i am so annoyed it is unbelievable!
my flight ticket stated it’s £15.08 return, plus taxes.
the plus taxes brought me up to £59.65.
i have then been charged for:
2 x (Airport Check in) £9.50
2 x (Pax carrying 1 Checked in Bag) £19.00
Visa Handling Fee £9.50
bringing the total to £97.65.
this is not a cheap airline. this is a rip off. i have been charged for checking in!! like i had an option. like i could select not to. surely checking in at the airport is part of the service???? and charging me 10 quid for using a Visa card is just unreal. i buy so many things online, and never have i seen such an outrageous charge for a visa transaction.
just because i can’t fly with anyone else to this particular place. absolutely disgusting.

yes, i have a new shiny toy :D my new blackberry curve 8900 is fantastic, it’s cute and sleek, just small enough, the screen is very clear, and it works like a treat. i was supposed to wait 48 hours for the email services but they started working after half a day.

the only issue i found was that if i’m in front of my computer at home or at work, i get the same emails on the BB and on the computer, so i wanted to be able to temporarily disable the emails, rather that delete the email accounts. after playing with email settings and searching the forums for a solution, which seemed not to exist, i finally managed to disable the emails temporarily. you need to log into your o2email.co.uk account, and there, under email settings, go to filters, and check the little option that says ‘When no filters apply do not forward messages to device’. as i have no filters set up, it has disabled the emails being pushed to the device. and i can enable them back at any time.

got this game from a friend designer and so here’s my rock band album cover:

my band is called federal investigations agency and needles to say they are the coolest band in the world :D

and here are the instruction to make yours:

1 - Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random… Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

(the original photo i drew is here)

found this today - twitscoop - looks very handy :D

new cool toy for creating word clouds, quite nifty too! - Wordle
Here’s mine:

well i never….
design and Dell in one sentence - YES. Finally.

its small, it’s powerful, and it LOOKS GOOD. the stylish design can be personalised with 6 colours, or the uber-cool bamboo sleeve. AND it’s environmentally friendly and energy efficient. WELL DONE.

i took it and so should you :)

i have written before about status stories and how we slowly see them catching up in the jewellery world, how the desire is changing from having a brand product to having a custom product and now it seems the trend is going mainstream - Paragon Lake Raised $5.8 Million To Help You Make Custom Jewelry

As everybody probably knows I went to Paris to see the love of my life :)
For those of you who don’t know, it went to the Bruce Springsteen concert. Yes - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN!!!
I must say, the gig was simply AWESOME. 30 000 people singing Boss’ songs with a French accent ;) only kidding.
But seriously, the concert was absolutely fantastic, and well worth all that queueing to get to the front. The Boss is in top form, played for just over 3 hours and managed to squeeze in quite a few stunners. He opened with ‘Adam Raised a Cain’ which surprised a few, then followed with ‘Radio Nowhere’, ‘Spirit in the night’, ‘Living in the future’, ‘Girls in the summer clothes’ and so on. He collected quite few requests which resulted in ‘Janey don’t you loose heart’ and the superb ‘No surrender’ - when he showed the sign for ‘Fire’ the band started playing ‘I’m on fire’ but he yelled “Not ‘I’m on Fire’ — ‘Fire’!”. He also performed the beautiful ‘For you’ solo at the piano. And finally he played my personal favourite RANDEZVOUS - YAY :D
Oh Rock and Roll does not get much better than this :D