Go Compare - Sinning Tenor Advert

It starts as a fairly typical advert. Two blokes talking about insurance. At end of the advert, after the opera singer has come in and everyone in the coffee shop has joined the singing, the only people who look like they won't be calling Go Compare are the two blokes. They look thoroughly turned off the idea.
And you know what? They're not alone...

Uncle Ben Adverts

It occurs to me that the makers of Uncle Ben cooking sauces are on a mission to offend everyone on earth.

Every advert they have features stereotyped characters.  Their Indian curry sauces features people dancing about in a Bollywood musical style and their Chinese sweet and sour sauce advert shows people doing kung fu and air-running.

What's next?  Instant haggis featuring red haired people sayig "Och aye, the noo."???

Big Brother Eviction Advert

Saw an advert asking for phone-in votes to choose who to evict from the Big Brother house. 

As usual, there's a number you call and add a short number to the end.  The ad went as follows:

To evict Marcus add "06".  To evict Halfwit, add "05".


That's a bit harsh isn't it?  Calling the poor fellow names in the eviction advert?

I'm sorry, do you want to wait your bloody turn?

I was playing Battlefield 1943 yesterday, an online first person shooter game.  It's fantastic fun and recently a new mode was unlocked: Air Superiority.  It's a planes only version of the game for the players who like the airplane part of the game.

Each time you respawn, you start on one of two aircraft carriers on your side of the map.  There's no way to get anywhere in the map without a plane.  I spawned after a spectacular crash where I'd ploughed straight into another aircraft (which handily counts as a kill for both of us).  There were no planes available, and two other players waiting for the planes to respawn, of which there are only ever two to use.  Being nice (and British) I waited until the two guys who'd been there earlier than me got their planes and got back into the battle.  Another player spawned behind me after they'd taken off, and immediately starts giving me abuse and shooting me (which, because we're on the same side does no damage).  He then nicked the first plane that spawned and took off.

What a git!

To show that the universe has a sense of fairness, he immediately died in the most spectacular way.  He hadn't even got his wheels off the deck before an enemy plane, fluffing a bombing run on our carrier in the most horrendous way, smashed straight into him head on.

I laughed so hard, I fell off my seat.

Google believe the days of the mobile phone app are numbered

So Google think that apps for mobile phones won't last, that places like Apple's app store are a fad and that the future is in web based applications.

Well, they would wouldn't they? Google's business plan revolves around web applications.

But lets examine the prospect. For web based apps to work on a mobile device you need a good signal all the time, and for s lot of apps you need a 3G signal because if the amount if data involved. 3G coverage is spotty at best in many cities and with increased uptake, speeds drop. A recent survey in London found that day time speeds were rarely above 1Mbps. Service providers are about to start rolling out a 4G service, but they haven't even got a country wide 3G service yet.

To take an example: to do lists. An app sorely missing from the iPhone. There are plenty of web based to do sites, Toddledo fir example. Do you really want to be dependant on a good web connection for something so important? How would you feel if you couldn't get at your to dos because you don't have a data signal where you are?

So I don't think web based apps are going to take off any time soon.

Thank you for missing the point

My official Sony PS3 wireless headset arrived yesterday. I'd had to wait ages for it due to chronic shortages caused, best as I can tell, by Sony themselves packaging all the headsets they were making with games like Socom.
It comes with this great charging cradle that allows it to continue working as a desk mic when charging. It's the reason I wanted this headset specifically.
And what have Sony done? They've packaged it with a charging cable only six inches long.

Fan-bloody-tastic! What a complete waste. It's far too short to be of any use. It's the same problem we saw with the PS3 controller charging cable. It was too short to be useful.

Dreaded RROD

Got the dreaded red ring of death on my 360, so it's off to Microsoft.



Still it's lasted a long time. I've had friends go through five 360s in the time I've had mine.