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Thought for the day

Category: Technology | c: 08 Jan 2012 23:10 | m: 08 Jan 2012 23:16

Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter and Google+ diluted the realtime pool.

Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people having a midlife crisis has me reaching for the Glock — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. I'm too good to be tweeting.

Conversation est morte: vivre la conversation [1 comment]
08 January 2012 · 779 words (munches about 4 mins)

The must-have epidemic of pocket technology is having a detrimental effect on the art of face-to-face, even when face-to-face.

Wears the keys
28 November 2011 · 479 words (devours about 3 mins)

Despite the title of this post being an homage to that old joke about two nuns in a bath, it isn’t ecclesiastical in nature. Keyboards just aren’t what they used to be.

All the 1s
11 November 2011 · 134 words (kills less than a minute)

When is a date not a date? When you find a computer science nerd to mis-represent it.

Where have encyclopedia salespeople gone?
01 November 2011 · 95 words (devours less than a minute)

Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Go away, I’m… washing my hair.

Have the bad old days of SEO gone?
31 October 2011 · 829 words (munches about 4 mins)

Manipulation of search engine rankings leapfrogs between search aggregators and designers. Have we learnt anything in 20 years? It appears not.

Phacking gibberish
22 August 2011 · 151 words (vacuums up less than a minute)

When is a hack not a hack? When the media decides how to name it.

Stef unwittingly builds the first Duplo Anal Intruder

Stef unwittingly builds the first Duplo Anal Intruder