If you are looking for Brain Creative Intelligence or any of the companies below, then you may find it will have been and gone like the wind. No need for a think tank to work it all out, nor would you need half a brain or any creative intelligence.

I hope you can SEO what I am doing here :-)

A little birdy has now given me this link, makes interesting reading.

#projectsnake (anagram) steals from Harrow School

Seems to be he has been doing this for a while.

Had a few days in Spain enjoying a short vitamin D top up, away from the cold and grey of the UK of late.

They seem to have started building more apartment blocks, whilst others remain abandoned halfway and not touched for 2 or more years.

Having done the shopping out there it goes to show how expensive the UK is to live.

I haven't been great at updating this web site of late but for a good reason - work is crazily busy in a good way.

Revenues are up, client satisfaction is up and the team are working very well. Coming up to three years since the truth of #projectsnake came out and his trail of lies and fraud. He went on to sink a local business out of £350k along the way. That is a big burning hole, even for a parent company of £42m. Ouch. Not very refreshing at all.

Karate has been ticking along but unfortunately our chief instructor suffered a stroke last year. Goes to show life is fragile even for the most actively fit among us. Best to enjoy it to the full and we are all wishing him a safe recovery.

OK, this year's charities to get a little something from my bah-humbug attitude to sending Christmas cards are

Shelter

Alzheimers's Society

Age UK

Barnardos

I don't usually do techy posts here but I thought I would give a link here as it was a definitely great find and to say thanks to the developer.

My weekends usually and strangely start with a bit of ironing, probably through guilt, and catching up on BBC's iPlayer on stuff I have missed the previous week. However, since the BBC did an update second half of 2012, BBC iPlayer would not work on my old PowerPC based iMac as iPlayer needed a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.

Sounds lame, yeah?

So after a while of being hacked off, and trying to use iPhone and iPad it just was a pain.

Thankfully this guy came to the resuce and built a version that would install on PowerPC Based Macs and bring BBC iPlayer back in the game!

Click for the guy's video on YouTube.

Click to download the file.

I haven't spent the Xmas period back home up North probably for about 8 to 10 years.

Normally I stick around for work but decided to venture up this time. Thankfully there wasn't the snow and ice of a few years ago, just wind and rain, which is just as miserable at times.

Saw my little nephews and family. Saw some karate buddies. Went to a black tie do. Saw friends. Saw too much food and drink and not enough sleep.

Saw a couple of places that I had never been to when living up there. Visited the Angel of the North and Penshaw Monument.

Now with New Year's Eve night out looming, I am just knackered. At least tomorrow is supposed to be nice and sunny so will blow the cobwebs off down on 'our' beach.

Got my cheap Dinner Suit from M&S ready for the Holly Ball in Newcastle on Boxing Day. Ordered online and got it cheaper than the shop. Tried the trousers on for size and was a bit too optimistic. Went to a M&S store and got them changed there and then, for a larger size before you ask. Bargain.

Also got some trousers with active waist technology! Elasticated that means. Gotta get a grip of this in the new year. Seriously.

There was a fire and safety training session at work today. Started off as oh another waste of time when we all have work to do and so on, but once you get to see how quickly fire can take hold and how deadly it can be, we all took notice.

3 to 4 minutes is not a long time. Looking back at the fire at Bradford City's football ground was horrific.

So, get those smoke detectors sorted out, close all downstairs doors at night, check your cabling jungle and power extensions and rest easy. Shutting the bedroom door is always a bit contentious but opening the window more is better. Better that than the smoke coming in!

Time flies.

Now that the dining table and chairs have come we are almost, almost done in the dining.

We just need a 8m extension. No, just kidding. I wish.

Just one more piece waiting to be delivered and that is it. It should be it. I hope it is the last bit.

Nevertheless, Hotel Fong continues to be very busy. Cheers.

At last! The roof has been completed.

After about of month, which was blessed with some great weather to begin with and then blighted by not so good weather, it is finally finished.

Luckily it was done by my good friend Peter so I got a bit of a bargain out of it. Actually, not sure whether it would have been better to pay him than pay for his beer!!

There was a bit of a scare part-way through when he left for the weekend and a bit of a storm came in. Leaking Velux windows are not good. Lots of buckets and stress but Ange sorted it out by climbing on the roof.

Well, if you are bored and want to take a look here they are: photos of new roof.

Supposedly it has taken about 7 tonnes off the house's shoulders. I bet it is feeling relieved. Loft needs boarding out but that is next year's project, I need some rest.

The golden sands of the Bournemouth coast is a huge draw for everyone, especially if the sun it out. I don't think there is anywhere better in the UK to be honest and to be biased :-)

This beach club is open to all and membership is free!

However, beware the dodgy traders that you might come across. I can think of one but you might want to refresh my memory. Sometimes no amount of rebranding can help with CRM and CMS sales.

What is Brain Creative Intelligence anyway? Not very evident when £330k+ got burnt through under the guise of another local company it emerged. I personally don't like other folk getting duped either.