Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Easy Chocolate Dessert

  1. MELT THE CHOCOLATE
    Line 1kg loaf tin with cling film. Melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, then add the butter and stir until smooth. Remove from the heat and let it cool. Or microwave for 2 mins on high , then stir in the butter until smooth.
  2. WHIP THE CREAM
    Whisk the whipping cream until thick. Gradually stir into the cooled chocolate.
  3. LAYER IN THE TIN
    Dip a few of the biscuits in the sherry then lay them in the tin, top with a layer of chocolate and then repeat the layers finishing with a layer of biscuits on top. Dip the biscuits in the sherry as you use them so they dont get too wet and disintegrate. Cover the tin with foil. place a weight on top and put in the fridge and leave for at least 4 hours or overnight.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Superfast Crunchu Fish Pie

  1. Heat the oven to fan 170c/conventional 190c/gas5. Put the fish into a large pie dish, sprinkle over the peas, add the Philadelphia and gently mix everything together.
  2. Toss the bread cubes in the melted butter. Scatter them over the pie filling and sprinkle with cheddar cheese. Bake for 45 mins until the topping is crisp.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Wellbeing on the web: the top 50 health sites - Health - Times Online

Wellbeing on the web: the top 50 health sites - Health - Times Online


Good for learning English, also very good as a quick reference in case you have something wrong.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

watch TV at your PC

watch TV at your PC is not actually a new thing, as you can easlier to get a TV card install at your PC, job DONE!!

However, things becomes more challenging now, we want better access and good quality.

Therefore, new options come avaiable for you now.

First of all, Slingbox which you can watch TV wherever you are with Internet connection. Good!

The other two options is only for those dont affort to buy a new Digital TV. What I said "digital TV", because both of these options support digital funtion, like fast forward, reward etc. The use wireless connection to transmit TV data.

1. Showcenter 200 from Pinnaclesys

2. MediaMVP from Hauppauge

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Amazon.co.uk Filler Item Finder

Amazon.co.uk Filler Item Finder

This is another business opptunity.

Kris Brower uses his IT skill to set up this website and other similar websites that search the filler item for shopper to qualify the free delivery.

Like Amazon, you need 15pounds to qualify a free delivery, if you need any 2.58 to reach 15pounds, come here, it will give you idea.

Also, the link to Amazon is a affiliate link that Kris will get % of your shopping.

Very good.

Solar Charger

Scotty Solar Charger (Phone, Camera, GPS, PDA...)

This mobile phone charger can charge its own internal batteries or power an attached device in bright sunlight, so it's good substitue for mains power. It comes with mobile phone adaptors for several phones.

mySupermarket - The comparison site that saves you money at your supermarket

mySupermarket - The comparison site that saves you money at your supermarket

This is the latest supermarket comparsion site. Unlike others just list out the offer from different supermaket, this site does provide you very the best picture of the products, also very focus on the online shopping facility.

I doubt that, like Tesco offer its own "check the price" service, and this site does not give out detailed offers, how good is their service?

Anyway, the product pictures is very great that for other usage.

Free Secure Online Storage?Xdrive

Free Secure Online Storage?Xdrive

Far back to many many years ago, I am enjoying using this xdrive service, and all of sudden, it becames to charge us money. I had to drop it.

Now it comes back again under AOL's brand, with its free account, you will get 5GB space for storage, which is very good.

Also, it provide you a little tool that intergate with your window, you can easily manage your xdrive on the window interface, without opening the IE and loging........

I like it very much....... but still not sign up yet. Because I am using thinkfree service, providing online docs and spreadsheet editing service with 1GB space.

I like it as well.

Sunday, November 05, 2006

PayPerPost :: Get Paid for Blogging, Blog Advertising, Advertise on Blogs

PayPerPost :: Get Paid for Blogging, Blog Advertising, Advertise on Blogs

How important of blog nowadays?

Very important, because numbers of the blog would actually increase the brand awareness, particular when people search on Google.

Therefore, some brand owerners make the treats, and the agency helps them as well. Like this company links all the parties together, ask the blogger to write things for the brand, obviously it is about good thing.

It reminds me that my master project, product placement.

Great Media company

I always have great passion about media. I am very enjoy the show like xfactor, wife swap etc. The I think who is the company behind it, it called "talkback", I think lots of their programme actually have great quality and good potential to sell.

First thing come up to my mind was I need to buy some of Talkback's share, if it is listed in London market.

However, it is owned by another media company "TalkbackThames is the UK part of FremantleMedia"


Then I went to see FremantleMedia, it own by RTLGroup, a very big media company in Europe, to my surprise, it owned by a very famous multi-media company Bertelsmann.

And Bertelsmann is not listed in London, it is a German company!

How complex it is!

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Sell your home for a one off payment of fifty nine pounds with ClickSell

Sell your home for a one off payment of fifty nine pounds with ClickSell

looking for a property like right4move.co.uk is very popular. However, they only advertise from the agent. But this time, we can seel house directly, using this website.

However, it seems that the selling does not need to compile to any regulation at all.

Similar wesbites are:
www.naea.co.uk
www.buyitprivately.com
www.homesell.co.uk
www.houseweb.com
www.mousesale.co.uk

Good luck

Greek Oliver oil dressing

Last week, I had a very healthy lunch, all of them are just pepper, cucumber, and celely.

