Those of you who are seasoned readers (I love you the mostest) - will notice I have made a subtle name change to the blog.
Also it is now hosted by blogger (yes i've gone all mainstream) - it means it looks lovelier and can have pictures and links... and I can keep it separate from my music page which is shortly to receive a makeover and look very professional and serious (my music is a bit like that). Also I can send posts by email without having to log in and faff around. Which means a lot more posts, I imagine more than once a week - these posts may be shorter but hopefully more entertaining as I can post from anywhere as the mood takes me!
So we've gone with a hosted site as I wanted my blog somewhere separate so as people don't get confused with the juxtaposition of random ramblings and serious musical outpourings.
I've talked about the blog name change a lot before and have finally taken the plunge with a new name. I may rename it again in the years ahead if and when I leave this big smoky city. But I wanted something a bit more positive to name my blog.
Even if I do leave london (oooh would that mean I could afford to have a car?) I like the new name and may keep it on, especially if my ramblings have attracted an ardent crowd of drooling devoted followers.
I was in my local co-op supermarket thingy today - and standing blank-minded at the chip and pin machine - when I noticed something sinister had happened. Co-op had taken the not-desperately-cunning marketing ploy of putting little messages on the chip and pin reader so when the checkout monkey is ringing up your goods, you can vote in a little poll.
Sometimes these consisted of things like "did you find the fruit and veg satisfactory today" or "how's our selection of toilet roll". Anyway there's two buttons, one for yes and one for no.
Usually I ignore these bald faced attempts to gather my consumer data.
But today they sunk to a new low.
Instead of asking me "were your beans bashed YES / NO" or "Did we catch you out with that banana skin next to the breakfast aisle YES / NO",
TODAY there was a new question.
The question was this.......
"YES / NO".
This surprised me. Care to post your thoughts below? How did Adam answer the question? Does his answer signify something about his state of mind?
Or more frighteningly - what did they mean by this question? What have I (or haven't I) signed up to by pressing that fateful button?
See you soon I hope for more on my beautiful new blog, the diary of a london musician
Adam Smith
Saturday, September 20, 2008
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6 comments:
Perhaps they were going for a philosophical intellectual higher-meaning type of question to befuddle the masses.
I love the new blog page much more London sheek :-)
ah, but what did I vote?
I imagine you put YES
that's not even a question. Yes/No? would be a question. That's just odd.
Maybe Tesco have hacked into Co-Op's systems and are using subliminal messages. Yes/No = Tesco
now this is just semantics. I don't think steve cares how i voted
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