I’ve just had a crack at Harvey Norman’s website. I wanted to check out Xbox 360, a new laptop and maybe a digital SLR camera.

So I signed up, waited for the confirmation email and went it.

I can say that in this day and age, this is the worst retail based website I have ever seen. You can order- How? Where is the product range? Where are the prices? The only way I could even see a product was, in desperation I went to the frickin SITE MAP. The site map? Holy hell the only time you look at a site map is to check out the overall number of pages. I haven’t looked at a site map since about 2000/1.

There are no details about the products in the laptop section. You have to do your legwork via the manufacturer site.

It just beggars belief that the “leading” elec/comp etc retailer in Australia has a site in 2006 that would have been a disgrace back in 1997…
Harvey Norman Website: Home

Here’s something curious someone emailed me via this site (anonymously too!) It’s a discussion about an article I wrote back in 2004 about co-exiting with car drivers.

I’m accused of being “holier than thou”. Correct. Sortof. I was a/ making a point b/ trying to be funny and c/ making a buck at the same time.

It’s quite a long discussion and I kinda wish I’d known about it way back when.

Email: Motorcyclist Telling Drivers Off. [Archive] – ZGeek

Great news!

Top Gear star laughing and talking.:

“Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was flown from Leeds General Infirmary to a hospital nearer his home on today, health officials said.
Hammond, 36, was transferred from the West Yorkshire hospital by air ambulance to Leeds-Bradford International Airport only eight days after he was seriously injured in a high-speed car crash”

Live Hamster bounce.

Beats a dead cat bounce…

Topping out at 100 kilos… I mean it TOPPING OUT! The only way is down!