Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Life Stuff’ Category
Be Very Very Quiet…
Friday, April 24th, 2009I was walking home tonight from work and walked into a street I walk down most nights. Now its not winter there are usually people in the street when I walk down it. Tonight isn’t unusual there are kids playing in the street, someone is unloading their shoping from a car and two girl who […]
The Case for the Defense of British Grittiness
Thursday, April 16th, 2009I’ve just seen another talking head piece where it was said that Britain doesn’t make gritty police shows. I like The Wire but there isn’t any need to get into self flagelation that all we ever make is Dixon of Dock Green and Heartbeat. If I swore on this blog I’d use a single word […]
Rhapsody in the Trafford Centre?
Monday, April 13th, 2009Someone must have been short on ideas when they made the advert for the Trafford Centre I just saw. First some uninspired footage of clothes. Second an innane voice over. Third a script about a formula. Forth add a bit of mathmatical notation to The Trafford Centre’s name at the end. Finally top it all […]
Marketing not Quite Joined Up
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Littlewoods recently sent me an e-mail thanking me for my business in the last year and hoping I’ll continue to spend as much with them this year as I did last year. I may well take their advice – I spent nothing last year and its quite likely I’ll do the same this year…
Moondash Showreel
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Daniel Munteanu’s show reel at the Moondash project is well worth a look.
Today Programme Viral Advert
Friday, March 20th, 2009I’m a bit late with this but it did amuse me. The Evan Davis’ blog on the BBC web site explains it. I found some of the comments amusing just because they say more about the commenters than the piece itself. A few obviously don’t get there is a difference between an advert being viral […]
The Dangers of Turning the Page too Fast
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Flipping through g2 in the Guardian quickly at lunch today I half caught the text on the picture above. Except not quite. I miss read it as "Est Aux Folies Bergerac". That was an image of John Nettles I didn’t need…
The Customer is Always Wrong…
Thursday, March 19th, 2009at least if their a tennant. The picture is of a leaflet sent out by Arena Housing and they have now apologised (see the BBC for more details). Last year another Liverpool landlord put notices on the house of tennants who they say hadn’t paid their rent. A growing number of tennants are being evicted […]
Lego's Business Cards
Thursday, March 12th, 2009This is so much cooler than a standard bit of card… Lego’s Business Cards.
All Joomla! and no Play makes Mark…
Sunday, February 8th, 2009… really tired. Just finished a couple of month long project in Joomla! at work including a solid weekend in the office last week to finish it off. I’ve learnt a lot about Joomla! although there are somethings I still need to learn. Its an interesting content management system with a different way of approaching […]