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While Facebook ads are quite unobtrusive and easily ignored, they can occasionally be quite amusing.

I found this ad today. It tries to get people to add the facebook game “My City Life”.

I found a second and third advert today.

How a bikini girl is representative of a farmville style game or why such an ad is supposed to make people click through is unknown to me. It looks more like one of those annoying ads for all these random dating websites.

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I was shopping at Morrison’s supermarket the other day. The five things I bought (fresh salmon, tea bags, 2 baguettes and beetroot) would easily have fitted into a basket, but I was too lazy to carry the stuff and took a trolley instead.

When I made my way to the checkouts I found that there was one with barely a queue. Ok, the sign there said “Handbaskets Only”, but then again, there were only five items in my trolley. Surely the “Handbaskets Only” line’s raison d’être was to serve customers with few items, a quasi-express checkout.

When I approached the checkout, the young woman behind the till immediately laid down the law by almost shouting “Handbaskets only!”. I told her that I only needed to pay for five items, but she replied that no trolleys were allowed.

Not willing to go to a different, longer queue I took one of the baskets previous customers at that line had left, put the five items into the basket, then moved them from the basket onto the conveyor belt. Once I had paid, I took the trolley, put the bags into the trolley and left the supermarket.

This little bit of comedy brought to mind Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”. There is also a German idiom that perfectly describes what happened here: “Die Rache des kleinen Mannes” translated: “The revenge of the little man”.

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I hope you all head a great time jumping from last year into this one. At any rate it promises to be a better year than 2009, which should not be too difficult.

It is going to be a busy year here at Dashti Towers and some snippets of news, opinions and general “stuff” is bound to find it’s way onto the blog.

As usual I hope to post more frequenftly, add original content and be happy.

By the way, regardless of how many dubious references Hugh throws at me, this is the beginning of the new decade.

Hugs all round.

blackberry theme contest

The guys over at Z Man Designs are currently running a contest in which you can win all their current and future premium BlackBerry themes for free for life!

Entering the contest is free and easy. Just click your way over to their contest page and leave a comment.

Job done.

And while you are there you may as well admire some of their great work.