Something Interesting

Early in the summer we discussed ways of making money on the Internet in a post incorrectly titled Saving Money on the Internet (save buckets).

Prompted by the anticipated boom in sales that begins at the start of a new school year, building to a shopping frenzy as Christmas approaches, a recent news report from savebuckets.com highlighted how much we can all save when shopping online.

In this post we can look at ways to save money when preparing to go to college. September sees not only the return to school and the need for new uniforms and stationery but also students leaving home for college who will be looking to spend much of their grant on

• Books
• Beer
• Laptops
• Clothes

Medical students will have the added expense of choosing a stethoscope, many extra text book and a considerable higher beer budget.

Price comparison sites such as www.savebuckets.com can help you save money - for example the medical student searching for a Littmann Stethoscope finds a wide range of prices - the same Littmann Classic II stethoscope was available between £58.69 and £44.18 - it soon becomes apparent that a little online research before making purchases would quickly save a whole load of money.

And students should remember “all work and no play makes a dull boy/girl” so click away from sites like savebuckets and explore opportunities to persue leisure interests (other than beer) and again with just a little research great online deals can be had for experience days or getting the latest games consoles to enjoy with family and friends.

Ultimately most students are hoping to be better qualified when they submit their cv to online uk job sites and begin to repay the overspending that going to college required for success and happiness.

As the new term approaches we wish all new students the very best of luck AND the very VERY best of online shopping to save money indeed “savebuckets”.

Q: What do you get if you put two Dave’s together?

 A: Double Dave

Announcing the new double act to hit the virtual cabaret scene - Double Dave.

One of the worst jobs uk cabaret acts have to do is think of their stage name. Hot on the tail of other double acts such as Cock & Bull, Tit and Tat and the now retired Bacon & Eggs these two Daves decided to join up and pay tribute to legendary Chirpy Cockney Knees Up Geezers Chas and Dave.

Dave on the left with unkempt hair lists his hobbies as listening to the shipping forecast especially if there is a slow rising in Dogger.

Dave to the right fails to conceal his passion for handbags he can be seen here sporting the latest “man bag” from Paul Smith.

“It started as a joke really” explaind Dave “We missed going to see Chas and Dave when they played Exeter Barnfield Theatre in April - there was supposed to be a company “outing” but this turned out to be an empty promise.  By the time we found out no group booking had been made it was too late - the show had sold out.”

“Egged on by colleagues we trawled youtube for our favourites and figured we could rattle off a quick one ourselves - first we perfected Gertcha! and soon graduated to repeating the word rabbit over and over > rabbit > rabbit > rabbit > rabbit > rabbit > rabbit > rabbit > rabbit

“To be honest I’m more of a luxury food hamper man than pie ‘n’ mash, jellied eels and whelks but as they say in show business ‘ you have to suffer for your fart’”

Yes, that’s right, a sequel to the iconic Tron is being made, and a little teaser trailer has popped up on the web.

Tbh i wasn’t expecting much from a re-make of Tron. The film was only gathered such notoriety in the 80’s because it used state of the art computer graphics (which look very dated now). But watching the new trailer for the second film i couldn’t help but feel a little excited. Obviously the first film made more of an impression on me then i first thought, and with the inclusion of the light bikes (god knows what they are really called) from the first one the trailer brought all the fun memories flooding back.

I am now looking forward to the new Tron film. The question is, will the younger audience who have grown up on playstations and xbox’s enjoy it too?? Only time will tell i guess.

This extrodinary video of Posh Totty Zara Phillips enjoying the spectacle of her horse sneezing a gallon of nasal discharge over a young chap trying it on with her reminded us of previous Royal exploits that have brought the Royal family in to the limelight.

First up - Harry the Hun - the Prince of Wales’s youngest son photographed enjoying a drink and a cigarette while dressed as a member of Rommel’s Afrika Korps, complete with a prominent swastika armband. Further comments and articles about Prince Harry becoming an embarassment

At a recent Buckingham Palace Garden Party held to celebrate 6o years of Land Rover and elder member of the Royal Family was overheard saying “they stay over there, stealing our jobs” when asked for his comment about the prospect that the Freelander production may transfer to Asia.