However, the veg are very dry, I need some dressing. Usually, I will add some vinger, but this time I have something from marks and spencer. That's Greek olive oil dressing with lemon juice & mint.

They coming from:

sunflower oil, white wine vinegar, lemon juice, sugar, dijon mustard, garlic, salt, oregano, mint, parsley, cracked black pepper.

Then I bought some dijon mustard from Tesco. I think I can make my own dressing by using some garlic, lemon juice, and oliver oil.

Good Luck

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Beef Watch

I like eating steak, but not all the time. The only good shop I know for good steak are:
Beef eater, the Angus steak house and some good pub.

However, I saw this article on The London paper which is very good, but I dont think put a beef into a bun is a good idea though.

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Putting beef back in the bun by Humayun Hussain, Wednesday 11 October 2006 15:00

There was a time when eating a burger was either a guilty pleasure or something you did late at night after a skinful.

After all, who would willingly bite into a burger served in grim cafes with formica-topped tables without a strong drink inside them?

Wimpy was eclipsed in the 1970s by the arrival of the American giants McDonald’s and Burger King. But while their products were marginally more palatable, they were arguably no better for you.

These days a new breed of burger joint is boasting patties made with meat from animals “naturally reared, grass fed and free range”.

Beef isn’t just beef, it’s “100 per cent beef” that has either been “hung” or “aged”.

The range of choice has ?increased, too. You can get burgers made of barn-reared chicken, chorizo sausage, or even citrus marinated halloumi.

Sides will include “hand-cut” chips rather than the ubiquitous fries. Salads may well feature vine ripened ?tomatoes and roasted red peppers. To drink, there’s the choice of smoothies and imported beers.

Even Gordon Ramsay’s Boxwood Caf??, in Knightsbridge, does a veal and foie gras burger with parmesan, cos lettuce and chips for a whopping ??22.50.

McDonald’s may have invested ?140 million in a modernisation drive this year, to launch new colour schemes and furniture ?including “Big Brother” style chairs. Still, the hottest names for gourmet-style burgers in London are Hach??, Hamburger Union, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Fine Burger Company and Ultimate Burger.

Berry Casey, managing ?director of Hach?? in Camden, says his establishment is based on the burger concept, but run along the lines of a restaurant.

“The burger is just like any other food,” he says. “It’s there to be enjoyed. Customers should be able to sit down and eat the burger in their own time.

“In most burger joints, the moment queues start building up, you get harassed-looking staff behind the counter getting all robotic, shouting at their colleagues and smiling even less.”

At Hach??, the burger patty is made from 100 per cent Aberdeen Angus beef from the same London butcher that supplies the Queen. It is served in a 5in ciabatta bun.

Its most popular burger is the Steak Canadian, which comes with sweet-cure bacon and mature cheddar cheese, costing ?7.95.

At Hamburger Union, which has four branches in and around Central London, not only do the gourmet-style burgers come in “single” and “double size”, each one of its ten or so burgers comes ?“protein style”, which means there is no bun. Instead, the burger is served between lettuce leaves.

“Public tastes are much more discerning now,” says Hamburger Union’s proprietor, Hugh Fowler. “With ?concerns over the BSE and foot-and-mouth outbreaks of recent years, people want to know where the beef comes from. But they also want greater choice, quality ingredients and more imaginative flavours in burgers.”

The bun for Hamburger Union’s burgers, which start at ?3.95, is made by Portuguese bakers while the menu declares that the chips are “proper chips, never frozen”.

Casey states that the burger is such a simple and wholesome food concept that it will always be popular.

“Burgers are now a part of the staple British diet, but what’s important is that the ingredients are healthy and made from top-end produce. This is why places like mine and others are proving so popular in London.”

Beef watch
Hach??24 Inverness Street NW1 7HJ Tel: 020 7485 9100
hacheburgers.com

Hamburger Union4-6 Garrick Street WC2E 9BH Tel: 020 7379 0412

hamburgerunion.com

Gourmet Burger Kitchen44 Northcote Road SW11 1NZ Tel: 020 7228 3309
gbkinfo.com

Fine Burger Company 330 Upper Street N1 2XQTel: 020 7359 3026
fineburger.co.uk

Ultimate Burger 34 New Oxford Street WC1A 1AP Tel: 020 7436 6641
ultimateburger.co.uk

Monday, October 02, 2006

China on SeekingAlpha

Site of the day = = 2-Oct

China on SeekingAlpha
http://china.seekingalpha.com

It is very amazing that such English news website has such good resource and in-depth news (mainly financial and stock market related). It provides lots links with RSS feed as well, very useful if you would like to keep in touch with the most powerful economic country.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Tynesoft Business Services

Site of the day === 01-Oct
Tynesoft Business Services
www.direct-mailing.co.uk

I just got a mail shot last week, on the envelope, it prints this web site. I went there to have a look, it is a company provides direct mail service. You can use your own data, they do the fuilment, or you hire their direct marketing data.

However, on the market, Yell and Thomason local sell business data as well.

I am thinking to target Indian takeaway/restraunt first of all.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

share dealing

Recently, someone asked me about the benefit of buying share or use this as long term investment. He asked how's the benefit apart from the long term captical grown.

