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How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes

Found this tutorial really helpful for setting up Google maps with websites: How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes

Prime Time TV....Is it worth it?

Ever since I started working I must say, I haven't really been a fan a prime time TV. Given the fact that my daily travel averages 4 hours commuting between London & Oxford all I really want to do when I get home is eat & sleep.

But the past two days Tuesday and Wednesday the 3rd & 4th showcased 2 quaility tv programmes that make me inclined to reading the daily TV guide in the morning papers.


The first one was aired on Tuesday night on Channel 5 - How to be a property developer hosted by Gary McCausland, an Irish born Real Estate mogul, business man and television presenter (rumors have it that he is dating Belfast cutie; Orliath of UK Big Brother 6, but thats beside the point). He manged to make a wanabe-property developer couple £54,000 richer within the span of 4 weeks by assisting them acquire bargain real estate in a property auction and then adviced on the tasteful renovation that ultimately increased its value. He finally gave them tips on negotiation skills for price bargaining. It was amazing, I must say....even though I started in the middle of the show. I have set a weekly reminder on my phone for this program.
I read a little on Gary and realised that this overly successful enterpreneur paid his 9-5 dues for 10 years working in various Real Estate management roles in multinationals like Cable & Wireless and MCI. He learned the ropes buying and selling properties for these companies and then set up his company Richland Developments in 2002. Read more about him here.


The second show on Wednesday night, on Channel 4 - Derren Brown - The Heist hosted by no other than Derren Brown was amazing, revealing and scary. Derren explained the major reason for making this show was more of an inquest to the reasons why perfectly normal people (or would I say foot soilders) take unethical and otherwise 'wicked' orders from evil, dictatororial and manipulative figures of authorities (like Hitler) when in perfectly normal circumstances they will not. To show us how and why this can happen, under the guise of a motivational seminar and a follow-up documentary, Derren's aim was to persuade 4 members of a group of about 12 responsible, middle-management businessmen and women to steal £100,000 in an armed robbery. It was....amazing read more about it in this article. There is also some criticism on this thread in his very own forum...I personally do not share those view. I really enjoyed the show and fell it was quite reavling in terms of exploring the human-psyche. Don't know when its coming out on DVD, but check amzaon from time to time for it. Check The Trick in the Mind for more on him on DVD.


Meanwhile Celebrity BB UK is on with Faria Alam, Dennis Rodman, George Galloway, Jodie Marsh, Rula Lenska, Pete Burns, Maggot, Traci Bingham, Preston Samuel, Michael Barrymore, Chantelle Houghton (a Paris Hilton Look-alike and only non-celebrity).

Two-headed Snake (bizzare)

A two-headed albino snake is to be auctioned on eBay with offers starting at $150,000 (£85,276).

The World Aquarium in St Louis has been home to We, a rat snake, since 1999. She is 2.5cm thick and 120cm (4ft) long, and her body is white but her heads have a reddish appearance. Leonard Sonnenschein, president of the museum, said: “When people see the snake they are awe-struck.”

unlike some two-headed animals, both mouths are connected to the same stomach, Sonnenschein said.