Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? - Have you even thought about it? If not here are some discounts at popular retailers that may save you some pennies. I’ve collected them for various e-mails received so credit to those people for finding them.

If you find any other deals and discounts that you think should be here then leave a comment and I’ll add them to the list.

Happy Shopping!

Asos

Discount

15% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

N/A

Details

Use the code HSBC182116

Cath Kidson

Discount

10% Off and Free P&P

Discount Type

Online

Period

Expires 30th November 2006

Details

Use the code CKLR06

Dorothy Perkins

Discount

15% Off and Free Delivery

Discount Type

Online

Period

N/A

Details

Use the code DPMN29

Faith

Discount

15% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

Expires Saturday 2nd December 2006

Details

Use the code 150906

Hannah Zakari

Discount

10% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

N/A

Details

Use the code hzhb10

HQ Hair

Discount

10% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

N/A

Details

Use the code BEAUTYBIBLE

Lasenza

Discount

15% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

Expires 30th November 2006

Details

Use the code AUTUMN06

Miss Selfridge

Discount

15% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

N/A

Details

Use the code MSGL15

Oasis

Discount

20% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

N/A

Details

Use the code GLAMOUR06

Powder Rooms

Discount

20% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

N/A

Details

Use the code 4E5KT

Ravel

Discount

20% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

Expires 30th November 2006

Details

Use the code NEWW20

Selfridges

Discount

20% Off

Discount Type

At the Till

Period

Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd December 2006

Details

Print this voucher and take into store

Warehouse

Discount

20% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

Expires 30th December 2006

Details

Use the code MCY291006

Urban Outfitters

Discount

£10 Off if you spend £50

Discount Type

Online

Period

N/A

Details

Use the code URBAN1

USC

Discount

20% Off

Discount Type

Online

Period

Expires Sunday 3rd December 2006

Details

Use the code SDM20

Its been a really exciting day at code computerlove as we moved into our new offices and my my they are pretty freaking awesome! - take a look inside.

Not only do we have a new home but we’ve got a new brand identity to go with it. Including a new logo which sports a specially created font and we have commissioned a series of illustrations from Andrew Rae, which can be seen on the various pages at our new web site address www.codecomputerlove.com.

Manchester City Centre will host a temporary ice rink as part of this years festive programme. The rink will be located in Piccadilly Gardens and will be open for public skating from 17th November till 7th January. The 750m2 real ice rink is to be constructed near in the fountain area of the gardens. The rink labelled On Ice At Piccadilly joins the Manchester Christmas Markets, and the Wheel of Manchester to make up Manchester festive program along with many lighting displays around the city.

At £7.50 for one hours skating I thought that was a little pricey but after looking at Hampton Court Ice Rink and Tower of London Ice Rink we get off lightly. Full details including opening times and prices can be found on the On Ice At Piccadilly event page.

I’m going to try and get a bunch of people from the office together and see if they fancy an outing one evening, and it sounds like it could be a fun night out for the folks from GeekUp we’ve been looking for things to do for the Christmas meet, which will most likely involve a meal and then followed by lots of alcohol and maybe a skate?

I’ve just got back from the first official Pecha Kucha Night in Manchester, which I attended with Dave Verwer. We’ve held Pecha Kucha style presentations quite a few times at GeekUp but I hadn’t until this evening been to any official Pecha Kucha events since I first experienced it during my trip to Copenhagen for reboot8 earlier this year. The minute I found out about the Manchester Pecha Kucha Night I promptly ordered my ticket. The ticket cost me £15 as a non D&AD member or student, I feel the event was slightly overpriced but I’m glad I attended and would like to thank Max Fraser from Pecha Kucha Nights UK and the D&AD for bringing Pecha Kucha to Manchester.

The event took place in Screen 18 at Odeon Cinema in The Print Works, which had a very impressive turn out of about 350 attendees. The speakers in order of appearance, Tim Parsons, Nick Bell, Brendan Dawes, Jai Redman, Nick Johnson, David Fisher, Liz Birkbeck, Emma Booty, Jo and Christoph Shaw, Klaas Diersmann and Sakurako Haino. I’m not going to review each speaker but I was disappointed with the talks by Liz Birkbeck’s which was just a plug for her company Bubble, and the talk by Klaas Diersmann and Sakurako Haino who had not prepared and stood for 6 minutes just giggling to themselves and saying “um yeah”. On a positive note I was impressed with the work by Urban Splash and the talk by Jo Shaw, Christoph Shaw and Kevin Boniface which had me and the rest of the audience in hysterics from both the content and the fact that Kevin wasn’t able to speak properly because of a cough.

After the event myself and Dave grabbed a coffee in a nearby bar and chatted about various things including the projects we’ve both got on the go along with new ventures. One new projects is to contact and convince Kevin Boniface to create a podcast because his work was really great, I’ll keep you posted on how it turns out but you can listen to some of his work over on his myspace page.

I’ve uploaded some photos to my flickr account should you want to have a look, I warn the quality is pretty shocking.