Posted by Leefe on 20 January 2010 – 10:56 pm
Cadbury, my favourite brand of chocolate, is being devoured by Kraft.
For a deal worth £11.5 billion ($20.28 billion), or 860 pence a share, most of the articles I have seen talk about the worry of having to make ‘making significant cost savings’, ie job losses. And while I sampathise with the people that may loose their jobs, I worry about the state of my favourite chocolate.
When Kraft takeover Cadbury wil they change the mix of the chocolate? Cadbury is an iconic brand of chocolate would you mess with the recipe?
No being a fan of Kraft cheese. And noticing the recent Vegemite iSnack 2.0 debarcle. I am a little worried.
Althought I see they also own Toblerone. So, maybe they can still make decent chocolate. I wil have to wait and see.
More worrying is the rumors mentioned of a counter offer by Hershey. If that maker of crap compount chocolate takes over Cadbury, I can really see the quality going down the tubes,
Posted by Leefe on 1 February 2009 – 12:21 am
Well it looks like Google is fubar. Every search result has a This site may harm your computer. link under it.
And they all link to a Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer! page.
All that is except the ones to Google sites, like Google books. And the blog search seems to be working.
And many blogs is posting about it (small sample):
Update (0:33):
Situation has returned to normal.
Threat rating lowered.
Please return to whatever you were doing.
Update 2:
TechCrunch has a post on the situation. Apparently there was a problem with an extra forward slash ‘/’. The Official Google blog explains that they use StopBadware.org to filter ‘bad’ sites, and that someone had added ‘/’ (the whole internet) to the list in error. The outage lasted around 40.
This leads me to a few questions:
- Have people become to dependant on one search engine? What happens if someone really hijacks Google? (Everyone uses Twitter I suppose)
- Why doesn’t Google/StopBadware.org check blogs for malware? Is this a notice to malware distributers that they should shift to a blog distribution method? Or do they already know this?
Update 3:
After uploading the screenshots to flickr I found that many others had done the same. So I created the group This site may harm your computer.
Posted by Leefe on 17 October 2006 – 1:43 pm
Hormel Foods, the producer of the canned pork product Spam is trying to stop the dilution of its product name. It doesn’t mind too much that “spam” has become a colloquial term referring to junk email. What it objects to is use of the word “spam” in naming commercial products.
The EU trademark office has rejected its application. Citing the high count of sites using the junk mail meaning in Google. The second site when I checked was “spam.com“, the spiced ham fan club. So its not like it doesn’t appear at all.
I suppose the moral of this story is trademark your product name ASAP.
