Good Day Sway fans!

Another month has passed since I last blogged and I sunk further and further into my new status as awful website abandoner.

The funny thing is that it’s not like I am spending less time online, or have the excuse that I have more important things to do — it’s just that I run so many other sites that somewhere along the way Swaymyway.com became low down on my list of online things to do.

I’d promise I am going to revive it, make it a new years resolution to blog at least a few times per week. But I’d be lying to ya

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So some general stuff.

Dreamhost confirmed they won’t be giving me a refund for the 6 months of unused but paid for hosting. It does state this in their terms and always has done so I don’t have a leg to stand on in terms of complaining — but I will be spreading the word to any one and every time I see Dreamhost mentioned that no one should ever prepay with them, you may save a few bucks in the short term but it’s not worth the risk that 1 month after you’ve paid up they decide their archaic servers can’t handle your website any more and ask you to either stump up for dedicated hosting or sod the hell off — then it’s goodbye to all that lovely cash you just paid.

Down with Dreamhost, spread the word dudes!

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In other news:

* I got a lovely Christmas bonus on Monday so I went out and did what any respectable woman would do — I bought a fancy party dress, some underwear and three pairs of shoes in the sale
* I can’t believe it’s Christmas Eve already, it has sure come by quick. I am usually way more excited than this.
* I am very excited that Celebrity Big Brother begins in just over a weeks time.
* This is wrong on so many levels:

Who starts their sale on Christmas Day? Come on now, Christmas day is for lounging in front of the telly, enjoying the gifts you have received, getting a little squiffy.

It is not for sitting at your computer browsing online sales. Is nothing sacred any more?

What sucks however, is the fact I will be one of the sad nacks who cannot resist the lure of the mighty post Christmas sale and will probably end up spending a good portion of my day online — curse you sale loving gene, cuuurrrssseee youuuu!

Love you all and hope you have a wonderful Christmas Season xxxx

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Hey my last post was post number 300 on this blog! 300! Crazy times.

My host move is complete now, all sites now reside on Hostgators server. I just went to cancel my dreamhost account but though I better check the FAQs first to see how I go about getting the 6+ months back that I have pre paid and about fell off my chair when I read that they don’t refund that — I am staying calm at the moment and waiting for them to confirm it via a ticket I just sent in, but if that’s true there’s going to be drama…how could they possibly charge me for 6+ months of service….that they have not and will not be providing me with?! There must be some mistake.

Have you seen the new themes on GMail? When I noticed the design change yesterday I figured there must be some way I could edit the colour scheme, but look as I might I could not find it — I logged on just now and saw a big note saying to go to the themes tab to change it, so whether I was being blind yesterday or they only just added it — who knows?

I have set it to the desk theme at the moment, I have a similar theme on one of my other Wordpress blogs. Though I think once the novelty wears off I will switch it to something similar.

Still, cool new feature. I love me some GMail

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Over the last week or so I have been moving all of my sites away from Dreamhost, we fell out after they couldn’t handle my Reality TV site and kept telling me I had to either buy dedicated hosting off of them or move it elsewhere! Pah!

I moved RealityTVFan.org right away, and it’s taken a few months but now that I am settled and happy at HostGator I have started to move the rest of my sites over.

It’s taken a while, but HostGator wanted $75 per hour to do it for me and there was no way I was paying that much!

I moved Swaymyway.com and my hostees sites, Always, Dolce, Framecodes, Walkinthepark, WDITY and UK Bargains, last night and am now just in the process of making sure everything works how it should be — so if you encounter any problems let me know

Just one my site to go now, but it’s an important one because it’s what Gav and his dad use for email! Eep.

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Well, we went to the big city fireworks display in Derby at the weekend and we weren’t all that impressed. It didn’t even compare to the smaller local one we went to last year. It’s not that it was bad, it lasted a long time and was nice, it just wasn’t very spectacular. Plus we got lost getting back to the car, what should have taken us 10 minutes to walk took us 40 minutes and then it took us another 30 minutes to even get out of the car park — this meant we didn’t get home until much later than planned so we couldn’t even go out afterwards like we were meant to.

