Credit Crunch Gems

Pedigree chum are latest firm 2 hit financial troubles, they had to call in the retrievers,

...and I hear that Procter and Gamble have gone into fairy liquidation.

Just heard that Gossard have gone bust,

...not only that, Superglue's been declared insolvent.

BA's early year profits have taken a sharp nosedive.

Big Yellow Self Storage is packing up.

BBC is going down the tube,

which is nothing new for Virgin who's been round the block.

BVT Surface Fleet ship builders have gone under.

Rentokil has died a sudden death.

Dulux Paint ltd has gone to the wall, and there's a house of cards on the brink of collapse on my desk, which I've been building all f*****g morning.

On the upside Domino Pizza is getting the dough in

Asda pats themselves on the back - this time
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Credit crunch tips

Stay, solvent, flush and in the black with services such as
- http://www.10ptext.co.uk (cheap international texting, SMS over IP with a data package),

- http://www.fairbroadband.co.uk (my very affordable and reliable broadband provider)

Coming soon, Vivablock a service that blocks spam instead of filtering it like Symantec does. Filtering encourages spam because spammers never get the message that their spam has not arrived,

More on VivaBlock as soon as it is going life and I have discussed my affiliate cut :)

Handyticket

In Germany they call mobile phones 'Handy'. You need to know that because I travelled in Germany just recently and found a website called www.handyticket.de. The company has relationships with several regional train providers, and these in turn are promoting their project as a pilot which is called 'HandyTicket'.

One would think we had entered the 22nd century by now, but no - lo and behold the payment system of 'Handyticket' is based on pre-payment and ordinary SMS. Bless - good ole SMS is clearly still the easiest mode of delivery.

Mobile Share Trader

The world's first 'white-label mobile share trading platform' has just been launched.
How do I know that it is the world's first? Truth be told - I don't, I'm guessing.
Googling did not throw up any other white label m - share trading application.

Have a look at the Mobile Share Trader site


Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a website which just offers trading on blue chip
companies from a mobile phone?

Call the police - a status is born Nomobility

A word is born NOMOBILITY, a lighter state of being is on the horizon
- nomobility.
I could hyphenate it, nomo-bility. Do with it what you like. It flirts
lightly with the word nobility and describes a person who is pleased and
proud NOT to be seen with a mobile phone. A free-thinker perhaps?

It started one evening when I decided to visit my new neighbour and family
and we had such a great time that I didn't notice the time passing. When I
got home at 11:45my partner had called the police and weeks later I am
still listed as a missing person . It's oddly amusing.

Nevertheless I now walk the streets of my London neighbourhood without a
mobile phone and I feel lighter enobled even (enomobiled).

Let it roll of your tongue, say "at last I am nomobiled".

Nomosexuality

And there I was thinking I am funny. In my previous blog
today I mentioned the similiarities between the new
buzzword Nomophobia and Homophobia and cracked half a
joke about nomosexuality thinking I was the first person
to use it.

Well I just googled the word and it turns out that nomosexuality
describes people who don't have any need for the base physicality
the rest of us quite likes to indulge in.

Nomophobia and living as a No-Mo

A friend of mine works for the Post Office UK, and he told me
how the latest buzzword 'Nomophobia' came to enter the virtual ether.

Patrick O'Neill the clearly very creative 'Head of Communications'
at the Post Office came up with this term just one week ago, and
already Google is showing 80.000 links to different sites picking it up,
and guaranteeing it a secure space in our lingo 2008.


Nomo-phobia, stands for 'no mobile - phobia', the fear of not having
access to your mobile phone or being cut off for one reason or another
from your network.

The play on letters with the word homophobia are quite amusing.
Nomophobic as an adverb works, if we decouple it from the word
'phobia' we are looking at a 'No-mo' a person without a mobile phone,
a species which will cease to exist if we don't take make sure that
we continue tolerating it's existence amongst us.

What about no-mo-sexuals? Now I'm getting lost.