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The Spalding Guardian has teamed up with West End Leisure to bring you a new weekly competition. Every weekend West End Leisure will have photographers in its three Spalding venues – nightclub Loaded, AlleyCatz ten pin bowling alley and sports bar Bounce – taking pictures of customers. One of these pictures will be chosen at random to appear in the Spalding Guardian the following Thursday. The lucky winner will scoop three prizes: A free game of bowling at AlleyCatz A free drink in Bounce and Free VIP entry to Loaded for them and a friend the following weekend. All you have to do is cut out your picture from the newspaper, making sure the date is attached, and take it along to one of the venues the following Friday or Saturday to claim your prize.
Google and PayPal collide at the checkout
Jon Kuhlmann has had a front row seat as that competition unfolded. Kuhlmann, whose company Grapevinehill.com sells discount footwear, had been taking PayPal for years, largely to service the eBay Inc. customers that account for 80% of his revenue. And when Google Checkout came along he added that payment option to his eBay store and his own site. But eBay, which owns PayPal, was having none of it. For the first few days we took Google Checkout for some eBay transactions, but that was quickly stopped by eBay, he says. A year later, eBay was still banning Google Checkout, saying it is unproven. And Kuhlmann was on hand in Boston when Googles attempt to poke fun at that ban badly misfired. Party crashing Google invited merchants attending the annual eBay Live event in June to attend a Revolutionary War-themed party billed as a celebration of freedom of choice.
Fate Accomplice
Soon the deluge of letters reduced to a trickle and I was writing to only a handful of girls. Sharanya wrote to me relentlessly and her letters grew lengthier one after the other. After about six months of correspondence, we decided to meet. She flew down to Bangalore and spent a day with me. We got to know each other better and I was convinced that Sharanya was the woman with whom I wanted to spend the rest of my life. She returned to Bombay the next day. We began calling up each other almost every other day. Then on the first of January something happened. I was returning home from a party when I got hit by a truck. My friends rushed me to hospital where a CT scan revealed the formation of a few blood clots in my right brain. I spent few days in the intensive care unit before I was discharged.
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