<rant> Ok so about 4 months ago I managed to smash the screen on my trusty Sony Ericsson 3G mobile. This phone had served me well, and I was actually pretty gutted that I wasn’t offered an equivalent Sony as a replacement. If I had been, I probably would have avoided a bunch of trouble. [...]
I’ll just let these photos from the Official Google Blog answer that one:
Ok so what do I hear when I turned on the radio (old school – you like that?) this morning? Buried among the usual Monday morning ‘life sucks’ articles was the tremendous news that I, a humble rodeo clown-wannabe from Titahi Bay, had been named Time’s Man of the Year (none of that PC ‘person’ [...]
Dear Santa, I’ve been a really good boy this year: Saving orphans from terrorists by making bombs out of used tea bags; Using the Stargate to bring peace to the universe; and Being a full-time love god to aunts Patti & Selma. With all that good karma under my belt, please please please PLEASE can [...]
They say that, as a rule, you should design web applications for use by the lowest common denominator – the morons, cretins etc – so as not to have your call centre inundated with people wanting to know which one is the ‘any’ key. When I went to renew my car registration online yesterday I [...]
Yep, Christmas is just around the corner, and with it the regular barrage of advertising for this year’s expensive must-haves. In addition to many new flavours of the ubiquitous ipod and (at last!!!) the launch of a NZ iTunes Music Store, gaming consoles are once-again the hot item. Sony looks to have missed the boat [...]
This is awesome. Chris – any chance we’ll see one of these at Pepsi Towers this year? Any aspiring engineers looking to build your own tasty beverage tree, click here for the blow-by-blow.
Ok, so some of you will have picked up by now that my general opinion of ad agencies isn’t that high. By far the majority are still stuck in the 80′s, pouring money into pointless TVC’s that may win awards and raise a few smiles but contribute nothing to the client’s bottom line. This campaign, [...]
Now this is scary. A few weeks ago I had a good old rant about freedom of speech, and how disappointed I was to see it in short supply in the United Arab Emirates. Now it seems Malaysia wants to take things further, proposing to implement a set of laws specifically designed to target bloggers. [...]