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Things I love Thursday

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

This has been a good week, it’s time to share the love :-). The things I love this week, are..

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James getting a new job

As some of you may know, James’s current job has been a bit shaky lately, with the recession kicking in and all that. So he decided to look for a new job at Easter, and has been applying to things since then. He had a few interview offers, the third of these being last Friday at a company in Stratford – and I’m very pleased to say he got the job! The interview was at 4pm, and they offered him the job less than two hours afterwards! I’m a very proud wife right now. He’s actually really excited to be starting a new challenge, as it is something completely different to what he does now; currently he does web development, converting designs into functioning sites – the new job will be about developing an in house system. Still using the same technologies though – PHP & MySQL. Yay for James!

Twitnote going live

I’m still not over my excitement about our new site going live, I’m really proud of what James & I accomplished together. There are lots of ideas in the pipeline still about Twitnote, so no doubt you’ll be hearing about those soon! I’m finding it really useful for sending myself links & things – a lot nicer than my old method of emailing myself with a link & cluttering up my inbox. The bit.ly service is great for this because you can use the bookmarklet to shorten the link of the page you’re on, then tweet it to @twnote to share with your twitter followers and remind yourself of the link!

Building up my design portfolio

At the moment I’m working on several projects, which is great because I really want to build up my design portfolio and see if I can earn some money from my hobby (or at least break even on what I pay for my web hosting!). My current project is Pure Genius.

Roast Beef, yum

Last night I cooked Roast Beef, and it was yum – my roast potatoes were delightfully fluffy and crispy at the same time. That is all.

BookMooch

Yay for new books! I just got two in the post today – Going the Distance by Christina Jones, and the next Kathy Reichs that I need, Monday Mourning. I’m looking forward to reading them! It’s so nice to have a good long “to read” list and to have given away some books that I didn’t want – and all it’s cost is the postage! Read more about BookMooch in my previous post about it.

Other things that get my love this week are: the sunshine today as it’s made me feel all bouncy walking to & from work, Melton Mowbray pork pies, Cadbury Clusters, listening to Counting Crows on my iPhone,

Tags: bookmooch, Counting Crows, james, TiLT, twitnote
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BookMooch

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Last week I made a wonderful discovery via @trialia on twitter – and that discovery was BookMooch.com.

BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter

Their tag line is “Give books away. Get books you want.” which sums it up very nicely in just seven words! Based on a points system, BookMooch let’s you ‘sell’ your unwanted books for points, and spend those points to ‘mooch’ (request) books from other users:

  • Listing a book to give away = +0.1 points
  • Sending a book to someone in your country = +1 point
  • Sending a book to someone internationally = +3 points
  • ‘Mooching’ a book from someone in your country = -1 point
  • ‘Mooching’ a book from someone internationally = -2 points
  • Confirming that you have received a book safe & sound = +0.1 points

Why use BookMooch?

There is nothing worse in a book lover’s house than an unwanted book sitting in your shelf, when it could be sold or given away to make room for a book that you will love, and read over and over.

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Tags: bookmooch, books, reading
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