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Not A Boring Company But Really Quite Interesting

Many companies, however successful they may be and however much profit they might turn over, are guilty of not updating their web-site(s) and leaving hideous excuses for graphic design up for far too long. Usually you get the same ’news'over and over again, repeatedly slightly differently, and at worst you get information which is…well…how can we put this? Just a little bit dull and uninteresting to the average guy or girl on the street. But hold on, what was this I found? Yes, indeed, a company who actually update an awful lot and consider it one of their main priorities. Yep, their name is Enigin and they really do care about saving themselves and their customers money. This is one of their main themes and you can read one of their short posts on e-marketing at this link here: http://www.enigindigital.com/2010/05/enigin-e-marketing/

Of course, they have a lot more where that came from, and it isn’t just one blog. Enigin have many and all of them tackle a slightly different subject: everything from the latest energy saving inventions to apps you can get for your phone and light-hearted things which tell of what the Enigin guys and girls get up to when they are out and about. The above article talks about their new e-marketing system and this is just one of the things which they roll out across the globe to distributors in every corner of the world. By always keeping everyone in the loop, efficiency is improved and everyone is that much happier.

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The Jabulani ball: Is it really an issue?

There has been a lot made of the Jabulani ball since it was announced as the official match ball for the World Cup. There have been complaints, mainly by goalkeepers, and praise, mainly from players sponsored by Adidas, about the ball even though Adidas claim to have tested the ball thoroughly.

Players have been practising with the ball for weeks leading up to the World Cup and I honestly don’t know how a ball can make that much of a difference anyway. These are world class players we are talking about, men whose job it is to do nothing else but kick balls and practise kicking balls for 6 days a week. They also get paid extraordinarily well for doing it.

From what I have seen so far at the World Cup, there seems to be nothing wrong with the ball. It has a bit of extra bounce on the synthetic sports pitch, which is causing havoc with some team’s plan of playing the long ball, but that is no bad thing. There has been no wild movement through the air, no unexpected dip from a long range shot or anything of that nature.

It seems to me to be a cheap way for Goalkeepers to cover any mistakes prior to the matches at the World Cup. If they make mention of this maverick ball beforehand then any howlers we witness might be shrugged off as the ball misbehaving. I am not having any of it. I think that these players should clam up about the ball and get back to doing what they are there to do. Every team is playing with the same ball and only a handful have complained, so I don’t see the ball as an issue at all. It sounds a little too much like bad workmen blaming their tools to me.

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Being Only Human

Being a human being has never been more expensive than it is right now. First you have to earn money to keep your head above water, then you have natural disasters to worry about, ones so great that they bring whole nations’ transportation networks crashing to the ground in one fell swoop (or explosion, as the recent case may be)–

This and more is discussed in detail at following blog post.

I don’t know what the answer is, but I can’t help but think that it would have been a very good idea if, a long time ago, the various nations of this world would have put money in to a pot labeled ‘natural disasters that are bound to happen sooner or later, very important don’t forget to put money in here’. That way we wouldn’t be in so much debt now, would we? Or maybe that isn’t true. Maybe, no matter how much money we save, sooner or later something will come along that will cost us a small fortune.

Enigin, the people who own the blog where the above post can be found, have various opinions about all this, all of which they offer to you, sometimes with humorous appeal. At their blog they also discuss how they save the customer (that’s you) money, and the ethics which ground the company and keep it working for you, rather than against you.

As for the question How much has the last year cost us? The answer is still open for debate, but at least if you save energy then that’s a good start.

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Thank You Miss

At school I always used to have trouble getting my thoughts down on paper. My brain would get all tangled, and instead of the thoughts coming out one by one and in perfect form (like the annoying kids who were good at english), they would be blurted out in one big messy load, all of them mangled together like the deranged result of some cack-handed sausage making apprentice’s first attempt at a Cumberland–

Not pretty.

For that reason my essays literally resembled something you might find in a serial-killers den (notice I said den, not house; this was the kind of writing that the worst serial killers partook in, those who lived in dens and cut up newspapers later in their career – for the letters – seeing as they couldn’t hack having to write any more–)

Until one day, when my teacher took me to one side and gave me some good advice: “Look,” she said, “instead of trying to think so hard and get all those amazing–”— her eye-brows went up with “amazing”, which meant she actually wanted to say “crap”— “…thoughts out, why not just focus on the words?”

“…the words?” I replied, as if I had never seen any, and by goodness if you’d have looked at my essays you’d have thought that was true. “Ah–that’s how you do it!”

