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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 [...]
Work Update 14-01-10
Well, a little late, but hey – it’s here. So what have I been doing work wise. The new batch of sites that Ben, Chris & I have been working on stalled before Christmas. We were trying to make it oh so perfect. But after a meeting with Ben on the Monday after Christmas, we [...]
Happy New Year
A Happy New Year to you all. I hope last nights festivities haven’t left you feeling too fragile. We had a rather low key New Years Eve, with a trip to the local cinema to watch Avatar in 3D followed by a glass of port at home to bring in the New Year. Great film [...]
My Blogging Influences
I was reading an article the other day about, what had happened in the last decade. It contained the usual stuff about music, technology, politics, etc and I got thinking about my own life and what things stood out over the last 10 years. The birth of my son was obviously top of my list, [...]
We Are Not Alone
An entertaining day today with Ben, watching rally crash clips on You Tube, Mario and Sonic games on his DS, an afternoon stroll with him and the dog in the snow – basically a nice relaxing day after a hellishly busy week at work (whilst suffering with a bitch of a cold). So, after putting [...]
