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Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Typo of the day

Posted in work on Sep 30th, 2008

From a client email: blah bla blah blah Kin regards, Joe Bloggs Marketing Manager Sweary sign-offs are *so* much more fun, don’t you think?

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Intermission

Posted in digression on Sep 30th, 2008

(via Lutum!) Don’t worry; there’s a proper post on the way soon.

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Hard-hitting advertising

Posted in marketing on Sep 26th, 2008

Pic: Paul Doleman

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Spot the deliberate mistak

Posted in internet, technology on Sep 23rd, 2008

You know how, once you get familiarised with something, it’s hard to spot that it’s stupid? Well, every now and then you get a flash of perspective. Earlier my brother sent me a link to a Times Online story. As sometimes happens in email, the link got broken across two lines. In this case just [...]

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Five rules for starting a business

Posted in digression on Sep 17th, 2008

Off on a tangent again, but a good friend of mine is thinking about starting a business, and it’s made me reflect on the things I learned from my own experience. Here, then, I humbly offer my five rules for starting a business: 1) Stand out. This means doing something no-one else does, or doing [...]

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Hit and hope

Posted in digression, marketing on Sep 15th, 2008

Just saw this on Facebook. It reminded me of the way I play pool when I can’t work out how to get a ball in a pocket.

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Upgraded

Posted in blog on Sep 14th, 2008

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2 – think everything’s fine but please let me know if you spot anything broken. Also added plugin that can email you when someone adds a comment after yours – hope it’s useful.

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The NUS, its website and the NUS Extra Card

Posted in digression, internet on Sep 13th, 2008

UPDATED: I might be wrong about some of this post; see comments Here’s a question: should a union act to represent the interests of its members, or to sell them a product? Let me tell you why I ask. I’ve been researching an article on robberies that affect students, and what they can do to [...]

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Tonight’s sunset

Posted in digression on Sep 11th, 2008

Walked around the corner this evening to be confronted by the most amazing sunset I’ve ever seen. By the time I’d crossed the road and got my camera out it was already beginning to lose its intensity, but it literally made me catch my breath. Doesn’t do it justice I’m afraid.

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A typo to end them all

Posted in digression on Sep 9th, 2008

I’m just writing another post about the Large Hadron Collider. Or, as it shall now be ever known, the Large Hardon Collider. UPDATE: More LHC humour in today’s G2

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