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Chiavari, Italy

May 13th, 2008 (read full article)

I love Italy, me. Three days down on the Liguria Riviera, just south of Genova was exactly what I needed. Want to see some photos?

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And the answer is…. 119

May 13th, 2008 (read full article)

From 9am on Saturday until 9pm Monday evening my email inbox received 119 messages. That breaks down as follows;

37 General spam (the usual porn and pills crap)
29 Robotic Spam (automatically submitted robotic link building crap from the various web forms that filter down to my personal email address)
24 Normal clutter (newsletters etc from companies I’ve bought things from, or signed up to for whatever reason)
5 Phishing Scams (fake emails from banks/paypal etc asking me to login so they can steal my identity)
3 Nigerian Scams (people asking for my bank account details so they can send me zillions of dollars)
11 FaceBook Spam (people tagging me in photos, friend requests/updates & the like)
7 Service updates (from companies I do actually buy services from, usually giving me updates on those services)
2 New Business Contacts (from people who are actually looking for flash or drupal development services)
1 Personal Email (from a real, live friend of mine in the UK who was actually sending me an email)

And that’s before I checked my RSS reader which had 213 new items, but at least I can simply unsubscribe from RSS feeds. And to be fair, most of those entries were some bloke I used to work with who went to Florida on holiday and uploaded the entire contents of his camera to flickr.

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Off on our ‘olidays

May 10th, 2008 (read full article)

We’re off on our holidays this morning. Just a short 3 day camping trip down to Portofino in Italy. I bought a Quechua 2 second tent and a few other necessities yesterday - including the coolest thing ever…. a little electric fridge for the van which plugs into the cigarette lighter. I’ve got some basic dive equipment with me & I’m going to get into a bit of free-diving for a few days, eat great Italian food and increase my tan from my current farmers tan (face & arms only).

So we’re off. I’m going to turn my phone off, not check my emails and generally unplug and relax. I wonder how many emails I’ll have in my inbox when I get back. 100? 200? 500?

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Life admin needed

May 8th, 2008 (read full article)

Ever had that feeling that your life is coming apart a little bit and you need to get back on top of things? You car’s dirty, rusty & in need of a being a bit fixed. All your clothes are piled up in the corner waiting to be washed. You haven’t opened your mail for a month and there’s no food in the house. After a prolonged period of BBQ’s, drinking and parties to mark the end of the winter I’ve been doing a bit of life admin over the past few days.

Yesterday was the day to go and find a lawyer. I’m not in trouble or anything - I just needed to get a document notarised for a a German thing that’s going on. But as it happens I have been wondering how to find a French lawyer for a while now. I need to set up a French limited company this summer and I’m also planning to buy some property. The chap I met yesterday in Sallanches tells me he is known as ‘The EnglishNotary’ here in the Chamonix valley. Not because he is English, but he speaks it perfectly and has over 200 Ros Bif clients on his books, so hurrah. He’s the man.

Next the van. I took my skis and winter equipment out of it for the first time since December, cleaned out the inside, washed it, oiled it and generally sorted the thing out a bit. I’ll take it in for a little service in good time, but just for now a bit of air in the tires and a wash is all it needs for the weekend when I’m going off camping in Italy for a few days with my girlfriend. Just through the Mont Blanc tunnel & down to the coast, it’s only 3 hours or so away. I might even get the chance to do a dive two.

Now if I can just get on top of the work I’m doing, get my washing done and stop getting ridiculously drunk all the time…..

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