Tuesday, 24 February, 2009 by Glen Wells
Jen’s just phoned me to get me to pick up some milk and chocolate for pancakes on the way home. Aren’t you meant to use up food you already have before giving it up for lent? Jesus would turn in his grave – if he hadn’t resurrected himself of course.
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Monday, 19 January, 2009 by Glen Wells
Arsenal accounts reveal it took £10m (£5m wages, plus a private £5m one-off fee) to keep Thierry Henry for one more season. “I stayed for love,” said Thierry in 2006, before the accounts were made public. “I simply could not face leaving the fans. I’ve never played in Spain and now I never will. This is where my heart is. And my decision to stay or leave was never going to be based on economic considerations. People want to give you a label as a footballer where it’s all about money, money, money – they should stop talking about that. It’s not. It’s about emotion, respect, loyalty – and real love.”
via Football: Said and Done | Football | The Observer.
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Wednesday, 7 January, 2009 by Glen Wells
Dear Glen Wells,
Your Dell Order is scheduled to arrive between 08:00 and 18:00 on the 12/01/2009. Please arrange for someone to be there
throughout this time – as we cannot be more specific about the time of delivery.
As your order is already on its way we regret it’s too late to change the following details:
1. delivery date
2. delivery address
3. order details
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Thursday, 11 December, 2008 by Glen Wells
“Microsite” is a word that kinda bugs me. The “micro” means that its content is about a subset of the parent company’s overall product range. There’s the Ford site, with a bit of info about all the cars, and the Fiesta microsite, with stuff just about one car. The Fiesta has its own brand, image and target audience that differs from the Mondeo or the Focus, so they give it its own microsite. But it still has a homepage, content pages, and all the other stuff, and it’s much more sparkly and exciting in its own right than the boring dull old parent site. It’s “micro” in name only.
More recently, it’s become one of those must-have things for keen web-trend followers. We’re doing this event or that campaign so it needs a microsite. Unfortunately, there is a common misconception amongst some that have approached us on the subject, that because what they are going to write on the site is going to be about fewer things, we should charge fewer pounds to build the site for them. It’s a bit like saying the Racing Post should be cheaper than the Daily Mirror because it’s only about horses.
The fact is, just like printing a paper is printing a paper regardless of the words, it still needs the same effort in graphics work, CSS, flash, design and implementation. In fact, sometimes it needs more effort because it’s allowed to stray from brand guidelines or be more creative or adventurous. It may only have 10 pages on it when it goes live but with the CMS the customer adds those themselves anyway, so that makes no difference. It’s a bit of a customer-service conundrum: some marketing geezer decided to make up a word, people expect the price to be lower, and we get grumpy customers unhappy with the numbers on their quotes.
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