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Category: Technology | c: 04 Apr 2012 11:10 | m: 04 Apr 2012 11:10

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 copying and pasting the same thing to each other erodes my will to live — 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.

BUI: Bad User Interface 04 April 2012 · 1322 words (kills about 6 mins)

What do cars, supermarkets, the weather and software engineers have in common? Poor design.

Phone dance 17 March 2012 · 142 words (kills less than a minute)

Place your bets on the most annoying customer service practice.

Conversation est morte: vivre la conversation [1 comment] 08 January 2012 · 779 words (wastes 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 (sucks up 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 (vacuums up 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 (kills less than a minute)

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

Stef's altitude sickness

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