The high point of the celebrations was the handing over of keys for the 60 Land Rovers donated to the British Red Cross to deploy in both the UK and abroad. Interestingly Zara failed to attend this event - although her relationship with the all terrain manufacturer is wekll documented - indeed it is claimed that she was the very first Royal to recieve direct payment for advertising the Freelander when the model was re-launched in 2006.

And who can forget the hilarious “Its A Royal Knockout”? A one off charity event that followed the format of great british telly It’s a Knockout. The contestants including celebrities of the time and many members of the Royal Family competed in ridiculous and somewhat humiliating games; for example in one round they dress up as giant vegetables and throw fake hams at each other.

Carrying on from the last post here on money saving i thought i would help those out there looking for cheaper fuel.

We all know that recently fuel prices have been increasing almost weekly, and finding the cheapest place to fill up locally is changing too. I have found a useful little site that has a continually updating database of huge selection of garages, supermarkets etc around the country, and using your postcode it will search for the cheapest fuel in your area.

The site is called  Petrolprices.com and requires you to sign up. but in turn gives you an email every week with the cheapest fuel prices near you.

With the credit crunch in full swing people are looking for new ways to make and save money. There are plenty of different sites online that can be used to save you money on all sorts of things, and other sites that can make you a few quid too.

• Voucher sites: Voucher sites can be used to save you money on all sorts of things when purchaced online, including top high street store like Comet, Next, John Lewis and even Tesco.
• Survey site: There are sites out there that pay you money to fill in online surveys, these site are easy to use but take some time to set up. Well worth the effort if you spend time on your computer in the evenings anyway. I use PureFile as I have read about several fake survey sites that don’t pay out.
• Squidoo: Squidoo is a social networking site where you make ‘lenses’ about a topic you know about and depending on who visits is and what is clicked on you can earn money. This is very hit and miss, and i’d have thought most of the interesting money making topics will have been covered to death already.
• Google Adsense: Google Adsense is for people who run websites (or even blogs) and are basicly the sponsored listings. When a link is clicked Google get money from the website the link goes to, and in return you get a fraction of that money. If you have a website this is a great way to cover the cost of your hosting (as long as you have traffic coming to your site) and can make you some extra cash if your site/blog is popular enough.

There are many more ways to gain some extra income online, but i will have to leave those for another blog post.

’nuff said.

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Checking over at Pasty Muncher’s blog post Crap Jobs in which he spilled the beans about the experience of trying to earn a bit on the side whilst working for a Mystery Shopping company set me to thinking about the work I do and how it could be improved.

Many online recruitment and job sites runs various features under the general heading of Jobseeker Tips - offering career advice, interview tips etc and some of the points made on this article about corporate culture reminds us that all companies have a culture - either by design or that it simply evolved. It continues to warn that when you join an organisation, you are “effectively joining a cult”

But what about when the company you work for is taken over merged and you are swallowed integrated into a new corporate culture?

It’s too late to pose the questions suggested to see if you are a good match - does what drive you drive the people in the organisation you work for?

• What are your ambitions?
• Where do your ambitions come from?
• What really motivates you?
• What are your career values?
• Where exactly do you want to be in one/five years?
• What core career beliefs do you operate by?

A professional recruiter claims that over ninety percent of people can’t say what really drives them. Responses to questions about short and long term goals are often influenced by friends, family or peers.

Sad but true the most cited reason people offer for doing the jobs they do is our dear friend - luvley jubbly - filthy dirty cash. For all the pompous guff human resources and career advice practitioners spout most of us look for the vacancies that offer more cash better perks - the corporate culture is overlooked

…with other geeks, watching youTube, finding out stuff, playing games and getting ’social’ are just some of the things you can do with a bit of broadband. Much better than a 56k modem, simply because of the increased use of media on the web these days. Static web pages are pretty much a thing of the past (about 1998, to be precise), streaming audio and video are now the order of the day, therefore a no nonsense broadband connection is necessary. If you rummage around you might be able to find a deal that gets you cheap telephone calls, and maybe even the Men and Motors channel on the box.

Please remember: without broadband, World of Warcraft would end, leading to some people wondering why they don’t wield a sword and ride a white unicorn anymore. A bit like when the Cat from Red Dwarf realises that he’s actually Dwayne Dibley. We don’t want to put them through that ordeal, do we?

I’m digging around for a current account at the moment as my present bank isn’t covering itself with glory. Haven’t made my mind up yet, but I might go for this account.