I’ve just got myself a balance transfer credit card in the vain hope of sorting out my credit rating somewhat so that when I finally get around to it I can purchase a car with credit and not get completely ripped off in the process.

I’ve transferred my debt onto this card and closed my other accounts - roll on better credit scores all around!

In an effort to lure consumers to their credit card, many companies offer free balance transfers from your old credit card. Once the money is safely owed to the new company, they will often provide a grace period where they charge far less on the transferred balance. Finding two, one, or even zero percent interest is possible. Oftentimes this introductory rate lasts for around six months to a year after the balance transfer takes place.

For a savvy consumer, this can be an excellent method of reducing credit card debt. It leaves the person free to pay down the balance on a credit card without incurring interest charges. Using this strategy, a person could potentially open a new account that offers a balance transfer when the old one expires. Then transfer all of the balance to the new card to begin a new grace period of low or non-existent finance charges. If you plan to do a balance transfer, be sure to close your old account immediately; having more than two credit card accounts open may damage credit scores.

So I survived T In The Park, just. It was once again an epic journey from East Kilbride to Balado. Not that I expected anything less after last year’s fiasco.

Started off with the boy’s mum picking up our friends from their houses and dropping them off at the bus station and then coming back to get us plus all their stuff that they’d left the night before, which nearly resulted in us forgetting their tent. That’d have served them right!

I took a few photos when we were getting ready to set off, but ended up not taking my camera with me because I’d managed to fill my one and only micro sd card and didn’t have time to backup the photos on it to the computer before we left. It ended up I bought a £1 disposable camera when we got there anyway…chances of the photos actually developing? Probably nil.

Anyway, we got to the bus station and I’d to run like hell to buy underwear (forgot to pack some) and a pair of sunglasses since I was optimistic about the weather situation. Turned out that was a good move on my part as the sun was blaring for most of the weekend. Got on the 50 year old double decker bus and sat downstairs with our bags for a change, heard too many stories of bags being stolen at the other end. In fact one of our friends went up to Balado on the Thursday night and had £200 stolen from his jeans while he slept. Idiot.

We didn’t hit any traffic what so ever on the way to Balado, which was amazing. By the time we got there it was about 11.45am (we left East Kilbride just after 10am) and didn’t get into the campsite until about 2.30pm. We had to queue, with backpacks on and in the heat, for probably about a mile and a half. Moving forward 4 foot every couple of minutes, with one of the boys constantly moaning about being in pain. Yes, so were we. I had a lot of stuff with me, including a double airbed in my backpack and carrying two camping chairs which were awkward as hell. Highlights of the queue included the boyfriend making a guranja (sp?) gyu scream Guranja pretty damn loudly that the whole queue seemed to turn around to look at him for 20p. Yes, 20p. We got a book out of it too which I ended up throwing over the fence as the boyfriend was a bit drunk on Saturday afternoon and was going to try and sell it to somebody. Probably would have ended up with him getting his head kicked in.

I found us a great place to camp, Yellow 2, and within 20 minutes of getting our tent up it started to rain. We sat and talked and the boys got drunk and then headed into the arena. I made us walk slow to listen to Scouting For Girls on the walk of death (really, really long walk into the arena up the side of the NME stage) and we went to get Mojitos from the Bacardi B-Bar. Which I stole. Well, the guy had two chances to ask me for the money and he didn’t so we just ran away with our drinks. £16 saved there. I got a lanyard with a whistle on it from the barman too, so that was me happy. Went and seen the Chemical Brothers with the boyfriend and danced like a tit for about 5 minutes with glowsticks because ONE drink gets me drunk, haha.

We headed back to the tent and promptly fell asleep for a few hours. Next day we didn’t head into the arena until about 7pm where I seen The Kaiser Cheifs and heard Ian Brown and Rage Against The Machine. Left the boyfriend to go see RATM on his own since I hate crowds and waited for an hour til he came back to our tent worried as hell, turns out that somebody was stabbed near out tent when he was walking back. Glad I didn’t know that when I was waiting for him.

On Sunday the boyfriend was terribly hungover, but he was in a state the day before so it’s his own fault. I seen The Prodigy, The Zutons…erh, I think that’s it. Heard the Racontours though walking into the arena. Seriously, didn’t get my moneys worth at all!

That’s the last time I’m going to T. It’s lost it’s charm, and it was a bloody nightmare.

Pictures once I get them developed and scanned!

I’ve just been playing WiiFit, it’s telling me I’ve put on 6lb since the last time I played it. I thought I was loosing weight as well! A few pairs of jeans seem to fit me better but maybe I’m just imagining it so that I don’t feel bad when I don’t do enough exercise during the week?

Must be all that energy juice that I drink, is two cans a day a bit much? Think I’ll hit the gym or look for some alternative like diet pills or something since I’m so lazy!

Seven long months after paying for my ticket, one year after I swore I’d never go back, T In The Park is tomorrow. And actually? I don’t really want to go anymore. It’s absolutely chucking it down with rain, it’s overcast and cold. And that’s down here - in Kinross it’s more than likely worse as that’s in the north of Scotland and I’m central-belt. I know that once I get there it’ll be fine, I’ll be adopting a typically Scottish ‘Ach, it’s only a wee bit rain’ attitude and just ignore the mud, rain and typically crap feeling.

