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Archive for May, 2011

Adverts have gone.. mental…

There’s so many rules and regulations surround TV advertising that it’s almost stopping companies telling you to try the product. Advertising agencies appear to have gone for sheer insanity instead, as these ads show… [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHB1O2j6BoQ'] [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCKgCkubGc0'] [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk4U2uJuFAI'] Oh, and I’m going to be ultra-geeky here, but as an example of how things [...]

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Creative parking

We went to the Lichfield Bower today. It was pretty rubbish weather but, due to the size of the event and how popular it is, there was the usual parking “fun”. Now, I’m usually up for “creating” spaces in car-parks when they run out, but this guy really takes the biscuit.. :)

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Come on Parcel Force

…it can’t be that hard to at least put something, even if it’s “we don’t have any data” .. not just a blank space…. !

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This FTTC stuff is pretty cool

I’m not as close to the green box as I could be, but this is still a flippin’ good download speed ;)

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BBC Double entendre

Ahem…

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Shh.. Don’t mention Ryan Giggs and Imogen

He’s got an injunction out, so we can’t mention it.. OK ? This all comes from Tweets like this. It just takes two seconds on the web to find out Giggsy’s name. It’s even on his Wikipedia page, so this crazy law and injunction is so out-dated it’s unreal.

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Paypal phishing

I’m sure you’ve seen these mails. This one came through today and has the usual bad punctuation, grammar and spelling. However, there’s a certain amount of honest in the “from” address… :)

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Note to anyone running a website

These things annoy the crap out of ALL OF YOUR VISITORS…

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Websites to be blocked… in the USA

Out of all the countries in the world, who’d have thought that America would be blocking access to certain websites? Looks like domains which aren’t under US jurisdiction will soon be on the rise… Link – BBC.co.uk

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This guy is a legend

Getting away with that T-shirt, and having it printed in the local paper. Nice one :)

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