Am I the only one who gets a bit frustrated when I see a brand and either thing the company sells something else, or when the brand is so generic the company literally could be selling anything?
Sunday 14th March 2010
Wednesday 03rd March 2010
Todd Tyrtle recently posted a comment on Google Reader highligting what I think is the real problem with consistently idolising sporting achievements over other fields. It’s not "cool" to take this position, particularly in a place like Australia, but I’m going to side with the egghead.
Tuesday 03rd November 2009
It seems Mark Zuckerberg has started poking fun at the folks who adamantly hate the latest in a string of new Facebook changes.
Tuesday 27th October 2009
Monnie over at Vanilla Silence recently wrote a detailed blog post about her holidays that were otherwise fabulous save for a nasty bout of hayfever, so I decided I should talk about my flu thingy too.
COUGH! SNEEZE! SO HOT! SPLUTTER! COUGH! SO COLD! SNEEZE! BIRD! SNEEZE! WORD!
I was going somewhere with this!
After postponing going to the doctor for several days because doctors scare the heck out of me, I finally went this morning. Turns out what I thought was just hayfever or a common cold was the flu and a respiratory infection. I’ve got stuff to take for it now and I’m breathing easier already, though I still have to take it easier over the next few days. When I have assignments due and a family crisis, of course!
My mum put up with these symptoms when she was having cancer treatment for over 12 years. 12 F*CKING YEARS. Even now I still don’t know how she did it.
Wednesday 14th October 2009
Friday 25th September 2009
So here’s the problem, our home internet has now been down all week and I haven’t been able to blog much at all during that time, and the timing could not have been worse! Consider this a whinging blog entry to end all whinging blog entries!
It seems as with many technologies, regardless of your own abilities or competency if you’re using the "wrong" implementation you’re perceived as an amateur, and vice versa.
Sunday 20th September 2009
As you may have noticed if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, I’m somewhat of a public transport nut. Having lived in Singapore most of my life, moving back to Australia for part of the year made me realise just how much I’d taken the public transport there for granted.
Unless the purpose of your site is to be an Ajax application, regardless of whether you’re using it to dynamically load in comments on pages from services such as Disqus, or your own comment systems on sites such as Lifehacker, or for some reason static text and images, using JavaScript to compose pages is just a dumb thing to do.
I linked to The Nationals (an Australian political party) for a joke on a previous post and noticed this garbled mess of text and images along with an appropriate image of an irritated kid, presumably because he’s just as unimpressed as I am and feels bad being associated with such a page! I shouldn’t have to re-enable JavaScript just to read a static web page.
Friends, don’t let your web designer friends use JavaScript to compose pages!
Sunday 13th September 2009
As a greenie, while electronic junk mail frustrates me, it’s nothing compared to the frustration I feel when we get snail mail junk here, especially considering we have one of those "No Junk Mail" stickers. I’m starting to think I may have to be more specific. It’s such a waste of resources considering very few people want them and often just throw such crap away away.
This latest piece of [expletive] junk mail disuses itself as a legitimate piece of business correspondence with a proper envelope and fake franked stamp. Upon opening though, its just a huge slab of loose leaf advertisements peddling everything from phone contracts to hit men (I presume). Despite not asking for it (opting in) and having a notice on my mailbox stating I did not want it (opting out) they gave it to me anyway.
I already have contracts with Telstra and Optus alas, but as for the rest I will not be purchasing goods from the following folk for supporting such a dodgy enterprise. I’m not linking to their sites so I don’t inadvertently give them Google Juice, and I’m showing them in a cloud to make it look less icky. Thank you.
- Bradford Exchange
- Can I exchange your junk mail for mail I want?
- Debt Mediators Australia
- How much money did you blow paying for this advertising?
- Electrodry
- Do you make electric shredders?
- European Lottery Guild
- I like to spend my money to get something in return
- Fitness First
- No, irritate people with your junk mail first
- Kresta
- Are the blinds on your glasses shut guys?
- IdentityDirect
- No need, I’ve identified you as a junk mailer
- InsuranceLine
- Why not spend the money paying claims instead of junk mailers?
- Labels By Mail
- After receiving junk by mail, is that how it works?
- MagnaMail
- False avertising junk mail, a Mitsubishi car can’t fit in an envelope
- Maths Worldwide
- I don’t trust their maths if they thought paying spammers made financial sense
- MyAdventureBooks
- MyAdventureSpam?
- SGIC
- Sorry guys, junk starts with a "J" not a "G"
- Vet Products Direct
- They want me to feed my pets shredded junk mail?
- Vistaprint
- I love Vista, and I certainly love printed junk mail
- WholeSaleToner
- WholeSaleJunk!
