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September 29, 2006

Virtual painting

If you've ever spend time in the DIY shop, mulling over sample pots and wondering what your walls will look like, it just got a whole lot easier.

Similar to room planning made easy we talked about back in June, you can now pick your sample colours and view them online in your room of choice. And, it even gives you options on complimentary colours. And it is actually a lot of fun!

Whether you are painting or not have a play with Smart Colour on the Behr website. I love my new bedroom...

 


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September 08, 2006

Internet Selling Goes Bananas

Banana%20Picture.jpgIn what is a gargantuan demonstration of online selling success, supermarket giant Tesco has sold 11 million bananas online in the first seven months of 2006.  According to silicon.com, 11 million bananas is about 1650 tons, or laid end to end...

"...a line that would stretch 1,375 miles in length, or long enough to connect London to Russia or even large parts of Northern Africa - perhaps in a devilish attempt to lure some  great apes out of the continent to follow this fruitiest of yellow brick roads."

 

Spam problems with the blog

We have had a lot of issues this week with the site going down and spammers posting, and whilst we love reading what you think, we have had to temporarily remove comments from the blog. We've got a blacklog of exciting stories to post, so make sure you keep coming back!