Posts filed under 'Ramblings'
I am sick of my car
Got up nice and early this morning as had a meeting to attend… only had a few hours sleep so wasn’t too cheery in the morning anyway. However I set off and was thinking to myself whether or not I should get a brand spanking new car. I had just about decided that it was wise to run current beast for as long as possible.
Shortly after that decision I approached a roundabout, tried to squeeze through a gap in queuing traffic into the middle lane but gave up as I ran out of space and was rather close to the back corner of the lorry in front. As the lights changed the lorry rolled back and did a nice job of smashing my passenger window and mangling the door frame.
I returned home, didn’t attend the meeting, and spent a while hoovering up glass and getting angry. The glass has gone, replaced with some nice bills to pay.
I will be replacing that car, or at least getting another.
Traffic Wardens
I bet you’re expecting me to tell you all what a bunch of bastards they are…..
Normally yes. But yesterday I was ->this<- close to getting a ticket. Had to go to the bank to cancel my card and order a new one after the clever loss of my wallet. Obviously I had no cash. Parked in the car park ran to the bank, did my bits, came back, was no more than 5 minutes and saw a lurking by my performance Peugeot 406... "Sticking a ticket on my car are you?"
A hilarious conversation followed: "Yes, £60"
After a bit of idle chit chat and hiding of my emotions we struck a deal, he'd let me off as I got to him before he'd tapped anything into his box of dirty tricks. He'd let me off if I bought a ticket. Wonderful - I didn't have any bloody cash! After bit more smooth talking he let me on my way and moved on to his next victim.
I don't know what I'd without my good looks and charms! He had a mustache and clearly fancied me.
So this is to say thank you to some of the traffic wardens out there, you’re not all c*nts, some of you are just gay.
Bugger
It’s nearing 1am - I am beginning to want my bed and instead I am writing this.
This post is an example of probably why I have to work so late as I spend too much time doing nothing or pointless tasks, like this! To top it this is really an uninformative and uninteresting post which barely justifies reading.
“luckily” there is a reason for it…. “unlucky” its because my wallet and phone have disappeared. I will be phoneless until at least Thursday or Friday. Don’t bother trying to phone me. Especially if you’re that twat from Oranges “Business Support Team” who got told kindly to fuck off.
Been Busy
Apologies for another long silence - completely unintentional, but I have been a busy boy!
This is what I have been doing in no particular order, other than the one it is written in:
Event: Met with a friend/mentor
Outcome: Advised to invest in the only thing you can be sure of - yourself. Very true, my experience in shares has been mixed. I will be keeping my current holdings and see how they pan out, but not trading or investing further funds for some time. Instead I shall waste it in my own businesses.
Event: Adtech Hamburg
Outcome: Went looking for strategic partnerships for World Dating Partners to help with further expansion across Europe. Have a few good possibilities.
Event: Moved House
Outcome: I now live somewhere else. Little bit tired and still have a lot to organise in way of address changes, number changes, office set up, BBQ parties to arrange etc etc.
Event: Edgley/Hannaford Wedding:
Outcome: Good day, lots of alcohol consumed by old friends, hangover and surprisingly no embarrassing stories that I know of.
makingamillion.net sold for $4M
That’s right, some twat phoned me up this morning and made a ridiculous offer. I told him it was not for sale, and he upped his offer….
I said “mate, you’re a fucking idiot, this site has no traffic, no members and makes no money, the domain itself is also pretty lame”.
If you have not guessed already this post is bullshit. Just a cheap stunt to gain some publicity by writing a punchy title. Much like this site has done -
Offer To Buy WickedFire for $16M!!!.
The strange thing is for this particular site a post like this got a lot of interest, it did its job, and the site itself IS very popular. It seems that self publicising arse gravy like this does actually work.
My opinion is that a good blog (or forum) requires not only good content, regular updates, but also its fair share brown and sticky. Though I do not want to smear my good name with poo, it may well be in my interest to self publicise a little more. I therefore refer you to my last post: I am Tim, I am Great
It also seems like a sensible thing for me to exaggerate the truth and be very selective with it to make myself look better than I am. For example when I say “Last night I made love for 4 hours” what I may in fact mean is “last night I was too drunk to maintain an erection for more than 5 minutes. After trying for 4 hours I finally passed out” … this is just an example, clearly I do not suffer from erectile dysfunction and actually I like to make love for 6 hours - minumum…. non stop…. with my big willy.
Run Forest Run
I dont even use this site to shamelessly promote my own sites. So to be promoting something I am not involved in is really rather strange. The reason I do this is charity, and we all know what a charitable young individual I am!!!
I don’t imagine for one second that I can help the cause, but there is no harm in trying. Not that the writing of this very short post can be called trying.
A “good” friend of mine will be running the London Marathon next month, and is raising money for Vitalise - a national disability charity providing breaks for disabled adults, children and their carers. Just so happens Treloar’s school (treloar.org.uk), where Abi works, send their kids there every summer.
DONATE HERE http://www.justgiving.com/randomben
If any of you who have not already donated have even a shred of decency - and a penny to spare - I urge you to donate. Just click the link above and give what you can, and a little bit more.
Trust me he deserves it, he has a fair old weight to shift over the 26 odd miles! Best of luck Benjamin.
