You’ll never look at the game the same way again!

Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape.

Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing not only where stuff was, but also showing the locations of ‘safe houses’ where a POW on-the-run could go for food and shelter. Paper maps had some real drawbacks — they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush.

A Real Ivory Tickler

Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller was a jazz pianist who couldn’t take himself or life seriously. His playing had exraordinary appeal for the general public who loved his riotous sense of comedy which involved sending up the lyrics he sang, even his own compositions were not immune from this treatment.

Tired of constantly being broke and stuck in an unhappy marriage, a young husband decided to solve both problems by taking out a large insurance policy on his wife, with himself as the beneficiary, and then arranging to have her killed. A ‘friend of a friend’ put him in touch with a nefarious, dark-side, underworld figure who went by the name of ‘Artie.’

Stuart Turnbull has written a great post on a step by step plan of how to make money in Internet Marketing. He is also giving away a free guide that he wrote, on how to create a free wordpress blog. If you are a non techie like me this could be an invaluable tool for you.

A Great Gift

In the masterclass group we have a wide range of people with a wide range of backgrounds, including some very artistic members, three spring immediately to mind.

First is Joelle Rene Hughes, a professional full time artist who works in pastel, watercolour, acrylic, pen and ink and has recently launched her YouTube marketing videos and has 4 on the site at the moment. if you go to youtube and search for ‘joellerenehughes’ you will see them listed. An example of her work is on the following video, which I am sure you will agree is very impressive.

Is it a waste of time?

A recent post by Steve Deerfield got me thinking about social networking sites and social bookmarking. I will be upfront and be the first to admit that I don’t really ‘get it’ with people’s enthusiasm to embrace this modern phenomena.

Perhaps I am missing something here, or perhaps showing my age, but Facebook in particular seems to have a lot of attention seekers, writing a lot of inane comments, for no reason in particular. Who want’s to know what you had for breakfast for goodness sake. I realise that for some, texts have now made phone calls almost extinct, has Facebook now taken the place of texts?