life is so unfair
You spend 3 months watching your WordPress statistics bumbling along the horizontal axis close to zero.
Some traffic dribbles in. The graph accelerates into 10's of hits daily. You feel better. You will persist with this blogging experiment for a little longer.
At this rate, it may soon be time to consider a proper blog using WordPress.org and Adsense to make the millions that eluded me during the dot com boom.
Then those pesky developers from WordPress.com alter the Y-axis dynamically, on the fly without even asking so the statistics now start at 40 and the graph looks just the same.
Life is cruel.
probably the best marketing campaign ever
Agency: London Rubber Company
Location: Heathrow T4 toilets.
- Durex Featherlite
- Durex Ribbed for Extra Sensitivity
- Durex Extra Safe
- Durex Gossamer
- Durex Lager & Lime
- Durex Chicken Korma
- Nurofen
[ This blog is brought to you by Tom Hanks who actually has lived unnoticed in Heathrow Terminal 4 for the past 8 years, sleeping on chairs by night and queueing in various parts of the building by day. ]
caution with BA online check-in
You can save lots of time and get even more things done by checking in online for your flight at www.britishairways.com.
You can even change your allocated seat (sometimes) which is useful as BA will always allocate an aisle seat if your preference is window and vice-versa. Version 2.0 of the BA site (June 2006) will even include a brief description of your prospective neighbour in order to help you with this difficult choice.
You can also print out your boarding card on your 12 year old dot matrix printer. This means you can skip the short queue at the BA self service kiosks and immediately proceed to the lengthy queue for the curiously misnamed 'Fast Bag Drop'.
However, a word of caution to all you GTD'ers. Wait for the printout to fully emerge and carefully check the output before leaving the BA web site. Secondly, always, always click the 'Click here to print boarding card' icon to avoid potential embarassment.
Do not be tempted to think that because you work in IT, you know better and it will be far quicker to simply right-click 'Print This Page' to save another 2.4 milliseconds in an effort to get things done.
Trust me. I did it and because I don't know what a 'frame' is, I found myself presenting a rather unusual boarding pass at the British Airways desk that simply said:
"Click the 'Print Boarding Pass' button (you idiot) to print"
seldomly asked questions
People never ask me 'Just who is this Norman Brightside character ?'
'Norman Brightside' is an alias for a fictitious Oracle Database Administrator based in Solihull, near England. Norman briefly flirted with celebrity, last year, when he had the temerity to criticise Tom Kyte.
Norman Brightside is also a bastardisation of Norman Whiteside, a Northern Irish footballer who played for Manchester United in the 80's and the song 'Mr. Brightside' by the popular American beat combo - The Killers.
I'm not paranoid
I just think everyone's out to get me.
Search Term: +"Norman Brightside"+"Blog"
Please, please don't let it be the BAA security staff from T4.