This is surreal…and funny. A man was driving along in Essex when a frozen sausage came through his window and broke his nose. A unanmed spokesman said: I feel very sorry for him – it must have been an incredibly lucky or unlucky shot to get the sausage through a moving car window. I have […]
Skype report
Reading New Scientist yesterday there is a great report into how Skype is being used for podcasting. The article quotes from the Skype Journal, giving a positive review of this collaborative approach to broadcasting
Flickr goodies
Flickr are making good on thier promises and giving away goodies to Pro subscribers. My account has been extended by one year and I’ve got 2 free Pro accounts to give away.
Time for a day out
With a lovely day, I decided to to take a drive and go visit some history. Wnet to Hampton Court Palace, somewhere I’ve only ever drowve past. Once I got over the extortionate prices (3.50 to park, 12 to go in) I had a really good few hours in the palace and in the gardens. […]
London Marathon
One of the regular events of spring is on today, the London Marathon. Over 30000 people get together to run 26+ miles. I’ll do my usual and watch it on TV, far less stressful.
Jobs..or not
lovely announcement, lots and lots of organisation charts. The only problem is you can’t tell whether a role on an org chart is yours or not, and it’s unlikely to get clearer for a few weeks. So don’t know if my role continues or not, and also don’t know if there are other opportunities or […]
Podshows
The first fully commercial podcasting site I’ve seen.. and the BBC story. Intersting choice of presenters…Paul Gambuccini, Kenny Everett, Tony Blackburn. Wonder what their target audience is?
Marketing serendipity
The images from Tiger Wood’s stunning shot over the weekend shows that sometimes things happen that even advertising agencies couldn’t script. An absolute perfect shot for Nike. Take a look at Jaffe Juice for a creative look at the moment, in a commercial that Nike should put out.
Pet Pillows…why?
This post from Boing Boing fianlly made the mainstream press over the weekend, with it being in the Telegraph yesterday and Metro today. The link to the homepage is now down. But would you have your favourite pet preserved and its fur made into a pillow cover? But the reaction against it appears to be […]
Timing is everything
The company has been undergoing some fairly major restructuring over the last 3 months. Ther have been multiple re-organisations of teams and markets and now it is the turn of my area, the IS function, and we have the big meeting on Tuesday. But they still have to work on communication a little – in […]
Marketing…good and bad.
It had to happen, someone offer’s their penis for an advertising tattoo. The aution on ebay has been taken down, so we can only speculate on the size of real-estate on offer. However, I’m interested in how he was going to generate traffic to view the ad! However, this flash animation for Hitachi perpendicular drives […]
Royal Transport
I love the site of the majority of the British Royal family clambering on a bus to get moved up the hill to the castle.
Workmen explained
I found out what the workmen on the next building have started doing – they are going to be adding an extra floor to Debenhams.
Google Maps Part 2
I love google maps…and now they’ve discovered the rest of the world, at least via Satellite. They have added satellite imagery to the site, with all the saem cool sliding and zooming, but a global version, to various resolutions. So I can take a closer look where I have just booked a holiday
Meme Tracking
Reading through the blogroll, it’s interesting tracking the various ideas and topics as they flow. But if you join in the conversation half way though, how can you make sure you have the picture? One of the recent topics has been this very subject, and now there’s an answer – BlogPulse. Using key words, you […]
Pet hates
I hate this shop display. It first came out last summer, when it was warm, and a fun water-squirting flower seemed a good idea. But it’s been there ever since, every single day; all through the winter and now back into the spring. And it’s suffered; it’s got weaker and weaker. At the start, the […]
Invites galore
Looking around yahoo360, I see that I have invites a plenty for the sharing (along with orkut and gmail…). Leave a comment if you want one. And there’s quite a few others as well..whilst Jeremy Zawodny is way over his limit, there’s also this forum.
Pope John Paul…
For some reason I find the images of the embalmed(?) body of the pope very creepy..especially as it is obvious they’ve put him in new shoes
Yahoo! 360°
I picked up an invite at mobileread to Yahoo! 360° to take a look at it. Here’s my page, does not say a lot yet. Can it replace this and Flickr…probably not yet?
‘ow bist thee – family visits and ghosts
For Easter, I travelled to see the family. Sunday lunches are always fun, and this time we had 12 around the table. For some reason we got onto ghost stories: for a while my gradnparents have felt they have had a visting pair pf ghosts called George and Alice, so named following a visist from […]