October 17, 2007

This hot water dispenser pictured above may look a bit silly but it.. dispenses hot and cold water.

I’m just wondering though, if you have a metal one and you run a bunch of hot water through it, aren’t you gonna get kind of.. burned? As in, if you touch it after? How would you turn it off at the tap!

All these sorts of thoughts are plaguing me.

Reviewing the actual design of the website.. it needs a lot of work. Firstly, the logo. They need a logo. And the company name - Zoe means life. I don’t see the relevance. And then the design… It could just use a lot of improvement. Firstly, all background colours should be changed to white. That would improve the design by a big margin. Then a pro should be used to make a nice template.

Yep that’s right. All hot and bothered.

The active supporters of Melbourne Victory would be really good advocates of human rights. Why? Because they’re incredibly suspicious of the motives of authority, extremely vocal when they feel their rights are being impinged upon, and will cop the punishment for standing up for themselves.

Fans have been campaigning ever since our move to Telstra Dome to have the right to play a drum during chants. Telstra Dome has so far rejected these advances because of concerns about a ‘tribal’ atmosphere.

 Seriously ! I’m not making this stuff up. One wonders if they have ever been to an AFL game.

Between them, Telstra Dome and MVFC management have shown that they don’t have what it takes to deal with soccer fans. Is it so hard to just… give us what we want? Instead, they use  things such as drums - legal in stadiums world-wide - as bargaining chips.

It doesn’t take a very smart person to realise that by setting themselves up with such an antagonistic attitude, they’re really shooting themselves in the foot. Market research by the FFA and MVFC has shown that the #1 highlight for fans going to games is the atmosphere. The atmosphere developed by who, exactly ? The active support!

 So then they do all their advertising around the active support, telling us all what an amazing atmosphere it is. But who are they constantly trying to disenfranchise? The active support!

Collective punishment causes the innocent to rally with the guilty. The guilty use the collective punishments as justification for their ongoing campaigns.

By allowing standing, drums, and megaphones, those supporters who DO want to cause trouble no longer have any leg to stand on, and importantly, will not win the sympathy of those who aren’t there to make trouble.
It seems to be such a difficult idea to grasp - the USA took 3 years to finally get the picture in Iraq. The way you get the majority you like to separate from the minority you don’t is to give the majority what they want. Da-na!

I’m looking at a parking lots and garages website right now and it makes me think. Instead of traditional real estate investment such as rental or property development, why not build carparks? Several companies seem to be making a mint off it right now!

Propark owns a bunch of carparks around the United States including the interesting Harvard Square Parking. Why is it interesting?

You park there and you get a free lift to one of a bunch of restaurants in a London Cab. Now, this is one of the most unusual advertising gimmicks that I think I have ever seen. I wonder how much of an attraction it is to those are using this service. It would definitely feel more special than a regular taxi, and it would also be something you’d remember the service by. So it may well work.

I wouldn’t mind visiting Massachussetts someday because I want to watch Boston Red Sox play. If I check out Harvard as well I may see one of these taxis about town!