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Tic Tacs, you know, for Colourists..

There’s a new flavour on Tic Tac on the block called “Teal & Orange” designed especially for Hollywood colourists to consume whilst grading their latest blockbuster. If none of this makes any sense at all you should probably be thanking your lucky stars for not noticing or getting a colour blindness test.

Here are some relevant links:

Teal & Orange

Teal & Orange P2

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MSN Messenger, Spam and Undies.

Note: Cross posted from Rickster [Random].

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MSN Messenger loves to send me spam. Every time I log into the thing I get endless messages from people wanting to be my friend. I think however they all have the same agenda (and script by the look of it)

Note: Cross posted from Rickster [Random].

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Advertorial: PR Material Masquerading as News - BBC

Anybody notice that half the articles in the paper these days are thinly veiled advertorial for a product or service? Here’s one from the BBC website:

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The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study.

The playable version of the classic video game was put on Google's front page on 21 May to celebrate 30 years since the launch of Pac-Man in Japan.

The search giant reworked the game so the layout was arranged around letters forming its name.

The Pac-Man game proved so popular that Google has now made it permanently available on its own page.

Time delay

The statistics on how many people played and for how long were gathered by software firm Rescue Time. It makes time-tracking software that keeps an eye on what workers do and where they go online.

On a typical day, it suggests, most people conduct about 22 searches on the Google page, each one lasting about 11 seconds.

Putting Pac-Man on the page boosted that time by an average of about 36 seconds, the firm said based on the browsing habits of 11,000 Rescue Time users.

The firm believes this is a relatively low figure because only a minority realised that the logo was playable. To play, people had to click on the "insert coin" button which replaced the more familiar "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on 21 and 22 May.

Extrapolating this up across the 504 million unique users who visit the main Google page day-to-day, this represents an increase of 4.8 million hours - equal to about 549 years.

In dollar terms, assuming people are paid $25 (£17.50) an hour, this equates to about $120m in lost productivity, the firm said.

For that money, suggested Rescue Time, it would be possible to hire all Google's employees and put them to work for about six weeks.

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Have a read of the rescue time website I love these guys. These are the sort of people who think that humans are machines and with a bit of tweaking of the “software” can be made to work at 100% efficiency all of the time. I suppose if they got their own way we’d all be fitted with catheters and fed from a saline drip so we never had to leave our desks.

This sort of “efficiency” nonsense if so lacking in understanding of how human beings work you have to wonder whether they flew in from another planet.

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- This is a Test -

There are a lot of these in the PC world...

The world keeps on spinning....

But I cannot work out how to download my blog as a file.

Perhaps a new entry will fix things? What do you think?

Kidnap?

I'm sitting in the Astor house bar drinking a beer and eating a tuna sandwich. I know I'm not supposed to be drinking beer, but it's the end of my trip and I feel a little sad.

Actually, that could be the understatement of the century, or at least of this blog. I think everyone can relate to the end of holiday blues. Multiply it by a factor of eight and you probably get the idea. The end of something is always bad. As someone who I can't remember the name of once said 'everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn't end at all'

Don't go psychoanalysing that one though, it's a shallow as a kiddies paddling pool.

So this is the end of the road, the finishing line, the final flight, the return trip, the last departure.

There's a horrible finality to all of the above, something that doesn't seem quite fair. After all, it's just the beginning of another chapter. This trip has been full of new chapters and this one is no exception. To extend the dubious metaphor to breaking point, the novel that is my life continues regardless.

Perhaps the next chapter will be a great one, a chapter to end all chapters, the best chapter yet, where the author thrusts all his creative powers into the melting pot and produces the best ideas he has ever created, something he is truly proud of.

Anyway, before I drift off into a Roberto Calvi infused self-referential monologue and I think maybe only one person potentially reading this will even get this reference - Hi Matt! The rest of you need to read more...honestly he's VERY good, try 'If on a winter's night.. a traveller' if you want what your perceptions of what a novel is scrambling.

So, I've digressed... again and now I'm doing that strangely
English thing of apologising about it. There's a great line in 'A fish called Wanda' when John Cleese says 'Do you have any idea what it's like to be English? Having to be right all the time?' I don't think he's actually talking about being 'right' in the true sense of the world, more 'proper' I think. Still, the idea rings true for me.

So, why the title?

Well, I'm giving serious consideration to kidnapping the waitress in this bar. Or any waitress in any bar or hotel for that matter. It would be the perfect abduction, she's a willing victim if you like, enthusiastic to see the world. She's even small enough to fit in my bag. There's been a long standing joke throughout China about abducting the waitresses and hoteliers and taking them with us. They all seem to be up for it.

The reason? They are simply so adorable. They smile all the time and even laugh at my bad jokes, they want to get to know you for no other reason other than natural curiosity and above all they make me laugh. Laugh like I've not laughed for in a long, long time.

In that cold sterile city I call home I think we've forgotten how to smile. Wake up London, it's time to unpack your smiles, throw off your English reserve, start random conversations at bus stops, ask the person in McDonalds if they are having a nice day and discuss with the underground train driver how many people fall down the gap.

Look out London, I'm coming home.

A farewell to arms...

Right then blog readers, this is the end of the road. I hope you've enjoyed the experience. Unless you feel obliged to saturate my Gmail account with entertaining questions I shall see you on the other side of the pond for the uncensored version.

I've battled technology on three continents and to be honest I'm sick to death of it. Roll on an internet connection I can get annoyed about because it's my responsibility.

I think it's been fun, have you enjoyed it? Perhaps next time if you're brave enough, you should come with me. After all, how can you refuse the offer of a Chinese haircut, a Thai jungle cinema or an Indian bus ride?

Where shall we go next time? Will there be a next time? Will Suite have burned to the ground because no one has been doing the fire bell tests? Who knows.

Answers on a postcard or email please....

A somewhat smug blog author, completely unready to deal with the reality of the real world...

Now, where has my cowboy hat gone?

Last chance to see...

Shanghai Nights.

Close up...

Hmmm... nice camera.

Freeloader..

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