One of only two single symbol domains in the world (according to the Daily Record), www.£.com is expected to surpass the www.pizza.com price tag of £1.3 million, which sold earlier this month.

In other news, we bought www.nicncher.com for even less but are still holding out…

Cher

And wouldn’t you know it, our trip corresponds with the first day of SES Toronto!  Who knew?!

Maybe see you there…

I don’t know about you but when the sun shines in Glasgow…. you go outside. And that is my reason for lack of posts these past few weeks. Love it or leave it.

Check it out, the Nic n Cher Archives tell me I’ve faced this problem before with very different results…

Better late than never!

It turns out though that when I left home, I left all my high school pics there! All I’ve got on the laptop here is this little number of me a year or two before high school (that I’ve already actually used on the blog…)

In case you didn’t get it by the pic, I wasn’t as much a geek then as I was a jock. 

Full on geek now, still workin’ hard at being a jock and I guess a bit of a cheerleader…

• When I say Go you say Fight! Go! Fight! Go! Fight!
• When I say Win you say Tonight! Win! Tonight! Win! Tonight!
• When I say Boogie you say Down! Boogie! Down! Boogie! Down!
• When I say All you say Right! All! Right! All! Right!
•  Go fight, win tonight, boogie on down, all right, all right!

Too much?

We realise it’s still early in the year but we’ve already got that holiday feeling so we’re going ON TOUR! Here’s our only dilemma: Where we goin’?

Believe it or not, money does not grow on trees up here in Glasgow, so we’ve decided to turn to our trusty friends at PintPrice for some destination ideas! Here’s what they are telling us:

Top Country by Pint Price

1. Ethiopia - £0.20
2. Myanmar - £.31
3. Korea N - £0.32
4. Byelorussia - £.32
5. Bhutan - £0.36

I’ve never been to Bhutan…

Having considered these great options, we’ve also taken into account some other factors such as flight prices, visas, inoculations, etc and come up with a more reasonable top 5 list, by city. But hey, let’s let PintPrice make the ultimate decision:

Top City by Pint Price

1. Prague - £1.08
2. Vegas Baby - £2.02
3. Ibiza - £2.10
4. New York (always a fave of ours…) £3.16
5. Amsterdam - £3.35

So….. source your full body Spanx NicNac, it looks like Prague or Ethiopia! Nothing set in stone here people, we’re open to any suggestions!

Where would you like to see Nic n Cher on Tour next?

For those of you that are interested and aren’t tired of hearing about High Five Grab and Shakes, here’s the gist:

High Five Grab and Shake takes you on a journey of High Fives and variations there of.  It also covers at length our obscure take on the gesture: Whereas High Fives are a recognised symbol of celebration, the over zealousness of the added grab and the shake makes us feel uncomfortable…  More explanation on the site.

Not only is it informational, it also has personal significance, a brainchild of one of our annual SES NY trips, it represents the good times and good friends we met that year in New York Effin City. You know who you are kidlets, I hope we can replicate soon!

Even though National High Five Day is over, don’t let that stop you! Go on, get out there and High Five Grab and Shake someone, just don’t do it around us…

Quoted in WebUser, Farcebook’s founders, software engineers Christopher Myers and Justin Davis state “the idea was that by turning the social network upside down, we might convince people to reevaluate the role of social networks in their lives”.

Of course there are still those of us out there that don’t feel a re-evaluation is needed either because one, we have a handle on our ‘wasted’ time or two, we have absolutely no enemies….

It seems that my old boyfriend Rick Astley is not fairing as well, although he is only second on the most hated list, he is top marks for stabs with 2809! To put it into perspective, Hilary Clinton only has 235 stabs and Bill Gates only 179.

Christopher and Justin are looking for a big payout much like Facebook’s price tag of $15b and Bebo’s £450m but, I think there’s a better chance of me topping the hated list. I can be pretty nasty!

Lots of reasons why this is a winner!  First and foremost of course, is their list of prizes. Not to mention the increased exposure you will get from their reader base, a link and bi-line on your company (or yourself) and the long term search engine indexing potential.

The topic is pretty wide open, from rss feeds to Microhoo, hit them with your best shot! You can enter as many times as you’d like until the 15th of April. Keyboards at the ready then…

Pros for participants covered, how does Search Engine Journal benefit? I don’t mind stating the obvious… unique (hopefully), relevant content. And lots of it!

Brilliant.

Pros:

• Instant contact
• Free service
• Can work from home or long distance
• Web meetings can accomplish a lot more than a phone call
• Can record all correspondence effortlessly
• Can have group chats
• Can easily share files

Cons:

• Tendencies for mis-communication
• Non-personal contact (could be a pro as well, depending on who you’re dealing with lol)
• Being sent snippets of conversation that have been copied and pasted into what the sender wish they’d said
• Coming across nasty cases of IM Courage - “surely you wouldn’t say that to my face?!”
• You may not really know who you’re dealing with, i.e. no facial expressions, hand gestures, casual conversation, etc
• Similarities between Instant Messenging Behavior and Road Rage… Whereas passing someone a bit too closely on a sidewalk will not provoke an instant barrage of profanity and threats, for some reason the same cannot be said for both motorists and IM users. If they feel slighted in anyway… look out! Great segway into my last Pro:

It’s comical to witness someone catch the IM Rage. Just sit back and watch the vulgarities fly! Then hit ctrl s.

Anyway, last month I blogged about sista from the same mista Jenn curling in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts (basically the Women’s Canadian Curling Championships), as part of the Jennifer Jones rink representing Manitoba…. they won. So last week they competed in the Women’s World Curling Championships, as Team Canada and yep, you guessed it!  They won!

So, I’m officially the sister of a World Champion! Yep, my sister realises a life ambition but it’s still all about me… that is typical.

I am extremely proud and happy for her.

In fact, she even passed the random drug test, (yes, there is even drug testing in curling), with flying colors… lol well done Jenn!

Watch this space for word of the Jones rink competing in the Olympic trials!