Archive from June, 2007

Pitching for the lucrative tourist market

30 Jun 2007: Click on photo for larger-scale image This photo in The Times today caught my eye. No, not the people coming out of the tube station at Piccadilly Circus. But what’s showing on the massive animated advertising hoarding in the background. Can anyone explain it? Sadly, the blokes with the mobile tat stalls in the area only seem to have knockoff Man Utd, Chelsea and Brazil shirts, so if this curious piece of publicity inspired anyone to change their allegiance to the Tractor Boys, sadly there was no chance of it translating into an impulse merchandise buy.

Imagine a film of your life soundtracked by an iPod

27 Jun 2007: It’s one of those games which you have to have a go at, once someone’s mentioned it. Imagine a film of your life, with various scenes. Stick your iPod on shuffle (for your whole record collection, no cheating), and you get a track for each scene. I’ve seen one or two where the music is so astonishingly appropriate you begin to smell something fishy. Anyway, no such luck with mine. Here it is:

Educate the voters back to the polling booths

20 Jun 2007: Gordon Brown is reported to be looking for Big Ideas as he becomes PM. Here’s one he can have for free.

Effective banner ad design

13 Jun 2007: I just posted this to a private newsgroup in answer to a question, but it’s worth repeating more widely. Here are six ways to make your online banner advertising better value for money!

Hands-on Review: Panasonic SD-255 breadmaker – Beat the supermarkets’ cash extraction strategies

11 Jun 2007: So how can owning a breadmaker actually save you significant amounts of, er, bread? Easy. Quoting from my own Panasonic SD-255 breadmaker review (highly recommended, by the way):

And another thing that annoys me…

9 Jun 2007: This could become quite a long series as I get to be a progressively grumpier old man, but Another Thing That Annoys Me is the tendency of newspaper columnists and other London-based media dahlings to prefix every main London road with “the”. As in “the Finchley Road”, “the Edgware Road”, “the Holloway Road”, etc. Hey, it instantly makes you sound like one of the natives, dunnit? Well, no, actually, it makes you sound like a twat.

When something’s just not important enough…

8 Jun 2007: So… what are the thought processes you go through – perhaps subconsciously – in making a decision to do something? It was something I was thinking about today when I realised I didn’t have the same enthusiasm for the new gym routine I’d been given than I had for the one I’d been doing for the last few months. So much so that I was sure I’d end up simply not going down any more.

Loopallu here I come

7 Jun 2007: Woo! The lovely Jackie, my favourite Highland Girlie, has got us tickets for Loopallu 2007 – Saw Doctors! Yay! Loopallu. See what they did there? Good grief, it sure is a long way north though.

These ones got people talking

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This blog really has been going a long time, hasn’t it?

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