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Hello! Welcome to my blog. Home of incisive, erudite, probing treatises on the good, the bad and the ugly of the marketing and technology world.
“My name is David James, I’m calling because we’ve received a number of error reports from the computer in your house – and I want to help you to fix them.” Continue reading...
Morning all… it’s been a busy few weeks, with some exciting projects either finalised or proposed. Hope to have *very* exciting news in a week or so.
In the meantime, I thought I’d share three of the sites that take up space in my RSS reader. Please note, all of these at times can be rude, crude, unsuitable for kids and not always safe for work either. You have been warned! Continue reading...
Some people have fantastic ideas and far, far too much time on their hands.
Well, have you ever wondered what the Star Wars saga would have been like had it been a 1950s B movie or Saturday morning serial (in the style of Flash Gordon and the like) ? No, me neither if I’m honest – but the results are fantastic.
If you click through to the YouTube page yourself, there’s a whole world of these so-called “pre-makes”: some are better than others!
Pure genius – both as a saleable item and a viral marketing campaign.
Well, I’m proving the power of the latter with the YouTube video below… and if I had a Tom Tom I would definitely be buying this: turn by turn directions from the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader.
Time to don my grumpy trousers… temporarily I assure you.
Sitting down last night for an evening’s entertainment in front of the gogglebox, a voiceover before a film warned me that the film I was about to watch contained “scenes of a violent nature and language.”
The film contains language? Well unless the lead actor is Marcel Marceau, I kinda hoped it would. Makes it easier to follow what’s going on if there’s language, especially if the script covers concepts slightly-more complicated than “stuck in a glass box” and “walking into the wind”.
Yes, I know what they mean; strong language, language that may offend some people. So why not say so?
So, if you’re an Internet savvy whizzkid – like my good self – you probably make use of Google Docs, especially when working collaboratively on a project.
For those not in the know: Google Docs is essentially a web-based version of Microsoft Office, with all your documents – word processor documents, spreadsheets etc. – living in the internet cloud (aka “the ether”). Is it perfect? No, far from it but it passes the basic “good enough” test.
Now, set up correctly, Google Docs is even cleverer – as it allows you to work on documents offline; perfect if you have a flakey Internet connection.
Well… it allowed anyway.
On May 3rd, Google removed the ability to work on documents offline, promising to replace the ability with a “new improved” version some time soon.
Well that’s useful isn’t it. Soon. How long’s that then precisely?
And would, you know, leaving the existing functionality in place whilst we wait for “soon” to come round have been such a terrible idea?
Photoshop is flakey, always has been, probably always will be. And it always seems to crash when you least want it to (when you’ve finally completed a difficult procedure and are just about to save for example).
Anyway… when Photoshop crashes, a dialogue box pops up and asks you to send a report to Adobe to let them know what happened. And some people like to vent. Continue reading...