Chris Saul's Blog

Monday October 06, 2008

Shuffle - an Apple mag for the Middle East

Thanks to the efforts of editor Magnus Nystedt and his wife, Crystal, the Middle East has a grassroots magazine for Apple users.

Shuffle Magazine has now gone professional, after being freely distributed for a number of months.

I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute to September's issue, with an article on Sun and Apple. You can read that article here! You can buy future editions in various outlets across the Middle East or visit the website.

Congrats to Magnus and team.

Property spam reaches new levels of sophistication

Today's tenth property email spam reached new levels of genius.

Instead of the usual outpouring of badly written, luridly formatted nonsense about living my dream, this particular person decided to go minimal. No subject, no actual email text - just a blank space, with a signature at the bottom, informing me that whoever had sent this blank communication was a property consultant.

It's important to make yourself stand out from the competition. I will follow this person's dramatic lead and send everyone in my addressbook a completely blank email - once the recipients read my signature and notice that I am in desktop virtualisation sales, the orders will doubtless come flooding in.