23.04.10
The icantalk.me sticker hunt
Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Photos, Random Thoughts at 12:30 am by Liv 
Spotted 2 more icantalk.me stickers today — same area. Has anyone seen some in other parts of London?
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Loading ... (6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Google and the Blow-up Doll
Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Photos, Random Thoughts at 12:17 am by Liv
The saga continues — the doll seems to have moved in the Google office (perhaps it’s been used and then put back? 
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icantalk.me Spreading in London
Posted in Blogroll, News, Photos, Random Thoughts at 10:10 am by Liv
On the way to work today I’ve spotted another icantalk.me sticker — around Victoria/Pimlico area in London. My Blackberry doesn’t have the best camera (sorry!) so you probably cannot make too much sense of it but here it is:
If you have seen one of these stickers before you would recognize it probably straight-away: it’s on the right hand side, next to “(St Georges Drive” and “continues beyond)”:
A couple of weeks ago I spotted one in a Starbucks in Victoria, so this is my second sighting — anyone else seen these?
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Why Google Is a Fun Working Environment?
Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, News, Photos at 2:44 pm by Liv
Like many of you I probably read many a times about what a great, fun environment to work in Google is. To be honest, I never bought into it — until today I finally realised it is true! And here is what made me change my mind: these are pictures taken from the other side of Google’s offices in London and at first glance you might not think anything wrong of it:
Now look closer — I made it even easier and highlighted the 2 items that make this picture special:
Since my mobile’s camera is not that good, I’ll it out for you — the object circled on the right hand side is an (upside down) Google banner — it was probably originally placed in the window to be seen from the other side but quite likely fell down and nobody bothered to put it back up again. Hopefully this should convince the skeptics that this IS in fact Google’s offices (unless you can think of a reason why a company would display in their office windows a banner for Google? :O) The most important item though in the picture is the one circled on the left-hand side: IT’S A BLOW-UP DOLL!
I’ve tried to zoom in a bit more — you’ll have to excuse my camera’s resolution though — hopefully you can see in these that it definitely IS a blow-up doll:
Now you tell me that a company that provides you with blow-up dolls in your office is not a fun environment to work in? Though one wonders what does it say about the guys in their office — not to mention the girls :p
(6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...What Do We Use the Internet for Nowadays?
Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, Photos, Random Thoughts, Tech at 11:39 am by Liv
If you ask Joe Bloggs what he uses the net for nowadays, a common term that pops up is “research”. People use the net to learn things — not a bad idea at all! After all, the information (in most cases) is out there, just waiting to be found. And with the competitiveness of the search engines nowadays, you are nearly guarantee to find exactly what you’re looking for. But what do we “research” online?
Since Google introduce its suggestion-based search service — which pops up a list of suggestions based on the most common search phrases related to your search — it’s easy to figure out what most people are searching for. So if I want to know what most people are trying to learn about all I have to do is to type “how to” in Google and wait for the suggestions to pop up. And I did just that! And behold! here’s what our Jo Bloggs what to learn nowadays:
It appears our average internet citizen is lacking a lot of knowledge in the kissing technique department as this comes first as you can see — one would think that having some real practice rather than reading about it would solve the problem though, huh? Also our average google user seems to be spending most of his/her time in front of the PC with very little exercise probably — hence the need to lose some weight — and fast, cause damn! I need to get back to my internet searches! I’m guessing the weight was assimilated due to the pancakes they keep making — and seem to be getting wrong all the time, since they’re still looking for instructions on how do make them.
The getting pregnant bit though is a brilliant one, you got to admit — even more so in the light of “having sex” being way down the list — I’m envisaging the following scenario:
Joe Bloggs thinks “ok, I’m feeling kinda lonely here in front of my PC the whole day — maybe I should get a child. Hmmm… how do you do that? I know, let’s get pregnant — I heard that does it! “ So out comes Google: “how to get pregnant” … “Sh…ugar! I need to have sex first! Right, how do I do that? Oh, damn, I need to get fit! Right — how do I lose weight fast and get a six pack? hmmmmm not so easy it seems. Perhaps there are other ways to get laid easily … let’s see — oh yeah, having lots of money! Right, how do I make lots of money? …. hmmmm another tough one! Oh bo…cks! This is hard work — I’m knackered and hungry already. Where are my pancakes?”
