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Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 12:20 am on 12/06/2013
Tags: adverts, , clarkson, comedy, CV, david hasselhoff, , google, jim carrey, , , rowan atkinson, , tab, top gear, , , , william shatner   

Comedy and Fun

So for the past few hours I’ve been on a bit of a comedy buzz. No reason, i just like it. It’s obviously funny. So far I’ve watched some clips of Top Gear. Always funny. Them idiots, especially Clarkson. What else? I’ve seen the roasting of David Hasselhoff. That was funny. Just celebrities abusing each other basically. There’s a William Shatner one i wanna watch. Now I’m watching Jim Carrey live in 1991. Hilarious. And i don’t mean that sarcastically. It really is. With his rubber face. Oh man, classic. Now time for some Rowan Atkinson

Also, Tracey had been here for a couple of weeks up until a few days ago. We had an amazing time. It was a lot of fun. Lots of games, lots of films, mainly the Karate Kid films, lots of sex. Bit of shopping. Lots of pizza. I’m definitely going to move in with her.  I just need to arrange an international mover. I wanna get out of here as soon as possible and move in with my perfect partner.

Today and yesterday I went on a short course to help with making a professional looking CV. (That’s a resume to you Americans). It was pretty interesting. But it could have been made a lot shorter (the course, not my CV. That needs to be longer). It was really stretched out. He could have just just gave us a booklet and that’s it. But he had to make us work in groups didn’t he. I hate that. But it did have a bit of useful information. There was good funny people there that made it better. I’m still unemployed by the way

My phone fell off the bed the other day and i pulled it up by the USB cable because it was charging off my laptop and my laptop was close. I think pulling it up by the cable may have damaged the phone or the cable. Why does this always happen to me? The next phone I get won’t be charged by micro USB. It’s just too easy to damage. I want some larger, stronger proprietary connection, like what the Galaxy Note 2 and Asus Transformer has. I’m getting very annoyed at the reliability of the Galaxy Note.

Oh, one more quick thing. Google sent me something saying if i spend £25 within a month on advertising, they’d give me another £75. So I spent £25 in about a week. And they gave me the £75. So now I’m getting quite a bit more views on my blog and YouTube. Oh my God, I’ve just realised I have over 9000 views, i can finally say “IT’S OVER 9000!!!!”, and it’d be true. I don’t like advertising. But I’m glad I’m paying a bit to have adverts show my stuff. It’s earned me a good few views. Thanks Google. Always been a big fan. Employ me. Woah, who said that?

Anyway that’s all for now. I’m getting in bed before i get attacked by moths. Toodles

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 2:11 pm on 23/02/2012
Tags: advertising, adwords, £75, blogspot, , carphone, google, , , 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 1:40 pm on 22/11/2011
Tags: 1300+, , , empty, google, new, sites, template, ,   

My New Website

I would just like to announce that i have created (in a loose sense) a website. By that i mean i have used sites.google.com to create a template for my website. You can find it at https://sites.google.com/site/mikipediaspot/home. It is pretty empty since it’s brand new, but it does have a theme, some pages and some pictures. I think i’ve done quite well for about an hour’s work though. I’ll add more stuff soon.

Oh and since i did my last blog post on 14th November, my blog has hit 1300+ views. All them views and not even many comments. Post a comment if you’re going to read it, so i get a better idea how many people are reading.

So go check out my website!

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 12:52 pm on 21/09/2011
Tags: , dead island, google, , , keyboard, , , , ,   

Back Stabbed

Someone i love dearly has recently backstabbed me. That is technology. More specifically, my android phone that i love so much, my beautiful Google Nexus S, has recently had trouble charging. I’ve tried several leads and they all don’t seem to work too good. However, the normal wall charger seems to work fine, although that’s no use when i’m at work. So i took it back to where i got it, the Carphone Warehouse. The hot foreign blonde girl took it into the back for a few minutes, came back and said they need to send it off to the manufacturer. Which would take about 4 weeks. Yep, 4 WEEKS. What the fuck takes them 4 weeks?!

