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Glyphs used in Fringe TV series

By John Garner on Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Just came across an article by Julian Sanchez that explains what the glyphs mean that are used in the TV series Fringe just before adverts. The below picto was created by FringeTelevision.com, it illustrates the glyphs used and already looks superb. As expected, with JJ Abrams, who hooked me with Alias, the concept is brilliant, […]

The best dream USB key

By John Garner on Tuesday, April 14, 2009

So if you were to list the functions you would like in a USB drive what would it be? Here is my list: 1) Small and not bulky, not heavy, easy to transport, can fit in your pocket 2) Large capacity, at the moment that would be 128 Go 3) High speed read and write […]

The Lion Cub from Harrods

By John Garner on Monday, April 13, 2009

Below is a multipart documentary about John Rendall and Anthony 'Ace' Bourke who purchased a lion cub from Harrods in 1969. They brought the cub up in Chelsea, London near Kings Road. Following a chance encounter with Virginia McKenna of the 1971 hit film 'Born Free' they were able to envisage taking the then young […]

Twitter virus: cross site scripting security issue

By John Garner on Sunday, April 12, 2009

Quick note to say that there seems to be a twitter security issue based upon cross site scripting. Initially it was thought to be a virus but this post on NetworkWorld seems to indicate that it is in effect a cross site scripting hack . This basically means that should it be an XSS hack, […]

Cloud computing, what and where are you?

By John Garner on Sunday, April 12, 2009

So Google was one of the first large companies to actually use cloud computing extensively and now, as usual in the English language, there is a move to talk about 'the cloud', dropping the more geeky 'computing' part! Like other buzzwords, take web 2.0 or SaaS (Software as a Service) not everybody has the same […]

360Â° Advertising: the lack of synergies online

By John Garner on Saturday, April 11, 2009

I was just flicking through "The Economist" (An old edition from May 10th Edition 2008) and got stuck on the adverts. Well I work in an interactive Ad agency so I suppose that it's a professional misfortune to make this type of comment. Even though this is from a year ago it still happens that […]

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