Archive for June, 2009

Banksy vs Bristol Museum

Tuesday 30 June 2009
WARNING - Contains scenes of a childish nature some adults may find disappointing.

WARNING – Contains scenes of a childish nature some adults may find disappointing.

About 10 minutes into a queue that ended in a different postcode, it occurred to me that waiting patiently outside a museum in blazing midday sunshine was not a very ‘Banksy’* way to spend time. Not having seen the trailer or read the preview at that stage I wondered if this was really the best venue to showcase the work of Britain’s most infamous street artist?

Once inside (approx 30 mins later), I ‘got it’…over and over and over again!

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Why We Re-branded

Wednesday 24 June 2009

The question most of our customers will be asking is: why the name change? We thought we’d write this post to share our reasons for re-branding and the process we went through to reach our name and brand.

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Rubbish Design

Wednesday 24 June 2009

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Our story begins in the salubrious surroundings of the shared bin store below my flat. (Not the greatest setting I know, but please bear with me!)

Now I’m never usually one to get wound up by residential issues, but lately I’ve been quite bothered by the fact that people keep putting green bags of recyclable waste into the silver wheely bins which are intended for ordinary black bags. So much so, that I’ve actually been moving green bags to their rightful receptacles myself.

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Commidea’s Publicity-Shy Token Gateway

Wednesday 24 June 2009

If you’ve not already heard of them, Commidea are one of a number of options for payment gateway providers for ecommerce sites (the people who actually process card transactions when card details are taken online).

Commidea provide a fairly normal XML/SOAP interface to push through card transactions, but if you’ve not used them before there is a lack of good documentation publicly available about their services. In particular, their “token gateway” service is a hidden gem that even I only discovered recently…

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