I spent today at E-commerce Expo 2007. I know, sounds exciting, eh.
I was intending to do a proper write up about it, but frankly I’m not sure I can be arsed - as I don’t think I learnt that much. All the seminars I attended had interesting sounding titles, but turned out to have very little content - mostly just stating the obvious backed up by a few made up statistics (93.6% of all statistics are made up don’t you know). All the seats were stupidly close together, so you couldn’t physically move without elbowing someone sitting three seats down the row.
Yahoo, MSN and Ask were all strangely absent, but Google were out in force. I sat in on a Google Checkout presentation (don’t get me started on Google Checkout at the moment) and picked up some free schwag. Then another Google Adwords thing straight after… and picked up some more, errr, free schwag. Ahem.
What I was really after though was an “I’m feeling lucky!” t-shirt… I did ask one of the cute promo girls for one who said she didn’t have any but would consider selling me the one she was wearing for 50 quid… gooooood mornin’.
Funnily enough, I’ve just noticed the official Google Store doesn’t actually use Google Checkout themselves. Hmmm…
I didn’t do any of the things that I planned this weekend (I hate it when that happens as I feel like I’ve totally wasted some precious “Chris-time”).
Instead, I drank some beer and watched England lose the rugby (not that I understand the rules) then drank some more beer and watched Lewis Hamilton lose the F1 title (but hey, at least Alonso didn’t win).
Ok, I’ll take part of that back - the beer drinking bit was pre-planned, but otherwise it was a total waste of a weekend.
Anyway. I did watch a film called The Kingdom the other day, so I can say something about that. The plot revolves around the World Police FBI saving the planet from a bunch of terrorists. A lot of things get blown up and there’s a few people with dodgy facial hair who say things like: “Dirk dirk Allah. Sherpa sherpa. Mohammed Ali. Jihad”.
Does that sound familiar? Basically, it ain’t the most uplifting film you’ll ever watch… in fact it’s borderline depressing with an ending that leaves you unsatisfied. 5/10.
By the way, kinda off topic… did someone pinch my idea or what?
The other month, I set myself a little challenge: Write a simple Flash game within two hours. The result was The Touch Type Tester. I know it wasn’t exactly a world beater, but hey-ho it was a bit of fun and blimey what did you expect in that sort of time?
Anyway, last week I thought I’d have another go, so I set myself the same challenge. I scratched my head for a while and thought Tetris would be fairly simple. After all, Tetris isn’t a million miles from The Touch Type Tester… is it? They’re both just falling shapes, right? Well, kinda…
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I went to play Airsoft 1 last Saturday. It’s a week on and my legs still ache a teeny bit (I could barely walk the day after!) . Gawd, how unfit am I?!
Anyway, here’s a couple of quick snaps 2. Hopefully no-one will object to me posting them - give me a shout if you do! The unconventional gun holding technique is something I believe will catch on. Handles? Pah. Handles are for big Jessie’s.
…and have a read of Andrew’s blog if you want to read a much fuller account of the day.
1 No, I hadn’t heard of it either until recently. And yes, I was VERY afraid of getting shot in the nuts and/or tearing my sack. Ouch.
2 Pictures courtesy of the Corporal of the Cross Hair (or should that be facial hair?), cheers for organising it all bud.
Oh bugger.
Today has come around far too quickly, so yup, I’ve now started my fourth decade. Joy.
Methinks I need to prepare a new Operation Zimmer list, so answers on a postcard about what should be on that…
On a more positive note - I’m an Uncle, again! Even if I feel more like a Grandad. Congrats bro!
