We have moved! September 3, 2010 No Comments
Something spectacularly important has happened to redsauce.com: our blog, for one day only, will actually contain information about our beloved company!! That’s right, for today you can be free of adventuring raisins, husband’s beards and cheese pie. We have moved office and I’m going to tell you all about it.
So aside from Milton creating a new word (“Something’ll”) in his previous blog, moving is perhaps the most ground-breaking occurrence on our calendar to date. It took blood, sweat and tears to lug a mountain of desks, two trellises, a pot plant called Jazzy Jeff, a Johnny Cash-singing dragon, a plastic egg with nothing in it, a farting gnome, two Slinkys, a tamborine, copious dismembered computers and more plastic tomatoes than are logically conceivable…across the road. We are located on the other side of the roundabout, looking back at the office we spent so many of our days in, as if stuck in perpetual nostalgia….ah, those were the days…
But there’s no looking back when the future is so bright! It’s all go in our new crib, with the excitement of moving mingling with the potent wafts of fresh paint – it’s a heady concoction. Everyone is feeling the buzz and moving office is perhaps the most effective form of team building there is (cheapskate managers take note). It’s such a great time as not only are we moving into a new office and embracing a new phase of our company’s journey but we’re physically helping to build our new work place. C’mon guys, time for a group hug…
Something’ll never change but others really should August 31, 2010 No Comments
We’re moving this week, tomorrow to be precise. But what does this mean for RedSauce.com? Well, let me speculate.
A move can mean lots of things, can’t it? It can mean things are going to radically change, that new people are going to be hired and that our jobs are going to drastically adapt.
But let me tell you something: it’s been a long time coming but a change is gonna come. So you have to just accept it.
Media multi-tasking – a generation of Inspector Gadgets August 20, 2010 No Comments
If you’re anything like a certain techno-wizard in our office, a trip to the porcelain throne might not feel complete without taking your iPhone 4/iPad/Mac Book along for the ride. It has been revealed that the average Joe Briton spends nearly half their waking hours multi-tasking a number of different gadgets. That’s HALF OUR LIVES people!!
Ofcom have found that a flabbergasting number of folks are dabbling in a number of media gadgets at any one time, from talking on the phone while they watch TV to using their laptop or notebook in front of the box. We are greedy gadget gannets, but the most interesting finding is that we’re just not getting bored with our old kit, rather, we’re using everything at once! It would seem we are an unstoppable generation of Inspector Gadgets.
Brand awareness – the power of a good social media presence August 14, 2010 No Comments
In a world where every man and his dog (literally) are on Facebook sharing photos, videos and status updates galore and the latest occurances in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people are being reduced to 140 characters and published on Twitter for the world to see, social media is fast becoming the place to be, not just for Joe Bloggs, but for businesses and companies to increase awareness of their brand.
Social media is a forum providing real time and asynchronous interaction, making staying in touch with family, friends, old school mates and work colleagues a piece of cake. However it can also be an extremely powerful marketing tool when used effectively.
SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM August 9, 2010 1 Comment
Basically, spam.
According to something I saw (possibly QI), a staggering 80% of the interwebs are made up of spam, with 78% spam averaging all e-mail messages sent. Such questions as “Do you want a bigger diet plan with a bonus of 1,320,981 Nigerian dollars worth of blue pills included?” plague a number of inboxes and article comments all over the internet. Even our lovely Javaria receives a healthy stream of spam on her beardy blog piece – we’ve no idea why it’s specifically her – perhaps she has displeased the spam guardians.
Google advertises Adwords in traditional media July 30, 2010 No Comments
With Google having the lion’s share of the online pay per click market, it’s funny to see that even a giant of the web business arena still appreciates the power of traditional media advertising.
It was this week I saw an advert in a magazine pushing Googles AdWords system with a $75 free advertising trial promotion, thankfully though they kept to their usual standards producing a minimalist, predominantly blue on a white background advert, that makes good use of white space and doesn’t make your eyes bleed. Read the rest of this entry »
Sad nails in need of a manicure July 29, 2010 1 Comment
Writing for a living has it perks. I get to be creative every day, devise technical blog posts, publish news and build wicked websites. However, my keyboard is ruining the tips of my nails.
I love the essence of my office keyboard – it’s my writing tool, my prose facilitating contraption and my ultimate reason for being. Plus it ensures I receive a regular pay cheque each month. I’ve grown attached to it despite the dust and chocolate wafer crumbs collecting between its keys (a feather duster and some Mr Sheen may be the order of the day tomorrow). Read the rest of this entry »
Internet 1000 times quicker? Yes please! July 28, 2010 No Comments
Here at redsauce.com it’s obvious we love the internet…. unfortunately at the moment the internet doesn’t seem to be keen to return the love.
Ever shrinking bandwidths, an influx of new staff and our ever demanding needs means our poor internet seems to be feeling the pressure at the moment! *sob* Instead of standing up to the pressure like a true redsaucerer our internet seems to be doing everything it can to shy away from our needs which, as you can imagine for an online company like ourselves, is not a whole lot of fun!
Now with an internet connection which is currently up and down more times than our dodgy kitchen light, you can imagine our delight when a team of American boffins this week announced that within the next few years they could make the internet 1000 times quicker! Oh yes, you did read that right – 1000 times! Woohooo! Read the rest of this entry »
Imagining a world without internet July 24, 2010 No Comments
It’s a sad day at redsauce.com, I’ve fallen out with the internet. This morning I found that software I should be able to cope with as a seasoned blogger, was in fact confounding me at every click.
After some frustration at technology I said something I immediately regretted in the heat of the moment: “ARGGHHHHH! WHY CAN’T I JUST USE A SCROLL AND INK?! WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE SO COMPLICATED?!? I WISH THERE WAS NO INTERNET!!” To a redsaucerer this is like saying that you wish Christmas didn’t exist.
My perception of Inception July 22, 2010 No Comments
I went to the cinema last night because it was Orange Wednesday and I wanted to watch a cheap flick on the big screen. Plus I was intrigued by the trailer for the new DiCaprio movie called Inception.
I was one of the few who didn’t fall for the charms of baby faced Leo when he starred in mega box office hit Titanic but the special effects and the enigmatic nature of the sneak preview I’d seen on tv was enough to draw me in to his latest on-screen effort.
The plot was complex and keeping-up was essential to get to grips with the theme. At its core the screenplay was about planting an idea into a person’s subconscious by entering their dreams. Read the rest of this entry »