I think, being a shareholder, company should more or less give away some sweet to their investors(people put their money into their company business).

I found those two website is very helpful

http://www.sharecrazy.com/resources/perks.html
http://www.hargreaveslansdown.co.uk/siteredesign/online_guides/shareholder_perks/

When I was reading this, I found one good share "British Airway", although it had been hit since 9/11 and recently terror plot. However, and surprisely, its share grew more than the index.


Also, if you hold 200 share by Nov each year, they will send you five vouchers. Each vouchers enable you 10% discount off the published (includes "world offer") price for the following year.

Information sheet from their website.

More info:
http://www.bashareholders.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=69499&p=irol-shareholdersfaq#12763

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Politician and liar

Nowadays, no one trusts a word what politicians said. I deeply understand what this means when I come over to the UK.....until very recently.

Tony Blair had fail to fulfill his election promise, but he never wants to leave.. such as a 恋栈权位.

If a PM keeps telling us lies, that it would be two situations:

1. like the hungrary PM, people trun out the street for a riot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5359546.stm

2. like the Thai PM, it would be coup by the military.

Such a "lucky" day, we have two examples happen on the same day...

Monday, September 18, 2006

在伦敦地铁卖艺

刚来英国的时候,觉得在地铁卖艺是一件容易的事情,其实不是:

Busking on the Tube was illegal until London Underground began allowing musicians to perform in stations in 2003. Would-be performers have to fill in an application form and pass an audition.

Waiting lists are up to six months long, but 80 per cent of those who apply are granted licences.

Licensed buskers phone the organisers every other Tuesday to reserve two-hour slots at the pitches of their choice for the following fortnight.

They are allowed three slots a week in the most popular places such as Leicester Square station, and a maximum of six hours a day in total.

Busking websites

www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/arts/busking: Transport for London information about getting a licence to busk on the Underground

www.livemusicforum.co.uk: A campaign group to review the laws restricting live music in England and Wales, which make it easier for buskers to do their thing

List of busking competitions across Britain

Further details are available at www.vocalist.org.uk/gigs_busking.html

Licensing information for street art is at
ww.artscouncil.org.uk/publications/

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

7 Days in September

以下是Google video 发给我的其中一个RSS文章.昨天是9/11事件的五周年,这个是一个美国的导演制作的一小时短片,是采访不同的市民大众.


From: A Googler
Posted At: Friday, September 08, 2006 8:43 PM
Posted To: GoogleBlog
Conversation: Official Google Blog
Subject: 7 Days in September



A while ago, New York filmmaker Steve Rosenbaum produced 7 Days in September which tells the story of a week -- September 11-18, 2001 -- with the help of many filmmakers and a multitude of perspectives. As Rosenbaum notes, "Those seven days are full of fear, anger, pain, loss, and a deep sense of community," adding that 7 Days "isn't meant to be an answer, but rather a sounding board that may help people to ask deeply personal questions." We're honored to share it with you on Google Video.

Read more

Monday, September 11, 2006

再谈黑鬼

我之前曾经讨论过有关在英国黑鬼的问题。其实我并不是种族歧视,但是很多事实都主导者偏偏又是黑鬼。

但是上个星期,我的一个很好的同事离开了公司,大家都很舍不得他,然而他又是黑鬼。

他为人很好,虽然已经40多岁了还是保持着青春的活力,经常和我开玩笑。而且在公司工作了有六年了,认识了很多在不同部门工作的人,人缘特好。

我在想究竟是什么因素让我们对黑鬼有偏见呢?

这里我收集了香港电台的一分钟阅读的其中一端,《小心偏见》

按这里下载

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Tesco online shop coupon

Just received these two coupons today:

1. 1000 extra point when spend ?75 online: XXD4G2, expires 29-Oct-2006
2. 100 extra point for any groceries shopping: XXTRLM expires 29-Oct-2006

Please feel free to use...

Friday, September 08, 2006

Homebrew Shop

Homebrew Shop

一直以来都以为英国人不喜欢在家酿酒,只是喜欢在超级市场里买.我问过很多朋友,说为什么你们那么喜欢喝红酒,何不自己家酿呢?

我想原因有好几个:
1.酿红酒的工艺很复杂,不是每个人都能handle的.而且不同地方的葡萄都有不同的风味.不象米酒,基本都一样.
2.英国人根本就没有这个习惯.

但是居然还有这样一个网站介绍在家酿酒的工具,但是作为一个购物网站,居然没有产品的图片.?

很落后啊!!

Thursday, September 07, 2006

练口语,赚英镑

这样的工作简直就是好,自己制定工作的时间,赚英镑...哈哈哈!

其实就是一些聊天热线,人家打10p一分钟的电话进来和你聊天(当然要迎合顾客的需要拉....),然后你和电话公司分帐.

有两家公司:

1. www.exceltelemedia.co.uk
就是纯粹聊天.

2. www.4dtelecom.co.uk
这个公司经营sky的873/874频道,你要自己制定短信发到电视上,然后吸引观众打电话进来...(坐班制,11pm到7am)

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Go to work by Thames - River Commuting

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River commuting by Julia Buckley, Tuesday 5 September 2006 16:00

Fed up with spending half an hour or so each day in a packed and stuffy Tube carriage with your nose inches from someone’s armpit? Then commuting by boat could be the thing for you.

