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Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 2:11 pm on 23/02/2012
Tags: advertising, adwords, £75, blogspot, , carphone, , , , warehouse,   

Google AdWords Monies and Another Broken Phone

So (notice how i start most of my posts with “so”?), this morning (actually this afternoon, but it feels like morning because i’ve already been to work and come back home by 12), I received a letter from a company you might know. This small company known as Google. Yeah, them. In it was an introduction to Google AdWords and a pretty decent £75 coupon. Unfortunately it can only be used for advertising in AdWords. I got excited when i saw it at first, then i thought “OK, don’t get your hopes up”.

But i got £75 for something, and who can’t get excited about that? It’s money i can use for something, not Monopoly money. So i set it all up. I set up text ads for my blogspot (the one you’re reading) and YouTube account. So hopefully you’ll be seeing ads for them occasionally. I’m hoping 25p a day is enough to get me some more views, subscribers, followers etc. That’d be coolios.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Guess what? No, go on, guess. Wrong, try again. Nope, one more try. Wrong again. My phone has broke AGAIN. So i took it back to the Carphone Warehouse to be repaired. It’s been a while, i can’t remember how long, let me get the whatsit… It went in the 14th and it;s now the… 24th? no, 23rd. I’ve been checking the website to track how it’s going. And i just checked now and they’ve fixed it and it’s being sent back to where i sent it in.

Carphone Warehouse Repair Tracker

So hopefully i’ll have it back over the weekend. So yeah, that’s all the news for now. Now i have 3 days off work.

Here’s a song to see us out…

 Lavly jubbly

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 7:00 pm on 27/01/2012
Tags: airport, aliens, crt, , fun, , , plane, scrubs, , , tv   

Visitor

Don’t worry, this post isn’t about me getting abducted by aliens. that’s for another post. Today (well, tonight), my hot missus Tracey is coming over for a few nights. I have the weekend off and i have today (Friday) and Monday booked off work so she can stay longer.

It’ll be the usual hot passionate sex and gaming and fun and frolics and whatnot. She’s currently at Dublin Airport waiting for her plane and i have to go get her soon. I’m watching Scrubs to pass the time.

Oh, I did buy her a TV but they delivered it to me instead of her again. Probably my fault again. It;s a bit big to take with her on the plane though and I’ve only just got paid so I’ll send it when she’s left. It’s going to cost a bit. I got her one because she has a retro CRT TV and i got her an HD one. I’m sure she’ll find it quite a lot better. I’ve seen how bad her TV is. It’s pretty bad.

Shush now, Big Bang Theory is on

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 4:34 pm on 19/01/2012
Tags: buses, centro Hotline, cunt, Darlaston, man, Mickey Mouse, moaning old lady, rude, travel west midlands   

Darlaston man

There’s a guy who regularly phones up at work and asks for buses between Darlaston and Wednesbury or Bilston or various areas around there.

He’s often very rude and says something like “I don’t want any Mickey Mouse services”, referring to buses that aren’t Travel West Midlands. He also tends to not want to wait for buses, which at that time in the evening, isn’t usually going to happen.

He sometimes complains that buses drive past him. Yeah, I’ll tell you why that is. They know you. They know how much of a cunt you are and how much you complain and how nothing in life satisfies you.

He’s also made complaints about the supervisor here, saying he was rude, which is ironic.

So Darlaston man. If you phone Centro Hotline to ask about buses, stop it. Nobody here wants to talk to you, you’re unnecessarily rude. You probably have no friends except ones that like to cause an equal amount of trouble as you. You’re a moaning old lady.

Have a good day.

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 6:15 pm on 18/01/2012
Tags: android 4.0, broadband, chroma key, cyanogenmod, green screen, html, , Kdenlive, , superhub, , video editing   

Fast. But not fast enough

So I upgraded my Internet today. I upgraded to 100mb/s. Or so they say. I got it today, with a huge “superhub” (which doesn’t work with my ps3 when wired up). I did a speed test and I have around 30meg. Although it did seem to be getting gradually faster as I tested it later.

We’ll see how it is when I get home. I should probably mention I’m at work. I think I’m getting toothache.
And oh yeah, I installed a decent android 4.0 rom on my phone. It’s no cyanogenmod 9, but it’s pretty good.

