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List of Retailers That Accept American Express

I received an American Express gift card from my work as a bonus the other day. I was having a hard time finding major retailers that accept AmEx and was getting somewhat frustrated. After doing some searching on Google I couldn't find a list of major retailers that accept American Express. Finally someone pointed me to a forum post about it.

Accessorize
Agnes b stores (clothing shops located in London & Oxford) !
Air SouthWest (Air travel for Plymouth and surrounds) www.airsouthwest.com
Allders
All Thread
Amazon Amazon.co.uk
AOL
Argos
Asda
Ask Pizza
Ath Leisure/Active Venture Menswear
B&Q
BHS
Blacks (outdoor shops)
Books Etc
Boots Opticians
Booths
BP !
Brewers Fayre
British Airways
Buckleigh of London (men's bespoke tailoring) www.buckleighoflondon.com
Burtons
cameras2u www.cameras2u.com
Camper
Capital Pub Company (London based pubs with real ale) www.capitalpubcompany.com
Caravan Club
CD Wow
Centre Parcs (Longleat)
Childrens World
Co-op (might)
Cotswold Outdoor (Outdoor clothing) www.cotswold-outdoor.com
CPC Components
Crowne Plaza
Dabs (for your computer needs) www.dabs.com
Debenhams
Diesel
Dorothy Perkins
Dragon-i (Thai/Chinese restaurant in Glasgow) www.dragon-i.co.uk
Early Learning Centre
Easyjet
Ebookers (plus a 1.5% surcharge)
Esso
Exodus
Expedia
Firebox (gadgets & gifts) www.firebox.com
Fopp
Gabriel Court Hotel (in south Devon) www.gabrielcourthotel.co.uk
Gap
Gecko Travel (appears to adventure travel type holidays) www.geckotravel.com
GNER
H&M Hennes
H.Samuel
HPC Gears
Halfords (might)
Harlem (based in Westbourne Grove) www.harlemsoulfood.com
Harrods
HMV
Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn Express
Homebase
Iceland
Ikea (Sweden but not the UK??!)
Intercontinental
Intercontinental Hotels (i.e. Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn Express, Intercontinental)
J.D. Sports
Jessops Cameras (might)
Jet
LA Fitness (Gym and sports club) www.lafitness.co.uk
Laura Ashley
Leisure & Entertainment
Liberty
Londen Underground (soon)
Maison Bleu (international cuisine in Edinburgh)
Maplins
Majestic Wine Warehouse
Marks & Spencer
Milestone
Mothercare
Mongolian Barbeque
Morrisons
Murco
Museum of Rugby & Twickenham Stadium Tours www.rfu.com/microsites/museum/
Neils Restaurant (fish & shellfish in Sidmouth, Devon) www.neilsrestaurant.com
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Novotel
Orange
Outfits
Paypal (Ebay) (but surcharges and billing in USD may naegate any cashback earned)
Pizza Express
Pizza Hut
Q8
Qjump
Restaurants - Amex are introducing a website for restaurant bookings - for more details visit livebookings.co.uk/amex
Roxton Bailey Robinson Worldwide (holidays & travel) www.rbrww.com
RS Components
Safeway !
Sainsburys
Saltbar (Whisky and c0cktail bar plus diner in London) www.saltbar.com
Selfridges
Shell
Simple Web Hosting
Somerfield
Sports Soccer
Starbucks
Tesco
Texaco
Total
Thameslink
The Inn On The Green (in Cookham Dean) www.theinnonthegreen.com
The Rugby Store Twickenham (for everything rugby) www.rfu.com
TK Maxx
ToyRus
UCI Cinemas
Virgin Megastore
Virgin Mobile
Virgin Rail
W.H. Smith
WAGN
Waitrose
WH Smith
Wills Burgundy (fine wines) www.wills-burgundy.com !
World Expeditions (as in the title I presume) www.worldexpeditions.com

source: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=469

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WeeklyPhoto.net finds new home at Posterous

A couple weeks ago I started WeeklyPhoto.net, a photo project where I post a new photo every week. I originally started off making my own simple XHTML and CSS layout planning to use lightbox to display the photos. I then found Pixelpost thanks to another photographer. After a while of using Pixelpost I realized it just wasn't right for me. I want it to be easier to be interactive with the photo blog, more ways to uplaod, and most importantly I want the photo to display well in any browser with the ability to enlarge with just a click. Posterous has all of these abilities built in, has customizable themes, and I can use my own domain with it. 

I've spoke praises of Posterous on this blog in the past, but I must point something out. I work at a web hosting company that is hugely popular in the photographer, designer, and art world. I get free top quality hosting on a multiple types of platforms. I still think that Posterous is the best match for WeeklyPhoto.net and myself. 

Once again I must thank Garry and Sachin for making such a great tool for everyone!

Visit WeeklyPhoto.net

I would also like to offer up yourname.weeklyphoto.net subdomains to use with Posterous if anyone else wants to start a weekly photo project. Just let me know and I'll get it set up and pointed to your Posterous as soon as I can. 

