Think Visibility – The Adventure

Think Visibility focuses on the items that usually get left out of the web process.  That’s the official strapline of the Think Visibility conference, but it’s more than that in my eyes, much much more – it’s an adventure. The word Adventure can have several definitions : an exciting or very unusual experience. participation in [...]

Eight Of The Wittiest Complaint Letters

Inspired by the complaint letter written to Richard Branson, here are 8 of the wittiest complaint letters I’ve come across. 1) Virgin Food Dear Mr Branson REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008 I love the Virgin brand, I really do which is why I continue to use it despite a series of unfortunate incidents [...]

Cannabalism Alive And Kicking In Australia

Had to laugh at this on the BBC today, I bet the proof reader is hanging his/her head in shame LOL Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear Penguin said it was “mortified” over the “silly” mistake in its pasta cook-book An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed [...]

Bens 7th Birthday

Wow – to be seven again without a care in the world.  I remember my 7th birthday as being very special as I was 7 on the 7th of October in 1977 – alot of sevens – and to me that was special – or was it just me that was “special” But Friday wasn’t [...]

Snot Funny

Haven’t done a news post for a bit and this one caught my eye. Driver fined ‘for blowing his nose’ On the BBC website today.  The report reads An Ayrshire businessman says he has been fined by the police for blowing his nose while driving. Michael Mancini, from Prestwick, said he was sitting in stationary [...]

Photoshop Action Scripts

Well, I bought a bucket load of them today.  I got a free action script a month or two back that created an ebook image for an ebook I wrote on the Betcritique site for “Staking Plans”.  I then searched the web for more scripts, highly impressed with the simplicity of the script.  There are [...]

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