Last night I packed all my stuff. Or at least, I think I have packed everything. I have a box of Malteasers and 2 packets of Haribo. I’m sorted. Decided that I’m going to wear my hot pink camouflage welly / Ugg boots as they take up loads of room in my back pack, a pair of Primark jeans, tshirt and hoodie travelling and just pack an other pair of jeans, combats and shorts plus a few tshirts and an other hoodie in by bag. Seriously, still seems like I have too much though. The weather forecast is rain, rain, rain, rain. Oh joy.

Have a good weekend guys, and I’ll have pictures up on Tuesday or Wednesday of the mudbath, eh T In The Park

Ok so I’ve fallen behind a bit on my Doctor Who episode reviews, I think the last one I did was when Martha was still with the Doctor. But hey, it’s the finale, I need to vent my ‘omg-no-Doctor-til-Christmas” feelings.

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This meme seems to be everywhere at the moment, so I’m jumping on the bandwagon. As per usual.

1. Hair spray
2. Deoderant
3. Cigarettes
4. Tobacco
5. Cig Papers
6. Name Badge
7. Lighter
8. Painkillers
9. Makeup
10. Purse
11. Shop Keys
12. Remote for shop shutters
13. iPod Touch
14. Chewing Gum
15. Hair clips

Plus my phone, which I stupidly never put in the photo.

I can’t believe that I’m counting down the hours until Doctor Who. I’m such a diehard fan girl, I really am. Last week’s episode had me in tears and complete ‘OMG!!! for about 3 hours after it finished.

Of course, the first thing that I did was hit all the DW communities that I’m part of to discuss the episode and all the possibilities and theories surrounding the episode which just got me even more hyper.

In case you’ve not seen it, I won’t go into details but all I can say is that the hand will save the day. Whovians will know what I’m talking about! Trust me, it’s all about the hand.

I downloaded loads of Doctor Who music remixes and fansongs the other day to tide me over to tonight’s episode but when I tried transferring them onto my iPod I realised that I need more laptop memory, because my poor wee Acer kept konking out on me. I’ve got a funny feeling that it’s just Vista being it’s usual crap self, if I put more than 50 songs into iTunes at once it’d crash on me. Uh, hello? I have around 100,000 files to put in iTunes. That’s going to take me while dude. But more memory can never be a bad thing. The computer I’m on just now (the boyfriends - he’s passed out on the bed, fully clothed after yet an other rather drunken night) has 4GB of memory and I’m running a zillion and one things and it’s fine. Saying that, this is running XP too. Don’t care what anyone says, XP Pro is a thousand times better than Vista will ever be.

So, only 8 hours til Doctor Who Series 4 finale, and I can’t wait. I’m going to read my new Who book that I bought last weekend til it’s on. And then cry a lot I think.

Motoring show Top Gear has been criticised by the BBC Trust after viewers complained about “highly irresponsible” footage.

The Polar Special featured hosts Jeremy Clarkson and James May drinking while driving as they tried to reach the Magnetic North Pole last year.

The trust said the scene “could be seen to glamorise the misuse of alcohol”.

The show’s executive producer said they were beyond the jurisdiction of drink driving laws in international waters.

‘Editorial purpose’

The trust was also told that neither presenter was shown “drunk or out of control of the vehicle”.

The BBC Trust said the scene “was not editorially justified in the context of a family show pre-watershed”.

However, it added that at present in the UK, “it is legal to drink a small amount of alcohol and still drive”.

In the same show complaints were also made about scenes showing frostbitten genitalia.

The trust said there was “a clear editorial purpose for the inclusion of an image of a frostbitten penis, which had been shown for “a medical rather than a sexual purpose”.

Source: BBC News

I’m am so amused by this story on the BBC. That episode was ages ago, and yet people are complaining now? Big deal, James and Jeremy had a wee drink while in the car in the Arctic while Jeremy was driving. It’s not like the downed a bottle of Buckfast and got behind the wheel of a car on a motorway and raced each other at 6pm. Nor did the say “Everybody should drink gin when driving, it’s the thing to do”, or glorify drink driving in any way.

Seriously, Britain. Get a grip.

A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris.

The net’s regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.

The decision means that companies could turn brands into web addresses, while individuals could use their names.

A second proposal, to introduce domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts, was also approved.

“We are opening up a new world and I think this cannot be underestimated,” said Roberto Gaetano, a member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann)

The organisation said it had already been contacted about setting up domains in the Cyrillic script - used in many Eastern European countries.

“This is a huge step forward in the development of the internet - it will unblock something that has prevented a lot of people getting online,” said Emily Taylor, director of legal and policy at Nominet, the national registry for .uk domain names.

“At the moment, there are one-and-a-half billion people online and four-and-a-half billion people for whom the Roman script just means nothing.”

Dr Paul Twomey, chief executive of Icann, described passing the resolution as a “historic moment”.

Continue reading at BBC News website…

So, finally the internet will be filled with witty .xxx and .blog domains, as well as ‘funky’ domains such as firstname.surname/ Something which I’m not looking forward to. As far as I’m aware TLD’s such as .biz and .me.uk never really took off. I personally wouldn’t want one, rather sticking to .com and .co.uk - and the latter only because of the uk part.

The only thing that I can see myself doing would be having a .scot just because I’m so proud of my nationality - but it doesn’t make for a sexy looking domain name - ashesfromstars.scot, anyone? google.rocks? msn.sucks? Novelty, that’s all. It (hopefully) will get old quickly.

But out of interest, what would you want to register and why?