David Kellam

It’s a while since I posted on this blog, quite possibly because I’m too busy with my new company and reading much better or funnier blogs. Oh well, in the spirit of the Festive Season, I thought I’d share a few gems from the last year of RSS:

Great post on today’s generation that echoes my […]

In response to Richard’s post

Companies create objects or services that they hope consumers will desire. They also must create, to truly succeed, a space, mental and physical, for the potential client to form a desire. The easiest way to do this is to understand desire at the conceptual stage of the project and push to […]

Dear all,

By now some of you will have heard my talk about my latest project - A Global Obligation. Well the good news is it’s open for all (Web 2.0-compliant beta mode of course!) Please do your part for humanity and check it out. If you have any feedback or bugs, please let me know. […]

This post by Seth Godin sums up nicely what’s wrong with most organisations. It certainly explains my daily frustrations in dealing with many incompetently-managed organisations.

In response to Richard’s post, I provide as a rough guide the following regarding any new PC purchase:

I echo those pains! John and I are constantly complaing about it: particularly Dell. Apple is nice and easy to follow. You can even run Windows on their MacBooks now

My advice to people is thus:

1. If you’re […]

John Cleary and I have just launched Life With Mediocrity. You can read more about it at our About page, subscribe to our RSS or visit our homepage.

Please support us in our quest to rid the world of mediocrity and incompetence.

This e-mail I received today is solid gold. Needless to say I am not a Sun Theatre employee and am subscribed to their mailing list.

Some things that immediately come to mind:

Pure incompetence
What a b****
Perhaps they should use specialised mailing list software…
Perhaps they should issue an apology…
Cool! Now I know how to scab free seats!
“Hi, Anne […]

I have just signed up for a BigPond Movies trial. The link I got sent was:
http://www.bigpondmovies.com/user/homeExistingUser.php

This is curiously similar to the think for my old (2004) service, Webflicks:
http://webflicks.com.au/user/homeExistingUser.php

Hmmm… more than a superficial resemblance (look at the URLs, not the sites). Let’s delve closer:

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This shows a section of the rendered html, differing only by bits in […]

I receive the following e-mail (or some variant) periodically:

Dear Reseller,

I’ll start off by thanking our resellers who send their orders to the
correct email address, formatted per our requested specifications.
Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. It makes our job easier
and helps us to process your orders more efficiently.

As a reminder to resellers who send their orders […]

LiveVault have produced a promotional video featuring none other than John Cleese.

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