If you dont give money, he will get angry, and he will do this to each and everyone of you…. he’s a bit gay like that.
Discipline and priorities
I keep telling myself that I will be more dicidplined, constantly lying by saying things like:
I will write a blog every day (which is worth reading). Manage my work better. Be more efficient with each of my tasks.
It is clear that this is no more than a load of bollocks. And for me to even consider it as plausible for more than a second makes me as stupid as any of you! Believe me there are some very stupid people reading this…. you know who you are! 
So, where does this leave me? Well with all the plans I have, all the responsisbilties I already have and with the back log of work I still am fighting to clear it does not leave me in a great position!
Good new is I don’t think the end of the world is nigh. I would love to be a better worker, I really would. But I if I could make any changes I think I would have done so by now! I am already giving 100% and despite what any of those motivational guru nob heads might say, you cant give any more, not even 10% more! The truth is I am quite happy to keep stumbling on and getting through only as much as I physically can manage.
What I DO need to do is prioritise better. I accept I will probably not get half the things on my list finished, certianly not within the time frames I would like. But I could definitely do a better job of prioritising my tasks.
Todays common sense tip
Prioritise.
Reading this blog can not possibly be one of your priorities, so on your way. Go on. Get lost…. okay, I know this is a great blog but honestly please go away. I don’t like you! Besides I have nothing more to say, apart from this -> this.
Idiot
Its gone 2am, and I am shattered. Have been none stop all day, and all week. Trying to get clear as will be away half of next week in Ukraine.
Am feeling like a bit of an idiot today
Yes, not that unusual - with so much work, and constantly writing out lists that I only get a quarter of the way down while back log of tasks build up its difficult to stay focused. Am trying not to st myself much shorter term targets, concentrate on these and only confuse myself the the big plan when I have to!
Another reason for being an idiot is today I made a decision, one which might sound fucking stupid!
I have had a site/project in various stages of developement for last 2 years…. work began on it, ceased, another agency took over, did not understand code so left after doing nothing but messing code up further. Then took on third developers who started again from scratch. The system they have now “completed” is less than worthless - its not even integrated with payment service providers, let alone capabale ff running complicated site generation scripts. I could see project digressing from my spec, but every issues I raised was addressed and to be attended to later, now they admit many features cannot be added without re coding much of what they have done. Yet they have asked for a final payment!
I dont expect to see a penny of it returned, I am prepared for the money to fly out to India (yes I know, what did I expect by outsourcing there) and demanding it back. Were it not for my hectic schedul I would be very tempted.
Anyway, what was this site? A complicated affiliate and white label system allowing creation of almost any sort of fully customisable and feature rich dating site in any language, affilaite would have a simple admin interface to control a network sites, members and referred affilaites. I am now director for a company doing exactly this, with a system which had millions invested in it, not thousands.
So here comes my stupid decision. I am not stopping this project! Infact I am reverting to use code which was scrapped a year ago. Why? Mainly because I can’t let go…. but also because looking back at what was built it was very good, just incomplete - this is its saving grace. I am going to strip back its features and scalabilites and focus it in one area, not dating and look for an alternative revenue stream not subscrpition based.
….this post took 2 nearly 2 hours to write, it was interrupted many times, I apologise if was boring, disjointed or too long … here’s some random japanese shit to make up for it.
Developers, Marketers and Partners Needed
This is just a very short update to say what I have been up to recently - and to beg for some help!
1) Appointed as COO for Datech (UK)
2) Looking for possible partners or people to outsource most of my existing business to
Obviously I am overjoyed with my new appointment at Datech. Its going to keep me busy, I will naturally talk more about this in the future.
I hope to apply much of the last few years experience to this role, and intend to play a key part in making this company one of the largest internet dating service providers.
This requires a bit of commitement, so sadly I can no longer dedicate myself near to 100% to my businesses. For this reason I am looking for possible partnerships with web developers and mareketeers. If you are either of these and are interested in being involved in a few exciting developments please let me know. I am willing to be generous in my negotations, and can provide right candidates with funding and guidance and endless support. Ideally I need someone with experience or atleast knowldge of dating, affiliate and to lesser extent adult industries. If you want to know more, please please PLEASE contact me! (you can find my email at bottom of the about me page)
Shhhh - its gone too silent!
It is St. Valentines day so I guess I should wish you lovebirds a happy valentines. Being the old romantic that I am I made my own loved one a slice of taost and came back to work!
I will also tell you now that the quality of this post will definitely not make the 2 week wait worthwhile. Actually you might be best not reading any more!
Whats new, why the long silence?
I know this is what you are dying to know so here is the answer - I have been busy! No, SERIOUSLY busy…
Driving 4 - 5 hours a day and trying to still work long hours around that. I have started a new position as Marketing Director which is very exciting and hopefully very challening too.
I have to admit I have not spent as much time doing all the other things as I had hoped, but this is mainly due to the driving. Everything I am doing now in my own business and others is linked in some capacity so I dont see it being a problem to pick up momentum again, especially as I will soon be primarily based from home once more, giving me back those extra hours to do yet more work!
I am just in the process of catching up with emails, which when you have many hundred a day is a not a simple task!
