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				 <title>Magic Eye Pictures!!!</title>
				 <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[Just thought I'd post these for something a bit different...&nbsp;You know some people can see these hidden 3D images really easily but for others it can be a bit of a struggle and can be ultra annoying.&nbsp;If you can see them here's a tip... Hold a finger to the center of the picture and just stare at it. Let your eyes relax and in time you should see two fingers instead of one. Now focus at the image between the two fingers and slowly move your finger out of the way. The picture should now reveal the hidden 3D image. 
&nbsp;Can you see the hidden objects?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Post more pictures here because it's fun and can be addictive once you get the hang of it!!! 
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				 <title>New Girl Avatar Comp!</title>
				 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[OK in case some of you didn&rsquo;t know we have recently added a new member to the Zazz team&hellip; Going by the name of &lsquo;Miss Peri-Peri&rsquo; she&rsquo;ll more than likely be the first point of contact whenever you contact the Zazz team with any queries you may have! 

Let&rsquo;s face it&hellip; you know how important you all are to us and when we decided to appoint a new customer relations executive we definitely wanted the best. And believe me&hellip; we got the best!!!&nbsp; She really is brilliant at what she does!
&nbsp;&nbsp;Now what can I tell you guys about her &ndash; well she&rsquo;s got a Portuguese background, she loves to bake and she&rsquo;s got a ripper of a personality. She&rsquo;s also quickly enamoured herself to the whole Zazz team after banning some of Mr Nice Guy&rsquo;s atrocious office music which has been a big relief to everyone. There will now officially be NO MORE Michael Bolton and The Carpenters in the office unless headphones are utilised!!!&nbsp; Anyway, she&rsquo;s heaps of fun to have around the office but she doesn&rsquo;t have a very good forum avatar.

SO, we decided to continue the tradition for new Zazz employees and hold a competition for you guys. Design an avatar for Miss Peri-Peri and you could win yourself a really nice prize. Now we&rsquo;re talking something really cool so just post your entries right here in this thread to be in the running to win.&nbsp; &nbsp;

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				 <title>Worms and Trojans!</title>
				 <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[ Not so long ago I used to think of worms as something you used for bait when you went fishing. Trojans were the inhabitants of the ancient city of Troy or an American brand of condom and a virus was something you sometimes got in the wintertime!

However I now know differently thanks to some creep who infected a file I recently downloaded. My whole system completely shut down and repeatedly crashed&hellip; 

Anyway, I did some research to see what the virus actually was and I found some interesting information&hellip; Did you know that a ninth grader named Rich Skrenta actually created the first known computer virus back in 1982? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rich Skrenta... The father of the computer virus...
&nbsp;Skrenta was basically distrusted by his friends because he&rsquo;d alter his floppy disks to shut down or display taunting on-screen messages when he shared his pirated computer games and software with them. So what he did was think of different methods to alter these disks without actually touching them. He ended up working out a way to launch the messages automatically by developing what is now known as a boot sector virus. He began circulating it among his friends and at the local computer club. How annoying was this kid huh?
So the actual virus was called the Elk Cloner. The way it worked was that an infected computer would display a short poem on every 50th boot. The Elk Cloner didn&rsquo;t cause deliberate harm, but disks without a standard image had their reserved tracks overwritten. &nbsp;The virus would display a poem like the following:
Elk Cloner: The program with a personality 
It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes, it's Cloner!
It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the Cloner!

Now as it happens, this kid turned out to be some hot shot computer whizz and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Rich, famous and a hero to all the hackers out there&hellip; To me and most of you though he&rsquo;s just the bloke who&rsquo;s caused us a lot of problems with our computers!!! Thanks Rich, ya lousy little &amp;%^$@#!!!

