Archive for the 'Announcements' Category

Podcasts making iPods hang or reboot

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Some of you have written in to tell us that our podcasts are making your iPods hang or reboot. It appears our podcasts are not the only ones affected. I found out that there is a bug with iTunes 7 and the 5th generation iPods that will hang the iPod if you play audio files […]

BBC World Service interviews the mrbrown show

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Adri and Ruby look at the retro mixer
Our interview on the BBC World Service programme, Close Up, will be broadcast on the 17th and 24th of November 2006, both Fridays, at 9.30 GMT (I believe that is 5.30pm Singapore time). Popagandhi, Ruby and I went down to their Singapore office to chat with their London […]

We need sponsors and advertisers for the mrbrown show!

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Today, Mr Tan came up to me and said, “Look, I have run out of organs to sell, you have got to ask for more sponsors to advertise on the show.”
“I don’t get it,” I said, “Our daily show gets an average of 20,000 downloads a day, and for the popular shows, we get 100,000 […]

Comments are open again

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Hi all! We’re opening up comments again from today’s podcast albeit moderated (so dont panic if you don’t see your comments appear instantly).
By special request, we’re also opening comments for those of you to make your well wishes/goodbyes to Mr Miyagi in our older Ch-ch-changes entry (link).

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

In the midst of Singapore getting some hazing from Indonesia, the mrbrown show has also been evolving as some of you have no doubt noticed.

As of last night, with the symbolic sticking of the “Millennium Falcon Battle Station” sign on the recording studio door with Blu-Tac™ , we now declare this battle station fully operational. […]

Feed problems

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Update 9.48pm, Friday the 29th of Sept 2006: The feed problem has been fixed. You may wish to try re-updating the mrbrown show via iTunes or your podcatcher of choice. Thank you for your understanding!
We are experiencing some feed problems lately that we are working with Feedburner.com and Libsyn.com to resolve. So apologies for those […]

Friday winners of the mrbrown show AMO daily giveaway contest!

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Friday’s show question for the 5 daily AMO hampers:
Q5: What do Korea, Hong Kong and Phuket have to do with Advanced Medical Optics?
a) Nothing
b) They are places with the most contact lens wearers
c) They are lucky draw destination prizes for the AMO Holiday Fest Promotion
d) Any clues?
The answer is C. They are lucky draw destination […]

Stacie Orrico invites winners!

Friday, September 15th, 2006

This is a mobilisation exercise. The following mrbrown show listeners, please contact us at contest (at) mrbrownshow.com immediately for your Stacie Orrico invites, or else you cannot go tonight, haha!
Winners:
eX-CoReY eX-CoReY
Lee Hanwei
Hurry up and contact us so we can send those tix to you!
And for the The songs we used in our crazy montage are:
I’m […]

Thursday winners of the mrbrown show AMO daily giveaway contest!

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Thursday’s show question for the 5 daily AMO hampers:
Q4: How do Blink Eyedrops help in your general eyecare?
a) Gives you X-Ray vision so you can look through walls
b) Gives you Eye-Power, so other people do your work for you.
c) Mimics your natural tears and retains moisture for a comfortable contact lens wear
d) Any clues?
The answer […]

Wednesday winners of the mrbrown show AMO daily giveaway contest!

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Wednesday’s show question for the 5 daily AMO hampers:
Q3: Blink is an eyedrop for
a) People who cannot blink
b) Traffic Wardens
c) Contact lens wearers
d) Any clues?
The answer is C. Contact lens wearers.
Special mention (no prize) for the listener who said “people who cannot blink , goldfish people”. Hahaha!
Congratulations to the five winners of the Wednesday prizes:
1. […]