GutterEats

Bit of shameless advertising here…..

We have just launched a new site, GutterEats.

The idea is fairly simple (like me). My place of work is on the outskirts of the City (near Old Street). Most days I take a packed lunch to work, but every now and again I either forget or can’t be arsed, so I go to one of the MANY sandwich shops in our area.

Sandwich shops must be one of the most numerous of all businesses in London, virtually all of us have visited one. Most of us have a favourite and tend to buy the same thing day in day out. We may want to try the other sandwich shop, the one across the street. It always seems quite busy, so it must be OK and you’re pretty bored with your normal sandwich shop…. but no, why risk it. Better the mundane devil you know.

What you don’t realise, is that the people on the other side of the street are watching your sandwich shop and thinking exactly the same thing.

If only there was somewhere you could find out about that other sandwich shop (or cafe etc) and post up a review of yours….

GutterEats is aimed at the lunch time office sandwich market. Most of these small independent places fall well below the radar of the numerous food review sites that litter the internet.

We have tried to make it as simple as possible to use, mainly because it needs users to submit their reviews and suggestions for it to work.

So take a look, add your reviews and shops, and let me know if it works for you or if we need to tweak it to get it right.

***end shameless advertising***

Written by exmonkey on May 24th, 2006 with no comments.
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iDust

We had to clean the office today - client visit.

I am always amazed at the amount of dust balls that accumulate under the desk in the heaving mass of coiled compter related cables.

Is this a new type of dust or is it that prior to the computing age, the conditions that encourage the accumulation of iDust^tm simply didn’t exist?

Written by exmonkey on April 27th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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30 words

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci

No, i dont know what this means. It’s Latin. This Latin text is the standard placeholder text that almost all design agencies use in place of finalised copy. The reason we use Latin text is because it has a similar sentence structure to English (so looks like text) but no one will get hung up on the content. (Note: clients will always focus on the wrong thing) - Oh and here is a link to a cool Lorem ipsum generator!

Why am I telling you this I hear you ask.

Well this is an example of how much space 30 words takes up - our designer, an American - not that this should matter - spent 10 minutes lecturing me on why 30 words would necessitate the redesign of the whole job. Like I am some kind of fucking idiot.

Here is another 30 words:

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE now.

Written by exmonkey on April 13th, 2005 with no comments.
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