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Jun
11
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The Sharples family is uprooting again this summer (the subject of future posts) and we've made an early start on packing. As well as saving the boxes from previous moves, I'm reducing the amount of packaging material we use by recycling* the almost undending supply of paper that hits our mailbox every day. The idea is that re-use is better than just recycling - though I guess it's not really re-use if no-one reads the junk mail in the first place. Still that's a bigger problem.
I never thought I'd hear myself say it but we actually could do with a bit more junk mail right now - we've used up our reserves - hopefully the mail man won't disappoint today.
I hope this post brings a little ray of sunshine to the direct mail industry - see it's not all the complete and utter waste of time and energy that everybody on the entire planet thinks it is.
* I get the kids to run it all through the shredder (Jack really enjoys
it) and use it to line the packing boxes we use for fragile stuff.; ideally what I'd like to do is run the shredder on solar and hang it next to the mail box so the mail man can directly deposit the obvious junk into the shredder
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Dec
15
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You know it's not business as usual when your legal department sends out legal guidelines for working in virtual worlds (ie. Second Life) - that's precisely what I just found in my inbox - and it was very interesting (and amusing) reading. On the same subject - Tim O'Reilly wrote about his virtual^2 experiences at a recent Sun press conference. I also heard that IBM already has some land in Second Life - interestingly mimicking their Almaden Labs (a stone's throw from my [real] home) and they're building more - is this a land grab or what ?
