A lot"s been happening lately, what with the bank holiday weekend and the weather"s been good for a change. Anyway our band (Creepey Cool) played in the Indian Queen Sun evening. My friends came down but the landlord wouldn"t let one of them in which was a bit unfair because he hadn"t done anything wrong either now or in the past. The crowd was ok but it wasn"t as good as last time as I hardly recognised anyone there. We were the very last to play but we didn"t have a bass player so I covered that on the keyboard which turned out very well.
Last Thursday, we went to the Standard newspaper to see if they"d do a piece on us {Creepey Cool) because we will soon be busking for cancer research. It"s actually being sponsored by Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart & Fender Guitars of all people. so the paper want to interview us in the town centre which is great publicity for a good cause and us.
On Bank holiday Mon it was another sunny day so I thought I would pop down to a car boot sale held at Somerfield car park. Anybody who knows me would know I like a bargain. First I came across a set of pristine Coca cola coasters & a Carlsberg ashtray for a quid each. I then bought 4 DVD"S for 50p each & 3 for five quid so that averaged out at a quid each. My biggest bargain though has to be the cassette tapes (remember those?) I was trying to decide which ones to choose but couldn"t make my mind up, so the man said I could have the whole lot for 4 pounds. I thought yeh but how will I carry them as there were over 200 so I said I"ll be back when I"d finished looking round. I went back and said ok & he said 3 quid will do & tipped the tapes into huge plastic bags which weighed a ton. When I got them home, I wasn"t disappointed as there were nearly 140 albums & 75 singles on tape and the great majority is decent stuff. I even had 8-10 of the albums on LP vinyl & cassette already. The music was mainly a few from the 60"s 70"s, more from the 80"s & 90"s and some more recent tracks on cassette singles/ep"s. There was very little rubbish which is very unusual for a job lot and the great thing is that I"ve found enough storage for them all.
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Wednesday 27 May 2009
Monday 11 May 2009
trials & tribulations - Google Success Kit is A SCAM
A few months ago I was looking at these work at home business ideas a. I"m sure many of you will have received loads of e-mails with these offers to make money online. There is one in particular that I"ll be naming and shaming today and its called Google Success Kit. What happened is that they offered the kit on CD for just $1.or 67p. I thought yep! this seemed like a great deal. It also seemed to be from Google who are obviously among the best known brand names on the Internet.
Trouble was, I completely forgot about it. It was only months later when I checked my bank statements that I was debted not only for this amount but about 8 quid (give or take a few pence) every month. On top of this, I was charged for so called identity Security for nearly 7 quid a month and if this wasn"t enough I was also charged for so called Fraud protection for about 3.40p a month. All of this seemed to be triggered by the initial $1 purchase of the kit which I incidentally never received.
I also realised that its nothing to do with the real Google after googling the kit and found that people have complained about exactly the same thing happening to them. I"ve now reported it to the F.B.I via their website. I"M also writing to BBC watchdog.
I"ve also found the 3 separate websites responsible for these illegal transactions courtesy of one of these other people. These are listed below:
www.quickcashsupport.com
www.fraudprotectionhelpdesk.com
www.idthefthelpdesk.com
There are also phone numbers which are free but only to those in the US and some people have had their money back from there but what about people outside the US?
I"ve reported it to my bank and if any of you have any ideas please comment below.
Click Here to visit the FBI website to report this type of fraud if you have no joy with the above
Trouble was, I completely forgot about it. It was only months later when I checked my bank statements that I was debted not only for this amount but about 8 quid (give or take a few pence) every month. On top of this, I was charged for so called identity Security for nearly 7 quid a month and if this wasn"t enough I was also charged for so called Fraud protection for about 3.40p a month. All of this seemed to be triggered by the initial $1 purchase of the kit which I incidentally never received.
I also realised that its nothing to do with the real Google after googling the kit and found that people have complained about exactly the same thing happening to them. I"ve now reported it to the F.B.I via their website. I"M also writing to BBC watchdog.
I"ve also found the 3 separate websites responsible for these illegal transactions courtesy of one of these other people. These are listed below:
www.quickcashsupport.com
www.fraudprotectionhelpdesk.com
www.idthefthelpdesk.com
There are also phone numbers which are free but only to those in the US and some people have had their money back from there but what about people outside the US?
I"ve reported it to my bank and if any of you have any ideas please comment below.
Click Here to visit the FBI website to report this type of fraud if you have no joy with the above
Friday 1 May 2009
What"s happening to the world? Now we have swine flu.
The title of this post brings me back to the comment I wrote in my profile page when I started this blog back in November last year. Yet it ha never been so relevant as it is today. First with the credit crunch and now with this swine flu outbreak. Confirmed cases are being reported from several continents throughout the world which have so far killed 160 people in Mexico and 1 in America.
Has anyone ever heard of swine flu before? I certainly haven"t. Will it be as bad as a Survivors type pandemic? (from the BBCTV series of the same name}. This is highly unlikely because, according to reports, the swine flu virus is easy to dissinfect. Even washing up liquid aparrently kills the virus if it"s used to wipe contaminated surfaces. The problem starts when humans catch it. Like ordinary colds or flu, it can be spread just by someone sneazing without a tissue. Face masks are being produced in their millions but according to TV doctor Dr. Hilary Jones, face masks only give limited protection. In a recent TV inteview he said that as you breathe into the mask, it becomes moist within a few hours making them porous which allows particles to get in. Only people such as health professionals who come into contact with lots of people will need to use them. -- more on this topic later:
Has anyone ever heard of swine flu before? I certainly haven"t. Will it be as bad as a Survivors type pandemic? (from the BBCTV series of the same name}. This is highly unlikely because, according to reports, the swine flu virus is easy to dissinfect. Even washing up liquid aparrently kills the virus if it"s used to wipe contaminated surfaces. The problem starts when humans catch it. Like ordinary colds or flu, it can be spread just by someone sneazing without a tissue. Face masks are being produced in their millions but according to TV doctor Dr. Hilary Jones, face masks only give limited protection. In a recent TV inteview he said that as you breathe into the mask, it becomes moist within a few hours making them porous which allows particles to get in. Only people such as health professionals who come into contact with lots of people will need to use them. -- more on this topic later:
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