Says it really nicely; just "say no to bags"

...It's missing your instore bag choice as the fundamental source of this entire problem...

 

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQMgfhE3Nzc&sns=em) 

Just say no to a bag at least once a day. I do it almost every lunch at local food and/or convenience stores. And if you're popping out to the local Safeway / Whole Foods / Trader Joes or whatever, just grab a couple of reusable bags. Or get a cart (yes, this store is actually really funny). Minor hassle for me, in fact I've come to much prefer it (I feel guilty if I take the bag). Major impact if we all do the same.


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Suckered. But it could have been good marketing. And stupid short links, again.

Today I got an @ reply from an interesting Twitter account, @DropBox64Gb. To keep it short, don't bother to go there; it's already been suspended. This happened not long after I tweeted something out above voting for Dropbox in the Webby awards (you should too by the way, they are awesome).

Angry face
The tweet was short and simple, and showed the Dropbox logo, with the display name DropBox; Wanna get a free 64Gb DropBox Account?
followed by one of the web's worst, ugliest, shittiest entities, a short url. In this case it was crafted with a custom url, also something/DropBox64Gb. Note the capital B in DropBox, and the lower case b in Gb. They are they keys, for in the real world the company is called "Dropbox" and Gb is gigabits, not gigabytes as many people would think at a cursory glance. 
 
This immediately aroused me. No, not in that way. I actually thought for a few minutes that Dropbox might have been engaging in some controversial marketing. Why? 64Gb, is as I say, nomenclature for 64 gigabits, not gigabytes. It's roughly 8GB. If you complete enough referrals as a free Dropbox account user, you can get an 8GB account. So I was hoping Dropbox were watching Twitter using a sensor and offering a few lucky Tweeters a quick path to more storage. 
 
Apparently this linkage was way too tenuous as it turned out that it was just some enterprising and spammy person spruiking his/her own Dropbox referral link, over Twitter. What are your thoughts on guerilla marketing, and would this have worked if it were real?
 
Disclosure; I love Dropbox, I think it's designed really well and simply fills an annoying hole in my online life. If you want to try it out, in contrast to the person I talk about here, just click my actual referral link and you'll get 250MB (bytes!) free space for signing up this way; https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTQ3NzEwMTE5


Nick Wade
Rambling man. Sometimes literally.
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Playing some Two Up with one of the RAAF's finest officers. Happy, happy women.

Just look at all those happy women around said tall, handsome, pilot. *sigh*. In case you didn't know, Two Up is the Australian game of choice on Anzaz Day (and in fact, it's only legal to gamble in unregulated settings with this game, on Anzac Day in most of Australia). It was played by many Australian soldiers during World War 1, in order to keep themselves somewhat sane and connected to home whilst fighting and dying in droves, far away.

We had a big celebration of Anzac Day right here in the Bay Area at the Log Cabin yesterday, as it fell right on a weekend - April 25th is the date our Anzac force landed at Gallipoli on the peninsula and suffered an almighty, nation-changing, months-long slaughter at the hands of Atatürk. If you're interested in learning about any of that, or learning about Two Up, take a look at the Australian American Chamber of Commerce who organises this memorial service and family day event. Frankly, any excuse to drink beer and barbecue together will draw Aussies from far and wide, but this one has a deep seated cultural identity of "the battler" at it's core and is integral to understanding the Australian psyche. Well worth a look.

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