Copy-writing

December 28th, 2009 by Alex No comments »

So with the joy’s of the web come everyone having the ability to publish what ever they want and to send information out to the world without confirming they are doing the correct thing.

I have been thinking about this for some time now. My original plan for this web site was to try and improve my writing skills with the opinion of comments left behind but that seems to be a dead end. It has also been coming up in mails I see been sent out by famous people who are not marketing/copywriters but have a great list of people to advertise to.

The main thing I have noticed is people at the end of a message saying ‘Please join’ or ‘Please come’ or just anything with please in it gets me. Using that word just seems like they are begging people to do something instead of making them want to do something.

I see this as bad marketing but since I am not a Marketing person I can be incorrect with this but I would like to hear from people who actually write/sell for a living to know what the correct words should be.
For example changing:

‘Please join me at this event’
to
‘Join me at this event or regret it forever…’

To me, the first one is begging people to come where the second is saying its your problem if you don’t come.

I hope to get some feed back from this little post but till then I will keep reading the web for my answers..

Have a great day :)

Finding the best coffee in Cape Town

December 28th, 2009 by Alex No comments »

So I have taken up a new mission to find the best place to have coffee in Cape Town. So far Primi in the waterfront and All the Vida E Cafe are tops on my list but there are still many places to go.

I’m hoping I will find a secret little place that just has a great cup of coffee will come up. The search does not include type of place as I hardly ever sit down and drink it. I will start looking for the best place to sit and have coffee but right now I just wanna good cup of coffee.

Facebook Account re-activated…

November 27th, 2009 by Alex No comments »

Yes, I finally got my account back…

My Brain felt more relaxed though, when i didn’t have the account… Think I should do some research on the effects on the human brain when it comes to information overload.

Have a great weekend.

Using find command to remove windows files

November 17th, 2009 by Alex No comments »

Just thought I’d post this as its a useful little thing to get some space back.

If your like me and use a Apple Mac and connect to a lot with windows users, you’ll find Windows System files on your machine from time to time. They are no use on a mac and really just take up space on your hard drive.

Not really bother about them, if I came across one and felt like deleting it I would but in general I would just leave it.

Today however, I ran a little command line to remove all of them from my hard drive.

I didn’t think about the space it would free up, just that I wouldn’t have any of them left to bother me.

Once the command was finished, I noticed that it cleared up just under 400MB of space. This was a very nice surprise.

So if you want to give your mac a little clean, open Terminal and type in:

find ./ -name Thumbs.db -exec rm -fr {} \;

Just remember to be careful of executing command line functions. If your not 100% sure about this maybe ask someone to double check for you.

Once these files are removed, you’ll never get them back unless you wanna fork out a bunch of cash.

Well enjoy the rest of your day.

A

IE6 No More – Home

November 4th, 2009 by Alex No comments »

IE6 No More – Home.

Facebook Account Disabled..

November 2nd, 2009 by Alex No comments »

My Facebook account has been disabled. The help page they send me to says something about rate limits but not sure how I did that. Maybe it was the person I added over the weekend or umm..

Anyway, hopefully I will get an answer soon as to why or maybe they restore my account.

Have a great week.

P.S. Just noticed comments aren’t work. That’s because they where linked to my facebook account.

You Know You Are Living in 2009 When…

August 31st, 2009 by Alex No comments »

1. You accidentally enter (one of your ten) passwords on the microwave.

2 You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have their e-mail addresses.

6. Leaving the house without your mobile phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

7. You get up in the morning and go on line before breakfast.

8 You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.

10. You know exactly to whom you want to copy and paste this.

11. You are too busy to notice there was no number 9 on this list.

WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION

August 18th, 2009 by Alex No comments »

THESE ARE ENTRIES TO A WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION
ASKING FOR A TWO-LINE RHYME
WITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE,
AND THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE:

1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you has screwed up my life.

2. I see your face when I am dreaming.
That’s why I always wake up screaming.

3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes everything you are not.

4. Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,
But I only slept with you ’cause I was pissed.

5. I thought that I could love no other
– that is until I met your brother.

6. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl’s
empty and so is your head.

7. I want to feel your sweet embrace;
But don’t take that paper bag off your face.

8. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Damn, I’m good at telling lies!

9. My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?

10. My feelings for you no words can tell,
Except for maybe ’Go to hell.’

11. What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.

WHO SAID POETRY IS BORING?

If anyone has a link to the original site, please forward to me.

Radiohead – These are my twisted words

August 18th, 2009 by Alex No comments »

http://torrentfreak.com/radiohead-leak-their-new-track-to-bittorrent-090817/

Listening to the track now, seems cool. free download.

Java & Camera

July 31st, 2009 by Alex No comments »

So, I’ve been doing the whole php programming thing for about 5 years. I started off in a beginners job, I studied digital design then went and told a company I was more interested in programming than anything else and they gave me a job. Through this whole process I still don’t have anything saying I am a developer. So to get that sorted out I am doing a Java course. I like the language, you can do more than just web sites with it, so I plan to get good at it. I want to look into the mobile apps mainly as they seem to be big at the moment but not going to limit myself to that.

Slowly getting a few things sorted out, I have work out a way of getting a camera, which involves a lot of nice people and a site where you don’t have to buy a product all at once. I still haven’t found the right site but once I find it I will post up a link.

Been trying to take more photos with what I got but my cell does not produce good photos and the camera I got from my brother just seems to give issues. I will have to glue the damn thing to a rock to make sure it is still enough to take a picture that does not blur. I have looked into the setting to see if there is something I have missed but still not doing it for me.