Monday, October 23, 2006
Bonjour mon petite copaines
Back again. I haven't written for a while, but there hasn't been much to talk about re. the website. I'm trying to get in touch with a PR firm in windy Wellington, but haven't had any replies to my couple of emails, and haven't found time to call yet (that's this week's task).
I've been really busy at work. I've been making nice photos with bacterial DNA. I've now got just over 1 year left before my thesis is due in. I've got a pretty good idea of what I need to do between now and then and it's not going to be easy to get it all done in that time. I'm already working silly hours (I have been for a few years now) but I suspect that the term silly hours is going to get redefined by me in the next year and a bit.
Oh yeah, going back a week or so now, I finally took my car in to get a road certificate. I had been putting it off for fear of large expenses to satisfy the criterion. Well, it wasn't as bad as I feared. My car still failed, but not for the things I thought it would. So it's currently got no certificate until I get the handbrake and rear license plate light fixed. Hopefully they are easy things to do.
...And the latest on the Trademe saga. Well, I still think they are a bunch of wankers, but I haven't had much time to think about them recently (and it's not like I really want to waste my time thinking about them anyway). I actually started up another Trademe user account (I think they were probably monitoring my regular account and pulling any auction I listed). On this new account, I re-listed an auction for a sticker for my website. It went through un-checked!!!! This just proves how ridiculously inconsistent they are. They have a rule that states you cannot sell anything to do with websites, or promoting websites- but my sticker auction was selling a sticker saying WWW.ANOVELMILLION.COM . Really stupid stuff and I just think they are a bunch of idiots that somehow made a lot of money and now have the power to be idiots to their customers.
¶ 6:41 PM
Back again. I haven't written for a while, but there hasn't been much to talk about re. the website. I'm trying to get in touch with a PR firm in windy Wellington, but haven't had any replies to my couple of emails, and haven't found time to call yet (that's this week's task).I've been really busy at work. I've been making nice photos with bacterial DNA. I've now got just over 1 year left before my thesis is due in. I've got a pretty good idea of what I need to do between now and then and it's not going to be easy to get it all done in that time. I'm already working silly hours (I have been for a few years now) but I suspect that the term silly hours is going to get redefined by me in the next year and a bit.
Oh yeah, going back a week or so now, I finally took my car in to get a road certificate. I had been putting it off for fear of large expenses to satisfy the criterion. Well, it wasn't as bad as I feared. My car still failed, but not for the things I thought it would. So it's currently got no certificate until I get the handbrake and rear license plate light fixed. Hopefully they are easy things to do.
...And the latest on the Trademe saga. Well, I still think they are a bunch of wankers, but I haven't had much time to think about them recently (and it's not like I really want to waste my time thinking about them anyway). I actually started up another Trademe user account (I think they were probably monitoring my regular account and pulling any auction I listed). On this new account, I re-listed an auction for a sticker for my website. It went through un-checked!!!! This just proves how ridiculously inconsistent they are. They have a rule that states you cannot sell anything to do with websites, or promoting websites- but my sticker auction was selling a sticker saying WWW.ANOVELMILLION.COM . Really stupid stuff and I just think they are a bunch of idiots that somehow made a lot of money and now have the power to be idiots to their customers.
¶ 6:41 PM