The craft that ply the Thames are no Greek island-hopping rust-buckets. Instead, you travel to work courtesy of a flotilla of privately owned, designer-draped pleasure boats with names such as Hurricane, Sun, Moon and The Viscount ? boats so swish that people hire them by the hour.

They’re not slow either ? a journey from the Savoy Pier (between Temple and Embankment) to Canary Wharf takes 23 minutes in Thames Clippers’ 32mph flagship, Hurricane, while the same route via the Underground takes 19 minutes.

And who wouldn’t sacrifice four minutes for the privilege of arriving in a machine such as Hurricane, adorned with Damien Hirst decoration? It runs from central London to Canary Wharf and on to Woolwich on weekday evenings at peak hours.

During busy Thames Clipper periods, you’ll be met by the Sun and Moon clippers. At 32 metres long, they are the big daddies of the fleet, and capable of carrying 138 passengers. They run from the Savoy Pier to Canary Wharf and Woolwich.

Putney-dwellers can try Thames Executive Charters’ John Harriot, a 24-seater with a mahogany-lined saloon which runs from Putney to Blackfriars via Chelsea Harbour, Cadogan Pier and Embankment. Two other TEC boats ply the Putney route.

With Thames Clippers claiming on-time stats of 98 per cent, you have to ask: “What’s the catch?” The only restrictions are route ? if you don’t live on the river, it won’t help you ? and price. Boats don’t come under the Oyster umbrella ? although being an Oyster-holder gets you a one-third discount ? and a commute from the Savoy Pier to Canary Wharf with Thames Clippers costs ?4.85 return (?7.30 without a travelcard).

TEC has Putney-Blackfriars tickets for ?11 standard return, and Chelsea to Embankment is ?8 return.

Then there is the frequency of service ? Thames Clippers runs boats every 30 minutes (every 15 minutes between 8.30 and 9.30am) and TEC services range from 15 to 45 minutes apart.

Add the fact that you could be chugging a cappuccino on your morning journey and a beer on your return, and you quickly realise why river commuting is increasing by 50 per cent year on year.

Fast facts

More than 700,000 Londoners a year commute by boat with Thames Clippers and Thames Executive Charters ? companies working for Transport for London

Passengers can take bikes on board or leave them in cycle racks at most piers

At every pier, a tracking system tells you when the next boat is due

Stringent passenger limits mean that you might not be allowed on if boats are full, but the boat companies insist this is a rare occurrence

All boats guarantee you a seat and all boats have toilets

River commuters have been increasing by 40-50 per cent year on year. In the wake of the 7/7 bombings, they went up by 80 per cent

Contacts:

www.tfl.gov.uk/river
(020 7941 2400)
www.thamesclippers.com
(0870 781 5049)
www.thamesexecutivecharters.com
(01342 322440)

Monday, August 28, 2006

Tube Hotels

Tube Hotels - hotels near London Underground stations

最近有一个很hot的话题,就是web 2.0了.我看了这个网站就得它可能不是web2.0的应用,只不过是Google Map 的API应用罢了.但是它确有很强的生命力.

我记得很久以前,有人在香港特意出了一本书介绍不同地铁站附近的厕所,这个有异曲同工的味道!

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Desert Idea: - Peach and Amaretti Semifreddo

What's Amaretti biscuit?
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Server:10
Preparation: 20mins
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  • 90g amaretti biscuits
  • 250g mascarpone cheese
  • 80g icing sugar
  • 2 X 284ml tubs low-fact crea, lightly whipped
  • 2 large ripe peaches, peeled, stoned and cut in to eight slices
  • Clear honey, to serve
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  1. Line a 2lb loaf tin with clingfilm. Put 30g of the amarettei biscuits into a plastic bag and bash with a rolling pin until finely crushed. Arrange the crushed biscuits over the bottom of the loaf tin.
  2. Beat together the mascarpone and icing sugar. Fold in the cream. Add on third of the cream mixture on top of the araretti biscuits in the tin then arrange four peach slices on top. Roughtly crush the reamaining biscuits and scatter halif in between the peach slices.
  3. Cover with another third of the cream mixture (making sure there are no gaps), the remaining peach slices and the rest of the crushed biscuits in between. Cover with the last of the cream mixture.
  4. Cover with clingfilm and freeze until firm. Remove from the freezer 20 mins before serving. Cut into slices to serve. Dizzle with clear honey!!!

Weetabix breakfast idea for it website

以下是我从http://www.theweetabixweek.co.uk的到的资讯,它建议我每天都用它的产品来作早餐,不过不知道它的盐含量多不多???

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The Weetabix Week makes it easy to have a healthy, nutritious breakfast showing you an inspiring collections of tasty, simple serving suggestions to help keep breakfast interesting. Here is the full list of recipes we have pulled together, but if you have your own favourite click here and let us know what it is.

