To be honest, I’m not really into phones. I have a pretty good one for the UK, all 3g and live tv and browsing etc but the data plan sucked and it’s no use where I am. And my US phone is just about manages to phone and text, there nothing else really to it. […]
iphone Countdown
If you are determined to get one and you want to find out how long you have to wait – iphonecountdown.com has the numbers for you. From Mike via Dan.
The advertising world and the new web
Hugh is offering to help solve the conundrum of meshing big, corporate business advertising as performed by the big corporate advertising agencies with the world that is Web2.0. He has a solution he’s willing to offer you for $100k. And if I had the cash, I might have taken him up on the offer, given […]
Attracting attention
You’ll have most likely seen the SNL Dick in a Box Sketch. And GETV’s response about Boobs in a Box. Now there’s the one sure way to get a man’s attention in the Valley.
Rav 4 Jousting
Don’t do this at home – Rav 4 (Toyota) have 2 videos sitting out on the web showing people riding along on cars and jousting. Unlike Grolsch Holland, this is completely siloed though and you can only see it on their site. No downloads or embeds for the Rav 4 fans then. No trusting what […]
Fighthunger Video competition
I wrote earlier about the UN Fighthunger video competition. Well, they have no released the winner, Kristen Palana. The other winners can be seen be seen here. Let their persuasive powers wash over you and go and donate!
The Truth in Ad Sales
A satirical look at what goes on in an ad agency, presenting a pitch to the client and what it really means. It rings a little true!
The Orginal Social Networking
I’ve had this open in my tabs for a while but only now got round to blogging it – a critical look at the increase in social networking in 2006 and whether or not this is just a fad. ‘Community’ and ‘socialising’ have been huge in 2006 but the big question is how long they […]
Vista Promotion
Dave Taylor has a good take on the Vista laptop promotion being run by Microsoft and Edelman. In his opinion they’re sending out laptops instead of the OS DVD as the upgrade process, combined with the machine specs would mean that many of the target bloggers would not have a good time installing this. There […]
Breaking things
The last thing I did before I left the parents was to set up the Slingbox. After working out I needed to change MAC addresses on the router, I eventually got the whole thing working well and then moved things around and wired them in. (Ethernet to the Slingbox, phoneline to the Tivo, all across […]
Holiday relaxing
My brother-in-law has been hassling me about what I’ve been doing this past week (apart from hiding when the family all descends en masse to create havoc). Not too much at all, to be honest, just chilling out in the main. I’ve updated my geneology pages, been digging up records of a few more dead […]
Five Things You Don’t Know Meme
Round and round the meme goes. Five Things you don’t know about me. SoloSEO has done a good job of tracking the initial spread of this. And now Tom has tagged me. So let’s see. 1. I’ve been knocked out twice in life. The first time was playing rugby at school and I hit the […]
Pachelbel Canon in D Rant
from Mashuptown, comes a rant on Pachelbel and how he has ‘ruined’ all sorts of songs since.
Twitter Degrees of Separation
Twitter is still small enough to be fun – although that may change. Suw today asked if there was an optimum Twitter friend pool size. There probably is, which will vary by person and how much data you can browse. We’ll get the power users, with plenty of friends and far more followers. Others will […]
Cable connection and the BBC
I’ve just had two technicians round to connect up the cable system for TV and phone. Whilst here, we got to discussing the BBC. The whole concept of TV/radio without advertisements seemed to astound them and there were a lot of questions about how it worked, how you paid the licence fee, how did they […]
Online Tab Saver
With Firefox now allowing you to open the browser with the same tabs it closed down with by default, I’ve been looking for a way to synchronise open tabs across 2 or more PCs. So that where ever I am, i can have the same set of open tabs. There’s a number of ways to […]
Charitable Activity
This has been sitting in my tabs for a while, from Freakonomics. A group of Dallas call girls have got together and are running a charity raffle; for $50 a ticket the winner gets two hours with all 12 girls at the same time. In a form of micro-charity, the money is going direct to […]
Joined Twitter
I’ve gone and joined Twitter; it’s called peer pressure, all my friends are doing it so why shan’t I. And it’s strangely fascinating in an old school reality show way. That’s the old school like Castaway or the Edwardian house, not Survivor or Big Brother. Where it was more a challenge documentary rather than a […]
Slob Evolution
You have to have seen the Dove Evolution video, now see Slob Evolution, from the Campaign Against Real Life.
The Prague Files game results
I’ve spent the last 2 weeks playing The Prague Files, an ARGish like game being run by the Live Games Network. Over the last 2 weeks, we were presented with 7 tasks to complete, all going towards some pretty good prizes, the grand prize being a trip to Prague. This was a professionally run game, […]