GB Olympics Medals Totals
This is simply one of those things which I was curious about, and found it tricky to find online. Eventually I did. So I present the data here in the hope that it might save you an equally long search. Click here to read the rest...
Acer Aspire One - Sunday Times recommended
The Sunday Times today featured a review of the new generation of "solid-state" notebook PCs, which are faster and more reliable than traditional hard drive-toting laptops. Below I've tracked down the models they've reviewed, and given you links to the product information pages at Amazon UK. BEST BUY Acer Aspire One This ... Click here to read the rest...
Friends Provident Trophy Final 2008 tickets and details
Cricket eh? The final balls had hardly been bowled in the Friends Provident Trophy semi-finals than people were probably hitting the net to find out about tickets and details for the final. I was one of them, but boy was it hard work. So with any luck, this quick blog ... Click here to read the rest...
Cult of Apple? Cult of Freebies, more like.
The wife told me it would be chaos, but I wanted to go down and see the new "Grand Arcade" shopping precinct in Cambridge which opened fully today. When I got there, it was busy, but not chaotic, except for one thing: a massive queue snaking down back into the ... Click here to read the rest...
Some of the images we use to indicate our commitment to “green”
Someone's going to get an interesting letter in the post on Monday morning. The Beyond Petrol site is a pixel-perfect spoof of the BP site, which falls just far enough the right side of silliness to make you take a second glance to check that it really is a spoof. ... Click here to read the rest...
More taxpayer-funded misGuided Bus PR puffery
Cambridgeshire County Council has made a couple of expensive-looking videos to promote the Cambridge to St Ives misGuided Bus - it would appear that a substantial portion of the staggering £100M+ budget for this huge white elephant has gone the way of PR firms Click here to read the rest...
As Opposed To “Quite Fast”?
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Discount Booze at The Local. For selected tramps.
Bad product branding always cheers up a dull day for me. There are all sorts of reasons why a product or business might launch or re-brand itself amusingly awfully, but the most obvious ones seem to be: [1] A terrible idea sometimes gets right through the marketing department and out the ... Click here to read the rest...
They won’t thank their parents
I always wonder if I was given a very mainstream name (Christopher was the most common boys' name in the early sixties) because my father was given a daft one and, I suspect, always resented his parents for it. So here then are 15 names which were given to more ... Click here to read the rest...
Colchester Golf Club
My brother Tony is a member of Colchester Golf Club, a nice Essex golf course. This blog entry is really just to demonstrate anchor text. But there are some unintentionally amusing videos of golf swings there. Click here to read the rest...