The fall and rise of DannyG (1978-2008)

This essentially pointless chronicle is a random collection of stupid, weird and downright offensive views and links, as well as other assorted junk email and Web out-takes scrapyarded here to brighten particularly dull days.

Friday, September 30, 2005

From Reuters: World toilet summit lifts lid on public hygiene

"What you actually find is that when the punning and joking is over
people actually take toilets very seriously. It's a subject that's
close to everyone's heart."
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=9793698&src=eDialog/GetContent

Thursday, September 29, 2005

This week

So far this week I have learned to expect the unexpected. Tuesday, for example, found me driving around Bath in a Land Rover with Microsoft as a product manager and a rally driver did their best to demonstrate the new version of AutoRoute WITH GPS. Woot. Then I ate Tapas. Quite unexpected. Then ensued an afternoon of meetings before a bizarre PR meal with a certain manufacturer of DVD drives at which I was the only journalist. I'm not sure why I have been singled out like this, but during the Land Rover experience, I did half expect a Ford Cortina to appear behind me, machine guns blazing...