January is Full of Win

January 24, 2011 | Filed under eDrinker

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.

Yes Now This is My Type of Humour

January 20, 2011 | Filed under Videos

In basic he asks the clairvoyant if he can see the future, he replies yes. Hmmm I guess not.

Ordering Food With Elmo

January 17, 2011 | Filed under Videos

Elmo wants a lemonade.

Talk About Fail @ Failing

January 17, 2011 | Filed under Videos

This video actually made my stomach hurt I laughed so much.

Crowd Helps Girl Finish National Anthem

January 17, 2011 | Filed under Videos

It’s been ages since I posted some videos, I watched a few tonight and thought I’d post.

:| + 1000 > :)

January 17, 2011 | Filed under eDrinker

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.

WTF Form Spring

January 15, 2011 | Filed under eDrinker

So there is the new upcoming site where you can add a quick widget or button to your site to allow your users to ask you questions. So here is the random shit I got in the last three days:

If you could have a super power, what would it be?

That guy that can stretch

What’s the oldest piece of clothing you still own and wear?

To bad to post here on my site

What was the worst movie you’ve ever seen?

2 Girls one Cup

What was the worst place you’ve traveled to?

Liverpool

Do you believe in life after death?

Can you snowboard?

Fuck No

On another note; “Life is way to short to make it complicated”.

+1 For Random Emails, -10,000 For Insanity Loss

January 10, 2011 | Filed under Emails

Got another email today, blatently not for me. I’m pretty sure it was for Mr Coss. I didn’t sleep well last night and lets say either I have lost it or I just need an early night.

Hello Matt,

Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner, unfortunately I’ve been busy for the last two days. So although this doesn’t really answer your question, have you ever wanted to know what a happy hamster, wearing a sombrero and get this……Smoking a cigar looks like? Well look no further I made one, sweeeeet!

What was the question again?

Oliver

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Good Morning

I have been contacted by my colleagues at York branch to let me know you have some boxes for collection from your recent move, I will have a van in the area on Wednesday which could be diverted to collect from you.

Please let me know if you are available for our crew to collect from you.

Kind Regards,

Matt Bxxxx

Operations Assistant

T: xxxxx xxxxxx

F: xxxxx xxxxxx

Exeter

Bishop House, Kestrel xxx,

Sowton Ind. Estate, Exxxxx, Exx xxx

First Phone Posting

January 5, 2011 | Filed under eDrinker

So this is my first article from my phone and trust me when I say this thing doesnt have a spell or grammar checker. So I was reading the other day about an article for poker I wrote in 2006, basically it was about the US closing the doors on online gaming. I always wanted to delete that article because it actually got posted on a number of poker news sites. In basic I was asked by a load of guys from the chess community how this was going to affect the online gambling industry and my response was it wont. I believed one that NETeller would keep up as a payment provider and two no one would care (e.g. The big gambling companies). I thought they would continue business as usual and there would be a small drop off and lack of marketing due to the new regulations.

I was wrong about the big companies closing I guess a lot of them would be traveling to the States a lot and didnt want the hassle and fines. However I was only half wrong about the pament providers. Look at this way PayPal decided to not touch the gambling market so NETeller steps in and picks up the weight. NETeller decides to pull out so MoneyBookers steps up to the plate. Someone said to me last night that at this present moment in time payment providers are king and look what happened back in 2006 PokerStars and Full Tilt doubled if not trebbled in size out of it. I will go back and try and find my original article but this phone can be hard work, I guess no pictures of cats this time round unless it allows me to post fom my phone?

Why am I doing this from my phone? Well tomorrow is three kings (Spanish Xmas) in Spain and the busses to work are all messed up so I am stuck in a hotel up the coast for the night and possibly tomorrow. Although I was supposed to meet a girl tonight who let me down (might have something to do with not phoning her two months ago) I am here on my own so just having fun with phone. Well if you can call it fun.

*Went back and made some changes using my laptop, I know its cheating.

Original Article: http://www.professional-poker.com/columns/oliverjoncross/safe-port-break-down.htm

Fucking A just foud a WordPress App on the Android store. Ok so I cant work how to make that a clickable link but at least I got a photo up (No pics of cats, going to take one of that one that hangs around the chinese at luch times). Sad maybe but at least I learned something and the night isnt a complete waste. Got a message today from a guy I used to work with and saying that another from an old friend in Bournemouth last week. Both basicaly said they read the blog. Thanks, do the shit that makes you happy.

Caturday, Nope it’s Sunday

January 2, 2011 | Filed under eDrinker Videos

Just like everyone else, it took me a good day just to get over Friday nights drinking. Well early to bed last night, actually that’s a lie as I didn’t get off the Xbox from about 13:30 yesterday till 4:30am this morning. Anyway might as well make a use of the Sunday. First task was to tidy up the forum on www.ClassicCarLink.com. If I’ve learned anything in the last few weeks; it’s you can’t assume that people know how your site works. We put up a number of examples but instead of posting their own threads the users were commenting in existing threads. Now we’ve removed any examples and created the owners original thread discussions. Ok what am I going on about is really boring shit, basically we had clubs as well where users can find areas of interests such as specific car models and makes rather than everyone talking @ once. Once I created a few clubs within the first ten minutes a user signed up to MG Club and started posting specific questions.

You can’t assume people are using your website correctly which is why you really need to understand your Google Analytics. I’ve been following the top entry pages, bounce rates and exit pages. We worked out users spent more time on the pictures page so we put a flash player on the front page which rotates all the new content. We noticed people were bouncing off the Clubs page because either one they didn’t understand it or two because there was no content. After adding content there has already been an influx of traffic to those pages. Also what’s quite strange is we found a small pocket of followers in Belgium but there are no traffic sources to suggest a forum or email link. I assume it’s being discussed at an event and it’s already spreading throughout the country. It might only be small numbers at the moment but it’s all reassuring that people want to talk about it. Again this is probably pretty boring for anyone that came across this article by accident but over the last four years I’ve used my blog as a good source to remember what I’ve done, whats worked, not worked or what’s just been fun.

One thing I regret that I was thinking about on 00:01 New Years day was I’ve never took any photos of any of the places I’ve been. I have about five photos on my Face Book profile, I need to work on recording 2011 better. If you have a iPhone check out this www.Path.com, it allows you record and save ten seconds of your life in small videos and share with friends and family. It’s actually quite cool.

Oh last one, if you have a bar code scanner app, check this out:

It’s a new site called www.JumpScan.com which allows users to create a mini social profile with links to your other sites by scanning the code above with your mobile. I love all this new technology.

Oh I added another tutorial: