Biggest. Jackpot. Ever

The famous Euromillions lottery has rolled over for an 11th time. It's set to go to over 200 MILLION DOLLARS (125,000,000 GBP or 185,000,000 Euro).

It's a definite world record, the biggest TAX FREE lump sum lotto jackpot in the world. EVER.

Head on over to My VWD Lottery Experience to see all the hoo-hah.

Heart disease and privacy juxtaposed

I saw the word juxtapose the other day and I've heard it before and knew (at least knew-ish) what it meant and I swear I've used it in a conversation about a party that had it's fair share of pikeys and snobs. Dictionaries and the like define it as "place side by side" with some others going so far to say "especially for comparison or contrast".

So did I choose the write wording for the title when you consider a recent article at the TimesOnline?
It explains the problems of data privacy, not in the scary "ID stolen" light of recent news articles but how it hampers the medical research of heart disease. Scientists and medical researchers are prevented from having access to the information by over-zealous police and council red-tape. The data protection act, long as it is, does include a specific clause or exemption relating to "necessary and proportionate” medical research.

I wouldn't want just anyone to be able to access my personal medical details but what if the legitamate life saving research group wanted to search the now online database for trends in medication use and heart disease? I'm sure they wont need every detail of my medical record, the wonders of online databases allows you to search and 'pull out' only neccessary cross related fields, they don't need to know if someone had an AIDS test or considered suicide and so it wouldn't be included in the search for "medication" "heart problem" "male" "20-40".

I carry a donor card, maybe we should have a datadonor card. "I give my permission for my medical data to be searched and used for medical research by government licenced and independantly regulated medical bodies"

Privacy is great but so is saving people from getting heart disease.

Did I use the word correctly?

Links:
BBC health page
www.americanheart.org
www.bhf.org.uk

at gramps and anagrams place

I've just seen some really nice anagrams over at grand-pa's place, they take a well known phrase or persons name and then rearrange it
My favourite is from Neil Armstrong...

"THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND." - NEIL ARMSTRONG

The anagram:

"A THIN MAN RAN; MAKES A LARGE STRIDE, LEFT PLANET, PINS FLAG ON MOON! ON TO MARS!"

Check out his post for more, a really good one from Shakespear too.

Do you know the only London Underground station to sound nice backwards is Finsbury Park? ---
Krapy Rub Snif!

A poor imitation but it's better than muffin

I spent a wee while putting this template together to simulate what the blog was like before when Charles did it.
I don't think I did too badly, it's just such a shame to lose that piece of work of his :-(. So solly charly boy.

now I have a copy of the template I can carry on with the changes.

oh, and the euromillions wasn't won by anyone again!! I won 4 times, but I haven't checked my own ticket yet....tremble tremble

ow , I killed my template

oh dear, I killed my lovely template while I was trying out some google code.

poo.

What I would do with my share of the 80 MILLION

I hope the euromillions folks got my letter about why I should win the rollover, I'm sure they wont let me down.

I sent a letter to Chris Chringle, Jack Frost, Tony Blair and the Wombles so I should be in for a chance yey!

Or, I could carry on playing through VWD and only need 5 of the 7 numbers to get my multi-million share!
Oh dear what would I do with so much money?

I could pay Joss Wheadon to make another Firefly series
I could buy David Beckhams foot, hah, see how many bendy balls you can do with a stump eh Becksy!!?
I could buy a Chelsea season ticket but only one of the cheap ones
I'd pay for an advertisement on the BBC explaining how the licence to own a TV is a waste of paper. (UK)
I'd buy me a monkey and teach it to sing.

A real laugh

I've never laughed so much at a blog entry as I did with this one, definitely a blog to go back to...

http://fuggettaboutit.blogspot.com/

so good that's all this post is going to contain.

Not really a place for jokes but...best ever blond joke

OMG what a funny joke I found through Delftsman's place!