  • 2 Weetabix, hot milk and chocolate dusting
  • 2 Weetabix, hot milk, cinnamon and raisins
  • 2 Weetabix, jam and low fat spread
  • 2 Weetabix, milk and Alpen sprinkling
  • 2 Weetabix, milk and fruit face (dried fruit, apricots, strawberry and sliced banana)
  • 2 Weetabix, milk with kiwi, mango and melon
  • 2 Weetabix, milk, apples and raisins
  • 2 Weetabix, milk, Greek yoghurt (0% fat) and chopped walnuts
  • 2 Weetabix, milk, Greek yoghurt and honey (not suitable for under 1)
  • 2 Weetabix, milk, natural yoghurt (0%) fat and raspberry compote
  • 2 Weetabix, milk, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries
  • 2 Weetabix, milk, sliced banana and toasted flaked almonds
  • 2 Weetabix, milk, vanilla yoghurt, semi dried apricots and raisins
  • 2 Weetabix, fruit smoothie
  • 2 Weetabix, strawberry pouring yoghurt and sliced strawberries.

The 14 Best Foods Ever

This week, I read the article on Mens Fitness that suggest there're 14 best food ever for us health:

  1. Carrots
  2. Mackerel
  3. Garlic
  4. Oats
  5. Bananas
  6. Kiwi
  7. Blueberries
  8. Tomatoes
  9. Broccoli
  10. Walnuts
  11. Watercress
  12. Quinoa (这个究竟是什么东东?)
  13. Chicken
  14. Oliver Oil

Bullying Online The UK's #1 Bullying Resource

Bullying Online The UK's #1 Bullying Resource

Bulling is a cruetly, and very effect the way child grows up. I think this website very help purpils, and parents to gain information about how to prevent it.

Check it out....

ASDA Healthy Living

ASDA Healthy Living - Welcome!

我其实都看过不少超级市场的健康网站,但是我觉得这个可以很棒!特别是有很多factfeet,而且每个月都有superfood of the month!

芽菜鸡肉沙拉

Cooked Chicken, cucumbers, red pepper, spring onion, carrot, lemon, sesame oil and soy source.

芽茶不合适我们作为沙拉,我回想其用烧鸡的肉,加上garlic应该很好吃。

Cool Lunch Idea.....

黑鬼又如何?

阿姨经常说在英国我们要特别注意黑鬼和阿叉。因为黑鬼经常用假币,阿叉浑身都是奇怪的味!!

很多时候我都在想这是典型的种族歧视,我们不应该这样。回想新中国刚成立的时候谁和我们最亲?不是黑人的第三世界么?现在我们又在非洲推行能源外交,歧视都不是很好。

“愿望是美好的,但是现实是残酷的!”

我上星期五上班的时候,一台白色的货车从outside lane突然插了进来,幸亏我们的司机Chris的及时反应,才免至一场车祸的发生。Chris但是让货车停在一旁,车下来了一个黑鬼!而且态度十分恶劣。

哀!!!

再看The X Factors

上个星期录的The X Factors还没有看完,今天不用上班就在家里无聊的看着。看到一些参加海选的人苦苦地哀求评判,让他们通过。我在想人生失落的时候都很多,为什么总要求人了?不过就不过罢了!!!

但是,我又在想如果在这个节骨眼的时候,你没有尽力去争取的话,日后会后悔的。其实这个节目都举行了好几年了,在我的印象中又没有什么一个哀求就通过的,哀!!!

Friday, August 25, 2006

x factors

一年一度的The X Factors又开始了,如果不是我上个星期无聊的时候看到电视预告,而且我又用了sky by mobile来控制我的sky plus,我都没有那么好运录上这个节目。

上星期六的节目到今天才有时间来看。这个节目的海选阶段不单好笑而且又有很多温情的部分。

Thursday, August 24, 2006

面包店的推销

每天下班的时候都会经过这个维多利亚火车站(Victoria Station),每天的人流都有很多,因为Gatwick Express还有南部的货车交通都从这里出发,这样的一个平台对于很多商家来说是一个极好的推销平台.

今天就遇上了面包公司在做推销。开始的时候还以为有免费面包送,但是只有涂了牛油的一片面包试吃。。。唉!!!!

还是放弃了,因为吃了面包要刷牙,不划算.....

究竟我的这个Blog要写一些什么呢?

我开始写这个Blog已经有一段时间了,但是很多时候都没有focus。我想了很久,也看过不同人的blog,觉得就要有自己的特性。

首先我要将每天的所见所闻记录下来,何况我又有一个camera的手机。第二我现在没有了hot lunch,所以我要把我枯燥的午餐记录下来,因为我很馋嘴......

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

我们要坚决抵制iTune 和iPod

10 reasons why I’ll swap my iPod for a Zune

I was given an iPod as a birthday gift a couple of years ago. Immediately, I fell in love with it, and it revolutionised my listening habits. It looks good, it is easy to use, and my particular model stored 5,000 songs, about half of my CD-based music collection.

But my love affair quickly turned sour. Over time, I have experienced various problems with the iPod and iTunes, some of which are listed after the jump.

My iPod is theoretically full (well, it would be, had it not refused to upload 40% of my digital music catalogue), meaning that I need a new one with more storage space, but because of these issues I’m going to wait for Microsoft’s ‘Zune’. I don’t expect MS to fix everything, but I just can’t commit to investing in another overhyped, underperforming device from Apple, beautiful as they are.

So here are my top 10 issues with iPod and iTunes:

1. iTunes = TOO EXPENSIVE. You pay over the odds for albums that often cost way less on Amazon. So if you’re prepared to wait for a CD to arrive then do so, because you get some added extras like packaging and artwork, and hey, it’s a hard copy! Ok, iTunes is great when you just want one or two tunes, but you end up buying full albums. One Cocteau Twins ‘box set’ was being sold on iTunes for twice the price of the much nicer hard copy - ?35 vs ?18. Outrage!

