Category: Misc

Actually, this entry’s title is tautological. All numerology is meaningless. However, should you live in the States, and happen to be up very early tomorrow morning (i.e. late tonight), you can watch as the time ticks through to: 01 02 03 04 05 06 or to be a little clearer 01:02:03 on 04/05/06 Of course…

Coming home from the London Drinker Beer and Cider festival in Camden Hall, Kings Cross, James got very excited when he saw this sign in the Euston Road underpass: It’s a Eurostar sign all ready for when St Pancras opens to Eurostar trains in 2007. Obviously they only wanted to make the sign once.

There’s a nice World Cup supplement with this week’s Marketing Week highlighting opportunities and thing to steer clear of when you try to link the World Cup with your products this summer. On the one hand you, seemingly, can’t use the following words in your promotional material if you’re not a sponsor: FIFA, FIFA World…

I don’t especially like them, but I was curious about Tesco’s strange pricing policy in regard to Cream Eggs. Maybe it’s to disincentivise us and thus prevent us making ourselves sick. So you can buy 3 for 99p: Get a 3 “pack” for £1.02: Or if you want 6 it’ll cost you £2.07: Each time,…

Tonight’s Evening Standard had a headline: “Lock Up All Chickens” on at least one edition. Don’t they know that most chickens spend all their lives caged up anyway, often in spaces the size of an A4 piece of paper. A few weeks ago the FA announced that from next season, energy company E.ON would be…

A bumper weekend is in store this weekend for us collectors of free DVDs. The Telegraph papers are going “kitchen sink” crazy with Saturday Night, Sunday Morning in the Saturday paper, followed by A Taste of Honey in the Sunday Telegraph (top tip – if you struggle to find the Sunday Telegraph, try looking at…

I mention this because around now, every ecommerce site is busy sending out email explaining how their products make the perfect Valentine’s gift, including plenty of pink backgrounds and heart logos in their emails and on their sites. What could be more romantic, for example, than buying your significant other a Dell Dimension desktop? With…

If there’s one thing that annoys me on when you’re filling out forms on the internet, it’s those drop down boxes where you choose a country, and they always helpfully put United States of America at the top before Afghanistan and the rest. The implicit message is “USA gets to the top of the list,…

There’s no greater feeling than when you reach the train station, late in the evening, ready to embark on the trip home, only to discover that the train’s not running the whole way, and you’re going to have to get off and change onto a bus. Great. You’re already tired and just want to get…

The other week, HMV Group’s chief executive is leaving the company after a disappointing Christmas, citing the growth of the internet etc. as reasons for HMV’s poor Christmas period. There is no way that an outlet like HMV can really compete with the interenet when they have all those leases to pay for in areas…

Am I only the person who sometimes confuses Davos with Davros? Do they, in fact, stand for similar ideals?