Over all, a bit of a disaster!

Still, I always like fireworks…enjoy the pretty pretty pictures! These were taken before it really started to pour down with rain, as I didn’t want my camera to get wet!

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Firstly, I am impressed. The last few seasons at this point I have wondered if it is worth continuing as the talent factor seemed low, but this year I already love several of the acts and there’s only two or three who have ‘Early Boot’ written all over them.

I also feel I should disclose I have a total girly crush on the lovely Cheryl Cole — not in a sexual way you understand, she just makes me happy on the inside because she’s beautiful and sweet!

Dani has the worst set of acts, Cheryl has the best, some of Simon’s will do well because they are hot boys and Louis….poor Louis, why has he not retired yet?

Best performances of the night were Alexandra, who I never rated too much throughout the audition process and sweet little Diana who has a divine voice — though I did agree with Dani’s criticism that the performance with the hands was a bit..err..creepy.

Worst performances were Daniel, the guy who…let’s be honest…is only on the show because his wife died in tragic circumstances. He’s a cruise ship singer at best. And Rachel, awful styling, awful song choice, awful voice and just bloody awful attitude — I strongly dislike her. Also poor Scott, probably the worst performance on X Factor ever, good on Simon for admitting he made a terrible song choice for him and good on the public for giving the lad a second chance.

I also didn’t rate Laura too much, it wasn’t atrocious but the comments from the judges confused me as they were singing her praises and calling it the performance of the night. I think it was sketchy and her styling was way off…Cheryl made this gorgeous young creature look about 2 stone heavier than she is by pouring her into a dress that was clearly too small for her!

I was surprised by the bottom two, both of the girl groups. Neither wowed me, but neither were terrible either…except for Girl Bands name…I mean really, why did no one change that god awful name as they progressed in the competition? Based on their second performances I really felt like Bad Lashes deserved to stay — they are at least memorable. Girl Band should be renamed Girl Bland!

Overall, great start to the live shows

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I just heard that google are launching their own web browser called Chrome, they actually ‘accidentally revealed it‘ yesterday, silly sausages — I don’t know if I am excited or not. I love google, they bring out some seriously awesome stuff and I tend to prefer it, but does the Internet need a new web browser? I am already thinking about the extra time it’s going to take to make sure all my sites work in and look right in this new browser, as being by google practically guarantees it’s success.

For me it’ll have to be something special to make me switch from Firefox which is completely flawless imho — what will ‘Chrome’ be offering to entice people to it?

Here’s what I would rather google spent their time and efforts doing, making GBay — though they’d obviously come up with a better name for it. I am sick to death of EBay and their extortianate fees, arrogant attitude and monopoly on the market. Google are in my opinion the only people big enough to bring out an alternative that could be as big as Ebay, knock them down a peg or two!

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And yes, I am going to completely ignore the fact I have not blogged here in over a month and just hope you don’t realise

** Update **

It’s now available for download here. Enjoy

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I want these so bad I think I might just die.

Actually, I don’t want them that badly because I am not willing to pay £12 - £16 for them, especially as some of them are crap and DealExtreme don’t guarantee that you will get 9 different ones - but I love them and I wish they’d either drop the price or sell them separately!

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Anyone who knows about illegalising a Wii (cracking, hacking, unblocking…whatever you call it) drop me a line pretty please, I want to know how easy/expensive/risky it is. Thankies

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Oh dear, it looks like I have failed to keep this site updated over the last month or so. I have a great excuse though…..

Oh no, wait…I don’t.

Yeah, no excuse…I have just lost the knack for running a personal blog, nothing much changes or goes on in my life these days that needs talking about, that never used to bother me…I could rant on for eons about nothing, but these days there are - to be completely honest - other things I would rather spend my time online doing, like playing bingo and working on my other websites that I make money from running *shrug*

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So here’s what I will talk about today, something that I do still have the ability to rattle on about….Big Brother!

