Posts Tagged as ‘internet’

November 13, 2008

Travelling – The Agony and Ecstasy

My dream
Is to fly
Over de rainbow
So high

No, actually that’s Yves La Rock’s dream (and my bloody nightmare as, in Egypt, they still think that this trick is new and interesting when everyone else stopped playing it six months ago).
My dream is that, one day, I will be able to find a [...]

October 17, 2008

How To Make A Really Irritating Website

Although I am currently earning my daily bread by selling real estate, I would say in answer to the question “what do I do” that I sell stuff off the Internet.  Today this is property; tomorrow it could be completely different.
So, although I might come over as a complete twat in these postings, I actually [...]

October 12, 2008

Fucking With A Scam Artist – Attempt 2.1

Well it’s been over 24 hours now since I responded to the scam artist saying that I was interested in receiving more information and I still haven’t received a response yet.
What kind of customer service is this?  I demand that someone tries to separate me and my money immediately.
Someone should tell these people that, on [...]

September 29, 2008

How To Make Money As A Shameless Writing Whore

Yesterday I promised to reveal the secret as to how anyone (well, within reason) can make money out of writing.  Since then, I had some second thoughts, thinking that I would be better off to keep my big mouth because I could sell these secrets for $19.95 instead.
Perhaps I will too, one day – when [...]

September 21, 2008

Stop the Social Networking Madness Now

OK, enough is enough.  If anyone else invites me to join another social networking site, I’m just going to tell them to go fuck themselves. It’s just getting completely out of control (not to mention completely bloody pointless).
Despite being a mid-ranking geek, I entered the world of social networking quite late.  It was probably in 2005 [...]

September 16, 2008

My New Friend – The Nigerian Scam Artist

It was at some point in the mid-Nineties, when my partner, Olda, and I were running a computer games importer in Prague that we got a letter from Nigeria.  We had never had a letter coming to us all the way from Nigeria before and so were rather curious.
Apparently, someone had gotten hold of several [...]