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				 <title>Stupid Interns</title>
				 <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[ 	Every year we get a lot of requests from kids who want to do their work experience at Zazz. Obviously we like to do the right thing so we usually give a couple of young fellas a break when we can. You know, get them in the warehouse and teach them a few things. 
  Generally speaking everything usually seems to work out quite well. I mean, the kid gets  to do work experience at a cool joint and we get some slave labour.   
  However, sometimes things can go real pear shaped. The other day we showed our latest child servant Kevin, how to use the pallet jack... Now there's not all that much to it so we basically left him to move some pallets around from point A to point B. Pretty simple job really. 
  Around five minutes into his allotted task we heard a massive crashing sound followed by a bit of high quality swearing. Now I don't know how he did it but young Kev managed to almost fully push the forks out of the jack. Have a look at the picture to get a better idea of what actually happened.&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  Now Zazz Tech Man's normally a pretty mild mannered bloke but I tell you, his blood was at boiling point when he saw his beloved pallet jack in almost two pieces... Especially as the young fella thought it was hilarious and was nonchalantly posing for pictures. Maybe that was more my fault than his but still!!!
 
  Anyway, it took us about an hour to fix it but thank God for Kevin's sake it was all sorted out in the end.&nbsp; 
 
  Anyhow, not much else I can tell you aside from the fact that it's really just another crazy day at Zazz headquarters! 
  If anyone's got any funny work experience or intern stories then we'd really love to hear them. And if they're really funny we'll reward you for posting by sending you a prize!!!
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				 <title>Seedy Christmas Lunch!</title>
				 <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[ 	Twas a rather amusing Christmas lunch at the Nice Guy household the other week when the fellas came around for a bit of a feed. 
  We decided to bake a breast of turbaconducken as the main dish. For those that don't know it's a turkey breast stuffed with duck breasts followed by a chicken breast. Then you coat everything in herbs and season it really well before rolling it up, wrapping it in bacon and baking it. 
  Now it kind of takes a little while to prepare the whole thing. Especially if you've decided to have all the finxings and stuff. It was basically me and my little brother getting the whole lunch ready and we probably started drinking beer and wine waaaayyyyyy too early. 
  So by the time the guests arrived the music was pumping, we had a shrine dedicated to Tupac Shakur on the balcony and after about a half an hour we ran out of beer. Nevertheless, there was still plenty of wine and vodka so nobody was going to miss out. After a few beverages, we served everything up and made sure everyone ate and drank their full measure.&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  For some of the guys the whole boozy lunch was a bit of a struggle. There was a mini crisis when our mate Razman suddenly disappeared. We looked all over the house and couldn't find him anywhere. He wasn't answering his phone and we started to worry. Just as we were planning to scour the streets for him my brother found him curled up in my ball chair in the corner of the living room. He actually turned it to the wall and you just couldn't see him unless you spun the chair around which my brother did by complete accident. So he pretty much flaked out and slept through Christmas! 
  Then Zazz's very own rapscallion, Adam decided to invite himself over to the hot chick's apartment upstairs. He made an ass of himself trying to hit on her and came back to sulk after she chucked him out!!! While all this was happening my brother started doing some weird Seminole Indian  tribal dance around the living room to 'The End' by the Doors. Pretty standard stuff around my place but I decided to call it an afternoon when one of the guys donned the free mankini that came with my Borat DVD. Like who wants some bloke hanging around, drinking champagne on the porch in a mankini. Well not me, that's for sure! 
  Anyway, what else can I say except that it was a fun afternoon and a great way to spend Christmas.   
  So how did you guys spend your Christmas? We'd love to her any funny stories of yours and will send prizes for the best ones!!!   
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				 <title>Zazz Paintball!</title>
				 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[ 	By now you may have noticed that we're kind of an odd bunch here at Zazz... So it should come as no surprise that Paintball was the chosen form of Christmas party for us this year!!!   
