Below is a list of Chris Hamilton’s famous quotes. I hope you find them amusing as I do, but then again you will need to know of Chris and hes funny ways…Enjoy anyway!

• in which case.. you show interest and they’ll be all over you like the fattest woman who just found a 40kg chocolate cake
• i was the psychic foundation behind the Microsoft business concept and bill gates career drive
• he’s a lost cause with a dinosaurs brain
• about as useful as an empty water bucket in a desert
• homo
• LOL win
• FAIL
• cocksmokers
• screw u google
• but whatever
• this is the biggest joke
• Hammer the Comedian
• f**k thats heaps good
• u been doing blackhat seo haven’t you
• CEO of Hammer Owns Earth business
• Google fails
• rubbish
• dintrope void

If you have funny quotes that should be used in unacceptable situations, please comment and I’ll add them up with your username/name/website. I hope to hear from you!

Andrew Knight

Updated: 3/11/2008

Lehman Brothers - Shut Down

Lehman Brothers, one of the major financial brokers in America, has been forced to file for the biggest bankruptcy in history, according to the Financial Review this morning. Lehman Brothers, the 158-year-old finance broker, had made over US$59 Billion in 2007 with it’s total assets equating over US$691 Billion in the same year. Lehman Brothers also employed over 26,200 employees in 2008 alone, 130 of which were employed here in Australia were forced to file for Chapter 11 with the bankruptcy court for the Southern District of New York – “In order to protect its assets and maximise value”.

At the same time, another large Wall Street bank, Merrill Lynch, has been sold to Bank of America as fear has been spread of a global meltdown in the financial market. As the United States is one of the biggest economies in the world with Wall St, this has impacted hard on our Australian market, with the stock market tumbling sharply to 4,817 – a decrease of 1.8 per cent.

One of the biggest drops was seen in National Australia Bank which dropped 4.1 per cent but our dollar climbed steadily and stopped trading at 82.14 US cents.

Employee's Vacating Lehman Brothers

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) commented, saying Lehman Brothers had been suspended for up to a month, because its third-party clearers Citi Securities and Berndale Securities had terminated their arrangements with the firm.

Worldwide Financial Institutions who have had dealings with Lehman Brothers stand to lose billions of dollars due to its recent declaration of bankruptcy. To minimise losses, there was an emergency trading session on Sunday in New York to allow them to unwind some of their positions with Lehman, lets hope things work out. Unfortunately, this will only delay the inevitable when stock markets fall fast when opened.

Information sourced from following:

Financial Times (Paper)
ABC News (Information & Image)

Apple has just released the latest version of iTunes which is now currently available for download. iTunes 8  includes a few new funky features that will surely help provide a unique experience when playing your loved music, over and over again. Looking to the right, the new look of the “Music” tab is introduced. Keeping everything very simplistic as always, Apple have used black, grey and white to introduce a very focused look. Everyone has different tastes and favourite colours but my assumption is they are trying to target the younger generation with this 2.0 look rather then the wise.

Genius

Genius is a new implementation by Apple which has two parts attached. Firstly is the Genius Playlists which helps save time by creating new playlists based on your song selection. You pick a song, hit the Genius button and voilà!, you have a playlist with all your songs that go together well with your current song selection – neat.

How iTunes Genius Works

The second part is the Genius Sidebar which will recommend songs based on your current playing song. Basically, it introduces new songs which are almost identical with your selected song. It won’t recommend songs that are already in your library. As you can see on the left hand side, (Click to view full image) you choose a song, hit the genius button and it will automatically find you related songs whether that be in your library or available for download through the iTunes store. I would have to say that this is a great marketing tool, allowing different artists to be heard depending on people’s tastes. It doesn’t force you to purchase the song, but it gives you incentive due to it’s relational to what you’re playing. Working on emotion/feelings – smart.

To read more about iTunes 8 new features, visit their website by clicking here and/or to download iTunes 8, click here.

Andrew Knight

I’m always one for writing quality posts, for the best viewing experience possible. However, I am doing an interesting test which will involve a series of things for the popular search engine, Google. The test’s I’m doing are as follows:

• Keyword Density – To see how I rank if I have more of the same keyword in one post. e.g. Andrew Knight
• Bolding or Emphasising Keywords – This will be combined with the above. Bolding particular keywords and seeing if this indeed does contribute.
• Adding a tag just for the keyword Andrew Knight and nothing else.
• Linking to a popular external website, i.e. Wikipedia or News.com.au.
• Interlinking different keywords to multiple posts, see if I rank better for those keywords. “Andrew Knight is my own personal blog.”
• Destroying my competitor, Chris Hamilton who is, plain and simple – a Tyre Kicker.

The outcome will be an interesting one due to my current ranking for Andrew Knight. I was initially number one in the Australian’s results for Google but unfortunately it seems I have dropped to number eight. Not even ranking for my phrase break but ranking for the post about Nicole Kuepper which I posted a week or so ago now.

