Tuesday 24 February 2009

Aston Martin


I broke a rule today, I usually go by no collections. I work from home and don't want to have people coming and going. At lunch time today I received a call from a very desperate sounding man, needing 90 Red LEDs today as their regular supplier had let them down. So with a man in need, I broke the rule.
He drove a hour to pick the LEDs up and only stopped for a short chat, but in this time he told me where the LEDs would end up, apparently they'd be in Geneva within 48 hours, taking pride of place in the rear lights of the Aston Martin Lagonda at the Geneva Motor show.
I think that's rather cool.

Monday 23 February 2009

Norway

To everyone in Norway,
Please accept my sincerest apologies. It would seem in my haste to construct an excellent website to service the world's growing need for high quality, low cost LEDs - that resulted in www.phenoptix.co.uk - I forgot to add Norway to my list of countries that I ship to.
Unlike South Park, I do not blame Canada for this oversight, I blame Kenya.
A further apology for unleashing this song on any unsuspecting readers.

This oversight has been rectified. Norway I welcome you to phenoptix.

Regards,

Ben Gray

Monday 9 February 2009

Snow Problem?

Well you'd think that the UK was up to it's eyeballs in snow. In the East Midlands the reality was a couple of inches of snow, which looked very pretty and wasn't too much trouble to walk or drive in.
Since I work from home a snow day wouldn't really be an option even if there were 6 feet of snow but it would seem, judging by how many customers are still waiting for products sent last week, most of Royal Mail took those days off. A fair few other people took the day off too, 1 in 5 in the UK, 20% of the country's workforce. Amazing.
Hopefully this week everyone will be back to getting their goods next day.
Although all said I like snow, and my puppy, Lilly, likes it too.