2. iTunes = TOO SINGLE-MINDED. Variable pricing is needed, especially for the indie labels and the vintage material. Blame the greedhead record execs for this. I can’t come to terms with buying a new tune for the same sort of money that I pay for something that’s already made millions in profit for these swine. Or that the really weird only-me-and-three-others-will-buy-it-this-year song costs the same as some guff from Coldplay. But no, some obscure track costs the same as a new, uberpopular, 15-weeks-at-number-1 hit single.

3. iTunes = UNFORGIVING. It gives you the songs once, and no more, so you have to remember to make backups. You can’t download them again! And yes, I'm bitter, I forgot (procrastinated / relied on my iPod for backup). I just didn’t get to this in time and my rubbish Dell laptop died some months ago, leaving me 40% stuffed (see 6. for calculations). Like I said, buying a CD gives you a hard copy to begin with, so why bother with iTunes? iTunes suggests that you always backup downloads. Presumably you need to buy blank CDs to create ‘hard’ backups. Ridiculous, when you can just buy the CD to begin with, for less money.

4. iTunes = HORRIBLE USER EXPERIENCE. But it’s APPLE! Apple wins design awards! Jonathan Ives! Righty-ho. Well here it is: iTunes sucks, from a usability perspective. I may save my bitchin’ for a whole new post ? that’s how sucky it is. Clunky, heavy, image rich, slow, imprecise, poor search functionality, no watchlist. Why can’t I search by label? Why can’t I properly personalise iTunes? How come it doesn’t seem to remember which albums I have bought, when recommending me new material? I think Apple has missed a trick in this area.

5. iPod = CRASH. It’s gonna happen, happens all the time. I’ve stopped shuffling ‘All Songs’, because, like a blind alcoholic driving a bus with faulty brakes, that’s a guaranteed crash-in-waiting. Sometimes it will stick on one song, keep you waiting, then move to another, repeat several times, then play the opening of a song before giving up entirely. This forces you to perform a hard reset. Sometimes, a hard reset will put the iPod in a coma for days, before you see a miraculous recovery, like some kind of gift from the iPod Gods. And you, poor iPod user, remain none the wiser. The brave can opt for a factory reset, but then you need to re-upload all of your songs. Pain! Woe! Craaaash!

6. iPod = FALSE DAWN. Believe me, if you’re a music fan who hasn’t made the switch to digital music players then you don’t know what you’re missing. You will be amazed at how an iPod changes your listening behaviour. But then, it will Let You Down, as technology often does. Sometimes you are told that you MUST update your iPod, even if it is working perfectly, and sometimes this course of action results in Big Problems. Technology is never simple, is it? Figuring out how to make iTunes and iPods work when things go awry is not straightforward. I couldn’t get mine to speak to one another for a number of annoying weeks. When it finally did start talking it only uploaded about 60% of my music catalogue. And then my Dell laptop stopped working, so now I’ve lost 40% of my digital music collection.

7. iPod = UNETHICAL? Apple has been on the receiving end of accusations about using sweatshops in China (The Mail On Sunday pointed the finger last month). Sure, iPods look pretty cool, but would you feel comfortable paying ?300 for a device built by “workers, who work 15-hour days but are paid just $50 a month - miserable even by China's standards”?

8. iTunes = PROPRIETARY FILE FORMAT. A ghastly, lock-in strategy from Apple, which doesn’t realise that people don’t like this sort of thing. It will be interesting to see what Microsoft’s Zune offers, in terms of acceptable file formats. We do know that it is “planning to let you download for free any songs you've already bought from the iTunes Music Store”.

9. iPods = QUALITY ISSUES? Not according to VP of iPod Marketing Greg Joswiak, who says the iPod has a 5% first-year failure rate, compared with 30% for many mobile devices. But there have been many reports of breakages, of battery failures, of scratchy surfaces. And hey, 5% of the 8.1m iPods sold in the last three months is 405,000, which is a lot of broken devices.

10. iPod = NOT ZUNE! Yup, MS is going mano e mano with Apple, which currently dominates the digital music space with about 80% market share. This is almost certainly going to fall with the release of Zune, which we also expect will enlarge the overall market. Don’t bet against Microsoft, not when it is this serious. It is planning to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into the Zune rollout, and has a 5-year strategic plan. Serious Commitment. Look at how well MS has done in establishing the Xbox as a competitor to Sony’s PS2. At the time, many thought launching a console was folly. I’m highly likely to give Zune a whirl when it is launched. Especially if it is Wi-Fi-enabled. And, of course, for the 9 above reasons…

Thursday, August 17, 2006

this is so funny

Try a search for "online marketing strategy consultant" on Google - you get no results!

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Top five legal service sitw

We might or might not need it, but just in case for a reference:

Legal service shop

Advice Now

Law on the Web

Desktop Lawyer

The Law Society

Sunday, July 09, 2006

连以色列人也反对以色列无理占领


www.jfjfp.org:

Jews for Justice for Palestinians is a network of Jews who are British or live in Britain, practising and secular, Zionist and not. We oppose Israeli policies that undermine the livelihoods, human, civil and political rights of the Palestinian people.

