The importance of reviews

Reviews are important. They let potential buyers know how happy previous buyers so that the buyer knows if they can purchase the product with confidence.

So imagine my delight when I saw all these wonderful reviews on Amazon…

Kugelschreiber

Ken Lee

Who?

This is one of my favourite songs. I can’t listen to Mariah now without thinking about this clip

Flying Penguins

Some April Fool’s jokes are spectacular aren’t they.

Check this one out whilst you can - it’s only up for another 5 days.

Flying Penguins

Hey Joe, whaddya know?

He disappeared for a long time but now he is back …and about time too.

Click, read and post links on your blogs.

The Wall of Shame 

Not panicking, not panicking, not panicking

Phew. I feel as though I am never away from the computer!

I’ve manged to write up about 4000 words so far so I’m feeling a lot happier and the 10,000 isn’t looking as daunting now.  The only way I could stop panicking and ensure some decent sleep was to make a planner. I broke everything down into manageable chunks and popped them all into my day to day planner, crossing them out as I do them. Got to love Excel.

I’ve written up the Introduction (2044 words), and the Method and Results sections for the first study. I’m half way through prepping my voice files for the second study and I’m hoping to get E-Prime all set up by the end of Monday. Then, my planner tells me, I should be able to start collaring some males into being my participants. Once I have run one or two experiments I’ll be able to start writing up the second half of the Method section as I do the rest. E-Prime will collate and sort my data, then all I need to do is shove it through SPSS, write up the Results and then start thinking about the Discussion, which will need to be 2-3000 words I reckon.

I also have a 2000 word essay to write on offender profiling so I’ve started to research for that and should have a decent essay plan by Sunday evening…she says. If I manage to get it done I will be a good few days ahead of my planner.

28th April is looming closer and closer…

Result!

How fantastically bloody marvelous am I then eh?

After weeks of collating my data I was finally able to shove it all through SPSS (statistical analysis software) and after pouring over the output  (tables and graphs filled with zillions of numbers) I was chuffed to see that basically I am fab.

Out of the 11 different measures from the voice analysis 8 were significant, 2 were approaching significance and only 1 said nothing happening. Ya-hooooooooo.

So basically this means that…well…can’t tell you actually because before I hand in my dissertation I have to feed it through some software that will match what I have written against what is already on the internet. It’s to make sure that I haven’t copied anything. I’m allowed a certain % because obviously there are only so many words in the English language and so many combinations, particularly within a specialist area, but I’m not prepared to risk this % going up and someone investigating as to why and where. That would be an interesting discussion in front of the plagiarism committee wouldn’t it?
I will tell you in May though.  Maybe June.  It’s worth waiting for. It’s an original finding.

Meanwhile I am tapping away at the rest my dissertation.

*grin*

Procrastination

Oh yes.

Warning!

Do not got to Marks & Spencers.

Do not go to the Food Hall.

Do not pick up Rocky Road Mini Bites.

If you do. Just don’t open them.

I feel sick. 

Where’s Panty Hog?

…and the rest of Panty World!?

AAAARRRGGHHH!!!!

Don’t worry, the company Panty Hog  leases their server from is moving its datacenter to a new location and they say the move will take about twelve hours which will be about 11:00 am New York time. The company indicates that it will affect 600,000 websites so I expect we’ll see a bunch of panty sites down during that time.

Let’s just eat Easter Eggs instead……mmmmmmmmmmm………….choc’late

My Guilty Pleasures

There’s a fab show on TV at the moment apparently entitled Guilty Pleasures. It is where current stars confess their love for songs from the past that others may consider naff.

Here’s one of my pleasures. I was overjoyed to find it on YouTube.

Mister, your eysh are full of heshitashion,
So makes me wonder if you know what you looking for
Maybe, I wanna keep my reputashion
I’m a shensashion
You try me once, you back for morrrrre.

Yes shir , I can boogie
But I need a certain song
I can boogie, boogie, boogie
All niiiiiiiight lonnnnngg

Yes shir , I can boogie
If you say you can’t go wrong
I can boogie, boogie, boogie
All niiiiiiiight lonnnnngg

Don’t you just love her Spanish accent?

Aren’t they just simply fabulous?