You know what grinds my gears.... uncertainty... what really confuses me and I believe most students is we know we have the ability to writegood assignments, yet a dull gloom seems to hang overhead thwarting intelligent brain activity!!! Why is this??? You slowly find out in life that you have always been looking for the easy way out and when it comes to times of hard graft your brain doesn't want to know....but it will help you overcome this obstacle but to what degree...good, alrightm or unsatisfactory!!!!

I sit here typing this freely, I haven't even broken my concentration from my typing, but you tell me to think up an assignment title, combine it with theory and for good measure add a application for a company, I freeze like a rabbit in headlights!!!! What do I write for this assignment??? I want to write about product placement within online communities, for example how Costa Coffee could gain market share by having a virtual shop on Second Life where people can go and talk to each other online. Costa Coffee could observe all the people that meet up in virtual shop, send out emails to these people for a free coffee and cake Second Life day (Experential Marketing) in a real Costa Coffee shop by them.... People will associate Costa Coffee with Secondlife and have more of an inclination of going there... but Second life may not be just UK based so this could be difficult....

Seems to of helped a little just writing that....But uncertainty is a bitch!!!

And thats what grinds my gears!!!!

Crowning moment of my football season....

Wimborne Town march on into the last 16 of the FA Vase after an exhilarating 4-2 extra time victory over West Yorkshire outfit Glasshoughton Welfare at Cuthbury.

The visitors haven’t got the best record in their league, currently sitting in the lower regions of the table but they put up a fight and had the cheek to take the lead when Luke Sherman bundled the ball over the line early on in the first half.

Wimborne Town supporters celebrate a fine victory and dreaming of a trip to the new Wembley Stadium .

Wimborne didn’t seem to be at the races in the opening half and were nowhere near looking like the side that confidently beat league leaders AFC Totton 3-0 away a week earlier.

But somehow you knew that the equaliser would eventually come, despite Glasshoughton almost doubling their lead when Sherman again almost netted but hit the Magpies’ crossbar from 25 yards instead.

The second half performance from Paul Arnold’s troops was a much better one and sure enough on 71 minutes Arnold junior, Scott, netted the equaliser.

Two minutes later the game was turned on its head when Chris Kennedy finished off a superb run with a good execution to put Wimborne 2-1 up.

That had to be that the way Wimborne were now performing but a bit of Yorkshire grit took over and with nine minutes of normal time to play the team that comes from just outside one of the top rugby league clubs in the country Castleford, showed that they were just as tough with Paul Stevenson making it 2-2.

The majority of an excellent crowd of 596 were stunned into silence but there was to be another twist to this match before extra time took place.

Wimborne's Scott Joyce taking on a Glasshoughton defender - photos by Andy Starmore
A second yellow card was awarded to the Glasshoughton goalkeeper, so they had to endure the whole of extra time with ten men.

Wimborne took advantage of that and took the lead for the second time in the match when Kennedy netted his second.

Just like the World Cup Final of 1966, Wimborne were 3-2 up (definitely over the line!) and everybody thought it was all over. When Stuart Cannie netted the Magpies fourth, no doubt there would have been a few mutterings of “it is now!”

That really "doesn't" grind my gears...

Dreams are beautiful and magical thoughts created by your mind,I'll tell you a dream I had once upon a time,I closed my eyes and listened to the voices telling me a story in my head,Of a young man who lived on the beach, wherever he stopped he made his bed,As he walked along the beach front the sea breeze filled his lungs,The sun had emerged from the depths of the sea; the day had just begun,And with light came happiness upon his face, with a smile to break the day,He found a bench to rest and think and it was there that he lay,The sun as his blanket keeps him warm as he listens to the crashing waves,They disintegrate moments apart from each other it's a longer life they crave,The seagulls around dart and dive fighting for scraps of food,How beautiful life can be, he thought, if you create a positive mood.But like all moods they dissolve like the bubbles given birth by the sea,He raised from the bench, stretched his arms and headed back to reality,He continued his walk along the path to a destination unknown,In his mind he would love to find that perfect place called home,
As he scaled a chalky cliff the sun began to set,It melted in the horizon and with that so did all of his regrets,As he perched upon the edge he gazed at the starlit sky,He believed that everyone's soul becomes a star when they die,You become a star to guide your loved ones and gaze upon them every night,He knew his parents were watching him from above and said "I'll call this home tonight"As I awoke from my dream I thought of that young man,He had little but loved a lot, if he can do it we all can!