I’ve had, like, 700 hits in the last 24 hours for the Threshers post, so hope you all lap it up (‘scuse the pun). It’s cropped up all over the blogosphere, so it seems like this was a clever marketing stunt by Threshers and Hugh hit the tone write with his blog post, causing people everywhere to download it.
Great hit, Threshers, Stormhoek, Hugh, and everyone else who was involved. I plan to make use of the voucher this weekend if there is any wine left in my local branch! The store finder is here, if you want it.
Update: various people have pointed out that, as the 3 for 2 offers are invalid with the 40% discount voucher, you would only be receiving a 7.67% additional discount. Still, not too shabby!
Update 2: It’s 10%. My maths stinks.
Update 3: The BBC wrote an article, and I had 1,500 visitors yesterday (usually I get about 70-80). My bandwidth bills are going to be up a bit this month…
Seven episodes in and I’m still enjoying Torchwood. Yes, there was some bizarre continuity thing that went wrong after episode 4 (the Cyberwoman one) — Tom and I talked about it and guessed that they might have been forced to shuffle the episode order around after the series was written, and poor Ianto was left without adequate closure.
It’s a good team, good people, simple, but outrageously absurd stories… Strong, character driven fiction. And they’ve stuck in *so* much sexual tension in half a season that I quite simply have no idea where to look. What will happen next week? They’re actually going to run out of permutations of people who can kiss if they keep going at this rate… guest starring alien lesbian murderers notwithstanding.
And Indira Vharma looks like she might be back next week. Exciting!
It is good. Lots of product placement. Good explosions. The Frenchman, Mathis, is slightly patronising if you know anything about poker. Eva Green is beautiful, but annoying.
Had a bit of a ‘whoa, Scoob’ moment today. It came about 3pm, when I noticed I’d been wearing my nice new jumper inside out all day. Sheila, who bought me the jumper, assured me this was good luck.
Apparently when you do something stupid and sustain a run of bad luck, the universe owes you one. I’m watching you, universe. You owe me a thing that is as good as wearing a jumper inside out for half a day at work is bad. Erm, like a doughnut or something.
Cosmickarmalicious.
One of the good things about having tags on a blog is you can let people know when you’re trying to be funny. This post, for instance, is tagged ‘humour’…
Today was a good day. And there was me getting stressed about not having much planned for this weekend.
After nice, quiet drinks with Sheila, Dave, Afo and Chris at the pub last night was up at a sensible hour this morning, and finished reading the new Kevin Anderson novel. It is awesome – now have to wait frustratedly for the next one.
Then I caught up on phone calls to family and friends, which is always good.
Then I caught up on last week’s opening episodes of season 3 of Lost. Which was less obviously good, but I’ll reserve judgement.
Have commenced a weekly ritual of Badminton with Sheila and had a fun game today. But it was en route to the court, standing in the horizontal, spraying rain that I was transported back to my school days, going out to play games on the accursed Bourbon pitches on wet, unpleasant days like this one. You’ve got to love contextual memory.
The nostalgia made it all good. I stood there and let the world rain on me for a while.
Sad. End of era. Yes. Best wishes to the people struck by the redudancies.
But – do we now have room / demand for an open source Press Gazette equivalent, powered by WordPress? Am sure that people would contribute; all you’d need is a hack (or group of them) willing to put some free time in, as The World’s Leading does for the PR industry…
It wouldn’t be as thorough, but it could still be fun. Volunteers?
I am aware that there’s probably a few blogs that do stuff like this. Please point me in their direction…
Update: If you’re looking for the March/Easter promotion, click here!
Seriousla. Cool stuff. Full story on Hugh’s blog, but essentially Thresher’s is giving people 40% off wine and don’t think it’ll get far because it isn’t promoting it. Either they don’t know what a ‘blogstorm’ is or they didn’t count on Hugh’s blogmendous influence.
And for the cynical amongst you who think that this is precisely Thresher’s plan, well, I don’t care! 40% off wine is big! Christmas season is coming! Oh — and spread the word. Please repost this. Everywhere.
I’ve had, like, 700 hits in the last 24 hours for the Threshers post, so hope you all lap it up (‘scuse the pun). It’s cropped up all over the blogosphere, so it seems like this was a clever marketing stunt by Threshers and Hugh hit the tone write with his blog post, causing people everywhere to download it.
Seriousla. Cool stuff.