BBC Three Links

Is anyone else getting fed up with these links on BBC Three, the ones with home made video introducing the next show?

They just come across as so cheap and tacky.

Dual Core PC Adverts

I’m getting a little annoyed with adverts for PCs with dual core processors. They’re always desribed as allowing you to do two things at once, like editing your family photos while listening to music.

I don’t know about you, but I can already do that with my current single core PC.

I’m sorry, am I in your way?

Having cut loose the defective secondary hard drive from my computer, I needed to re-install Acrobat reader, and the latest version was version nine.

After it tried installing everything Adobe are making, these days, it then proceeded to complain that the drive is fragmented and should be cleaned up to make the software work faster.

What the hell?!?

Knock off Nigel adverts

What is it with those knock off Nigel adverts?

The first was about someone buying knock off DVDs, where the only thing I discovered was that nothing rhymes with “DVDs.”

This new one is even more preplexing. It suggests that knock off Nigels who download films from the Internet are also likely to steal money from collections at work.

I honestly don’t know where they’re going with this line. It makes no sense at all. If the intention is to aim the advert at the people who download films, I can’t see it having any impact on their behaviour. And if their intent is to make downloading socially unacceptable, there are bigger threats that need to be dealt with first, like inner city violence, drunk driving and drug abuse. I can’t see them trying to alienate downloaders having any impact.

It’s absurd.