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My New Project/Website - WeeklyPhoto.net

I want to dedicate this next year, and decade even, to developing my photography skills. I have wanted to do some sort of photography project for a long time but couldn't figure out what I wanted to do. I thought I would do a daily photo site like @toddadamson has done with photernal.com. I realized though, that with my work schedule I would rarely, if ever, be able to get daily photos taken and posted. A better alternative for me was to create a project that showcases my best photo taken that week. 

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When sending a text message, give a person enough time to reply.

This has been bothering me since I started using text messaging. When you send someone a text expecting a response, give them time to respond.

This is how it always plays out. I get a message, it takes me a moment to get my phone out, read it, and begin replying. Now without fail you I will get a second text right before I finish crafting my perfect reply to your query. Now though, I don't have all the information, did that new text say "nevermind", did it say something really important? I mean I really want to see, but I already have this text written out and I want to send it. Now I have to decide if I should quit this message, save it as a draft, go to my inbox read your message, and then decide to send it or not.

Now more than likely it was something stupid like "lol" or "omg tbh i dn't rly lk him newayz" or something along those lines. So now I can send my original text. I open up my drafts, proof read the message, get ready to hit send. And then it happens; you sent another message didn't you? Now I have to do this again.

This pisses me off every day and I end up just sending texts that are out of context or just don't matter because I don't want to get stuck in this, save, drafts, inbox, read, drafts, open, read, crap I got a new message, save to drafts, exit, go to inbox, repeat, cycle.

Just give me a couple minutes to reply!

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RSS Feeds Delivered To Your Inbox

I have tried multiple feed readers over time. My goal was to make one simple place I could go and have access to all the new articles, videos, pictures, and whatever else I wanted to keep on top of. The problem, however, is that I would never open up that feed reader after the first few days. After a while I end up with a reader that is full of content and I haven't touched in months. I decided to use yahoo email alerts when I heard about it. The alerts allow you to take an RSS feed and have it send to your email either, "as it happens", or once a day. This works great for a few things that I follow, and I can honestly say this is the only reason I saw the ad for the job I now have on Craig's List. It's just too much stuff to go through to get a feed alert though.

I decided to do a quick google search (surprise!) and checked out a few places that will send email alerts of RSS/ATOM feeds. Pretty quickly I came across Feed My Inbox. The Feed My Inbox page stood out to me in one way, simplicity. I enter the feed url on the main page and my email address and submi, that's it! No signing up, no setting preferences, nothing like that. All you have to do is give it two lines of info, click on a link in your email saying you really want it, and then you're good to go. This isn't a huge revelation of anything, I just like to share quick and simple alternatives to things when I find them.

To make things even easier there is a Feed My Inbox Bookmarklet. Here's a video with more detail on the bookmarklet.

Feed My Inbox Bookmarklet How-To from Brightwurks on Vimeo.

Tip: You can get an RSS feed of a craigslist.org category you want to keep tabs on. This helps me when I'm looking for a job, trying to find sweet free furniture for a new apartment, or am looking for a great deal on a new gadget.

Ultra Mega Tip: You can subscribe to my personal blog feed too!

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A Hard Days Work

You know, just workin hard, solving the worlds web hosting problems. . .

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Holiday T-Shirts Are Out Already :-( . . . These ones are funny though

I've been a fan of T-Shirt Hell for years. Though sometimes they just go too far, I can always get a laugh while checking out their site. If I recall correct their newsletter with alerts of new shirts is the only mailing list I've purposefully stayed on for more than 5 years.

I present to you, the T-Shirt Hell Holiday Collection.
Merry Kwanzaa Bitches!

Funny holiday shirts

           

Click here to download:

Holiday_T-Shirts_Are_Out_Alrea.zip (137 KB)

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An actor for a day

Right after I got my makeup to look dirty. I spent the whole day with this on.

Today I went to East Los Angeles to be a background actor (extra) in a movie. I had to be made dirty by the makeup people and look like I was in a post-apocalyptic time. It was shot at an old and abandoned hospital that has been the set for many movies and TV shows, including one of my favorites, Dexter. I spent most the day in background holding and did a short scene by myself and then left not too long after dark. I got to explore parts of the old hospital which was great. Junk everywhere, walls covered in blood (props), bloody foot prints in random places. The place was the perfect set for a horror movie, which this one may or may not be, I honestly have no idea what it's about.

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Fans of "The Office" check out Schrute Farms reviews on Trip Advisor for the lulz

I just found the Schrute Farms Trip Advisor page along with funny reviews.

For those who don't remember, Dwight was angry about the Trip Advisor reviews for the new bed and breakfast as at Schrute Farms. Jim decided to take Pam to Schrute Farms for the weekend.

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In Los Angeles

I have been in Los Angeles for a week now. I haven't had my own computer so I haven't been able to upload any photos, videos, or really do any writing about it. I just thought that since my last post was in Nebraska I should probably at least let people know I made it. Once I get a computer set up I will go into photo editing, video editing, and writing mode for at least 5-10 hours and hopefully have a decent story to tell you all.

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