Bruce Servicepack and the Vista Street Band

A fake band with its own fake groupie in an embarrassing internal video promo which aims to get a corporation to eat its own dog food:

You’ll love the lyrics, I promise. Not to mention the enthusiastic jumps into the air, complete with freeze-frames.

The dangers of blogging

An interesting piece in The Melbourne Age on the health hazards stemming from pressures of blogging for money.

Our broken home page is now fixed

Apologies to all our readers for experiencing a broken home page at this website over the last 12 hours.

We have embarrassed ourselves a little with our inadequate testing procedures, after some code changes which improve the relevancy of our search facility.

This was one of those rare occasions where we should have taken more time to thoroughly test our changes but we didn’t.

Sorry, we stuffed up.

Testing your website on a tight budget

Steve Krug, author of the excellent “Don’t make me think” offers a great website usability tip for those on a tight budget:

If you really want to know if your website works, ask your next door neighbour to try using it, while you watch. You bring the beer.

Check out some of his other great tips while you’re at it.

More dodgy deals on Ebay

Quite a while back I outlined from personal experience one way dodgy sellers continue to scam buyers on Ebay. Well here’s another one, except even the Ebay support people can’t explain how this particular scam works.

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