Guest post by Kayleigh-Ann Smith (Kaz) my feature writer on several of my websites.

Hello!!

I am Kaz and I go by the nickname Luna – I am a bright haired, pierced and tattooed writer and I want to write for you!

I write all sorts of stuff ranging from fashion, health & beauty for Fashion Style You   lingerie for Beautiful Lingerie and my own stuff, adult fan fiction (I do wish to put emphasis on “adult”) for an LJ I share with some friends at http://twinks-n-kinks.livejournal.com.

If I don’t know about something I will head off and see if I can educate myself before saying I can’t do it and even then I would give it a good go first – you learn by doing, and if you don’t try something new, or go outside of your comfort zones then sometimes, things just do not get done.

I like to write about my own experiences too, when it applies – I dye my hair a lot and when using new products I like to do reviews on them; same for make-up I have done a piece for FSY about mascara’s and if they live up to the expectations we have of them after seeing the adverts.  It went down pretty well as did the video review and companying article about a hair colour stripping product – I actually ended up shaving off my hair and saved a lot of people doing the same.

I don’t just stick to the guidelines – I like a good debate and a piece I wrote on ear piercings on babies and the use of piercing guns sparked off a good debate which still ebbs on (in a civilized way) it also educated many people who didn’t realize there was even an alternative to piercings guns etc.

Writing is all about ideas, views, education & debates and as long as they stay friendly; it is all good.

As well as writing about things I like to take pictures of them too.  I like to take pictures of anything and everything from architecture to flowers and people – though architecture and flowers etc. are my favourites as they can’t pull a “diva strop” and can always hold a pose!  I always have a camera of some sort on me; more recently I got an iPhone4 and promptly got the instagram app – I’m snapping away at everything!

I am a proud Modified Doll – https://www.facebook.com/themodifieddolls – and do charity work with them, through photoshoots and fashion as well as “spreading the word” about our months chosen charities and out monthly magazine.
I am a friendly and funny creative type – and I like to think that comes through in my writing, I can add a funny twist to something, make it a little more laid back or I can be deadly serious; it all depends on the subject matter – feel free to get in touch by e-mailing me at glitterluna@hotmail.co.uk or adding me on MSN at the same address… or if you feel like it, you can “Ping!” me my ID is miss_luna – I look forward to hearing from you!

Browsing facebook last night I came across a friends status which mentioned she was playing with Konami Code so I made a comment about the geekiness of it and she revealed that facebook has hidden an “easter egg” on the site which can be accessed using said code.

Suitably impressed I had a little dig round google and found a number of other sites which have there own hidden easter eggs, the most impressive being http://paulirish.com/2009/cornify-easter-egg-with-jquery/

Anyway this morning when I woke up I was still thinking about Konami Code and wondered if there was a wordpress plugin so I could try it for myself (cant be arsed with hard coding anymore), well I was in luck I found this little gem Konami Easter Egg so there is now a hidden message on this site.

Type in up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,b,a then hit [Enter]

The affiliate in me cant help thinking this could be used for business, what do you reckon?

The BBC have recently published the findings of a spam email experiment that was conducted in conjunction with McAfee.

Now I’m not totally condemning the article and I’m not denying that spam is a problem and that the unscrupulous go to incredible lengths to acquire the email addresses of millions of innocent internet users and them bombard them constantly.

The problem that I have with this article is that it clearly accuses a website that I know to be ethical and clean of the dubious practices of sending spam emails and selling email addresses to third parties.

The website in question is Free UK Stuff and the site operator Clarke Duncan has rightfully written an open response on his personal blog >> BBC News experiment overloads brain cells of editors.

Anyway in my humble opinion the BBC should have taken more care before publishing this article and definitely contacted Free UK Stuff to see if their assumptions held water, check the full BBC article here >> Spam experiment overloads inboxes << and decide for yourself.

I was recently contacted by Steve of vccp.com, part the 02 marketing team, he asked me if I’d be interested in trialling the new O2 phone, well anyone who knows me I’m always up for a freebie, my Fashion Blog is littered with reviews of various items of apparel that I’ve been sent, so naturally I agreed.

On Tuesday morning a carrier delivered my brand spanking O2 XDA Orbit 2 and wow what a phone.

The key features of this little beauty are:

• 3 Megapixel camera
• On-board GPS
• Microsoft Windows Mobile v6 Pro

One of the reasons I’ve never taken to mobile phones in a big way is that the tiny keys and my numb arthritic fingers are incompatible, not a problem anymore, the Orbit 2 comes with a touch screen and a neat little stylus.

Early days yet as I’m still finding my way round the phone however its an interesting experience accessing the internet via mobile, shows how big and cumbersome some landing pages are, for navigating web pages a neat innovation is to be able to scroll up, down, left and right by sliding a finger across the screen, and its nice to know I can now get onto MSN when I’m out and about and check my emails too.

The software on the phone includes Word, Powerpoint and Excel so I’ll be able to write articles for my blogs when away from home without taking a laptop, and its simply a matter of plugging the phone into the computer to transfer the files.

The software and the internet connection mean I now truly have a mobile office all built into a palm sized phone.

Other features that I’ve not really had time to look at include, digital radio, mp3 player, wifi, bluetooth, a decent resolution camera, and other things that come standard on phones these days like video and a couple of games.

Mustn’t forget the basic phone / text functions and task manager, they are dead simple too, a couple of taps with the stylus or a fingertip and bobs your uncle.

Oh and now if I get lost while I’m out the GPS navigation will soon sort me out.

I’m finding it hard to resist playing with all the functions at the moment but all the time I’m learning more about what the My Office ON A Phone is capable of.

The Xda blog can be found here.