Firestone by bluemonki on Zooomr

Stormy Clouds by bluemonki on Zooomr

Pop the Hood by bluemonki on Zooomr

Adonis Blue, Butterfly by bluemonki on Zooomr

Windswept by bluemonki on Zooomr

Rest Stop by bluemonki on Zooomr

Raindrops and Veins by bluemonki on Zooomr

Who falls for this crap?

But lets do a little thought experiment just for a second about a career orientated Nigerian Scammer.

Step 1
You start off by crafting a bizarrely worded, poorly spelt email with virtually indecipherable grammar which offers the recipient ridiculous returns for a small percentage investment whilst claiming to be some kind of royalty

One person falls for it, everyone else ignores it.

Step 2
You invest the money you’ve gotten from Step 1 to hire a native English speaker, who can not only spell, but also has a reasonable grasp of grammar, he’s not entirely sure where to put apostrophes but neither is anyone else. You craft another email, this one is much better spelt, makes sense, but still clings to the royalty aspect and once again offers massive returns for little investment.

20-30 people fall for it, nice!

Step 3
You invest the money you’re earned(?) in Step 2 into doing some market research to make your emails more believable. What do people really think they can invest in that aren’t scams? What sort of products do they buy? Another email is crafted, once again well spelt but this time it sounds plausible, virus checkers for sale, weight loss drugs, oil company investments promising less total money for the investment.

60% of people are fooled, you’re rolling in it

Step 4
You get some PR people in to give you a nice logo, a website, and even a real premises on the high street! They tell you that people don’t even need to know what they are buying you don’t even have to sell anything to them, they will just give you their money. So rather than send out emails you put up adverts in your premises, offering the smallest possible returns for peoples investments, 3.5%, 1% even 0.5%, and all this without even hinting about what they’re investing in!

Everyone is fooled, you’re dazed and confused, you’re so rich you could probably buy most small countries on a whim. How could people be this stupid? A few cocktails in some of the most expensive bars in Soho will probably take your mind off it.

Step 5
You call yourself HSBC

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6 Music can live on :)

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Like this:

http://api.zooomr.com/services/rest?method=zooomr.photos.getInfo&api_key=58f282b8da5154ef15d29d8a37cbb47c&photo_id=9140170&extras=geo

Small, or far away… by bluemonki on Zooomr

From the smallest of beginnings… by bluemonki on Zooomr

Wood on Water by bluemonki on Zooomr

Flowers on Red by bluemonki on Zooomr

Life in a ball by bluemonki on Zooomr

Forget me not by bluemonki on Zooomr

Blossom by bluemonki on Zooomr

Buzzards by bluemonki on Zooomr

Anyways…

If your area is like my area, for the month or so before an election, be it local, general or both, you constantly get little bits of paper through your door from various candidates. Which almost certainly constitute a really quick glance and then leap directly into the recycling bin.

That’s good, recycling is good.

Unfortunately when you actually arrive at the polling station to cast your vote 2 things happen:
* You forgot to actually commit to memory any of that bumpf that came through your door — no matter how ‘fact-free’ it was
* You now have a list of at least twice as many candidates as you previously thought existed — with no info about about 70% of them

SO, this year I’m trying to actually be ‘pro-active’. And to start I’ve done a bit of digging and managed to find the list of candidates for the local election in Southampton:

http://www.southampton.gov.uk/council-partners/elections/electionsmay2010.aspx

Also as a general make-your-mind-up tool I’ve been toying with: voteforpolicies.org.uk

Fins by bluemonki on Zooomr

Sucked In by bluemonki on Zooomr

Keys by bluemonki on Zooomr

Pointy Ball by bluemonki on Zooomr

When engineers get bored… by bluemonki on Zooomr

Equations in paper by bluemonki on Zooomr

Geometric by bluemonki on Zooomr

[http://www.love6music.com/]

Now we have [live streaming] from a DedicatedMicros DVR security camera system via [Justin.TV] using [Flash Media Encoder] (and the secret Dedicated MIcros MJPEG URL which looks something like this: http://192.168.0.3/live.cgi?quality=HI&cam=1&session={DEFAULTPASSWORD})

We also have an [IP camera] giving out MJPEG images which you can see from your phone (including IPhone)

So [check it out]! :D

Webcam chat at Ustream

But you’ve found a really cool shared playlist on [SpotifyPlaylists.co.uk], for example the [BBC's Sound of 2010 shortlist playlist]

But if you click the magical link that says “add to spotify” it’s not going to work :(

So you need to right click that button, copy the link address, then paste it in the search field at the top of the [Spotify] GUI, it will then show you the matching playlist which you can add :)

Enjoy!

Giant Snowman! by bluemonki on Zooomr

Awesome!

So if you know me in real life, come pay me a visit :)

So are there 7 other people out there who’d like to see that “Go Compare” advert banned?? I bet there are….