Google had a new logo yesterday when I opened the browser celebrating the 30 year anniversary of Pacman and the logo included a change of the second button text to Insert Coin so you could play Pacman . I thought it was so cool!

Just a bit of fun like so many other logos they have used in the past but interactive and different. I played Pacman and moved on but later when I used cool previews I had an annoying noise I couldn’t seem to get rid of.

I closed out firefox and it went away. Didn’t think much more about it until I opened up firefox again this morning and it updated cool previews where they mentioned fixing the pacman bug.

Other people apparently have had worse experiences especially if they are in a work environment or they were wishing to listen to music or videos. In fact many are so p’d off they say they are migrating permanently to other browsers.

I remember reading an ebook a while back about mistakes people make when making websites and one of them was about the use of flash and sound. I admit I’m amused that Google has stumbled a little with this one, but its a lesson to us all, I guess, that when we try and be creative and make things more interesting, sometimes we are just going to really upset some people instead.

Read the thread of comments in the following article to see what I mean! You’ll also find a variety of ways to fix the pacman bug if its still bothering you today.

• Google Pacman Sound Bug (ghacks.net)

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Diligently we write our blog articles and provide our readers with good quality information but nana’s apple pies, it is not nana that gets the attention but the warm and delicious smell of buttery baking pastry. Headlines need to be as irresistable as the smell of frying bacon, or in season the perfume of honeysuckle you scent walking past a house.

I was fully reminded of this fact when I received a fwd fwd email that I am herwith forwarding to my blog. Sorry to take a crack at all you guys out there and I’m sure that someone will transgender it and get their own back soon!  I admit from a feminine perspective that reading it was irresistable. Couched in marketing or advertising speak, it takes a toungue in cheek look at men and as a by product at the headlines we choose to present our tutorials or other products.

From this little gem of copywriting we can garner a lot of information. Double speak is fine to use – people who get it will laugh and people who don’t will believe you. Either way it gets people’s attention, it’s all true! AND it makes you laugh. You don’t need purple cows or aliens to get attention – all you need to do is tell the truth (about something that’s not politically correct or is taboo).

Summer Classes for Men at
THE ADULT LEARNING CENTRE

REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED
by Friday, August 15th 2008
NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL
OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM

Class 1
How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays–Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.
Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.

Class 2
The Toilet Paper Roll–Does It Change Itself?
Round Table Discussion.
Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.

Class 3
Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?–Group Practice.
Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 4
Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor–Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.
Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.

Class 5
Dinner Dishes–Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
Examples on Video.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM

Class 6
Loss Of Identity–Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
Help Line Support and Support Groups.
Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM

Class 7
Learning How To Find Things–Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Screaming.
Open Forum
Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.

Class 8
Health Watch–Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health
Graphics and Audio Tapes.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 9
Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost–Real Life Testimonials.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined

Class 10
Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
Driving Simulations.
4 weeks, Saturdays noon, 2 hours.

Class 11
Learning to Live–Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
Online Classes and role-playing
Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined

Class 12
How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.

Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy–Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You’re Going To Be Late.
Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

Class 14
The Stove/Oven–What It Is and How It Is Used.
Live Demonstration.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.
Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the survivors.

Send this to all the guys that you think can stand the heat, and to all the ladies for the best chuckle of their day!

NB. This is a FWD FWD email I received from a girlfriend. As such it is probably subject to copyright somewhere and if there is someone out there who owns the copyright I will be more than happy to link to the original or remove this if you prefer. Unfortunately the forwarded message has lost the original link or I swera I would have asked before using it.

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Graphic Designers can offer Christmas Graphic Packs

People who are graphically skilled could make some quick cash streams by creating Christmas graphics that blog owners and site designers can quickly add to their sites to dress them up in December for Christmas.

Small Christmas pictures that can be easily added to a blog are a good idea, especially if you can create a dozen to 24 or so to add a new one to each post.

Could you design some special and unique Christmas cards people or businesses could send, especially ones that a businesses could email out to subscribers easily, with text that can be modified to suit the particular business.

Don’t just concentrate on Santa either. Christmas is a religious holiday and Christians want to remember the birth of baby jesus so images of three wise men and Mary and Joseph, angels and shephers and stars, are just as important as a partridge in a pear tree and a rolling round Santa with a huge sack of presents, snow filled houses with golden windows and Christmas trees understacked with gift boxes.

Half the World never sees snow at Christmas and scenes without snow are scarce. Nativity scenes are also not as easy to get hold of these days. Search the public domain sites for old fashioned Christmas scenes or see if you have some old Christmas photos of your own that can be modified to suit.

Christmas Baubles are always popular and candles for some reason are also very Christmassy!

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Think about benefiting from the seo of blog posting using Christmas search phrases. Set up a new blog with a special Christmas theme and make sure you have the seo plugin installed . Do some research as to what people are searching for and start posting articles related to what they want.

You can use this Christmas blog to link to other niche blogs and sites. You can link to Christmas gifts with affiliate links. You can create a 12 days of Christmas gift giving spree for your subscribers and have the post delivered via autoresponder to gain subscribers. Create a best Christmas gifts at Amazon Blog. Best Christmas videos on you tube blog. Best Christmas stories blog. A Christmas Carol lyrics blog.

Again these are just a few seed ideas.

Let your imagination free on them and watch what grows.

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