Archives for the Month of November, 2008

Comparing trains with cars

A totally unscientific comparison, prompted by Tim O’Reilly’s tweet.
A Subaru weighs 1.33 tonnes.
A Train carriage weighs 37 tonnes. ref
At capacity, a Subaru can carry 4. A train carries 275.

Type
Calculation
Tonnes per person

Trains
37 tonnes / 275 person
0.134545455

Cars
1.33 / 4
0.3325

14 Weapons of Marketing

I love lists, and occassionally a well-written lists deserves to be copied, and recopied, verbatim.
The following is from Drayton Bird, who has a list of 14 weapons of marketing (in the comments section).

Research
Advertising
Sales Promotion
Point of Sale
Packaging
PR
Product placement
Guerrilla
Word of mouth
Workplace marketing
Sales people
Experiential [sic]
Sponsorship
Cause related marketing

On top of this, audiences often overlooked but often more important than [...]

SQL Server Error Creating User Instance

Fellow Australian Dave Gardiner points out there is a patch available from Microsoft where SQL Server Express would not start up a user instance over Remote Desktop.
Thanks!

Americans, Vote Freely (humour)

“Do what you’re going to do, America,” said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. “Don’t let us tell you how to vote or formulate a reasonable foreign policy or symbolically repudiate centuries of racial oppression. It’s entirely your decision. It’s not as if the fate of the Western world rests on your decision or anything.
The complete [...]