A Good Headshot Gets You Noticed
January 14, 2008
A headshots photographer in London is not hard to find, but don’t base your decision to hire a headshot photographer on price alone. Look into a few more things when shopping around for someone who will get you noticed by that casting director. A good actor headshot gets you noticed by the casting director. It [...]
Northern Rock Relieved of Equity Release Portfolio
January 12, 2008
Northern Rock announced yesterday that it has agreed to sell its portfolio of Lifetime home equity release mortgages to JPMorgan. The move will help pay back some of its loan to the Bank of England. Northern Rock has agreed to keep running the portfolio of equity release mortgage products on behalf of JPMorgan. Equity Release [...]
Photography Laws, Copyright and Trespass
January 11, 2008
Photographers need to know where we stand in relation to copyright and trespass laws. It isn’t that there are specific photography laws or regulations covering photography. UK law operates more on the basis of what you are not allowed to do, rather than enshrining rights in a constitution. Truth is there is little in the [...]
Sir Edmund Hillary Dies
January 11, 2008
Sir Edmund Hillary has died. Aged 88 Sir Edmund died last night. He was the first man to climb the worlds highest mountain, Mount Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary had been suffering health problems since last April, apparently as the result of a fall in Nepal. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said that his death [...]
London Property Auctions – Upcoming Auctions Jan 2008
January 9, 2008
January is not a busy month for UK property auctions but there are some around the UK if you search. We\’ve located property auctions in London and in other major UK cities for you.
Panasonic Announce Wireless Digital Camera
January 8, 2008
Panasonic have announced they are to produce a wireless digital camera that will be able to upload pictures to the web via T-Mobile hotspots. The announcement was made at CES in Las Vegas. Whilst it is not the first to announce a wireless digital camera, (Nikon, Kodak and Canon all have wireless enabled digital cameras), [...]
Use images to give your posts extra zing
January 4, 2008
Stock Photography can greatly enhance your blog posts and provide that little bit extra for your readers. Magazines and newspapers do it, why shouldn’t you? It needn’t cost the earth either. There are many websites online that offer free stock photography as well as some that offer public domain images that can be used without restriction. Read this article and find some useful websites where you can download images for free and use both personally and commercially.
For Sale By Order of Mortgagee
January 4, 2008
Property for sale “By Order of Mortgagees” will become more and more prevalent in UK property auction houses and auction catalogs as the UK housing market becomes more uncertain. By order of the Mortgagee is another term used to denote a property that has been repossessed.
Creative Writing Strategy: NaNoWriMo
January 3, 2008
As a creative writing strategy, I took a look at NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. It is a creative writing project, started way back in 1999 with 21 participants. Held in the month of November every year, participants in NaNoWriMo aim to write 50,000 words in 30 days. According to the NaNoWriMo website last [...]
Spokeo, find out what YOU are doing online
January 2, 2008
As a follow up to my earlier post which asked and answer the question What is Spokeo?, I thought I would have a deeper play around with the system and try to find out what it found about myself online that perhaps I needn’t make public. Before going into detail, I just want to qualify [...]