Deadlines, the wonders of using the internet in South Africa and more.

Deadlines.

Have had a couple of those in the past few weeks. Streeeessful.

I’d like to meet the guy who introduced that word into the workplace. I mean it’s got such negative connotations straight off the bat! Idiot. FYI for the curious, the word actually originates from the American Civil War camps. Lines were drawn into the sand and prisoners were told, cross that line and you’re dead. Prisoners and guards were soon referring to it as the dead line.

Nice.

Anyway, apart from the development of some new logos and a very cool rich media banner campaign I’m working on now, a couple of new DVD microsites have been launched in the past few weeks. The first is for The Hoax, which is based on a true story and then Jane and the Dragon (an animated kids series) launched a couple of days ago. Jane and the Dragon also features a simple interactive video for the kids to explore the site. Skeptical as to how far those of you in SA will get on your bandwidth, but have a go!

Also got a new wallpaper coming your way for March.

And lastly, Baglett had me in stitches again with her latest online experience. Here’s part of the post, read the whole account here.

ONLINE ORDERING – SO MUCH FUN

It’s a custom amongst my friends that one of us organises flowers to be delivered to whoever is having a birthday. Even though we could quite easily buy them and drop them off, there’s nothing better than being called into reception to collect them and walking through the office holding them. I can’t say I know what that feels like myself, but I have heard it’s quite something.

Yesterday was my turn to order the little bouquets of magic.

I like to think I’m quite au fait with the internet. I do my grocery shopping online, thanks to YDE I prefer to buy clothes online and all my banking is done online. So you would think ordering a bunch of flowers would be a pretty simple task.

Not a f*ck.

Site number 1: For the FOURTH time, as required, I typed in ALL my details, my ID number, my great grandparents name, my first dogs name, my grade four teacher’s name plus all the recipients details, and the loooooong drawn out birthday message. Just as I pressed ‘confirm’ , the site crashed like Paris’s latest ‘movie’. Again.

Like the end of any relationship, I swore, I cried and moved swiftly on.

Site number two was a South African site but dealt only in Euro’s. Call me old fashioned, but I like to pay in rands, my bank says I should. Shedding another tear, I went down the list.

Read the rest of the post here.