wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: November, 2005

The Daily Doublespeak

I love meaningless marketing copy, don’t you? This one, an actual example found in the wild, came to me via email today. I think I’ll adopt it as the tagline around here, after I tire of “quality web distration since 2000.” Don’t you think claiming that Wheatdesign.com “simplifies the orchestration of web services into business [...]

Little pink houses for you and me…

Posts have been very scant for the past few weeks because I’ve been in the process of buying a house and moving in. I’ve rented all of my adult life, so this is a big and welcome step. Now I’ll no doubt be blogging the ups and downs of first-time home ownership, but for now [...]

Spam Haiku?

Okay, it’s not quite a Haiku, but you have to admit this bit of nonsense text, from a spam email this morning, does have some Haiku-ish economy and poetic flair: make some changes to your style whether u like omega or breitlng we have the brand for u I’m assuming they meant to say Breitling [...]

Stupid fun from Untitled States…

Fun from Untitled States (from one of the people behind Brunching Shuttlecocks:

What’s in word?

I don’t follow sports, but Slacktivist has uses a current even in sport to make a more important point about the meaning of the word “unprofessional“. And I could hardly agree more (and many of you will to, I should think).