Which Internet marketer has the worst digital watch competition

Neil Shearing started a “Which Internet marketer has the worst digital watch?” competition on his blog yesterday after seeing a photo of Ken McArthur in his antique.

 And then – because we started wearing watches before he was born – he picked on Michael Campbell and me as as the most likely marketers to be behind the times. That’s ageism for you.

Actually Neil was right to pick on me because my watch IS really old, but I’ve got an excuse – which is that I only wear a watch when I’m on vacation, so I don’t need some fancy new-fangled thing. I know that wearing a watch only on vacation is the opposite way around to most people, but just about the only places I go are for long walks on the mountain trails or into town for a coffee. And I just don’t need to know the time.

I’m not going to win the competition though – because my watch might be old, but I think Neil’s own watch is older. Though I’ve got to say that it looks much more boring than mine which lights up and flashes and plays a tune and does all sorts of lovely things.

(perhaps I’ll win the which internet marketer has the worst digital photo of themselves competition )

I bought my lovely watch years ago on a market stall in a little village in the middle of the jungle in the Sarawak part of Borneo and after 2 minutes got it stolen by a monkey. Luckily I hung around the market for a while and spotted the monkey coming back out of the jungle and handing it back to the stall-holder in return for some food (a fairly common con I’ve heard)…and after a bit of a good humored argument I managed to get it back for just another few Ringgit

I’ve got to point out that having this old watch doesn’t make me a luddite (it is a digital watch) and as further proof of my up-to-date-ness, I just happened to get a new notebook computer delivered today with a built in webcam – so I’ve put my watch on and figured out how the cam works and taken a picture especially for you. And I’ve even dressed up in my 70’s gear

(that’s not a rude sign. It’s V for Victory for prettiest old digital watch)