And from that day on it was easier. I pictured the words in my mind as I wanted to say them (so if I wanted to write about an amazing beach towel incident, where we were all trying to rip it off our friend and make him butt naked in front of a beach and embarrass him to high heaven, I would just think beach towel, as if it was written on my eye-lids) and then bingo-bango! It happened.

Amazing how one word of carefully placed advice can turn your life around.

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What Has Happened to Hollywood?

I remember a time when Hollywood produced quality cinema. I’m not just talking about the “Golden Age” of cinema, when we had the greats: the Hitchcocks, the Bogarts, the Brandos, or the Orwells. I’m not even talking about 25 years ago. Hollywood produced quality films even in this century, with some great filmmakers and top notch writing. But now, in 2010, I have to ask the question: What has happened to Hollywood?

Back in January, one day when I could tear myself away from my property search, I took a look at what movies would be coming out in the next twelve months, with specific interest in the famed “Summer Blockbusters” which I used to wait for with heated anticipation. But this year has been – and will continue to be – a disappointment. There are certain things in common with this year’s movie line-up. They are all either remakes or sequels. Why was the remake of “Clash of the Titans” green-lit? How on God’s green Earth could a movie of such pedestrian filmmaking and uninspired CGI get the go-ahead? It’s mind boggling. And don’t get me started on “Tron Legacy”.

And sequels: how do they keep coming up with third, fourth, even fifth sequels to movies that weren’t even good in the first place? “Hairspray 2”? “Sex in the City 2”? Two movies amongst countless others that make me shake my head.

I know that Hollywood only cares about money, and who can blame them. But all I’m asking for is a few original scripts. I’m not asking for too much; just one or two original films a year. Maybe the days of real cinema are over. Maybe comic book adaptation, ludicrous remakes, and sequels to ho-hum movies are the way of the future. Maybe I’m a dinosaur. Maybe these are what people want. Luckily, my DVD collection is extensive enough that I won’t care about what happens in the future.

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Fighting Attitudes

Fight Club was a great film and a good book. But despite the film’s success and influence, there were a lot of critics. Many said it was macho porn, while others attributed it to the rise of real fight clubs that were apparently cropping up all over the US.

Personally, I just thought the whole thing was entertaining.

Here we are, in a society where heavy-weight boxers are heroes, and what’s this? Real men aren’t allowed to fight with their bare hands? It just seems a bit ridiculous. It’s not that I am condoning beating the crap out of someone else in a dingy basement just for the fun of it (although lets be honest it probably is fun), it’s more that as a world we have so much more to worry about, so it seems a little strange to be pointing the finger at Chuck.

Amongst other things, what about the violent video-games that young children are allowed access to? And what about the internet? What about the high cost of organic moisturiser and the slaves who make stuff for next to nothing? Shouldn’t we be more concerned about things like that than what adults choose to do behind closed doors, in their spare time?

And we haven’t even talked about war yet. Essentially it’s intentionally killing lots and lots of people in a very short period of time, all because one country thinks it has the right to rule another (that may be a little simplistic, but I think you get the picture).

Let books be books and let films be films I say. Don’t start getting on your high-horse, just think about the real issues and tackle them instead.

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Violence on children on the rise in the UK

As per reports published by the various hospitals in the England and Wales, serious violence on children is on the decrease in the region. Reports published by Cardiff University reveal that 350,000 people were treated for injuries in the year 2009 and this number is 1500 fewer than the previous year. Among the injured, 2800 children were treated for serious violence and this figure was 8% higher than the previous year.

A look at the report from some 44 hospitals shows that there has been a fall in the numbers of teenage victims who have been treated after violence. The report has also included the people who are treated at the various casualty departments after facing an attack. The figures for the last year showed that the fall in the number of patients was not much and decrease by only 0.4%. But this meant that when compared to 2001, there were 64,000 less victims last year. During the tenure of the study there has only been a rise in number of patients from violence in 2008.

The Figures show that the rise in the numbers of victims is mainly among the 18 to 30 year old age group and there was a decrease of around 6% among children in the age group 11 to 17 years. This represented a 6% fall when compared to the previous year. It was also found that children below 10 years of age accounted for close to 1% of the total victims and there was real rise in that age group.

The authors of the report have also tried to identify the causes of the youth violence suggesting that many children had been left in home where abuse was occurring. Some experts have challenged the authenticity of the report since it had omitted some of the leading hospitals. Reports released in parliament however showed that violence among children under 16 years is on the rise.

