2003 Server Nework Course

Attended a networking course this week with server 2003; came out of the course with a list of things to do; one of the main things is security.

I learned how to listen to traffic on a network this week; yes folks this included PASSWORDS being sent to websites and servers. Scary! So spending most of the weekend screwing down our network vulnerailities.

Centre Parks

Had great fun at centre parks this week!
Yes! a great time and we didn't even fly!

Trouble is it cost about £800 altogether, may have been cheaper going abroad!

Pancake Race today!

Represented the Scarborough Hospitality Association at the anual pancake race; we didn't win!

But the lads down in the gym at the Crown did! :)

Yes it helps that when you enter a team; at least one of themruns for county at the 100m; lol

The boys at Boyes didn't stand a chance; the cup make a great mint holder in Stu's (club manager) office at work!

Been to Borough Yourism Working Group Today

Well me some borough planning guys today and well they want to formulate a borough wide planning policy with regard to tourismand hotels.
So we have more accommodation providers coming to Scarborough town; when we already have over supply, now these guys want a borough wide policy covering Filey and Whitby and Scarborough. Problem is the three towns are very different

• Filey needs more serviced accomodation providers, they already have a ton of non-serviced in the form ofCaravans.
• Whitby needs more serviced and non-serviced providers.
• Scarborough needs less serviced and probably no more non-serviced.

So there you have it we can not have a uniform borough wide policy on this matter.

Blatant Back Link!

http://www.CrownSpaHotel.com

PLease click on this! TA!

TESCO SCAM

Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while shopping at Tesco.
Don't be naive enough to think it couldn't happen to you!
Here's how the scam works:

Two seriously good-looking 20-21 year-old girls come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into car.
They both start wiping the windshield with a rag and Sqeezy with their
breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts.
Believe me it's impossible not to look.
When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say "no" and instead ask you for a ride to another Tesco store (any store will do they say, including these new tesco express stores!)
You agree and they get in the back seat. On the way, they start having sex
with each other. Then one of them climbs over into the front seat and
performs a sex act on you, while the other one steals your wallet.
I've had my wallet stolen January 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 5th, 17th, & 24th. Also
on February 1st, 3rd, and twice just yesterday!

Scarborough Relagated on Wikipedia

So wait and see!

Last time I checked Scarborough on google, the first 6 were UK Scarborough related.

I bet this drops to say 4 in a month, as Wikipedia has a page rank of 9 with backlinks to many Scarborough UK enitites.

Scarboroough Relagated on Wikipeadia

So wait and see!

Last time I checked Scarborough on google, the first 6 were UK Scarborough related.

I bet this drops to say 4 in a month, as Wikipedia has a page rank of 9 with backlinks to many Scarborough UK enitites.

Scarborough might be relagated in Wikipedia

So What I may hear you ask?
Well the attempt isbeing made by Scarbooians in Canada as their town is larger.
If we are relagated this will affect the listing of Scarborough UK in Google, yes it will.

So go to here to oppose this attempt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scarborough

Please help sort out these "cultured" Yanks!

ok! We won the Casino Bid.

I have read (briefly) the 181 page report, yes the borough has been awarded the Small Casino License.
I have had a think about where in the borough it will be?UMM!

My bet is on the Futruist Site, my reasons are;

• The sands dealis a done deal, the casino here will not affect the deal the council has already reached with benchmark, though benchmark can make a high monetary bid the council will have to take into other factors.
• Whitby has not got a site that comes to mind, and it would be rather too near the middleborough Casino site, access to Whitby from the south is also an issue, so effectively a site in Whitby would be competing for the same punters as the middlesborough site.
• Filey, nowwhee here is coming tomy mind.
• The futurist is in desparate need of development why loose the opportunity of developing this site by wasting it on a development (sands) that will not be stopped without a casino as part of the deal.

So we will wait and see!

What do you think?

Could this be YOU??

Yes this next week the results will be released to the lucky or unlucky towns who will be getting a regional casino. Could Scarborough be getting a casino with a gaming floor the size of a football pitch, excluding the gaming machines!This causes me concern as to the social impact on the town, yes my town, I was born and bred here! I am also concerned about the economic impact!The people visiting casinos will be from out of the town mainly, the money they spend in the casino will be pupmed out of town to the share holders of the Casino!Leaving an economic moat around the venue, where the people outside are generally excluded from the economic advantages of this type of development, the staff will be probably from old Eatern block countries.I think I might be regretting not taking up that Cash Converters opportunity in 2000, before I joined my family at the Crown Hotel (now Crown Spa Hotel).This type of economic moat is already prevalent in Atlantic city, where the locals look into the Casinos like children looking into "Willy Wonkas Factory" with longing eyes at the economic benefits inside, whilst the only new businesses that have opened up are Pawn Brokers!This type of development always hits the weakest and most vuneralble in society!

Been a bit Stormy this week!

I think the pictures say it all, yes we had rain and wind and BIG BIG SEAS.