There was something else i was going to say. What was it? Oh, when I get paid, I want to get a green screen cloth. I’ve had this weird urge to do video editing using chroma key (the technical term for the green screen effect). They’re weirdly cheaper than blue screens which are like twice as much. Although it’s been a challenge finding video editing software that I can use and doesn’t crash. Kdenlive seems the best.

The android app seems to put weird html symbols on my post every time the screen turns off or I leave the app, so I better finish. Tally ho old chap

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 2:55 pm on 13/01/2012
Tags: arial, atom, blatantly ignoring, , car, , fast, pictures, , readers, stats, why do i bother   

Pictures

Well hello there.

I’ve noticed something about my blog stats. The most popular of my blogs have pictures. So i’m going to try to put pictures on all or most of my blog posts. at least loosely related to what i’m talking about.

I’m also aiming to do about one post every week or so. Although to be fair, it has been 2 weeks since my last one. I do what i can though.

I think that’s pretty much all i wanted to talk about for now. If anyone wants to know, i currently have about 2440 views on my blog.

Oh, one more thing. I want as many readers as possible to comment on here and tell me where they found out about my blog. That’s all. It isn’t a lot to ask. Everyone seems to be blatantly ignoring what i ask though, so i don’t know why i bother really.

So here’s a fast car for you. It’s an Arial Atom. It’s very fast and light. And i want it:

Super Sexy Arial Atom

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 2:04 pm on 01/01/2012
Tags: , bundle, desura, , humble, indie, , platform, resolution, screen, steam,   

Desura and The Humble Indie bundle

Now you may know how much i support open source and indie programs and such. So let me tell you about something else i use. There’s a gaming platform (like Steam) for Linux (and Winblows). It’s free to download of course, and you are able to download some free and buyable games (is buyable a word?). There are quite a few games available for it, some of which i have (mainly free ones of course). My desura profile is micolps3.

Also, you may have also heard of a set of indie games called the Humble Indie Bundle. It’s a set of multi platform games where you get to choose how much you pay for them. You can pay anything from 5c to probably infinity. The average is about $5.30 if I remember right. I paid about $7.50. There’s some really brilliant and weird games included. I’d tell you, but I want you to find out for yourself.

I believe the website for that is Humble Indie Bundle.

On a not very related side note, I did a cool thing with my android phone. I changed the pixels per inch of the screen and increased the resolution of it, so I can fit more on. I could make it a lot more detailed, but at higher resolutions, the status bar goes dodgy. But it’s at a nice decent resolution now. Naturally your phone would need to be rooted for that.

So that’s enough nonsense for today. Oh, and happy new year. Toodles

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 1:05 pm on 28/12/2011
Tags: , , , barcode, , , , , ,   

Android App

I have just created my first Android app using a website called http://www.appsgeyser.com/. It simply puts a mobile website into an app form. That’s what i used to create an app that links someone to this blog. I am now researching into submitting it to the Android market.

So if you want to keep up to date without opening the quite frankly not very good Android browser (unless you have a custom ROM), then get the app.

If you want to download it now, get a barcode scanning app and scan this bad boy:

Or direct download here

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 1:01 pm on 21/12/2011
Tags: boxing, bus, christian, , day, debt, god, grinch, jesus, kids, , presents, public, religion, science, transport   

Christmas

It’s that time of year again. The time of year where everyone is willing to pay loads of money on presents for (usually ungrateful) people, gets themselves in debt for 10 months, then has to do it all over again for next Christmas.

Now, i don’t like Christmas. I’ll tell you why. As my best friend Andrea, and my girlfriend Tracey, and probably a few other people know, i don’t like people buying me things. I like to get things myself. However, I do like to buy people things occasionally. Although i don’t like it forced on me every year like Christmas does.

Also, Christmas is for Christians. Which I’m not. I’m atheist. I don’t believe in any god or “superior”, omnipotent being, or Jesus. I believe in science. Hard evidence. The only time Christmas isn’t for Christians is when its for kids. Christians and kids (and i suppose parents) are the only people who should celebrate the birth of Jesus. I’m not going to celebrate something i don’t believe in. That’s why i also don’t believe in converting to different religions. You aren’t going to start believing in a god you’ve never believed in before. If you believe in that god, you would have already been that religion. Am i right? HIGH FIVE! Don’t leave me hangin’, brah.