I’ve been watching Big Brother UK and Australia again this year, and am eagerly awaiting Big Brother USA in at the end of next week. Big Brother Australia is nearing it’s end now, only a few weeks left, and I have to say that I have fallen out of love with it a little bit, the public have continually voted out the people I like the most, leaving an extremely dull final line up - Cherry, Alice, Rory, Ben - all nice people, but about as interesting to watch as paint drying. I adored Renee, Nobbi and Terrence but they all got evicted, because they actually had personalities. Brigitte is an awful human being, she’s entertaining alright but she’s a nasty, rude, spoilt little cow and I hate the fact her popularity means her bahviour is validated makes me a little queasy. That leaves Travis and Terri, I wouldn’t mind either of them winning, they stand out, the do have opinions and they have entertained me - but it’s a case of them being the best of a bad bunch, in any other series I doubt they’d have even been on my radar. Nobbi should have won, and he’ll always be the one I most remember from this year.

Big Brother UK is about a month in, and so far every eviction has gone the way I want it to…which is very unusual for Big Brother UK, usually I am the person who seems to want the opposite to everyone else - I loved Charley last year! Having said that there have only been 3 actual evictions, what with two people having got themselves removed for being discusting human beings - Alex for making ‘gangster threats’ and Dennis for spitting in poor Mohameds face.

Poor Mohamed indeed, he comes across as such a kind and gentle soul to me - his only downside seems to be that he’s a bit of a human dustbin who eats more than his fair share of the food - but the amount of hate and viciousness he’s had aimed at him for no apparent reason makes me really feel for the guy. I am hoping one of the gorgeous new girlies will fall madly in love with him and make him all better, or something.

I am currently strongly disliking Bex - horrible chav, Luke - nasty little stirrer (though he is funny), Mario - the fucking facilitator my arse and Dale - Like like like, um, like yeah. The kid is a moron of epic proportion.

I am completely indifferent to Lisa, Mikey, Rachel and Stuart - there’s a lot of wallpaper to try take down this year.

I am in love with Kat - she can be annoying, but she has a heart of gold, Darnell - there’s a guy who tells it like it is, Mo - Sweet kid, Rex - arrogant and cocky as all hell, but he has the right to be…I love his deadpan sense of humour and honesty.

I am yet to form an opinion on the new girls, since they have only been in the house 1 full day. Overall though, I am enjoying the season so far…hopefully that continues cos I haven’t been a huge fan the last few years.

That is all

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So apparently I didn’t post to say that I was going away just before I went, as I was completely sure I had done - ooops. I have been back since Saturday but was too busy over the weekend to blog, and then I have been sick since, I don’t know what’s been wrong with me but it has not been fun - but I am just happy that it happened after my holiday and not during it, that would have sucked and been ‘just my luck’.

So, hellloooooo…I am back from Wales, and I had a fully lovely time.

It was sunny and hot the first few days and Gav and I both got sunburnt, ooops - I don’t think either of us are used to being out in the sun like we were, we’re both pretty anti heat. We went on a boat trip and saw lots of seals, dolphins*, birds and caverns and the like, we had ice cream and fish and chips, we sat on the beach, got attacked by evil beastly seagulls, had a paddle in the sea, I got some lovely earrings and a bowl, the place we stayed was basic but nice and clean**, we were in a great location - 10 seconds straight forward to the town centre, 30 seconds left to the harbour and south beach and 30 seconds right to the north beach and promenade, we watched a Welsh male choir, we drank in a pub that was a boat and there was the most wonderful mirror in the flat that made me look about a foot taller and a stone thinner - I wanted to steal it so much. I partook in my very first alcoholic beverage for over a year and a half, a pint and a half of cider and black…I didn’t think it had made me drunk, I was expecting to feel plastered…yet when we got back to the flat I munched on some toast and then passed out fully clothed, so maybe I was a little drunk hehe. Can’t wait to go back.

I have uploaded 80+ pictures to my Facebook account so be sure to hit that up if we are friends over there, if not here’s a few to whet your whistle.

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Stalk me Sunday time, if you want to follow me over the next day or so just click the image below and you will be taken to a live view of my desktop!

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