Scarborough Hospitality Association Marketing Meeting

We what should we do as an association to promote hospitality;
we thought and discussed about the following;

• Building a data base together, if each member or local attraction collected on a simple form (possibly with a competition inducement) 75 names of guests/customers and shared them with the association. We as a group could market these people in quaterly mailings with refferal offers for recommending friends. We would soon have a list of over 10,000 + names. Our business belongs to a marketing group who do just this, we now mail to 30,0000 prospects!
• Seasonal advertising in regional newspapers like the Yorkshire Post, for as little as £120 each between at least 18 establishments, we could place an advert to run over 3 weeks promoting scarborough and the participating establishments. Offers would of course have to be simple like 3 nights for the price of 2, but obviously date restictions and prices would be different per establishment.
• A monthly newsletter sent out to potential and regular scarborough visitors to inform them as to what is going on in the town, this could be marketed through local atrractions and going out to shopping centres (like our promotional trips). This could be away of keeping people informed as to what is going on in Scarborough on a regular basisi with may be some offers from local attractions.
• Upgrade the SHA discount card to a "ticket book" self funded by the attractions that advertise in it, with any extra funds being used to promote Scarborough.

Do you have any thoughs?

We are next mneeting on the 30th Janury 2007

Anual Hospitality Ball Last Night!

This was a great night with a good band.
The food at the spa was very good as was the service.

Good venue to host it!

Thanks for the comments given regarding my amazing technicolour dream coat made of Tiger skin!

Anual Hospitality Ball Last Night!

This was a great night with a good band.
The food at the spa was very good as was the service.

Good venue to host it!

Thanks for the comments given regarding my amazing technicolour dream coat made of Tiger skin!

North Bay Liason Meeting

Ok met up regarding Sands Development.

Delays were alledgedly due to
Bat & Bird Survey
Suplimentary agreements to be finalised with benchmark and the council; apparently there were 26 questions from the banks to benchmark, 5 could only be answered by the council, 21 by Benchmark. Hopefully this will be agreed by mid-January 2007.

They are wanting to commence demolishing the corner next week (I will believe that when I see it!)

Atlantis, report to cabinet this week, (but I have seen the pool plant they use and it is pants) I expect it to be shut this summer personally.

Kinderland will be open this year, looks more like Atlantis will be shut as Good news may help bury the bad news!?

Beach Huts may arrive early Summer 2007 (aledgedly)

Northbay Railway is going well with the tempoary operators, with 3100 passengers since early December 2006, good news, I hope this operator gets to be the permanent operator! Expressions of interets close 19th January 2007.

To reserve a flat in the new block costs £1K (non refeundable!)

Well we will wait and see!

Hospitality Association Committee Meeting

Had this meeting today, much quieter than the last meeting.
The various issues were discussed Sands development, new parking revision etc...

People seemed more positive about the season ahead, I am also feeling more psoitive this year!

Got an email from Number 10 Downing street today.

Had a bet this week that I could get an email from number 10 downing street!
It won me a tenner! :)
Here is how I did it;
go to trendy tony's website, yeah I'm really in touch with society
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk
Think of something that is likely to be rejected, possibly something whitty.
Press send, and then got tap your mate up for the tenner! :)
Copy of email below!

Though this has a serious side, it does enable us as citizens to register our concerns directly, though one of my favourites over Christmas was "we the undersigned petition the prime minister to release a Christmas Record"


Hi,
I'm sorry to inform you that your petition has been rejected.
Your petition was classed as being in the following categories:
* Intended to be humourous, or has no point about government
policy
If you wish to edit and resubmit your petition, please follow
the following link:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Squirrel-Helper/CVA09VC5oEEDB3ptmWADBD2
You have four weeks in which to do this, after which your
petition will appear in the list of rejected petitions.
Your petition reads:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'Provide
every person of 70 years of age with a Grey Squirrel'
They are very useful for jobs around the house; I managed to
get my piano upstairs with my grey squirrel last week; mind you
I had to use a whip! But the brave little fellow did manage to
get all the way up two flights of stairs. I think this is a
super idea for keeping these little grey ASBO rascals from
harrasing the cute red squirrels!
-- the ePetitions team

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY!

OK! so i'm now 40+.
Well I don't feel any different; just wish people would stop reminding me that I am supposed to feel different.

One bonus was an email from Number 10!

What wifey wants for Christmas

Yes, my good lady told me yesterday night she wants the new Katie Pice and Peter Album, A whole new world, so I duely dashed out and bought it, when I gothome she was out and I just couldn't resist slicing the package open to listen to it first.
I've always loved music of all types whether sparce Belgian techno or dark jungle, gabba or handbag cheese, trip-hop or progressive, uplifting Italian piano or down and grimy speed garage, drum AND base or good ol' fashioned nosebleed, but today.... today something new, something ground breaking has literally assaulted my ears like a sonic enema, purging everything that I thought I knew about music, leaving me feeling washed out, cleansed and ready to leave behind the old me, what I used to be, leaving me ready, ready for a whole new world. I ripped this CD into MP3, put on my iPod and as the first notes hit me, I sat bolt upright, like, like...... like a puppy that's been trodden on, and I ran, ran through the house, down the hall and straight through the closed patio doors, shards of glass embedding in me as I danced around the garden, leaping like Bambi might have done if Bambi had been shot in the backside with a .177 air pellet. I don't remember what happened next, but when the final track, 'Lullaby', ended I was tapping my foot and clicking my fingers in the first class section of a plane to Barrow-in-Furness. Naked. My hair is now completely white and I twitch more than I used to, but the doctors say that's normal and have prescribed thorozine, but nothing, nothing, NOTHING beats the new high that I have found in this album. I wonder if it's possible to make albums like this in bathroom laboratories to be shipped out for unknowing young ravers worldwide....? What a buzz!! *Locks door and puts CD in player*
Merry Christmas!!