Christmas is just an ordinary day for me. If i get any presents (which i hope i don’t), i open them, then get back to what i do any other day, go on the computer or PS3 or whatever. The things I normally do. Christmas is nothing to me except a pain in the cornhole.

That’s without mentioning disruption to public transport. Where i work, we’re open every day except Christmas day. And i get to work by bus, which on Boxing day (26th December for those that don’t know) is at a reduced service, which can make it hard to get to work. should be easier now though, since our opening times have been reduced.

Anyway, think what you want about me. I don’t like Christmas. It just brings trouble and makes life harder.

Or maybe I’m just a grinch.

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 2:34 pm on 16/12/2011
Tags: 2000, ,   

Bicentennial

Congratulations. We have now surpassed 2000 views (2115 to be exact). We are well on the way to getting…

Yep i went there again. OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, well done on getting to over 2000 views. That’s it, just wanted to update you all on that. Toodles

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 2:54 pm on 13/12/2011
Tags: , beard, cop, , DC Universe, free, , gta 5, jumper, mental illness, mw3, myona.com, , shooting, update, violence, virginia tech   

GTA 5 "Responsible for Virginia Tech Shooting"?

Here’s what annoys me. There’s people, usually politicians and other such “powerful” people, who like to accuse games of making people go on violent rampages. A recent one was some guy going around Virginia Tech and shot and killed a cop then shot himself, which i hadn’t heard of until today.

I saw it posted on a Facebook fan page of Grand Theft Auto V (https://www.facebook.com/GrandTheftAutoV5). And today, it posted a link to it’s blog: http://grandtheftautov5.blogspot.com/2011/12/stupid-website-claims-mw3-bf3-and-gta–v.html, which is a post about GTA 5, MW3, and Battlefield 3 being accused by some website called myona.com of influencing the 22 year old dude that shot this cop.

Firstly, Modern Warfare 3 wasn’t even out at the time, and GTA 5 isn’t out now, and won’t be for a while. So apparently Battlefield 3 influenced him. So what he did was strategically and stealthily, go around the school, or whatever Virginia Tech is, and silently take out the cop. You know, like in a lot of modern games. He didn’t? Oh, so what it said was a load of old crap then? Yep.

In fact games VERY VERY rarely influence people in a negative way. How many copies of MW3 were sold? 6.5 million in the UK and US. In one day. So there’s millions of people who have played MW3 going around shooting people? No. There isn’t. Actually it’s more likely that games like that relive stress and let their violence out without harming anyone. Apart from camping cunts. So clearly, they don’t know what they’re talking about.

It also says on that website that the shooter’s “style of the killing is similar to the upcoming Rockstar’s title Grand Theft Auto V”. So apparently they’ve played the game. Because I’m pretty sure there’s only been one trailer out and it doesn’t show any gameplay. Even if they referred to GTA IV, there isn’t any point in the game, or MW3 of BF3, where anyone goes around a school and shoots a cop. although in GTA there is a lot of cop shooting. Maybe next time it should be a myona.com writer. OOH SCANDAL. Now I’ve just influenced people and they;ll go around killing news website writers.

Clearly whoever wrote that article (a Mr. Amir Ariff) was just after internet traffic (just like i am with this blog post). It has 363 comments on it. the next highest amount of comments on an article on that website is… 7. Most of the commenters are probably people from that GTA 5 blog page though.

It says in that article that the guy was “quiet”. In other words, he just kept it quiet that he was going to go crazy. He must have some mental illness. All i know is that it wasn’t the game. I’ve been playing games since i can remember and i turned out relatively OK. I’ve never shot anyone (that I’ve been caught for). Kidding.

So myona.com, you might want to think about what you put next time. And that’s the nice way of saying it.

On a lighter note, I was going to play DC Universe Online on PS3 since it became free to play. So i start it up, update. I expected that. What i didn’t expect was after the update it has to download data. 12GB of it. So far it’s been going for 50 minutes. and it’s done 15%. It’s going to take over 4 hours. So i’ll do something else. Maybe play some OnLive. Actually i recorded Jumper last night so i might watch that. Oh crap, i recorded it on my PS3, and my PS3 is kinda busy downloading 12GB of data for 4 hours. OK, different plan.

Oh yeah, and i’m also growing a beard. Anyway, i need to poo. Ciao!