Pat’s Point of View

Some ideas for making the next Commonwealth Games more interesting.

Continue reading ‘Go for gold’

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If ebay wasn’t enough of an innovation for the humble “for sale” ad, this guy has taken to a new level!

Here’s a screenshot in case you miss the auction.

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See what people are blogging about: ebay, hooters

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I saw this on a plastic bag recently:

This page is not a toy

How bored has a kid got to be to play with a plastic bag?

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I saw this ad at the bus stop this morning, directly across the road from Long Bay prison. How ironic, esspecially considering the recent escapes…

For those who can’t read the ad, it’s for the new channel 7 show “Prison Break”. Must make local residents feel all warm and fuzzy.

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Airtoons: making fun of the cartoons in airline safety cards…

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I don’t know if these are real or not, but some are quite clever. I like the pesticide one…

Continue reading ‘Ad awards’

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Jenn sent me this ad from a classifieds website, do you think she’s trying to tell me something?

That’s just plain mean, how could somebody do that to such a fine automobile?

ps: If the ad is no longer live, here’s a screenshot.

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I’ve been playing around with Gallery 2 recently, to handle all my online photo albums. What a great piece of software! The installer is fantastic, telling you exactly what’s happening and helping you to do what’s needed. Makes most commercial software look stupid and amateurish.

This is a very nice solution, highly customisable and standards based. It replaces the awful code spewed out of iPhoto, and free Flickr solutions I have been using. I’ve used Web Album Generator which is good, but only for PC and won’t integrated with my centralised iPhoto Library.

I’m using iPhotoToGallery, the Gallery exporter for iPhoto, which makes it easy to publish albums. And WPG2, the Gallery plugin for Wordpress, allows integration with my blog.

Expect something to show for all this playing, very soon.

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See what people are blogging about: photo, album, gallery, iphoto, wordpress

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I don’t know why, but I have decided to catalogue the mobile phones I have owned. Bizarre or just bored, you decide.
Continue reading ‘It’s a mobile life’

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You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

Admiral Jim Stockdale

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