What is Israel doing?
A call by Jews in Britain.

We watch with horror the collective punishment of the people of Gaza. Everything reasonable must be done to secure Corporal Gilad Shalit锟斤拷s safe release but nothing Israel is doing contributes to that aim. Instead, it is using its enormously superior military might to terrorise an entire people.

Destruction of the fragile Gaza infrastructure will not release Shalit. Bombing power stations and cutting off fuel supplies deprives people of electricity, refrigeration, pumped drinking water and sewage disposal services. It holds hostage hospital patients on life support systems, or undergoing dialysis. It brings the threat of epidemics and starvation.

As Gideon Levy wrote in the Israeli daily Ha锟斤拷aretz, this is 锟斤拷not only pointless, but锟斤拷 blatantly illegitimate锟斤拷. Gilad Shalit has become a pawn in the Israeli government锟斤拷s ongoing battle to topple the democratically-elected government of the Palestinians.

Presenting this as an isolated hostage-taking incident ignores Israel锟斤拷s regular snatching of Palestinians from their homes. Thousands are held in 锟斤拷administrative detention锟斤拷 without trial, women and children amongst them. A doctor and his brother 锟?C civilians 锟?C were kidnapped from their home in Al Shouka, near Rafah, the day before Corporal Shalit was captured. Like him, they need to be returned to their families in the established practice of prisoner exchange. And all elected MPs, punitively imprisoned by Israel in recent days, must be immediately released.

For the US and its allies merely to call for 锟斤拷restraint锟斤拷 is desperately inadequate 锟?C and evidently ineffective. This is a situation that requires determined action by the international community.

Support those Israelis protesting against their government锟斤拷s destructive actions.

Write to your MP to demand that the British Government act to achieve an immediate ceasefire.

Write to the Israeli embassy. Make them understand their actions are wrong, their explanations unconvincing.

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Saturday, July 01, 2006

Shopping in London - the market scene

There are too many markets in London, like to wholesale veg/fruit market in west London, wholesale seafood market near stradford.

But most of the tourists would visit those first of all:

l Spitalfields Market (liverpool st)
http://www.visitspitalfields.com/

l Greenwich Market (Cutty Sark DLR/Greenwich)
http://www.greenwichmarket.net/

l Borough Market (London Bridge)
http://www.boroughmarket.org.uk/

l Farmer���s Market
http://www.lfm.org.uk/

l Portobello Market (Notting Hill Gate)
http://www.portobelloroad.co.uk/

l Camden Market (Camden Town)
http://www.camdenlockmarket.com/

Shopping in London

Reading this weeks��� TNT Magazine (http://www.tntmagazin.co.uk/), I found something very interesting that would benefit someone wants to visit London for shopping.

A List of shopping area in London.

l Convert Garden (Covent Garden),
Trendy clothing and shoes, handmade goods and ree street theatre

l East End (Shoreditch/liverpool St)
Unusual accessories and gifts

l Tottenham Court Road (Tottenham Court Road / Goodge St)
Gadgets and electrical goodies

l Marylebone High Street (Bond St / Baker St)
Classy clothing and delish chow

l Kensington High Street (High street Kensington)
Big chain clothing and bargains

l Oxford Street (Oxford Circus / Bond st)
Top Shop threads, fashionable streetwear and home furnshings

l Kinghtsbridge and Kings Road (Knightsbridge / Sloane Square)
Harrods souvenirs and super stylish (and pricey) shoes

Friday, June 30, 2006

FW: A letter from Eric Schmidt, CEO

I received this as one of the Google blog RSS feed. I feel that:
1. US is too big to control all the major tech of the world.
2. Our life is more and more rely on Internet, we should have a way to protect our privacy.
3. Internet is ours, not US potilitians....


From: Inside AdSense Team
Posted At: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:06 PM
Posted To: Inside AdSense
Conversation: Inside AdSense
Subject: A letter from Eric Schmidt, CEO

Freedom of access to information on the Internet is a topic that we believe is of great interest and importance to Inside AdSense readers. Our CEO Eric Schmidt has written a letter to you, our publishers, on the subject of "net neutrality" -- read below for the full text:

Dear AdSense Publisher,

There's a debate heating up in Washington, DC on something called "net neutrality" ��� and the outcome of this debate may very well impact your business. Therefore, we are taking the unprecedented steps of calling your attention to this looming crisis and asking you to get involved.

Sometime in the next few days, the House of Representatives is going to vote on a bill that would fundamentally alter the Internet. That bill would give the big phone and cable companies the power to choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet.

Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody ��� no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional ��� has equal access to everyone else. On the Internet, a business doesn't need the network's permission to communicate with a customer or deploy an innovative new service. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all broadband Internet access, want the power to choose who gets onto the high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build tollbooths to block the on-ramps for those whom they don't want to compete with and who can't pay this new Internet tax. Money and monopoly, not ideas and independence, will be the currency of their Internet.

Under the proposed "pay-to-play" system, small- and medium-sized businesses will be placed at an automatic disadvantage to their larger competitors. Those who cannot afford the new Internet tax ��� or who want to compete directly with the phone and cable companies ��� will be marginalized by slower Internet access that will inevitably make their sites less accessible, and therefore less appealing.

