After much rumour and debate Aplle announced at MacEXPO the launch of iPod mini They know their target market well I feel “Oh, one other minor detail, you can choose your iPod mini in one of five trend-setting colors: silver, gold, green, pink or blue. (All shiny.)”
It’s the last bit in brackets that gets me – everyone I know buys things because they are shiny. London is full of magpies ;o)
Shock and alarm was spread among Metro readers earlier today when it was reported that women in London have been utilising a new date rape drug known as ‘Beer’
‘Beer’ is applied to the target male in an attempt to make him say and do things that he would never normally do if her wasn’t intoxicated.
Such as going home with women that closely resemble three-piece suites, road kill, etc.
‘Beer’ has been identified in the following key constituencies:
The 12 – 92 age demographic, bars, pubs, clubs and park benches.
Police say ‘Beer’, unlike Rohipnol, is virtually undetectable in the victim, making evidentially-based prosecutions virtually impossible in the absense of a confession.
So last night around midnight what sounded like a car alarm went off – but it was a continuous noise. It went on for a while and even had me wondering if Du Cane had a fire alarm system we were unaware of! So then again there was a noise and a bit of crashing, it was just outside Matt’s room – a car outside – the horn went and i thought it was an alarm again and then it kind of died so i got up after about 10 minutes of it and looked out to see the car was on fire.
So I thought woo hoo you know what happens with fires. The fire brigade turn up 😉
So then the fire engine arrived and four nice firemen came out and put the fire out. Then a police van and a few nice policemen and then a police car.
They put it out and then all stood around chatting for a while. If you were into uniforms then you would have had trouble getting back to sleep!
It’s nice to know that AOL Time Warner has got a sense of humour. They have just spent $250,000 on a new corporate logo that looks like it was knocked up using MS Word to make the text ‘Time Warner’ in the Times New Roman font and then made the background blue. Screen grabbed it and asked for a cheque.
Money for old rope!
okay so for the past few months a few of us with Macs in the office have been sharing our music with iTunes. Today Apple announced iTunes for Windows. So our little walled garden is soon to be invaded by the rest of the office. I wonder how long it will be before our IC department lock it down 🙁
Link: iTunes
VeriSign and an internet-over-sight body have reached a ‘truce’ after
disagreeing over VeriSign’s new service that exploits errors users make
when typing web addresses. VeriSign has temporarily halted the service,
called SiteFinder, that steers users who type an incorrect address to a
VeriSign search engine. This comes after a formal demand from the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers a non-profit group that
oversees the internet address system. The trouble began when some critics
claimed VeriSign’s service was disrupting normal functioning of some
internet applications, a claim the company denies. VeriSign executive VP
of the naming and service group said, “clearly there are those who think
the network is sacrosanct and you can’t do anything with it”.
Actually I think you’ll find that most people were outraged at the abuse of power and that instead of simply using it to provide a ‘sorry this domain does not exist’ 404 style error page they marketed it and sold advertising and gambling.
I should just go home and go to bed. Today has not started at all well 🙁
I was supposed to be in at 9 this morning and I missed my train at
Balham and then again at Clapham Junction and finally arrived later than if I had come in for the time I would normally be in. Wouldn’t have been so bad if it hadn’t been a meeting with the MD, CFO, CTO my boss and a few other people about a new project I want to be involved in 🙁
oops
Oh and I’ve spilt coffee all over myself. Sent emails to the wrong people and generally nothing is going right so far this morning.
A major earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale has hit Bootle in the early hours of Friday morning
Victims were seen wandering around aimlessly muttering “Fuckin Hell” “Bollocks” and where?s me fags.
The earthquake decimated the area causing approximately ?35.00 worth of damage, and several priceless collections of memento?s from Blackpool, Llandudno, and Tallaca were damaged beyond repair. In addition, three arrears of historic burnt out cars were disturbed.
Many local residents were woken well before their Giro arrived.
The local rag reported that hundreds of residents were confused and bewildered and still trying to come to terms with the fact that something interesting has happened in Bootle.
One resident Tracy our Sharon Smith, a 15 year old mother of three said “It was such a shock that my little Mercedes Chardonnay came running into my bedroom crying and my youngest two Tyler-Connor and Kylie Megan-Morgan slept through it all. I was still shaking when I was watching Trisha on Monday.
Apparently though looting and muggings and car crime wasn’t affected and carried on as normal
The British Red Cross has so far managed to ship in 4000 crates of lager, 1.2 million ciggies to the arrears most stricken. Rescue workers are still searching throughout the rubble and have found large quantities of personal belongings, which include benefit books, jewellery from Elizabeth Duke at Argos and fine bone china from Poundstretcher
How can I help I hear you asking
This appeal is to raise money for food and clothing for those unfortunate to be caught up in this disaster, Clothing is most sought after
Items most needed include
Fila or Burberry baseball caps
Kappa tracksuit tops (his and hers)
Shell suits (female)
White Nike or Reebok socks
Rockport boots and any other items sold in Matalan
Remember! 22p buys a biro for filling in compensation forms
?2.00 buys a bag of chips, crisps and blue fizzy drinks for a family of 6 and just ?5.00 will pay for a packet of Benson and Hedges and a lighter to calm shattered nerves of those affected.
Please do not send tents for shelter as the sight of this posh housing will be unfair on the population of Kirby and Kirkdale.
just waiting on calls from solicitors to say it’s all happened – It all seems a little weird. Still it’s about time I moved on and it’s given me an excuse to get rid of lots of things I no longer need and make a clean break.
Still worrying though.
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