coxy's blog

Chase me ladies, I'm in the cavalry is always good for a giggle. Sadly, not an Opera Community blogger.

Saw a girl on the bus today, bit of a fox, so I sat down opposite and attracted her attention by bursting a balloon. "I am a tomato," I announced, when she looked up. "So am I a fruit... or a vegetable?" She didn't know, so I explained to her in a nerd voice that technically I am a fruit in that I grow above ground, but that the United States Agricultural Department considers me a vegetable for the purposes of import levy.

Sadly, she did not speak English, otherwise we would have been getting naked within the hour. I have personally had over six hundred women using this method.

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Nine is the number of days it's been since I updated this blog. However, it seems like a lot more than that, for some reason. Really.

So, there's been stuff I've done and stuff I've don't. I will tell you briefly about as much as I can remember. It will include some photos and some stories.

Little Man Tate
Yesterday was exciting, costly and just great. I got into work and realised that Little Man Tate were playing later that day in Fopp Manchester. As it happened, it was the only day in weeks that I'd not brought my camera with me to work. So, at lunch, I hurried home and fetched my camera.

That's where the expensive part comes in; it's not cheap to catch the metrolink 4 times in a day, a bus and taxi to the house, and then to pay for dinner as well. I think in the end, I spent as much as I would if I were buying a ticket to watch the band play.

Anywho, I did get to watch the band play, and take photos. The band were brilliant, they are really good (music wise) and real friendly (person wise). They didn't mind me sticking around through the autograph signings and getting photos of people with the band. And then they'd invited a bunch of people to the pub afterwards - but I didn't go along. Wanted to get home instead.

Photos are up online at Flickr. Please check them out, and if you have an account, post a comment or note. Only a few of them are up on Opera Community; but I couldn't upload them all, the server monkey seemed to be asleep.

David Brent on Microsoft
We make some cool stuff in work sometimes. One of the videos we made for Microsoft has recently been leaked onto the wonderful world of the web; making various news sites across the net.

It starred Ricky Gervais as David Brent, his popular character from TV series 'The Office' and was made in conjunction with some other film agency for Microsoft as an internal Training Video. YouTube have pulled the video, apparently; but it's still on Google Video. There's the original edit, and then the out-takes.

Microsoft are holding an investigation into who leaked the video onto the web. I'm quite sure it wouldn't have been anyone from my work; but there will have been so many copies floating around over the past year. Employees of all three companies (mine, the film agency and Microsoft itself) would have passed it around the work place, friends, relatives. Not only that; people who have worked on the video would've left each company with a copy, and it made a nice addition to their portfolio - which could've been passed onto any number of people.

I'm not condoning the release / leak of the video (not that all this publicity is doing Microsoft any harm); I just don't find high hopes for Microsoft finding the culprit.

Whoever did release the video anyway, isn't very good at video encoding - it's rubbish quality!

Oh, and as I said, we do all sorts of cool stuff at work. If you're a rich person, or a company like Opera (nod nod, wink wink) and want some advertising / promotion / an event / branding / film and video / new media - navigate your way around our complicated website - then get in touch.

Until next time.