Theatre Lighting Design, Technical Direction and Consulting

Charles R. Kaiser
Aurora, Ontario CANADA

The Most Annoying Flash Ad EVER!

I was listening to country radio yesterday and I heard a Garth Brooks song that I had never heard before called "Good Ride Cowboy." I was doing a search for it on the internet, and it led me to Billboard's website to read this article where I was treated to the most annoying flash ad that I have EVER seen! It was an ad for Dell's new "DJ Ditty" MP3 Player that took over the entire middle of my screen. It was flash and it could not be dismissed without clicking on it to open a new screen to see to content of the ad.

What is Dell thinking with an ad like that? It is seriously the most annoying thing that I have ever seen, and it it almost worth a visit to the site just to see it for yourself to see its annoyingness!

Serves me right for using IE. If I had been using Firefox like I should have, this never would have happened!

Anyway, it seems that "Good Ride Cowboy" is part of Garth's new "Limited Series" box set available at Walmart that contains "Sevens", "Scarecrow" , "Double Live", and "The Lost Sessons" an 11 track CD with perviously unreleased material. There is also a DVD called "All Access." I already have "Sevens" and "Scarecrow" but I guess that I will still end up buying this set to get the other stuff. . .