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20Dec/080

Whopper Virgins.. wtf

Whoppervirgins is a promo from Burger King where they have traveled the world to find people who never ate a burger before and recorded their reactions to eating a big mac and a whopper.

Bonus points to BK for the social media links at the end of the video.

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17Dec/081

Drinking Ads

You know who I think is at fault in this AD ? EVERYONE!

dont just sit back and watch some one being stupid when they are pissed , get up and do somthing.

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16Dec/081

What a day

So today started like any other except since I have been sick I have lost a bit of weight. Now that would be all good except now my jeans need a belt to keep them up properly but this morning I was running late so left for  work sans belt. That was mistake 1. ( but its really funny)

The day it self was pretty average and was suprised when my partner came to town to pick me up. So on the road home I noticed the car seemed to be heating up in the slow traffic but when we started going it cooled down so I just made a B line to get it on the motorway. That was mistake 2

As soon as I thit the motorway I thought everything would be fine as the traffic was moving but oh no the car stalls and wouldnt start. Here i was stuck on the merging lane with 2 kids and a dead car pissing steam everywhere. This is where i decided to open the door and push the car to the side of the road. As i started pushing the car and sterring it I felt my pants creep down then all of a sudden two guys ran over to help push which was awesome except by that stage the car was really moving , door shut, I was on the outside kids on the inside , trying to steer it and my pats almost around my knees and hundreds of people flys past watching as i try and pull up my pants and getinto a moving car. Suprisingly I didnt fall over and run my self over but that have been a easier option to end the day.

So with the car pulled over we put the hazard lights on and poped the bonnet to see whats going on , turns out the fan fues was blowen. A call to state road rescue hoping they can simply get me a fuse and i would be on my way but how wrong could i be.

About 30 minutes later a tow truck turns up and i explain i dont need a tow I need a 20 cent fuse but no i get a tow or nothing. Up the car goes and off we go to the next exit and get put down at Shell johnsonville. Just so happens this was the same service station I worked at about 7 years ago , top job I assumed the guys that worked there would be half as helpfull as I used to be every thing wold be fine. Oh how wrong was I ? turns out the guys there were as usefull as george bush in a war. I walked in to look for a fuse and couldnt find one, then I tried asking the muppet at the counter but he couldnt understand english i was tempet to ask "dirka dirka ma-huck ji heab?" but thought better of it.

So a walk abound the meca that is johnsonville to find a frigen fuse abut the only place that stocked them was at the other end of the empire. About 20 minutes later I get back to the car a notice the harard lights sill going abeit dim ...

In goes the fuse an d dir dir dir oh no. The rest is boring .

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16Dec/080

HTTP Status Code

http://status-code.com/

Here is a list of status codes , now if some one made a site a like this and linked to an explaination of each code it would almost be a resouce.

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13Dec/080

2008 xmas wish list

HP mini 1000

Xbox360

Sumo beanbag


and somthing for the Taggers

oh and vouchers for books becouse for some reason I just hate spending money on them.

oh and 50k in cash so i can give up my job for a year and work on somthing more interesting

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13Dec/082

Five Biggest Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make

A nice little video from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

12Dec/080

Are we seeing the end of newspapers

It wasnt that long ago that our local newpaper was printed twice a day, ( i can only assume this was to keep up with the fast paced news) now its down to once a day and they are even giving them away to us for a month to get us to subscribe. Now with the internet we can see updates within minutes of the events happening and also watch rich media streams of it and best of all , its usally free.

How much longer will we see newspapers ..

12Dec/080

I lost a domain :(

So the last few weeks I re ignited my idea for a website , several years ago I brought pricewse.co.nz, but was knoced back with finda and ferrit , suddenly i got a freash idea I could have macked it with this domain but some how orcn dropped the billing on the domain and i never kept the email address up to date.  So I guess this teaches me but it wont stop me. Time to start learning php.

Good luck to the new owner looks like you already have a few domains there :) , and if any one has any ideas for a domain name please let me know

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2Dec/080

What ever happened to communities?

When I left the mighty wairoa I thought every thing would be for the better. While I was growing up there I kept asking myself why on earth would any one want to live there.

As I grow older I start to notice what I left behind and why people shifted to places like wairoa. For starters there’s the obvious, cheap housing and land. It has a nice river and there is a lighthouse practically in the middle of the town , far from any sea. Its also central to areas great for outdoors people like hunting, fishing and growing weed.

But the biggest thing I miss is community, I remember countless town activates like fundraising for a set of jaws of life, fund raising to help MR Shaw get another helicopter and all the coming together when cyclone bola wiped out our bridge.

I cant help but start to feel lonely in this dog eat dog world I now live in.

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1Dec/080

Should Telecom put down ferrit?

For the last few years I have watched Telecom pump thousands of dollars into marketing for ferrit.co.nz as the online shopping hub in new Zealand. The problem I see with ferrit is

1. Character they have for it comes across as some creepy, paedophile, lazy jerk so no one really wants to relate to him.

2. The site layout is an explosion of images and links, lacks colour and focus points.

3. A lot of the site content resides under the break and the site's banners and header consume the first half of the page.

4. The retailer fees and commission terms are complex and expensive.

These are just a few of the problems I see with the site. I also find the business model confusing are they a gateway to the brick and mortar shops ? no..

Are they a online mall ? yes kind of but they don’t seem to give retailers a virtual shop.

Do they really offer a good product comparison feature ? not really.

Does their search work ? not very well. The refine search option is nice but easy to miss, a spell checker would be good too.

I guess ferrit is shaping up to be a site to go when you don’t know what to buy, probably a good option for finding gifts but that’s about it.

My guess is they will try again this x-mas season try a change in direction yet again . or they can give me a call to help fix it up :)