My sister, in fact. As I struggle along in my futile quest to earn enough to buy an Xbox 360, she goes ahead and signs up for this offer where you get a free Xbox 360 with a mobile phone! You would expect that the phone/contract would be expensive if they are giving away a $400 system with it, but it's only 20 pounds for the phone and 30 pounds a month for the contract. And they are decent phones too, like the RAZR and some of the newer Nokias.

Yet another example of how UK customers get awesome mobile phone deals, while over here in the USA we get ripped off. I guess not everything is chea

Walking through an electronics store the other week I suddenly got the urge to buy an Xbox 360. The graphics on the demo they had running were awesome, and I have also been hearing really good things about the Xbox Live service and the cool games on it. However, the $400 pricetag is a bit steep, so I filed it in the "would love one but not gonna happen anytime soon" bin.

Then a few days ago, something else happened - while on Google, I decided to look into Google Adsense again and found that the last time I had ads on this site for about a week, I actually made 10 cents from somebody clicking on an ad. I started to wonder, if my extremely low-traffic site can make 10c on a single day - how much could I make if I put my mind to it. I realised I wasn't going to "get rich quick" but with a bit more work I could definitely increase the amount of traffic I got.

So, nearly five months after moving here to the USA and just a couple of weeks after getting my permission to work, I finally have a job. Can't tell you too much about it, but as of Wednesday I will be working for CareerBuilder.com here in Atlanta. I'm really excited to be offered such a great job so soon after looking for work, I was fully expecting to be working at a videostore or something for awhile. So this either means I will have more to write about (as my life might be less boring), or less to write about (as I will be working all the time). I guess time will tell...

Finally received my personalised car (truck) licence plate in the mail, and I'm well chuffed with it. Much as some things in the USA don't make much sense to me, I have to say that the Georgia and USA system for personalised numbers is awesome compared to the extortionate prices I would have had to pay in the UK for anything near as good as the one I got. Basically if you want a specific number plate you just go to the Vehicle Registration office and ask if it is available. If it is you just pay twenty(ish) dollars extra per year to have that as your number plate for the duration of you owning that car. If the number is taken, you can get them to check another and so on.