Anyways, i’ve had to resort to using my other android phone, my HTC Hero, which i use a bit anyway, and my even older phone, the Nokia N95. Not touch screen. Retro. I’ve also been having trouble with the Hero. The screen isn’t very good anymore. And when it’s a touch screen phone, that ins’t good. especially when you try to use the touch screen keyboard. The main problem seems to be the L on the keyboard, i can’t directly touch it. I have to touch the K and slide over to the L. Also, occasionally it randomly types letters or clicks things or zooms in/out of web pages. However, i have found a solution to the typing problem. A bluetooth keyboard. It never used to work but does now for some reason. Maybe they integrated into android 2.3.5 or they just put it into the custom rom i use. Good old Cyanogenmod.

Naturally my increased usage in my Nokia means i have to take a charger to work. It doesn’t charge over USB, luckily i have an old charger that plugs into the USB into a computer and the other end into the normal charging hole. That works fine.

One more thing that has failed me recently, in fact it;s failed a LOT of people, is Dead Island on PS3. I play it, it saves at checkpoints, i stop playing and play the next day or whatever, then when i go back, i’m back many missions earlier. and i played it for several hours one day, going through several missions, hoping there were like more major checkpoints it saves at, but no, i’m still back loads of missions. So i’m not playing it again until there’s an update.

And you all know about the PS3 backup that failed to restore properly (or back up properly), assuming you read that post. So yeah, technology hates me. AFTER ALL I’VE DONE FOR IT! ALL I’VE EVER DONE IS LOVE YOU!

I’m going to eat ice cream and watch The Notebook while i cry

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 3:33 pm on 05/09/2011
Tags: adblockers, , blogs, donations, google, , paypal,   

Realisation

OK, so I’ve thought of something. I have Google adsense. For those of you that don’t know what that is, it means I get paid for having ads on websites I have. So far, the last time checked, I hadn’t earned any money at all. And what I’ve realised is I think I need to make more blogs to get some cash. The more I make, the more it’ll get linked to from Google, which means I’ll get more readers, which means hopefully people well click on ads they see, which means I get my money.
Since I haven’t had any yet, I don’t know how much I’ll get. Probably not even that much. As well as people not actually liking ads, and ignoring then, there’s also something else that’s going to stop me getting monies. Adblockers. So people might not even see my ads if they have adblockers.
So if you have then enabled, disable them on this page. For me. Every little helps. Even though it’ll probably be just a few pence
On a related note, I’ll also accept donations via Paypal 😀 The email for that is micolps3@gmail.com. (except for Andrea)
Anyway I just wanted to get they off my chest. I started this blog at about 4pm and it’s now 5.45. Work has been very busy.
So see you all next time
Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 12:11 am on 13/08/2011
Tags: , , , , geek, google, , , me, , , playstation, , ,   

A Bit About Me

Ok, so for those of you that haven’t read my profile, here are a few things about me.

I… am Michael. Shocking right? I’m 26, I live in Birmingham, England. i do have the accent. I have a girlfriend. Her name is Tracey, she’s 31, from Ireland. I’ll tell you more about her in another post.

I currently work part time in a call centre in Birmingham city centre. It pays decent, but i want to work somewhere i actually enjoy. It’s not a bad place, but the work is quite repetitive.

I’m a geek. I like lots of computer and technology related things. You know i’m a geek when i’m the person people go to when they have problems with their computer. I’m also a linux user. I’m against Apple and Microsoft and i only use them when i have to. Like at work. I prefer to use free, open source software as opposed to buying stuff. No point if you can get it for free, right?

I’m also a gamer. Not just modern games. But old ones. I have some pretty old games consoles, the oldest is an Amiga 500. I also have an Amiga 1200, a Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast. And dome more modern ones like PS3, PSP… that’s all 😀

I also have 2 Android phones. a HTC Hero and a Google Nexus S. I also have an Android tablet, An Asus Transformer. With the dock. It’s awesome. They all are. Except the Hero.

anyway that’s enough geekiness from me. Have any questions, ask. Follow my blog. All that shiznit. I don’t remember if i told you my youtube account. I think so, but just in case i didn’t it’s http://www.youtube.com/user/micol19 and my Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/micol25.

That’s enough blabbering from me, see ya next time.