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Business Cards with QR Code Arrived :D

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So the guys over @ About.me (Social Network Landing Page) linked up with the guys from Moo (online printing company) to offer a pretty cool deal. You can design your own business cards for free; you just have to pay for the shipping which turns out to be a few dollars for fifty. Now the cool part is adding a QR code that actually links to your about.me page e.g About.me/OliverJonCross. I decided design the card the same as my about me page so they know they’ve arrived at the correct the site. I’m glad the QR code actually pointed to the correct address, the last thing I needed was a business card that said “It’s About Me” and pointed to some website about maintaining your own Llama farm. Now you can change the details on the website without having to change your business card. Not that I’m a fan of tattoos but I wonder if anyone has had a QR code done? Ahhh yes, nice but give it a few years there will be something new, the page is no longer hosted or your skin is to wrinkly to scan :

http://2d-code.co.uk/qr-code-tattoo/

 

Other than that, a new job and trying hard to push more internet traffic with another site and playing around with  Google CPC and other non fun related stuff.

Few Pictures From Saturday

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I will be adding a lot more to www.ClassicCarLink.com later this week but wanted to upload just a few of some of the cars that were using the sun screens on the day. I’ve done a few events for poker where we’ve given away free gear but this is the first time I’ve done it for something personal. It’s come a long way but there is still a long way to go. We have some left over so we will probably take them up to Marbella later this month. Anyway I got stuff to do today so here they are (I haven’t bothered to reisize them, them the close button is in the bottom right after they expand):

More Good and Bad

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Well it was around this time last year when I found myself looking for work, hopefully this time I can find something a little sooner. It’s the not working that drives me crazy the most. This time I’ve kept myself a little more occupied, tomorrow there is a classic car event in Gibraltar and a few weeks ago I created my first vector file which has been placed on 150 sun screens, see below (Click for larger view):

So I know it’s been a while but I will be updating my blog and the www.ClassicCarLink.com with all the photos tomorrow.

Testing New FB Send Button Code

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I just want to see what it looks like when you a someone presses the new FB send button from a users perspective. I assume it provides a small bit of text and URL which can be sent to a specific group of friends?

 

K lets find out:

 

 

Ok that’s pretty sweet, basically allows you to send articles and promotions to specific friends without spamming your own wall. Also it only appears to the receiver feed but not on the receivers wall, which makes sense.

Surprisingly Quiet Weekend 4 Me But Not 4 CCL

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I actually had a quiet weekend and not been out, but come Sunday I see www.ClassicCarLink.com got a small mention on the Guardian website  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/). The Guardian is another well known newspaper in the UK. So now we’ve been mentioned in two different big news groups in the UK. I’ve never been good with marketing so not sure where we are supposed to take it next. Interestingly again the site has been referred to “Cars Reunited” a name we never gave it:

Cars reunited

When Laurie Cross’s dad decided he wanted to track down all the past cars he’d owned in his life, Laurie saw an opportunity to let the internet do the work. Along with his brother, the three of them have now set created classiccarlink.com. It’s a sort of Friends Reunited for much-loved vehicles. If they can bring enough people together, then they’ll be able to build a site through which past and present owners can share stories and photographs. The site has only been running for a month or two and currently has just over 300 members, but already they’ve managed to reunite one fellow with his old cars after 45 years. Sign up and see whatever happened to that Austin Healey you wished you’d never sold.

Got my birthday coming up next next week, well actually not really considering the 29th of February doesn’t come this year but still going to celebrate on the 28th =D

So Loving Disqus

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A few months back I saw Disqus appearing on more and more blogs, after a bit of reasearch I found out it was a new commenting plugin for various platforms. In the past I never bothered commenting on a article due to the fact I wasn’t coming back to see if anyone had replied to my opinion. Well the beauty of Disqus is you have a profile which you can login to and you get emailed if anyone responds, like so:

http://www.disqus.com/oliverjoncross/

Then you can have fun like this:

http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/02/16/mozilla-internet-explorer-9-isnt-a-%E2%80%98modern%E2%80%99-browser/#comment-148607798

Makes commenting on articles so more interesting and active.

& This is Why I Fking <3 The Internets

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So about a week ago I was playing with my new phone a “Samsung Galaxy S” and I wanted to upgrade it to a custom operating version but I hate reading distructions (instructions). So I was pretty much convinced I Bricked my phone, a common reference to describe that your phone is about as much use as a common house brick. It was dead for about 2 days however after posting on a well known forum, one guy decided to go out of his way to help me fix my phone. So I salute you “Goots”, not everyone on the internet is a troll. I’m actually running the custom ROM darky’s with the Gingerbread launcher now and the phone is super fast. I would like to say I like being a geek but this recent episode proves I have a problem with learning the basics.

http://samsunggalaxysforums.com/showthread.php/4010-(Can-t-Boot)-Robotic-Voice-Partition-Error

On another note things still going good, just had a friend over for a week which was really good fun. Little tired just having problems sleeping at the moment.

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January is Full of Win

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So it’s ending the first month of January in a brand new year and although I’m not supposed to care that its 2011 I do kind of feel happy to actually start on a good note. A few weeks back I wrote to the Sunday Mirror (English Newspaper) and I honestly didn’t expect a response. In fact it was on the Thursday that Dougie asked did I get a response. I said of course not they aren’t interested in a small site like ours. However on Saturday I woke up and my Dad had left me a load of missed calls. Quentin Willison a famous British TV and motoring expert had signed up to www.ClassicCarLink.com. At this point I was ecstatic, I knew if he signed up he must have liked the concept. Not only that, I told my Dad we can now probably expect an article in the news paper tomorrow. My Dad didn’t believe me because at this point I still hadn’t received a reply from the news paper (I never did get a official response but I did get a nice personal response from Quentin after sending him an email to thank him for his support). Well the next day I had completely forgot and got another phone call from my Dad asking me to help because the site was under attack. I was like, oh please no, not on a Sunday I’ve still hurting from being out far to late on Saturday. Anyway I got to the laptop and see we picked up about a hundred signups. I phoned my Dad back and said are these all fake? Nope we are in the news paper:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/advice/motoring/quentin-willson/2011/01/23/website-reunites-drivers-with-old-motors-115875-22867865/

I’ve never had an article other than the ones I used to write for a few online poker sites. I got to say I was so happy, well still am tbh. Also some other good things; one of my best friends growing up is arriving on Thursday and I’ve haven’t seen her in about ten years. Also I spoke to a very old friend today called Jaan Ehlvest who I think is coming to Gibraltar to play in a chess tournament later this week. Me and Jaan met in Curacao when playing poker one night and he also invited me and my girlfriend at the time to meet all the other grand masters. It was a real honour. If every month going forward can stay like this I couldn’t ask for much more. Checked the stats for my blog recently and good to see back up to a few hundred a day again and the last one although quite sad, I only play the Xbox on the weekends now but I have a clan of top players called team “OWN”. We’ve been playing with another clan called “TAC” and I just convinced them this weekend to join us as I want to be the number one clan on Bad Company 2. It’s sounds sad but there are few million players so I guess it’s actually pretty cool if we can get known. I think we are up to roughly 30 or so players now. Well bed time, I only wish I could change the weather so cold at wet at the moment.

:| + 1000 > :)

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I was very happy to see the photo’s on www.ClassicCarLink.com pass the 1k mark. We originally uploaded around 125-127 photos & on top of that we are up to 170+ users. I didn’t expect to see such a quick increase in traffic and content. Hmm also been learning all the quick keys for PS and getting a lot faster @ making small changes. I only wish I spent more time learning CSS, it took me a long time to write some basic changes to the site.

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