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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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Last week MODM was on again - the crowd included a heap of guys from the hippo.com.au job website, the Australian Anthill guy, a heap of web devs, plus a few RMIT entrepreneurship students, not to mention the regulars. Dave from Hippo dropped me a note (where else but facebook) to say my website wasn't...
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I got this in the mail on Saturday: Note the punchline at the bottom - 'hair today, gone tomorrow'. Hairhouse Warehouse sells hair care products for those who don't know. The idiot who authorised needs a whack around the head I reckon. On looking a bit further, I get the idea it was wordplay, substituting...
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I was reading the Herald Sun's Connect section this arvo (the AV tech section), and they had an article on Digital TV DVD recorders. While skimming through the article, it reminded me of how stupid conventions in consumer electronics are. More specifically, model numbers. The 4 DVD recorders reviewed...
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Taking a cue from metaphorical ads (probably the Mac vs. PC ones), Symantec's released a new viral site and ad to promote its Norton 360 computer care product (similar to Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare , combining antivirus, firewall, maintainance and backup functions in to one product) called Should...
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I stumbled on to a post this morning about Woz's business card: From Jeff Nolan's blog . How cool is that? Different, stylish - I love the grille pattern. Tell me that's not gonna leave a good impression and give you something to remember about when you meet someone. Besides, I doubt it'll get lost in...
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Engadget's managed to get their hands on the new Samsung F700 , you know, the iPhone-like phone but with a QWERTY keyboard and 3.5G. They've also managed to get their hands on the new glofiish (or E-TEN if you know them by their previous name) X800 , which is packed with everything you could possibly...
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When you look at a print or video ad when you're out and about, what do you do if it's interesting? If its interesting enough, you'll try and commit it to memory so you can check it out when you get home on the net. But what are the chances of that happening? close to zero first time round probably....
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FedEx . Unless you've been living under a rock, you would've heard about them, and you would most likely know what their logo looks like. For those with a temporary mental lapse (probably from the copious amounts of alcohol consumed yesterday - St. Pat's day), here's a refresh: Now look carefully, because...
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I know we're all sick of the whole Office cheating campaign here, and I wasn't going to revisit it, but I figured it was only fair that I acknowledge what Microsoft is doing to help notify students about the offer, especially at Monash Clayton, seeing as that was one of my main whinges. I got a global...
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Alright I know I really should just let the Microsoft Office cheating campaign go, so here's hopefully the last time I'll mention it here. I got curious when looking at my post list earlier, as my ' Office, it's worse than cheating ' post got more views than any other recent post. I checked out the referrals...