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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Shiny colourful stickers don’t mean low prices
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Have you ever found yourself tricked into buying something you didn’t really need just because it was “on sale”?
Recently I’ve noticed a plethora of brightly coloured price stickers and signs littering the shelves of my local shopping market. Sometimes they indicate an actual sale while others indicate—with a very similar tag—a “regular low price”, meaning that the item isn’t priced differently but it’s just special because it has a shiny sticker on it now.
Yesterday I was a little more cautious while searching for some chicken. I noticed a “Fresh Cut Price” sign near some boxed pre-cooked chicken and thought I’d check it out but at closer inspection the deal wasn’t as good as they made it seem. Notice the before and after price:
Just shows you need to be watchful and don’t just shop based on shiny colourful stickers.
To blog, or not to blog: That is the question.
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We’ll as you can see by the dates on my posts, I’ve been a little lazy at posting lately. I had big ambitions for this blog when I started it up a year ago, I even managed to get a few good article out, but then life and other projects began to take precedence (and rightly so). So far I’ve updated the style a little, I’ve finished my second book (in stores next week) and my daughter is almost a year old already (where did that time go?). So where does that leave this blog? Well…
I’ll be re-focusing it’s purpose and moving a lot of the JavaScript/DOM Scripting writing over to the AdvancED DOM Scripting blog for my book. Likewise, any map related posts will be going on the Google Maps Book blog. This blog will remain, however I’ll be upfront that articles will come at a slower pace as family life allows. I’ve got some book review long overdue and a variety of other ideas to throw out there so hopefully they’ll attract some Googlers. Maybe it’ll seed an idea for my next book, whatever it may be.