Archive for May, 2007

Fiji’s 2 minutes of fame on Digg

Posted by Wilson in annoying, technology on May 22, 2007

At any moment in time, when Fiji appears in international media circles, a warm glow strikes my heart. Fiji! The home of white sandy beaches, coconut palm trees, tropical weather, smiley people is on <insert big name media station>!!

Of course, lately it hasn’t been all roses and awesome try scores in the IRB circuit. With the attention that local bloggers have been receiving from the government, this particular news submission caught my eye on Digg:

Fiji declares war on bloggers and open internet access, click to help!

Hurray! Fiji’s been featured on Digg with a healthy 854 diggs! :D I was both surprised to see Fiji on Digg, as well as slightly disappointed that it had to do with current affairs instead of having something to do with Ryder. After all, what will all those overseas people think of us now?

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I simply had to scroll down the page to see what they thought :D Here are some of the funnier comments on the article:

“uhh i clicked…
not so sure if it helped…”

“I love their water : )”
(Blog note: Great. That’s all they’ll ever think of us as? FVB needs to work more harder…)

“Quick let’s invade them and fuck up the island with our own ideals.”

“There is only a handful of computers in Fiji so I don’t think this was a hard thing to do. They most likely went hut to hut.”
(Blog note: Damnit. I think FVB was abit too successful at showing Fiji as all huts and beaches…huts? wtf? XD)

“Digg effect for the Fiji Government anyone?
http://www.fiji.gov.fj
Just visiting would send a democratic message…”
“yea! lets help the Fijians by fucking up their only website!”
(Blog note: -_- I’m really starting to lose hope here….)

But by far my favourite comment of this whole charade would have to be this one:

“who the fuck is fiji?”

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Rups Big Bear Hates Your Face!

Posted by Wilson in advertising, annoying, pic on May 21, 2007

Browsing Saturday’s paper I came across this advert:


Fairly straight forward advert right? The usual prices advertised, several styles of clothing shown, the obligatory guy/girl match up, everything.

However, something didn’t quite look spot on…


Wait…is it me or is that really her face? It looks like something out of a bad Face/Off spoof. And it’s not only on this model, but several others, including the one in the middle:


Now something tells me that them Big Bear dudes seem to have this fixation with that “paste-on” model who they took to sticking up on just about all the original models faces. I wonder how she feels after seeing this ad…

And the photoshop work is absolutely shoddy. Heck that Indian guy paste-on face picture reminds me of kindergarten finger-painting :( I can almost hear the pixels cringe…

PS: Bonus brownie points to anyone who can figure out whether the paste-on models face (both the girl and guy) is that of someone famous? :D

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Tool of the Month ^_^

Posted by Wilson in ...ofthemonth, pic on May 12, 2007

It has been pretty busy at work lately, with the late nights and all, and the visits to the mens bathroom an annoying necessity break. During my time there, my eye generally wonders the walls in observance of the many artistic abilities that toilet art has to offer.

Since I’ve been to that particular cubical in general a lot, I’ve pretty much memorized the existing graffiti and notice new pieces put up everyday. Apart from the rare sayings that evoke a smile, the rest of the scrawling is usually either of colourful swears, various crudely drawn pornographic depictions, and the odd questionable dark smear which more often then not results in a careful distance placed between me and the smear.

On this particular day however, I came across this particular saying:

Now guys. Please. Graffiti is an eternal mark of your presence, so you better damn well sure leave something behind that doesn’t make you look like a total tool. Next time, check your spelling and grammar and make your primary school teacher proud ok? We want them aliens to think highly of us when they visit Earth in the next millennium…

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Kidney-net…

Posted by Wilson in internet, ISP, technology on May 1, 2007

Now, Fiji’s ISP market has pretty much been dominated by Connect and their good ol’ buddies Telecom. Unwired came along and has tried to revitalise the market, but their bandwidth isn’t as fat as they’d like it to be.

Behold, the entrance of a new player…Kidanet! Which is owned by none other then Fintel. Who are in the same circle as…Connect/Telecom. Don’t know how that quite works out…two competing companies under one umbrella company. Wish I hadn’t skipped Economics back in high school…

These guys would have slipped under my radar if it wasn’t for the fact that their adverts basically screamed three magic words:

No. Download. Cap.

At first I was like…bull. No chance in hell is an ISP going to put that kind of advert without that little niggly fine print.

A quick check at their website reveals that yes, they do have a freaken no download cap no limit package! That was almost too good to be true.


Oh well. A good friend of mine once told me that “If it’s too good to be true, it usually is.” And in this case…it was :(

At the bottom of the page was a link called “Acceptable Use Policy”. What the hell was that? The link was basically self explanatory…

Now, I know I’ve ranted on about how Connect basically provided for pirates and sucked when it came to bandwidth provision but this is a new low.

I mean when Connect says “Go above your download limit and we will severely cut down your Internet speed to 56k!!….but you can still surf” thats fine. That I can deal with.

But when Fintel says “We have no download limit mate! Download away! Please! But uhhh…should ever the case arise that you are clogging up our lines with your multiple downloads of Grey’s Anatomy season 1 as well as the latest pr0n, then we will bring the mighty hammer of corporate doom down on your ass via a nasty sounding letter. And thats not all. If, by some twist of fate, you happen to be in Lautoka visiting your maintenance girl, and miss the letter…then you can kiss your Vivid subscription goodbye.”

Now that, I’m not cool with. Not the vivid subscription. Just the whole “its up to us when you step over the line, you won’t know it, but when it happens…we’ll let you know” thing. I don’t know, I’m the type of person who likes to make sure that everything is laid out in black and white before I sign my life away.

By now you’ve probably figured out that I ain’t jumping on the Kidanet bandwagon. Ah well. If any of you have a better picture to paint of Kidanet and their infamous “Acceptable Use Policy”, then let us know :P

PS: I was browsing their page where they were offering ZOMG A FREE EPISODE OF THE FORCE!!!!1!1! -_- The thing I don’t get is…apparently the website spell checker was sick on the day that the body text was typed up…and seems to be still sick till now…

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