Entries by Simon Heyes

Drop the Hard Sell Phones4u

I consider myself a patient and tolerant guy. I never get annoyed by small things. However having been hammered by the sales team from Phones4u several times over the last 6 months I have to finally vent my frustration….and it seems I’m not alone. Dean Bubley also has a rant in his post here.It’s worth […]

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Skiing Down a London Tube Escalator

Ahh it’s almost March and I have no posts! Time to make up for it. Firstly check out the video below. Some crazy chap decided to take it upon himself to find the longest escalator in Europe (at Angel Tube station), ride the escalator to the top and then ski all the way down. Madness. […]

Top 10 UK Brands

The latest top UK brands survey, published by YouGov can be seen at the bottom of this post. Data published this week has revealed more organic brands are making inroads to climb rungs on the UK’s top brands ladder. The UK report, jointly compiled by Checkout and market research company Nielsen suggest that consumers are […]

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Ice Diving

Do what now? Whilst on our Tignes ski holiday a mate of mine decided to have a go at diving. But not just just any old diving. Ice diving. And not just any old ice diving. He did a night time ice dive under the frozen lake at Tignes Le Lac. Mark Slater ice diving […]

Yet another Tignes Ski Holiday!

It’s that time of year again. The boys have returned from another jolly to Tignes, a year on from the epic ski holiday that made us famous amongst the locals of Tignes le Lavachet. This year the numbers were cut to just three – but that didn’t stop the banter, abuse and ‘professional chat’. Yes […]

Keyword Suggestion Tools

Maybe internet users have finally had enough of the tortoise-like Overture keyword tool. Maybe the Google Keyword Suggestion tool was too vague. Or maybe it’s the week for releasing new, free keyword suggestion tools for search marketers and online search managers to analyse and ponder over. Here’s a quick overview of the free keyword suggestion […]

Yahoo! Site Explorer Badge

That’s right folks, blogging is back. After 2 months solid work (ok, and some play) be prepared for many a blog post! First of out the blocks this week is Yahoo’s update to it’s Site Explorer tool. Yahoo have provided a list of updates and new tools at their blog. The cool new tool (to […]

How to Fail an Exam

I got send this through a guy at work yesterday – very amusing! Even tempted to add this to the quirky phrases page! Admit it, we all knew someone at school who would do something stupid like this, just for the laugh. Lets be honest answers like this won’t get you into Harvard and on […]

Recall Beckham?

Do we want to? Really? It’s a question that has been on many an Englishmans lips after the stuttering Euro 2008 qualifying campaign. And now there is a site designed to question the football loving public – should McClaren recall Beckham? Vote to recall Beckham now at http://www.bringbackbeckham.com Can Beckham really still add benefit to […]

Carphone Warehouse buys AOL UK

Breaking news this morning – and it’s a biggy in the internet world! The BBC Reports Carphone Warehouse has bought AOL UK for around £370 million. The Carphone Warhouse has an aggressive internet strategy already and currently runs the largest chain of mobile phone stores in the UK. The Carphone Warehouse has said that it […]