a few Adsense and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) techniques I have gathered from around the web over the last few weeks.
Page Titles
Make sure your page titles, using the <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags contain your keywords.
example: “adsense and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) advertising explained for idiots” rather than just “adsense for idiots”.
Filenames
Make your filenames contain your keywords.
example: “http://www.mydomain.com/adsense-and-adsense-advertising.html” rather than “http://www.mydomain.com/article3.html”
META tags
Make sure your page has the relevant <META description=” “> and <META keywords=” “> entries within the <HEAD></HEAD> portion of your code.
example: <META description=”how to make jam on toast - a users guide”> <META keywords=”jam, toast, bread, butter, user, guide”>
Keyword positioning
Have your keywords mentioned in the page title, the meta tags, the headings and the first paragraph in the body text.
Headings
Make use of the <H1> </H1> heading tags to emphasise your keywords within your content.
example: <H1>Toast Making Techniques</H1> <H2>Toast - an introduction</H2>
Anchor Text
Be careful to put the best words on your links. Internal and External ones.
example: “<a href=”http://www.megatao.com/goto/www.mydomain.com/adsense.html”>Adsense For Beginners</a>” rather than “<a href=”http://www.megatao.com/goto/www.mydomain.com/adsense.html”>go here</a>”
ALT Tags
Always specify the ALT tags for images.
example: <img src=”http://www.mydomain.com/images/toast.jpg” ALT=”Jam and toast”>
REL tags
Add REL=”TAG” to important links containing your keywords.
example: <a href=”http://www.megatao.com/goto/www.mydomain.com/jam-on-toast.hml REL=”TAG”>Jam</a>
Bold
It does’nt hurt to make some of your keywords bold to attract the attention of the search engine robots.
Google Section Targeting
Insert some hidden code that tells Google to concentrate on the content in between when working out Adsense adverts and keyword analysis.
Example: <!–google_ad_section_start–>In this text area, talk about your keywords.<!–google_ad_section_end–>
If you can add to this list, then please leave a comment.
Tags: adsense, adwords, google, hints, tips, keywords, monetize
Gone to the dogs
Since my son’s sixth birthday earlier this year he has decided that he is no longer a fussy eater. Years of coaxing, tears (from us all) and shouting have gone and now he is happy to eat things like Pizza, pasta, mashed potato and most importantly fruit and vegetables, which at one time would have made him gag at the thought. My wife always insisted that this was passed to him genetically, as I am - i confess - a fussy eater.
Brought up as a vegetarian, I was never exposed to any meats other than the “Three B’s”: Bacon, Burgers and Bangers. At home I seemed to exist solely on Baked Beans on toast or other odd combinations of salad, cheese and dried fruit all mashed together in Pitta bread (which I still enjoy - as does my six year old!). We had our main food groups sorted. We were a happy, well nourished and content, wholemeal bread family.
However, apart from other neurosies too many to mention here, this lead me to develop my theory about the food I had never tried. It goes something like this:
“I have never eaten dog shit… but I know I would’nt like it!”
It makes perfect sense to me. I have never eaten Chicken or Lamb but I know I would not like it if i did. Not just because we used to keep Chickens in the back garden when I was young or anything like that - I just know I would’nt like the taste!
I am better than I used to be. My wife also insists that when we met and I was living on my own I was fuelled on Peanut Butter sandwiches. This is not true, as I was mostly fuelled on overtime pay, sexual urges, cheap beer and cigarettes.
I suppose the moral of this posting is this: If you do have a child who is a fussy eater, unless you want to bind them to a chair and force food down them there is’nt a great deal you can do. Just be calm, patient, understanding and it’ll all come good in the end. They ain’t gonna let themselves starve.
Then again, there was that story about the child who just ate Rice Krispies four times a day for seven years - and lived! What were his parents thinking?
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The littlest…
Todays meaningless fact is…..
A Bum is a homeless person who does not work and does not travel.
A Tramp is a homeless person who does not work but does travel.
A Hobo is a homeless person who does work and does travel.
Just thought i would clear that one up for you all.
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iPod Nano
Those tefal heads over at Apple have done it again! Delivering us two new products on the same day!
The new iPod Nano is the replacement for the Ipod Mini and comes in the usual flavours of 2 and 4gb. With a color screen and physical dimensions that resemble some sort of a scifi nano chip thing it looks amazing!
They also announced a new iTunes mobile phone in association with Motorola. It can only hold 100 songs at a time (1GB) but I expect this is too little too late for them in the mobile market.
What amazes me most is that there have been no internet leaks about the iPod Nano at all when there are usually plenty of sites crawling up Apples butt to get the latest information!
Me Want one!
And i bet BigFootCookie does too!
EDIT: iTunes version 5 is out too! Must do a clean up on my music folders before i download it!
EDIT2: Looks like every fecker is getting iTunes5… i’m on a 2 meg line and am getting 11kb a sec! What the freaks that all about?
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Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.