If you like your fashion (like me) then you will spend a lot of time out on the high street browsing all of the latest brands and checking out all of the new stuff for summer. Now at the moment are apparently in a credit crunch, times are hard and we are all struggling to make ends meet. This is what we are all being told anyway, but is it really the case?
I raise this question as this weekend I went out shopping with my mum, Saturdays are notoriously busy as you know, especially if the sun is out but this Saturday was a massive exception. We went to lakeside down in Essex and let me tell you that EVERYONE was down there. There were que’s for just about every shop you went into, especially the fashion shops, with people gagging to get hold of the latest stuff for the summertime. I had to wait 20 minutes in River Island to try on a top that I fancied and it wasn’t just in there. Just about every shop you went in was packed.
So where is this credit crunch then? It certainly hasn’t stopped people from spending the or money that for sure, lakeside must have taken hundreds of thousands on Saturday alone and every clothes shop was heaving. Are people being that careful with money? Is everyone still maxing out their credit cards so they can get the latest fashion without regard to the bill that will await them for the month after?
People that have lost their jobs will no doubt disagree with me that things are bad, otherwise they wouldn’t be out of work, and I do agree with that as not everyday on the high street is like a Saturday. But people are still spending money like it is going out of fashion (excuse the pun).
Anyway, I work in the fashion industry and I can tell you that there isn’t the kind of money in the industry that you think there maybe, but at the same time no major label has gone bust yet, and in my opinion they never will.
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Apparel software company that I work for. We have obtained another 2 major contracts this week so there must still be plenty of money going around the industry, otherwise we would be out of work and not making a profit.
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Enough of the dog bling, lets get back down to earth people!!
You have to be joking me when you say that there is a £3000.00 dog collar available. You also have to be kidding me when you say there is a 1200.00 dog bed on the internet aswell!!
I have been looking around for a new bed for my dog online today and I have discovered some amazing products out there. No doubt that animal lovers reading this blog entry will know about this stuff already, but I didn’t and I find it truly amazing just what you can get for your pets nowadays.
So far I have found the following, a £3000.00 dog collar that is plated in 18 carat gold. AND if you want bigger sizes then it can go up to 5K. You can honestly tell me that someone actually bought one of these, if you did them we would love to hear from you. Imagine loosing it on your dog walk!! This must be a bit of a marketing product for the company in question and I have to admit, it got me looking!!!
Secondly we found what has to be the most expensive dog bed in the world. At £1250.00 this dog bed has to be the most expensive in the world, but what do you get for that money? Well I will tell you, VERY LITTLE. You get a dog bed that is big enough for a toy breed and no bigger, you get a personalised dinner set with your dogs name engraved on it and you get a personalised pet passport. Don’t get me wrong, it looks stunning but is it worth the money? If you re Paris Hilton then maybe....
So what else did we find? Well there was a gold plated dog bowl at £375.00 , a bling dog harness with genuine crystals and cow hide at £200.00. Before I knew it I was getting completely sidetracked and looking at more bling stuff then real life products that I can afford to buy, but it’s nice to pretend that you are rich and do some online window shopping sometimes.
So are there any of you out there that have spent this sort of money on bling? Or are we just browsing and looking at stuff that 1. We couldn’t afford and 2. We don’t actually need anyway? I for one would not spend this sort of money on my dogs, I love them very much but not that much I can tell you!!
Resources.
Dog Beds that we found on the internet. If you have a budget like david Beckham’s then fil your boots, otherwise enjoy some window shopping!!!
I have been looking around for a new bed for my dog online today and I have discovered some amazing products out there. No doubt that animal lovers reading this blog entry will know about this stuff already, but I didn’t and I find it truly amazing just what you can get for your pets nowadays.
So far I have found the following, a £3000.00 dog collar that is plated in 18 carat gold. AND if you want bigger sizes then it can go up to 5K. You can honestly tell me that someone actually bought one of these, if you did them we would love to hear from you. Imagine loosing it on your dog walk!! This must be a bit of a marketing product for the company in question and I have to admit, it got me looking!!!