  Anyway, we arrived at the venue and decided that we would split into two groups... Zazz employees versus whoever else. Had to laugh at one of the warehouse guys who rocked up with virtually a full wetsuit under his clothes for added protection! After a rather detailed motivational and tactical speech from Zazz Tech Man we took stock of the equipment and hit the field.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now after all the General Patton type planning that went into the Zazz team strategy what do you think happened?. Well as soon as the whistle blew we all went pretty feral and just ran around firing at will. Some of the guys had clearly seen too many action movies and were sliding and rolling along the filthy floor like John Rambo! &nbsp;But you couldn't blame anyone for getting carried away cos it was our one opportunity to shoot one another and we were sure going to make the most of it! You know, nothing personal... just kill or be killed really! 
  I believe Adam was actually the first to 'die' and took a round of paintball in the face. It was a personal highlight listening to him complain about the revolting taste of paint too! I copped several shots in the back and I'm not 100% sure but I think it was friendly fire! If I find out who is responsible there's gonna be trouble!&nbsp;&nbsp; Team Zazz was all over the opposition and we had them cowering behind pylons and hiding in bunkers. Like a true General, ZTM was shouting strategies and tactics from the sidelines and I guess it must have worked because we were one fierce fighting machine! 
  Maybe the team bonding side of things didn't really go to plan because we were more like a bunch of feral animals but who cares? We had a great day and despite some of the nasty wounds we got it was well worth doing. ]]></description>
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				 <title>The LAN Party!</title>
				 <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[ 	We at Zazz headquarters like to help you guys out when we can so we were rapt to see these young fellas so happy with their Zazz sponsored LAN party. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It was called Lanthrax and was their inaugural event... Apparently it went really well for them and they are now planning another one! I think it's going to be in Traralgon in country Victoria so if any of you guys are around the area why not join in the fun? You can check out their shenanigans on http://lanthrax.no-ip.org/&nbsp;Anyway, they were a great bunch of guys to communicate with and we were extra pleased to hear that the proceeds of the party were donated to their local community.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Anyway, that's about it! So if anyone else has an event going on let us know and we'll try help out if we can!
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				 <title>Zazzmania VIII</title>
				 <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[ 	Roll up, roll up for the insane mega mad but always awesome ZAZZMANIA!!! 
  The place where magical bargains are available, legendary deals are made and hearts are broken... And if you think that's being over the top well all I'll say is that you're not going to be happy if you miss out on some of the brilliant deals that we've put together this time. 
  And if you're thinking to yourself that you don't actually need anymore gadgets you may actually be right. Heck, you might not even like some of the Zazzmania stuff but why worry about that? I mean you're gonna need some Hanukkah, Kwanza or Christmas presents really soon right? So if you see something you think's lame then go ahead and buy it for someone lame and keep all the good stuff for yourself!!!   
  If you don't actually know what I'm talking about then here's how it works. It's basically a marathon sale that goes on continuously over a 24 hour period. Lots and lots of gadgets and things are sold and each sale goes for around 15 - 20 mins unless something sells out. There is usually a 4 minute break between each new product and if you're gonna get involved in the mayhem then use it!!! That's about the only time you'll get to go and have a smoke or a drink or even a light snack. The thing is with Zazzmania if you snooze you lose. Some of the stuff sells out in the blink of an eye so miss it at your own peril. You've really got to be on the ball to take full advantage of all that's on offer. 
  Aside from the actual sales there are lots of competitions happening and heaps of funny banter going on in the forums. So prizes will be on offer and we encourage you to join in on the forums as it's a lot of fun and who knows? You may even meet that someone special in there. Like stranger things have happened right? 
  So anyhow, it's all kicking off on Friday evening and as soon as midnight comes and it's officially Saturday the gloves are off and the sale begins.   ]]></description>
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				 <title>Christmas Parties!!!</title>
				 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[ 	As the festive season approaches us and the Christmas party invitations start rolling in I can't help thinking about some of the legendary Christmas functions of years gone by. 
