Films
March 16, 2006 | CommentsI've been to the cinema a couple of times over the last 2 days (ooh busy me), seeing The Road to Guantanemo at the lovely lovely Duke of Yorks, and Syriana last night at the Odeon w/Dan.
RtG was darkly comical, but hideous: three lads from Birmingham, completely out of their depth, terrified and bewildered. If the descriptions of their interrogations are true then their captors seem just as clueless.
Syriana I enjoyed, but it didn't live up to its "Traffic of the oil industry" monicker. It seemed deliberately disjointed, dragging together its narrative threads towards the end but never really getting into enough depth around the various sub-plots to make me really care about the characters. Still, any film where you get to see George Clooney having his fingernails ripped out can't be all bad.
FallettiVision
March 16, 2006 | CommentsMr Falletti, Commercial Director here at FP, has been blogging for a little while now. Well worth a read - particularly if, unlike me, you can read Italian and tell me what he's saying...
10m Vodafone Live! punters signed up
March 16, 2006 | Comments10m Vodafone Live! punters signed up: "When launched back in November 2004 Voda predicted that it would have more than 10 million punters by the end of March 2006. Well, with a few weeks still to go the cellco says it's hit its target."
Bluetooth billboard advertising campaign
March 14, 2006 | CommentsBluetooth billboard advertising campaign: "According to an article in the Sunday Business Post last week, several billboards around Ireland have been fitted with bluetooth transceivers and if punters come within range they are prompted to download some Lynx related content."
Sergio and I spent several minutes standing in front of a supposedly-Bluetoothing screen in Victoria station the other week, being URGED to activate Bluetooth and experience the future of advertising.
I can therefore report that the future of advertising involves staring at a big screen, then back at your phone, for a few times. Then shaking your phone a bit, turning it on and off, and finally walking home a little disappointed.
Windows XP boots on a Macbook Pro
March 09, 2006 | CommentsWow. Windows XP boots on a Macbook Pro. Sorry.