eBay

I am no longer an eBay virgin. I bought my first item, a cheap mobile phone to replace the one i lost, whilst my phone is being repaired (for the 2nd time) by tmobile.

I'm getting rather addicted, some of the bargins you can get there are quite amazing. I'm in dire need of an external hard drive to enable me to easily transport all the files from the PC to the lap-top and for me to start saving my media into, but the start price, even on amazon is £60. Which is rather a lot for a glorified memory stick. On eBay, a second hand 500GB went for £25 including postage and packaging. OK, it was a vile blue colour and looked quite chunky but a hard drive is a hard drive and i'm not particularly picky when its sold for half the retail value.

In other news, one of my fellow bretherin (the check-out girls) got sacked for nicking from the tills. Shock. Horror. Although the source of this information is highly unreliable something tells me there is an element of truth in it. And whilst we were cashing up on Thursday night one of the girls was taken aside and dissapeared into a side room, aparently never to be seen again. Oh, the halarity.

Stupid person. If you're going to nick something, at least do it properly. Nick a whole days takings by breaking in at night and stealing it the proper way, don't just nick a few hundred. Duh.

But then people are short sighted. And it serves her right getting caught. Only stupid people get caught because stupid people can't cover their tracks properly. Over the past 2 weeks they've introduced several measures to insure people don't nick from tills; plastic bags you have to seal and sign, supervision whilst handling cash, supervision so you're not alone with large amounts of money etc. and still the silly girl pushed her luck one step too far. She deserves everything she gets.

I've also discovered the joy of torrents. Don't ask me what they are, because i don't fully understand the oncept yet myself, but they allow you to download movies in a matter of hours. Brilliant, really. And as the connection i have is uber-fast i can download a movie in an hour and a half. Extreme piracy! Yey!

Serves Vue cinema's bloody well right for charging £5.65 a ticket. And that's with a student discount! Without it you're facing loosing the best part of £10 for one person to see a movie. Fucking ridiculous.