It is apparent that there is a growing problem in spite of which report making the claim. The government has to do something about this as violence against children can never be tolerated, and with Secondary education job openings on the rise in the UK, it seems that there are less and less teachers actually willing to take on these kids. It is getting to the point where some one needs to stand up and take control, and to be honest, that someone is the government.

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Good Reasoning

Every single company out there wants you to know it’s different from all the rest. Unique and special and the best in the field. But how often can a company really stand up and say it has explained how it is actually different? I’m not just talking about words, I’m talking about words that lead to actual promises. Ones that you, the customer, can 100% put your faith in.

Enigin are one energy-saving company who can proudly stand up and say they can make promises and that they can keep them. See what they have to say at the above link.

Giving the reader a list of concrete reasons and explanations as to how you are different — whether that means cheaper, more efficient, or particularly concerned with quality customer service — is definitely one of the most effective ways of making you as a business stand out. It might sound simple and easy, but surf the web and you’ll find that this kind of honesty is actually quite rare. And isn’t that what people want? A bit of integrity and good old fashioned straight talk?

It has to be much more than words, of course. There has to be actual evidence of results and satisfied customers to go with it. Enigin have this in a few different ways. Firstly, they have many different blogs highlighting many different issues, and secondly they have case studies which go in to detail about things that most companies usually skim over. Then, if all that isn’t enough, there’s Enigin TV. Head on over there to see videos of people who have benefited.

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Winner!

After a conversation about his Caravan insurance quote (he was dull like that), my friend said this: “Lego has to be the most painful thing to tread on unawares in the night-time!”

This got my little known competitive streak all fired up. “It isn’t, why do people always say that?!” I replied.

And so then came the challenge, dressed up as a simple compliment: “Oh yeah, is that so?”

“I’m saying it is.”

So we devised a way to test the theory out once and for all. We were to have a sleepover where stuff of various levels of misery-inducing pain would be strewn across the floor, and then we would get drunk. This was a crucial stage in the plan: getting drunk would ensure we didn’t remember we had put potentially lethal stuff on the floor, and that we would go through with the thing no matter what–

The vodka worked a treat and knocked us both for six. In the minutes before we had put many things on the floor where we would tread upon getting up: among them Lego, cutlery, and various assorted spikey things (and one plant pot).

The next thing I know I am hearing a scream. It’s my friend, and he’s screaming “It’s the Lego, it’s the Lego!” At that moment I realized time must have passed; indeed, it must be morning–

But here was the thing: upon opening my eyes I found he had tripped and fallen on pretty much everything we’d laid as a trap, and he was pointing at his left foot saying, “The Lego, I told you!”

This was my smuggest moment of all time. I got to my feat, pulled the fragment of plant pot from the sole of his bleeding right foot, and said, “There! I told you! Lego isn’t painful at all!”

It was then that I noticed he’d managed to land with his right foot on the Lego bricks and he hadn’t even noticed!

Suffice to say, I won that bet.

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Bundle!

There were many, many reasons to be terrified of entering the school class-room during lunch-time. Me being a lanky yet worryingly short, just-about-two-dimensional kid, I was the kind that was welcomed with open arms–mainly because, for some unexplainable reason, jumping on the paper-thin kids and seeing how close they would come to breaking point was deemed the most fun. Personally I didn’t see the attraction of it. It was like snapping a really thin twig and being proud of yourself for absolutely no achievement whatsoever. At least that was what I told them when the bundling started–though it never did work…

Bundling was probably not called Bundling at the other schools in the region; the language was localized, and as such the names evolved almost daily, with variations appearing and going in and out of fashion. You knew a bundle was about to happen when someone shouted “Bundle Him!” You knew you would be at the centre of the hormonal mass when everyone was running towards you one second, then leaping in to the air the next. Next thing you knew you had your face pressed in to someone’s bottom and your feet and hands were contorted in to impossible yet conceivable positions. And if you thought the teacher was going to be you saviour then you were sorely mistaken. More than anything, the CCTV at our school was used as a form of early reality TV (but really, now I am an adult I don’t blame them; being a teacher must have been horrible, to say the least–)

Still, I have some fond memories of being bundled on by as many as twenty people at a time (who’s counting? You can’t really feel the difference between twenty and twenty five people: the human body can only get so squashed after all).

So it was recently my birthday as most of you know, and my friend Kerry gave me a chemical face peel as a gift. Now I have to say, I have no idea what she was trying to tell me; but after I got over the corresponding surprise of how out of the ordinary the present was, I went and realized that it was actually quite lovely. I would endorse it to anyone

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