Oh the wonders of the trackerless protocol

Don't you just love the trackerless protocol? what, you don't know about it?
Azereus has it
Bitcomet has it
and others but I never tried anything other than the above two before, the problem is that they are exclusive to the program that you are using so an Azereus client can't download a file without a tracker from a BitComet peer.

What does it do? well, you know all those torrents out there that use trackers that are too busy to accept your connection or trackers that were run on someone's PC but now it's no more?

The trackerless protocol was designed so it doesn't matter if the tracker goes down, as long as someone has that completed download in their shared directory (set in the options) then you can download it just like the previous incarnations of p2p.
It never ceases to surprise me how many people have got the complete file of a really old torrent, you can be almost certain now that a once popular torrent will still be downloadable after a year, I have my own torrents out there that still show many seeds a year after I stopped seeding it myself.

Right now I am downloading a series of audio books to listen to on my way around leafleting the local area, I'm looking forward to catching up on some titles I have had my eye on for a while now. No more "not enough time" excuses, plus I get a sore neck reading a book (probably because I don't put it down for hours at a time).

Thanks to Akufu blog for setting me off on an audio book frenzy! You should check out the blog yourself, it's pretty new but deserves a read because of it's excellent articles written in a nice friendly way (and grammatically correct - wish I was more articulate!) . Plus Akufu is an original blog name which is refreshing, I wonder what it means?

Unoriginal blog names?

• anything with "random" written in the title (google blog search reports 2,246,354 results)
  
• same with "rambllings"
  
• or even "rants"
• "my blog" - lol, you don't say?!!

Original blog names?

• Akufu
  
• Bend it like a banana
• Legends of a sun pig (the first blog I saw and liked way back in the day)
• Diary of a fat boy
• Pesky Apostrophe (better than an unexpected period) lol, I still laugh when I read this!

there's more but why don't you tell me in the comments if you have an original blog name....

My first Camtasia screencast
I made a Camtasia video of how I made a flyer for my lotto business (going really well!!! yey) and it had a great response, I even put it up as a download on some torrent sites and it's had 1500 downloads in 4 days! (good free advertising, yum). Click here to see the post on my other blog with the video...

Back once again like a renegade master....

I haven't blogged here for a while because I've been sorting out my Lotto Blog and trying to organize a starter kit for some members of my marketing thing. Talking about marketing, I have been searching around for site submitters and such but all I seem to get are crazy claim filled hoo-hah sites. Did you know you can advertise your site to 2million places at the push of a button? no? where have you been? oh, and just pay $247 to this guy and he'll tell you all his secrets. blah

A mate of mine says he's going to advertise my free chance page with his tools, I said it had better not involve spamming but he assures me he knows what he is doing (lol).

I've done a bit more advertising too, a good 'ol blog (Diary of a fat boy) which tells all about making a bit of extra cash online (and there's a huge amount of boobies too!) He made me a banner and put it up for a couple of weeks and it had a great response! Last time I used banners, I had zero clicks from tons of impressions, this time I got hits, entries to the free page and even a premium signup! needless to say I signed up for another 2 months and he made me a new banner.

I'm using the old banner on BE, it's had over 30 clicks already which only says something about the type of people surfing there!
This is what it looks like...



I've also opened up an ebay account so I can sell the huge amount of crap I have lying about. Here's my first item ( I have got 4 of them)
Magic Eye TVLINK
I've seen others listed with a starting price of 5.99 so I put mine at 1.00 ! plus 1.99 postage. Even if I don't get more than the starting price, it'll earn me a whole 12 pounds (minus P+P). More than if I'd just left them in the drawer until they became obsolete! I haven't even got a Sky TV box so who knows what I would do with 4 TV Links!

I'm going to sell my Xbox Projector too but I think I had better build up some feedback before I list a large money item.


This is what it looks like, it's not bad and plays movies well. You can even flip the picture so you can tip it up and project it at the ceiling while you're in bed (oo-er!).
I bought if from China on an impulse and I've only used it for half an hour!

Sell it!!