SABC World News observation

SABC World News – SABC 3, after 12am. A question/observation/rant:

Who the hell is that female newsreader responsible for the voiceovers on just about all of their stories?

If you’ve ever had the displeasure of turning on your TV at that hour and hearing her voice break on every word then you’ll know what I’m talking about. I don’t know how else … view full post

Another rant

Now that I’m connected to broadband networks, I can listen to streaming internet radio without any hiccups, and today tried out 5fm’s live stream. Alas, the ignorant muppets – they block access to non-IE browsers, simply because they embed the stream in the browser instead … view full post

Some random TGIF blogging

First up: happy birthday to the man with the broken blog. Ian, hope you have a wicked one. Looking forward to getting raucously plastered together sometime soon.I knew there had to be a reason for the box of Monopoly, “the best-selling board game in the … view full post

The rain in London falls mainly on Damien

It’s time to get an umbrella – it started raining (not wimpy drizzle) today for the first time since arriving. Actually just a couple of hours ago. I got to my tube station after work and it was closed. Apparently a major power failure affecting south London. Only, I’m not … view full post

Photography rant

Those people you see at aquariums and museums, taking photos from behind a thick plate of reflective glass with their flash? They’re the same people you’ll find outdoors today, expecting to get a moon-sized picture of Mars.

Conceited Website of the Year

TBWA Hunt Lascaris recently won the Agency of the Year award at the first annual AdReview Awards held on 6 May.

Adding to this achievement, I’d like to award them with the first annual coda.coza Conceited Website of the Year award. Contrary to what they’d like to believe, I think it’s much … view full post

Fuck blame

Why is it whenever something goes tragically wrong in a situation which can be affected by any of a multitude of unexpected events, … view full post

Computicket.com blocked in Mozilla

Unlike the new Edgars website (I ranted about it here), if you visit Computicket’s website in Mozilla you’re not excluded from viewing the site. But you do end up at their test web site. My first thought was that they’d redesigned again and were experimenting with IE-specific CSS layouts, but … view full post

Edgars: just imagine

Acidman just directed me to the new Edgars website. Wow, incredible stuff. How ironic that their slogan is “just imagine”…

Even when you do visit the site with their specified browser of choice, you are presented with an inconsistently-sized layout, images in place of text, a dynamic menu with a font size so tiny that … view full post

FCB Electric Ocean accused of “bogus pitching”

FCB Electric Ocean accused of “bogus pitching”

A group of ad agencies and internet website design companies have taken FCB Electric Ocean to task for indulging in what they call a bogus pitch.
Electric Ocean argued that putting out bogus pitches was an industry norm; the practice was not illegal and that they were willing to share the high-level “research” with

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