Archive for January, 2007
Quit smoking
Tonight we were watching TV and we saw an ad saying: “Reduce until you quit. With these chewing gum and your willpower you will reduce your smoking habits up to 50% in six weeks!!!”. OH MY FUCKING GOD! Six weeks, nice. I’ve been smoking a packet per day and today it’s my fourth day without a single drag. Do you think I need the chewing gum?
Nope, I have my water pipes, bwahahaha!
Anyway, let’s talk about something more important than this ridiculous ad. Yes, we quit smoking because we had it in mind long time ago, but there’s another reason for that:
SIM IS PREGNANT! YUP! For about seven weeks!
So… I personally found this a good reason to quit, even if you don’t have enough willpower to quit, you will quit anyways. It’s the first step in this kind of new responsability that is growing inside me, so I have to do my best now that I’m going to be father. I must be ready for the birth day and the days after… I don’t know how it will be, I don’t know anything about bringing up child either, I didn’t talk too much with my father about that (and I’m regretful about it). All I know is that I’m worried, scared, happy, glad, tense, excited… but it doesn’t matter, we quit smoking and we are going to be parents.
A new life is coming and it will be part of our lives forever …
Before I go to sleep I would like to say to smokers: you only will quit smoking if you really want to.
“… so I crossed it out of the list, Quit smoking, number 252…”
PS: Sorry about my english. Really.
Nice spots
One of the things I most miss about Romania are those Unirea and Zaraza spots. Today I found them on Youtube and some other interesting spots.
Sprite zero – Frienship is overrated
I don’t know if this really made its way to the TV screen, but if it did they do have big coj… But then again, if La Caixa (lately known as LKXA) plays with its brand name, I guess Coca Cola Company can afford to play with anything. Nice, constructive spot in the Sprite line.
Perfectly done, brilliant spot. Toyota always has intelligent ideas for advertising and promoting their products. Yesterday I found out about the short contest: Yariscinexplora . A very good initiative, a nice help for the young students.
Nice and innocent Coca Cola spot. Hippy style, quite different from the controversial spot they released a while ago (commented spot).
My favourite campaign at the moment is the world wide campaign intended to promote Coca Cola light. We all know that guys would never go to a bar and ask for a Coca Cola light (not because they don’t want a Coca Cola light, but because it is associated with the idea of “woman on diet”, so it’s quite embarrasing for a man). As for the women, if you’re not embarrased to ask for Coca Cola light in a McDonalds, when eating a double Big Mac menu, then this commercial will only reassert your idea of “light”. The CocaCola Company wanted to increase the sales for Coca Cola light and convert it into a “recommended to anyone” product. As it didn’t work from the start they released Coca Cola Zero, a black bottle with white letters, perfect for man. I thought this would be the end, but they released this new impressing campaign. Here you have some of the spots:
I guess that is all for today. And the last one, my favourite:
Dorele, ne miscam si noi mai cu talent?
First man convicted under Antispam law
We all hear people talking about spam and more than that, unfortunately, we all receive lots of spam everyday.
In 2003, in the United States a new law that prohibits any form of spam and phishing was published. You can read it here:
Yesterday, it was the first time when applying this law a defendant was found guilty of phishing attacks.
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A California man who defrauded users of AOL by sending e-mail messages requesting credit data became the first defendant found guilty by a jury under a 2003 federal law barring Internet ”spam.”
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Full story here: Man Convicted Under Antispam Law
Will we receive less spam from the United States starting from yestarday?
Source: New York Times