And sometimes I question my own sanity..
Great Wall X240
So I was on my way home from work today when I noticed that a great, big, ugly monstrosity of fail pulled out behind me. What was this monstrosity? It was one of the hideous creations that you see to your right.
At first glance, you may think “oh, it’s just a Toyota Prado” but you’d be wrong. This abortion is a Great Wall X240.
“Hey man, why you bagging out that car? It’s newer than yours!” I hear you say, and you’d be correct, it’s is a lot newer than my car. Infact, these only just came out. My issue is not the age of the car, nor the colour, rather the quality.
If you haven’t heard of Great Wall Motors before, feel free to have a read through the Wiki. For those too lazy to read, here’s the cliffs:
- Made in China
- Barely anything is original design – mainly sourced parts from other manufacturers
- Practically held together with blu-tac.
Now that you know the background, answer me this: who in their right mind would buy a Great Wall car?
Sure, the V240 Ute may start at $17,990, but would you buy a car that looks like a Panda with Down Syndrome?
I’m sorry to dedicate a whole post to an asian piece of shit, but after Sam told me his mate ordered a V240, I had to rant.
Maybe I’ll make it worth your time tomorrow. What’s a hot topic at the moment? Politics? Child Safety? Abortion? Oh hang on, I just covered abortion in this post. Shit happens, much like Great Wall Motors.
My 3 Paragraphs Of Fame
Image via Wikipedia
Even been shoved into the public spotlight without knowing it? Yeah, that was me today.
I spoke to a journo from the Sydney Morning Herald about a week ago. He found me though MacTalk after asking about businesses using iPads as business tools.
I responded to him thinking that he was just grabbing some information to put into and article and that would be that, but it seems that was not the case. He grabbed my phone number from me and rang me at the beginning of last week to have a chat, little did I know that he would quote me in this article that was published today.
We had a chat about how the company that I work for had ordered iPads to use as mobile quoting devices, and how it saves time and money by streamlining processes and more.
Fast forward to today, and as I’m pulling into my driveway, I get a phone call from the General Manager. He started off by joking about how I was now the appointed media contact, and how I was going to put him out of a job, etc, etc. All the while, I’m sitting there going “huh?”. I asked him what he was going on about, and when he told me it all came back to me. I don’t know how, but in the space of a week, I had somehow forgot that I had spoken to the journo.
Anyway, I came inside the house and jumped on the computer, sure enough I had an email from the journo telling me that the article was published today, to which he provided a link.
The power of the internet is amazing.
To have a read of the article, see the Sydney Morning Herald.
A second attempt
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I seem to be doing well at this blogging thing this time around – I was working on adding a photo gallery in the downtime at work today, and I think I managed to get one implemented. Now it’s just a case of adding some photos, which I shall get around to at some point tonight I think.
A good friend of mine, Nic, approached me a couple of days ago about helping him out with a project that he’s had on-and-off for a little while now. Basically, he’s had a hand in a technology news & discussion website known as iWinUx since the beginning, and after it disappearing from the internet for a few months, he’s resurrected it in the hope of it hanging around on a more long-term basis. Read more
A new hope? Hardly.
So I wiped all of the old blog because it was embarrassing to see all these old posts sitting there, promising updates and what not. But I guess it wasn’t like anyone was coming here each day with their hope held high for a new blog post, was there?
Anyway, I’m starting to get fed up with the fantastic service of Three, and thus have decided that as soon as I possibly can, I will be moving away from them.
At this stage, it’s looking like Vodafone have the best deal. Now I do realise that they’re owned by the same company as Three, but from what I’m told, their call centers are based in Australia, rather than India (much unlike Three). And they’re about $20 cheaper for the same thing as what Three offers. I guess it must be expensive to have a call center in a prestigious place such as India, right?
