Umamiblog

This morning I had to be at work at 6:45am. No, that’s not a typo. So I set my alarm to 6am hoping to be able to just get up and go straight to work. I couldn’t get to sleep last night (despite reading To Done’s excellent article) so ended up playing Soduku on my cellphone till after midnight.

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Yesterday saw another meeting of the Wellington Web Standards Group at the National Library. Mike Brown (who heads the WWSG and hails from Signify) mentioned in an announcement that Wellington will be hosting it’s own Web Essentials-like conference, here in Wellington.

The date? May 11th we were told. (Or near that date)
Who is coming? Confirmed so far is Douglas Bowman from Stopdesign and apparently a few others.

More details to come so watch this space!

Just when you thought you’d seen the best in website “design”, someone comes along with a stunner, straight out of 1994.

Now, to make things EVEN BETTER, this is a redesign. Think I’m joking? Look here to see their archived site from September 2004, care of the Way Back Machine. While their old website isn’t great, it isn’t as bad as their current one.

The culprit/client? Clutha District Council. What were they thinking?

New site
Old site
Bigger Screenshot

An email was sent around work today with the Honda Hate Something advertising campaign. As far as I can tell it was a UK rather than US campaign. We first saw the game which is an incredible Flash based game that takes an incredible amount of time to download, even on broadband. But, do try it.

Another email followed with the TV advert that the game supports, this is rather large at 7MB but is an incredible ad. Highly colourful and highly creative – I think it’s a fantastic way of driving product awareness but also helps to develop a lovemark for and with the Honda brand, but at 1.5 minutes long I wonder how many slots they could afford.

Flash game: http://www.unit9.com/grrrgame/
TV advert: /media/entries/05/08/10/Honda_Hate_Something.MPG

Try this on for size: Bad keystroke leads to $251 million stock buy

You’ve got to be kidding me! Sarah and I recently opened an account with TSB. While they do have an Internet banking facility, it’s pretty simple. I decided to have a look at the source of their webpages and then I saw this:

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 2.0">
<title>TSB Bank HomeBank</title>


You’ve got to be kidding me!!!

Talking on MSN to an old school friend of mine who is doing his second tour in Afghanistan with the NZ Army when this we gem popped up:

john says: day off bro?
smurfro says: na im doing work and surfing at da same time
smurfro says: http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=where+is+osama

I’m worried for the human race…

No really!

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It seems as though every business is jumping on the guarantee bandwagon these days, last night I saw a McDonalds television advert proclaiming that if your fries aren’t hot at the counter, they will replace them… guaranteed.

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Heh, man we are geeks here at iVISION. We just purchased a brand new white-board today. Guess what the first thing we wrote on it was….

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