  My first job out of University was with a PR firm known for it's wild and crazy parties. So I had only been at the firm for about three weeks before the party and had no idea what to expect. The boss hired out the upstairs function room of a local pub and we went straight from work and pretty much got straight into the festivities. I started drinking white wine, then I moved on to some reds, then the spirits and finally the bosses notorious slammers. Everyone was completely out of their heads by 10pm, mainly due to this maniacal boss insisting we keep up with him as he drank like a man possessed. The last thing I remember of the evening is laughing as the boss started stripping off on the dance floor, before losing his balance and crashing into a waitress with a tray full of drinks. The rest of the evening was a blackout and the only other thing I remember was waking up the next day on the office floor under my desk with the worst hangover of my life.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Another crazy party was when I was working with a television production company. Now this party took place in a new office that had been fairly elaborately decorated. The whole party was supposed to be a fairly ritzy affair and they hired a full c0cktail bar with professional servers. Everyone was looking forward to this one and I can tell you it was one of the most completely out of control events I've ever been to in my life. Two of the production assistants did a nudie run through the party, the vice-president of the company was seen urinating on the Christmas tree, a small fire started in the reception area and there ended up being a huge food fight. By the time the party was winding down I noticed that some of the expensive art pieces were covered in noodles and cream, somebody vomited on the carpet and there was a badly drawn thick 'Hitler' style mustache on the bosses portrait. What a top night!!!&nbsp; So anyway, those are the two craziest Christmas parties I've experienced and no doubt you guys will have some funny stories to share as well. So post any funny party stories for a chance to win a great Zazz Christmas prize pack!!!   ]]></description>
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				 <title>10 Interesting Questions!!!</title>
				 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[ 	1. If you could do any job, what would you like to do?   
  I would be the president of the International Olympic Committee... Lots of free travel and accommodation and heaps of nice gifts from the bidding cities!!! And the best seats to all of the events at the Olympic Games... What a job!!!   
  2. If you could move anywhere, where would you like to live?   
  Hmm very interesting range of options here but I like the sun and the beach so maybe Maui... Luaus, cascading waterfalls, lush forests, great beaches and towering mountains. What more could you ask for? 
  3. If you had a time machine, where would you go and why?   
  Definitely go back in time... Maybe I would go back to the height of the Roman empire. Seems like a pretty cool place to hang out... Great parties and banquets, awesome women and baths. Also top class entertainment would be guaranteed with their culture, arts, and gladiator fights...    
  4. If you had to spend 100 days on a desert island, what three things would you take with you? 
  A BBQ and a huge bag of coals. A rifle and knife for hunting. A beautiful woman or two. 
  5. If you were a monster, what monster would you be?   
  I think I'd be a Gremlin!!! They were most like me when it come to monsters I guess... 
  6. If you were a cartoon character, which one would you be?   
  Dick Dastardly... Just cos he's cool and I'd get to hang out with Muttley! 
  7. If you could meet any famous person, dead or alive, who would it be and why?   
  Colonel Harland Sanders so he could cook me an awesome chicken feed!!! 
  8. If you could have only one food for the rest of your life which food would you choose?   
  KFC... Just can't help myself... 
  9. If you could ask God any one question, what would it be?   
  Wanna go grab a couple of beers dude? 
  10. If one song were to describe your life, what song would it be? 
  100 percent it would be Jimmy Buffet's 'Margaritaville'... Sums me up just beautifully!!!    ]]></description>
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				 <title>Death of a Gadget!!!</title>
				 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
				 <description><![CDATA[ Let me introduce you guys to our new concept... &quot;Death of a Gadget&quot;
 
 Basically we've got some returned products that we have absolutely no use for!!!&nbsp; So we decided to try and find some novel ways to destroy them and have a bit of a laugh at the same time.
 
 First episode involves a USB Turntable and an orange cannon. The results were amazing... Check it out!!!&nbsp; &nbsp;  &nbsp; ]]></description>
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