Secondly we found what has to be the most expensive dog bed in the world. At £1250.00 this dog bed has to be the most expensive in the world, but what do you get for that money? Well I will tell you, VERY LITTLE. You get a dog bed that is big enough for a toy breed and no bigger, you get a personalised dinner set with your dogs name engraved on it and you get a personalised pet passport. Don’t get me wrong, it looks stunning but is it worth the money? If you re Paris Hilton then maybe....
So what else did we find? Well there was a gold plated dog bowl at £375.00 , a bling dog harness with genuine crystals and cow hide at £200.00. Before I knew it I was getting completely sidetracked and looking at more bling stuff then real life products that I can afford to buy, but it’s nice to pretend that you are rich and do some online window shopping sometimes.
So are there any of you out there that have spent this sort of money on bling? Or are we just browsing and looking at stuff that 1. We couldn’t afford and 2. We don’t actually need anyway? I for one would not spend this sort of money on my dogs, I love them very much but not that much I can tell you!!
Resources.
Dog Beds that we found on the internet. If you have a budget like david Beckham’s then fil your boots, otherwise enjoy some window shopping!!!
Friday 19 June 2009
Stop Knocking Microsoft everyone!!!!!
I am a huge Windows fan so I was very excited when I heard that there was to be a new operating system being released at the end of this year.
Some of you may look at that statement and say I am completely mad as I know there are a lot of people out there who absolutely hate the operating system, but actually I think that it is a hell of a lot better than some people say. I must admit that Vista was a bit of a disaster, it was half finished when released and it has taken all this time to release a decent service pack, but I think that half the people that moan about vistas basic problems are the ones that don’t know how to use the operating system properly.
For example, the long running joke about vista asking permission to ask permission can be avoided if you know where to turn this off (user account control by the way) but the people moaning about it do not realise that. Permissions issues with drives are sorted if you run the correct updates and if you bother to run service pack 2 then the slow vista that you all know will disappear, replaced by a new faster vista!
I often hear techies banging on about how good their UNIX based operating systems are and how they are just as good as Uncle Bill’s efforts, but how many of you have actually installed a free Operating system and run it side by side Windows, because if you do, you will soon realise that they are actually worlds apart in both functionality and compatibility.
They are slower (yes they actually are slower at processing tasks) and the free applications that everyone bangs on about cannot touch the likes of Microsoft Office.
And what about if you want to play games? How the hell are you suppose to because most of the time you can’t. Now I know what some people will say, it’s all about market share, well that’s life, if your operating systems were much better then Microsoft then they would have taken over by now, especially if they are free......
If you have a different opinion on this (and I bet most of you will) then let me have it. But the bottom line is that Microsoft deserves more credit for changing the way we use computers, but it will never get it.
Resources;
IT Support London based company that I work for which provides both Linux and Windows support. I would admit that we fix more windows related problems, but it is all about percentages.
Some of you may look at that statement and say I am completely mad as I know there are a lot of people out there who absolutely hate the operating system, but actually I think that it is a hell of a lot better than some people say. I must admit that Vista was a bit of a disaster, it was half finished when released and it has taken all this time to release a decent service pack, but I think that half the people that moan about vistas basic problems are the ones that don’t know how to use the operating system properly.
For example, the long running joke about vista asking permission to ask permission can be avoided if you know where to turn this off (user account control by the way) but the people moaning about it do not realise that. Permissions issues with drives are sorted if you run the correct updates and if you bother to run service pack 2 then the slow vista that you all know will disappear, replaced by a new faster vista!
I often hear techies banging on about how good their UNIX based operating systems are and how they are just as good as Uncle Bill’s efforts, but how many of you have actually installed a free Operating system and run it side by side Windows, because if you do, you will soon realise that they are actually worlds apart in both functionality and compatibility.
They are slower (yes they actually are slower at processing tasks) and the free applications that everyone bangs on about cannot touch the likes of Microsoft Office.
And what about if you want to play games? How the hell are you suppose to because most of the time you can’t. Now I know what some people will say, it’s all about market share, well that’s life, if your operating systems were much better then Microsoft then they would have taken over by now, especially if they are free......
If you have a different opinion on this (and I bet most of you will) then let me have it. But the bottom line is that Microsoft deserves more credit for changing the way we use computers, but it will never get it.
Resources;
IT Support London based company that I work for which provides both Linux and Windows support. I would admit that we fix more windows related problems, but it is all about percentages.
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