Motorhome Rental

I'm currently working as Online Marketing Manager at a place called Online Republic (formerly iMall Brands Ltd). Starting out as Adwords Specialist, I got promoted to this position after it became apparent that that job description had widened significantly from managing just one pay per click ad network (Google Adwords), to looking at other PPC networks, Email Marketing, web analytics, conversion optimisation, link building and SEO. To top it off, I'm also helping them setup an affiliate network!

Online Republic is aiming to be like the "Wotif of Motorhome Hire", and I feel we are on the right path to getting there. This is because while the markets for online booking of Hotels and Flights are really advanced and quite far along the automation path, the reality is that Motorhome booking as a niche is still very immature as regards online booking systems. By the way, we also do other travel transport booking services like Cruises, Cars, Motorcycles, Tours and Boat Charters... But I digress...

So anyhow, we are in the process of soft-launching a massive worldwide Motorhome Rental site called Motorhome Road Trip. I mention this because, quite frankly, it is the best Motorhome Rental site in the world and felt you should know about it... you can book a camper in over 26 countries, in a pretty fast and smooth manner.  I don't know of any other site where it's possible to easily book a Campervan in pretty much any location you'd like to go.

However, I am at this time still a bit of a virgin to the world of Motorhome Rental - I've never actually booked a Camper myself, and really should give it a go, so I know what I'm talking about! The main thing that stopped me in the past was the minimum hire length requirements, and the total bill for my trip being bigger than I was planning for just a quick weekend away. The truth is that these vehicles are better suited to longer rentals, say 7 days or so, and when you hit that hire length, it really does start to make sense. That and a desire to experience the great outdoors!

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Lady Gaga - Vegetarian or Pescetarian?

This is the question everybody is asking. Especially after she came out wearing her meat dress.

Lady Gage Meat Dress Vogue Cover

So as soon as I heard about this I was like, farout she must really love meat... but then I thought a bit more and came to the opposite conclusion that perhaps she was a hard out staunch vegetarian trying to make a point?

Naturally this caused a short burst of Googling around to try and discover the truth: She's Pescetarian!!!

Tasty.

Lady Gaga Meat Dress

Optical Illusion

Check this series of optical illusions:

External NTFS drive goes read-only bug

After for working well for ages on my MacBook Pro, this 1.5TB WD Elements drive has changed to being read-only. Which is weird because I've been using it for ages, even had it set as my iTunes music folder so not being able to change the disk is a pain. Also I have NTFS-3G installed and it is working to access another volume called "PC" which you can see has "custom access" whatever that is. I can write to this disc fine, but not the other one (Elements). Not sure what the next step is. Running OS X 10.5.8.

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"Favela On Blast" Movie Review

That movie was bloody brilliant. Highly recommended. Great insight into Brazilian "Baile Funk" music, this actually totally explains the weird amounts of traffic I was getting off Google from Brazil for my "funk" ad campaign... the genre is more like hardcore miami bass dubstep hip hop battle music with scorching insulting Portuguese lyrics than funk if you get the drift. Also interesting to see how the music is made for specific favela's and doesn't travel to other favelas; like whereby a popular MC couldn't travel and play outside his favela due to risk of death.

Best quote from the film: "Bass my friend, people like bass" 🙂

Official site: http://www.maddecent.com/blog/favela-on-blast

Favela On Blast - Official Trailer from Mad Decent on Vimeo.

Finder Can't Search NTFS Folders Bug?

I'm having this problem using the Finder's search on NTFS external drives and its very annoying.

"0 Items"

When I try to use the Finders search facility on a folder on a mounted NTFS external USB drive, I get absolutely nothing back:

Yet there are definitely files there:

OS X 10.5.8

What I want to see and be able to search to get is the selection below (made manually using command selection).

You can see the selection that I would like to attain below, basically finding and eliminating duplicate files that contain " 01.mp3":

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Certainly, its a pain to have to use a 3rd party software, FindAnyFile to find these files, since I can't delete the dupes in here, I'd need to right click to reveal in Finder and then delete, not sure if this is going to be helpful to me say I need to find and delete files that contain " 01.mp3" in their filename like the file selected below:

In contrast doing this in windows is real easy, I can select and delete these files quickly from this window:

If anyone has an idea of a good way to fix this let me know, maybe by leaving a comment on the blog? Cheers!