Creativity, innovation and a free and open marketplace are all at stake in this fight. Imagine an Internet in which your access to customers is constrained by your ability to cut a deal with the carriers. Please call your representative in Congress at 202-224-3121. For more information on the issue, and more ways to make your voice be heard, visit www.ItsOurNet.org.

Thank you for your time, your concern and your support.

Eric Schmidt
CEO of Google Inc.

P.S. -- If you are unsure of who represents you in Congress, you can look them up by zip code at http://www.house.gov. And if you would like to stay informed about this issue, and other policy issues affecting Google, you can opt-in to our policy mailing list at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/googlepolicy/subscribe (powered by Google Groups).



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Deer in the colleague's front garden

Here is the pic from my colleague, that he found out there was a deer in from of his front garden.




Sunday, June 25, 2006

Weather Bonk - weather on Google map

Google provides API facility for almost all of their product, but I was not sure what's for!!!

Now, this is a good idea to see what's for then....

http://www.weatherbonk.com/weather/index.jsp

odeo - home of podcast

Odeo Studio

I always want to setup my own podcast, although my voice does not very attractive.

This site provide very good instruction and stroage that podcast just a click to go..........

TNT Magazine,free online guide

TNT Magazine, jobs, flats, flights for the UK

Here they provide you loads of interesting pdf for your to download. Honestly speaking, they do cover loads of area.

However, they also do it for email capture.

Saturday, June 17, 2006

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

GuideStar UK | Database of UK charities

we sometime worry about how our charity use our money. This site provides a database that you can search to check their budget usage.

"http://www.guidestar.org.uk/"

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

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Saturday, May 06, 2006

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Sunday, April 16, 2006

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1.Had you tried some mortgage brokers, because they can search more wider markets than your own bank. Brokers have two types, one is fee charge, and the other is fee free. try this one if you wish, http://www.lcplc.co.uk they are fee free, and offer search of whole market.
2. I am not sure whether you get the citizenship or not, if not, just bear in mind that some leanders do not lend money to WP holder or not citizenship, but some yes.
3. You can also go to this site to check the history and the planning permission of any house you want to check, only 2pounds per search, worth. They will give you the value of the last transcation, might be good when you offer back the price.

http://www.landregisteronline.gov.uk/

4. Here is a forum for discuss moneysaving, go to check, you might find something interesing:

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

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January 30, 2006

Say it with flowers, but only if it won't cost you the EarthBy Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor
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AS THE nation prepares to fork out millions of pounds on flowers for Valentine���s Day, consumers are being asked to think hard about what part of the world the blooms in their bouquet come from.

Many shoppers are already conscious of ���food miles��� when it comes to buying strawberries from Florida during the winter, but campaigners say that people do not think about the distances involved ��� and the effect on the environment ��� in bringing blooms to Britain. Yet millions of roses and carnations arrive each year from Colombia, a distance of more than 5,000 miles, and Kenya (more than 4,000 miles), which are then packed with green leaves from Costa Rica or Israel.

Millions of chrysanthemums, tulips, freesias and irises also come from the Netherlands ��� only 221 miles away, but still too far for campaigners who want them to be grown in Britain. They also want compulsory country-of-origin labelling on mixed bouquets and bunches.

The market for cut flowers and bedding plants is worth 拢1.5 billion a year in Britain ��� 拢40 million for Valentine���s Day alone ��� an increase of one third since 2000. This is thanks largely to supermarkets, which have made flowers an affordable luxury.

Norman Baker, environmental spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, has begun to draw attention to the perils of ���flower miles��� after learning from official statistics that from 2001-04 the volume of cut flowers from Kenya alone had increased from 10,000 tonnes to nearly 17,000 tonnes. In 2004 importing Kenyan flowers produced more than 30,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Similar figures for every country have not been collated by the Government or the horticultural industry. But the impact of flower miles on climate change is thought to be huge.
Mr Baker said: ���When people buy flowers they don���t think they might be contributing to carbon dioxide emissions. In a free market we can���t stop the flowers coming in, but there should be labelling of flowers with the country of origin and a role in educating the public to recognise the problems and to respond to it. I want consumers to choose flowers that cause minimum damage to the environment.���
Mr Baker also called for growers in Britain to supply more flowers to the domestic market.
Jim Floor, managing director of World Flowers of Hook and Basingstoke, which makes up a million mixed bouquets per week for the main supermarkets, said that costs were too high for growers. ���Energy costs for growers have trebled in the past year and we are having to spend three times as much on gas and electricity for lighting as our rivals in the Netherlands, where the industry is subsidised.���

The campaign to persuade consumers to think ���flower miles��� has already won the backing of Friends of the Earth. Vicki Hird, a senior campaigner for the organisation, said: ���The growth of cut flowers from abroad is a seriously worrying trend, and there is just too much at stake in terms of climate change and other environmental problems to allow it to continue to grow.

���We would be in favour of country-of-origin labelling on flowers and a proper costing of the environmental impacts. The Government should step in because it is getting out of control.���
The British Retail Consortium, which represents leading supermarkets, was also keen to play a part in highlighting the issue of flower miles. A spokeswoman said that while there was no legal requirement to do so many companies were already putting labels on flowers. ���If there was sufficient demand from some customers for more detailed information, retailers would consider this.���

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