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This is basicaly going to be my letter to fitness first.
About this time last year I joined up with fitness first in Romford. The membership fee was ok, but it took 6 weeks after me joining before I was given the operrunity to have my induction and health check. I was only offered this after I actually called them to find out what was happening and pointed out to them what if I get an injury from using equipment that they have not shown me how to use or assesed my health. Of cause this is all overed in their t&c’s so they are not liable.
I eventually got booked in and I did have a few good sessions of going. I used to really enjoy going to the gym, but things changed and by the time I get home it is just to late. I thought that this might change, but I just lost all interest in going.
After a few months of not going and knowing I was tied in to a 12 month contract I decided to cancel my Direct Debit with the intention of going in to cancel my membership, but like going to the gym I just never had the time.
A couple of weeks ago I got a call from the head office saying I owed a month due to me cancelling my DD. This was my own stupid fault and I would have paid it over the phone had the person calling me not spent most of the phone call trying to offer me different deals. Which part of ‘no I want to just cancel my membership’ they didn’t understand I’m not sure. I eventually just said Ive not got time and just write to me. I got home a couple of days later asking for the payment, which I didn’t get round to making as I had to call them between 9-5 and couldn’t sort it out in the gym. I had every intention of paying this, but when I call they just try to sell different options. The following day I had a call again. I told them that I will sort out soon, but I was busy in work and didn’t have time. I then just put the phone down. Then Friday I got home and they had sent me another letter making a demand for the money. How very dare you. I tried to call but you are not there weekends.
Today 21 feb 2010, I went in to the Romford gym and said I want to cancel my membership. I was thrown a form and asked to fill it in. When done I asked if I can pay the amount I owe and they said no I need to call member services and I can’t give notice while I owe a month. How stupid is that policy.
I will be phoning on Monday and making a full complaint. The sooner I see the back of fitness first the better. You cause nothing but stress. I’ve got more chance losing weight by not going to one of your poxy gyms.
I was going to just cancel until I maybe have the time to go again, but I will never join fitness first ever again. I urge anyone else who is a member and not using you to cancel and stop funding such a bunch of idiots.
Good bye fitness first and hope our paths never cross again. Your gyms are crap and you don’t offer ther service you promise.
For a number of years now I have played a bit of poker for fun and have a posative ROI. This helps when I write articles for UK Poker Review. We have been doing it as a bit of a hobby, but we are currently looking at a re-design of the site. To help us, we thought we would pop along to the London Affiliate Conference to meet some of the affiliate managers from the different poker rooms and see what they can offer and see what seems to work for other sites. We spoke to a number of people and have some really exciting ideas for the new site once we manage to get the coding done and can put the new content on the site.
888 have rebranded their site which we really like the look of. With a simular logo but different colours for the poker, bingo and betting etc.
Saturday we stayed over in London at the Tower hotel. Was a nice hotel with nice views.
After booking in to the hotel we wandered over to Leicester Square for some dinner. After dinner we then went to meet the Everest Poker guys at their VIP party in the Ruby Room at Jewel. It was really nice to finally put a face to some of the names we have been in contact with and meet some of the team that work in different offices. You all rock and were a good laugh. The party was fab and we had a really good time. Hope to see you all again soon.
Before the night was over, we then headed over to another club for a quick dance and a few more drinks, before walking back to the hotel. Had a really fab weekend. Just a shame every weekend isn’t the same 
I’d do it all again tomorrow if I could 
Today I thought I’d make a little bit more of an effort for work. I decided to go all out and wear a tie. No reason, I just thought it would make a nice change.
I’ve worked for my current place for nearly 3 years (feels longer, but in a good way). Like many places the operate a no need to wear a tie if you don’t want to attitude. So like myself (until today), most people choose not to bother. Opting for the trousers and shirt only option.
Just before I started with the company I bought a few new suites. So I’ve hardly warn them. I was going to go for the full suit option, but thought I’d break them in slowly by just adding a tie to my normal Monday shirt. (I don’t wear the same one every Monday).
I was in for all of 2 seconds, had not even sat down really and I was asked where my interview was. Grrrr. This continued through the day. With a few “you look smart today, what’s the occasion?” comments. I’ve decided to step it up and go in with a full suit.
How long before I get the comment of “so, you got a second interview”. I want some sarcastic reply, but not sure what just yet.
So if you want to look good in the office or generally look smart. Just add a tie!
Following on from the problems I had from my live blog, I decided to re word the information and help that I have found since. Thank you to YouTube and TUAW
If you are looking at installing Windows 7 on a mac there are a number of things that you need to check and read beforehand.
First of all you will want to boot up in Mac operating system and open up bootcamp assistant. You can search for this in spotlight or find it under applications>Utilities. You will be asked how much you want to partition. I recommend at least 20gb, depending on what you intend to do. The Windows 7 install will take up 9gb on it’s own, so make sure you leave enough room for upgrades and programs that you want to run. I’m only running really small programs, so I chose 10gb.
You will next be asked the version that you want to install. For some reason it said 64 or 84 on my version. Not sure why, but I chose the 64x install. I have tried to look at the significance of this, but have not seen anything much. I have seen people choose a 32x over a 64x on the beta version of Windows 7, but there isn’t much about on the recent update of bootcamp. I may try a new install in a few weeks, but for now I have it all working, so don’t want to break it.
Next screen will ask you to choose the partition you want to install to. You will need to choose the BOOTCAMP partition and then select advanced option and format. This will make sure that the partition is formatted as NFTS and allow you to proceed. You will not be able to proceed until you have chosen this and formatted the BOOTCAMP section.
Once you choose next/proceed, it will start the install process. During the install process, the system will reboot a number of times. When rebooting the message press any key to boot from CD/DVD, but don’t press the keyboard and just allow the system to boot up in to windows.
It did seem to be taking ages to “expand the files”. Took a good 2-3 mins before it moved from 0%.
Finally came up complete and had to restart. Only option was run from cd/dvd. (this happened a few times). I first of all made the mistake of pressing a key, but this started the install process again.
Once it has rebooted you will then be ask for network settings and time zone, set up a name and password. Then another restart and it will ask you to login and prepare your desktop.
IMPORTANT – The bit that I didn’t realise I needed to do.
After the final restart I was working in windows on my Mac. Not something I am loving, but it is working. However you have not finished just yet. You may notice that you have no sound etc. This is because you need to install the Mac drivers. To do this you need to insert the Mac OSX and open the folder to view the files. Choose a folder called Bootcamp and then setup.exe This will run through the process of installing the drivers needed. Once you have done this you can restart and boot in to Mac by pressing and holding down the option key (the one between ctrl and cmd keys). Once in the Mac OS you can go in to system preferences and start up disc. You can then choose to boot up in to Mac OS by default instead of Windows7. Lets face it you own a mac and will be using Mac more than you Windows system.
There you have it all done. You should now be successfully running Windows7 on your Mac. There is plenty of video tutorials on YouTube, but feel free to post a comment and ask me a question, but I am not technical and just wrote this blog from my point of view from installing. If it goes all wrong then don’t come crying to me.
Dubzie86 tells me the following:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86?wasRedirected=true
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=X64
Wiki pages for x86 and x64 architecture. Basic low down is that one is 32bit and one is 64bit. 64bit being better performance wise. U can’t install a 64bit copy on a 32bit machine but I believe newer macs are 64bit anyway. U can install 32bit on 64 so that’s what’s recomended if u don’t know what one u have.
Hope that helps.
