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We are the cheapest, by quite a margin.

Yet despite this, I go out of my way to ensure we offer the best service possible. Perhaps “cheapest” is the wrong word - least expensive.

Anyway, I have a list of every other web site selling the same Shirley of Hollywood lingerie and it occured to me that I could leverage our price position by linking to all of my competition.

“Go check out the competition, here’s a list of sites which sell all the same products as we do, but at vastly inflated prices. Then come back and order from us and receive the best service too.”

Am I mad? Is this retail suicide? Let me know your thoughts…

Check it out now: Shirley of Hollywood Lingerie from Good Time Products Lingerie.

I have the BBCs Million Dollar Traders on Sky+ which I’ve yet to watch. I’m looking forward to it even more now.

Twitter is a great networking tool, and I think has great marketing potential too, although in a recent report on TechCrunch it was suggested Twitter would start charging commercial users for the use of it’s service.

To allow developers to further enhance the Twitter experience, an API is available which allows access to the Twitter database, and many Twitter applications have been written. TweetDeck is one of my favourite desktop applications and Tweetie for the Apple iPhone is very good too.

But is there any such thing as the perfect Twitter application? I’d like to know your thoughts. When a sufficient amount of data has been gathered, I’ll write it. Simple!

So let me know what your ideal Twitter application would do.

I’ve earned £0.86p.

It’s not hard to see why; currently my Are Long URLs Bad For SEO? blog entry is showing a context link for the John C. in John C. Dvorak. It pops up a suggestion for Kavanagh Q.C. - The Complete Collection - Series 1 To 5. Very useful.

So if you’re thinking of becoming an Amazon Associate, I’d steer cleer of the context links.

He conducts an experiment on his own 1.2 million page views per month blog by changing existing URLs to the long version, and sees an immediate drop to 900,000 page views.  Dvorak sites this as proof that it doesn’t work.

I can’t help thinking that the drop is due to the search engines dropping the old URLs and re-indexing the long URLs. This takes time. Maybe if Dvorak reviews his page views in a couple of months he’ll see a different picture.

What do you think?

It’s brought back some great memories of 2002.

I’ve just been outside and taken some final pictures of our Nissan 350Z GT before it goes in part exchange tomorrow for a 2004 BMW 535d M Sport. It’s a bit grubby but it’s too damned cold and windy to contemplate cleaning it.

My wife and I have covered 12,800 miles in the Zed since it arrived in September 2006, with most of those being local journeys with my Wife going back and forth to work.  It’s a bit of a shame we never got around to taking it on a jaunt through France to my parents home, but with fuel economy in the low 20s and a Diesel Golf capable of doing the trip on half as much juice, it’s no surprise really.

Similarly, I never took it on a track day, which is a shame.

The Zed is a great sports car. It’s everything you’d want in such a vehicle; it’s fast (300 bhp, with 160 mph easily reached and low 5s to 60 mph); it makes a fantastic sound from its 3.5 litre V6 engine and it has brakes and handling in epic proportions.  It also has a limited slip diff and with the ESP switched off will happily indulge you in all sorts of over-steer antics – great fun in the right place.

Despite this though, it’s only really happy being driven in one way; as hard as possible!  Sounds great, you say, but in reality it’s not really. That razor sharp throttle response and firm suspension are truly fantastic when you’re on it, but when you’re just cruising around, in town or in heavy traffic; it’s a pain in the backside.

The fuelling at low revs is terrible – I guess this is emissions related – but if you let the revs drop to fewer than 2,000 rpm you get a sudden jolt as it can’t decide how much fuel/ignition it needs.  It makes smooth low-speed progress very difficult, and this is the single most annoying thing about the car.  You forgive it of course, when you open up the taps and let rip through the gears, but nobody (despite what they might tell you on the Internet) really drives like that all the time.

The brakes are some of the best I’ve encountered this side of Porsche, and the gearbox has a short positive throw (although it was never happy moving between 1^st and 2^nd).

I appreciate that buying a sports car with a 300 bhp 3.5 litre V6 engine and concerning yourself with fuel economy is a bit retarded, but it has to be said, the Zed likes a drink!  On a long journey with the cruise on at the speed limits, and being afraid to touching the throttle, you can just break into the 30s to the gallon.  But normally very low 20s or high teens are really what you can expect.  I’ve even seen it fewer than 15 on a very spirited cross-country drive!

So, the Zed is going in favour of a bigger more family oriented car. Are we sad? Well yes, the Zed has been great fun to own and drive and we love how it looks (metallic blue was definitely the right colour). But we’re ready for a different kind of driving experience now, so on it must go. We’ll enjoy the memories enormously.