If you don’t know what a Tyre Kicker is, you can find it on the Urban Dictionary. They always have great urban words on there, it’s amazing some of the stuff you do find. I will post words on my blog, Andrew Knight if I find them worthy enough. A snippet from the term Tyre Kicker:

Andrew Knight: Hi I’m selling a car
Chris Hamilton (Tyre Kicker): Hello can you give me more information about your car.
Andrew Knight: It’s a car.
Chris Hamilton (Tyre Kicker): It’s the car I want but I rang just for the sake of it I have no intention of buying it bye.

I have a picture of Monty, a very intelligent monkey who talks the English language, uses his hands exactly like we do and also shows facial expressions. Click the image to view the full-size.

Monty: Looking at Chris Hamilton - The Tyre Kicker

Please feel free to comment on my blog, Andrew Knight anytime you wish to do so. I must be up front, all my comments are moderated so all Spam, Advertising or Inappropiate material will be deleted. Andrew Knight likes to have a clean blog for all his regular and new visitors.

Thank you for participating in this experiment. If you would like to know more about me, visit my About page.

As you may recall, I posted a few pictures from Lolcats earlier on in the peace and I said I would do so again. I am back posting more. I would like to post the other 1 million, unfortunately I would find myself looking for a new server after the old one had blown up from bandwidth consumption.

The below images have been scaled down to help you if you have a smaller screen resolution, also for it to look neat. To view the full image, click on it.

No Stupid, It's CTRL, ALT, then DELETE

I Did The Math, We Can't Afford The Dog

Materials to build kittehpult: expensive. Getting rid of the dog in 3.. 2.. 1..: Priceless

I'll do it later. I'm watching my stories.

This (is the) last time I (will) hang Christmas lights ever!

I still wonder how do you have a camera to capture these extraordinary moments? All these photos are valuable and clearly priceless. All have their own humour and great to know that there are so many photos on Lolcats.

Could you look at Funny Pictures of Cats all day long? I would if I could.

Everyday Money Credit Card

Woolworths, one of the biggest supermarket chains here in Australia has now gone into the finance market but primarily focused on credit cards, for now. The Sunday Morning Herald (SMH) is now calling them by a new name: “Woolworths – The Credit Card People“. The new entity, “Everyday Money” will not only provide credit cards but home insurance, car insurance & various types of loans in the near future.

The Everyday Money Credit Card will help you earn valuable reward points, everywhere you shop. According to Woolworths but of course I’m unable to comment on that point as I haven’t gotten any feedback from people who have actually purchased the everyday money credit card. Here is a brief run down on what you will receive and obviously ‘expect’ from a credit card, says Woolworths:

• No annual fee for the first year

• Free additional card holder

• A competitive credit card interest rate

• Up to 55 days interest free on purchases

• 5.99% on card balance transfers for the first 6 months

• Worldwide acceptance

• Chip security

• MasterCard® PayPass™

• Access to Everyday Money Credit Card Repayment Insurance

• We’ll even let you choose your card colour – now that’s refreshing!

Now what really surprises me is all these quick 1 year don’t pay anything gimmicks really traps people. Automatically they assume that since it has a low rate, a great interest free period and doesn’t cost anything right now, it’s superior to all other credit cards. Unfortunately, they seem to find out the hard way later one because they ‘accidentally’ missed a payment and have to pay an astronomical fee.

If you are considering purchasing a credit card or simply would like more information, I would recommend visiting CreditCards.com.au. A great website with detailed information about all leading credit cards and a handy page to compare credit cards.

I personally wouldn’t buy a credit card at my age let alone the Woolworths Credit Card. Why do I need one? I don’t need to support a family, pay back my car repayments or pay the overdue electricity bill. I will only apply for a credit card online if my web hosting business became in need of further development and I wanted to grow and take it further.

If you feel like you never have any money, can’t afford to pay for things, then sit down with a cup of coffee and talk to your partner, a family member or your best friend about your current situation. We get targeted by credit card companies on our weaknesses. Sometimes it’s better someone else assessing your financial situation then your own emotions.

iTunes Store Blocked by China

Stumbling across an article from SlashDot, I discovered that over the billion who inhabit China, they are now unable to browse and download songs from the iTunes network. This came in effect due to an album “Songs for Tibet” was downloaded over 40 times from Olympic athletes who are supporting Tibets cause. The album also included songs criticising China’s internet firewall – a.ka the “Great Firewall of China“, which ironically, was the only thing disallowing access to the iTunes network in the first place.

I don’t personally use iTunes to download and purchase music, however I do use it to listen to all of my favourite songs and I find it much easier then most music players. Regarding purchasing music, I prefer to buy an album, upload it to my computer and organise it the way I want to.

If China wishes to keep carrying on this charade of criticising people who support Tibet, they will, without a doubt fall hard and flat on their face.

“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” -V (From the movie: V for Vendetta)

I don’t take sides generally, but when it comes to government and power, China should really consult their position and begin thinking about the long-term effects of their actions.