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GiffGaff

01/11/2011 / Rich / No comments

As some of you may have seen. There is a couple of extra links in the sidebar for GiffGaff.

Now I recently moved away from the god awful Vodafone to pay as you go with giffgaff. Now giffgaff I think is owned by O2, works off there network but, operates completly separately.

Now why would I do this?

Well for £10 a month I get 250 cross network minutes, unlimited text messages unlimited free giffgaff to giffgaff calls and unlimited data. With no tie in. Once your goody bag that you buy has expired you can then either buy another, or you can top up and use credit.

They ported my number from Vodafone inside 12 hours and all was well.

So if your looking for a cheaper deal with blinding coverage click on one of the links on the right and get yourself a free sim. When you activate a sim acquired from one of those links we both get an extra £5 credit applied.

One side note is you cannot phone them up if you do have any problems. You have to open a message on the support forums. Now I have done this with great success. So I do not feel this to be a problem!

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Flying Time

04/10/2011 / Rich / No comments

Wow, Its been almost six months since I last updated here!

How time fly’s when your having fun!

Bit of a nothing post this one, Just to let you all know that I’m still alive and kicking.

Will be back soon for a better update. (Maybe)

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Wow a confession

28/05/2011 / Rich / No comments

I’ve got a bit of a confession to make. I’ve been planning for weeks to get a blog schedule together, posting every day between Monday and Friday. I was going to write these posts in the evenings and schedule them for 1pm every day.

However, a rather big something has decided to walk back into my life..well actually it was emailed into my life. A free World of Warcraft month long subscription.

Now I stopped playing WOW three years ago, when I realised it was taking up far to much of my life. I knew people in the guild that I was in at the time better then I new my real friends. I was loosing track of all things reality, sleep patterns went out the window as I was up until all hours questing and levelling. Then it hit me, cancel that subscription and get outside in the real world.

Now all of a sudden darned blizzard sent me a free trial on my old account, unbeknown to me and before I knew it, that month had passed and I was well and truly hooked again. In all honesty within days of re-entering the world I was addicted again.

When I first went back in my character was level 20, within a month I was level 61. Im now not only having to pay the £9 a month, I’ve had to order the latest versions to make sure I can keep levelling. Sad huh?!

There is a small benefit of all this i suppose, that is the fact it has kept my overdraft and myself out of the pub.

So, I would like to introduce you to my online alter ego “mebigguy” a level 60 human warlock.

20110528-110438.jpg (and yes, for some reason, it does look like he is wearing a skirt!)

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For Some Reason

11/04/2011 / Rich / 2 comments

Over the last few months, this blog (well richard-hickson.co.uk) has been attracting more hits from the US then it has the UK.

Stats

I’m not entirely sure why however seeing the above stats helpded me to make the decision to move to www.richardhickson.com, I believe there to be no issues moving things over to the new domain, however if you notice any problems leave a comment, send me a tweet or send me an email rich(@)richard-hickson.co.uk.

Ive also added google adsense to this site, in the hope of getting back some of the ever expanding bandwidth and hosting costs.

Thanks

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Blogroll

15/06/2010 / Rich / No comments

After hacking the template files I have managed to get some links to display in the blogroll on the left. Ive also added a links page which will display links I still like but don’t want to display on every page. These may also change every now and again depending on how I feel! :-)

Hooray!

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Today

07/06/2010 / Rich / 2 comments

Today I’ve been quite productive.

@ Work

  • I have gone through loads of crap in the old office of a sister company ready for the move into my office in a fortnights time. I managed to get 4 3ft floor to ceiling jam packed cupboards down to a pile of cd’s and a few power cables for various things; Should make the move easier.
  • I also finalised a lot more details for the move. including an actual date when they’re moving in, fortunately this gives me an extra day after my week off to get everything sorted.

@ Home

  • I have finally booked Lisa’s and my hotel for our weekend in Brussels this weekend (http://www.royalwindsorbrussels.com/ – For anyone who wants to take a look)
  • I have sought out and found a driving instructor in hope of having passed before this new test comes along in October.
  • I have got my old HP Nc6320 Laptop back up and working after 18months under the bed. All it needed was a new power supply ordered off eBay last week. I gave it a fresh install of windows xp as well to give it a whole new lease of life. Needless to say I’m not quite sure why I need another laptop at home so it may end up for sale soon!
  • I have tidied up this site, installed a new theme and removed loads of crappy widgets I installed in the past. I also decided to change the address of the site, however I changed my mind and then promptly changed it back again (which was a waste of time I admit!) I’ve also added a few new links to the links column which you can’t see yet whilst I’m waiting for permission from the blog/website owners.

After all that, I’m off to bed. See you on the flipside.

Rich

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United Hosting

29/10/2009 / Rich / No comments

Just a quick blog post tonight, mainly due to alcohol, and being in awe of www.united-hosting.co.uk. Quite possible the best hosting company in the world! I cannot rate them highly enough, you want hosting go speak to them! Simon, Matt and the guys will sort you out!

Im more then happy to recommend the guys at UH to anyone!

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Flickr

19/10/2009 / Rich / No comments

I have added My Flickr account to the top which will contain any pictures I upload to it. At the moment there are only pictures of a broken scanner on there that I bought from ebay and the seller packaged up in just a jiffy bag, no bubble wrap or polystyrene just a jiffy bag! needless to say it turned up like it is in the pictures and I got a full refund.

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