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 retweeting the decades old picture of that cat with the lime on its head using bit.ly links bores me — 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 can now omit vowels and apostrophes with impunity.
N.B. The views expressed herein are not my own: they have been carefully shaped by a barrage of mainstream media propaganda and fill-in-the-blanks guesswork. Also, I'm prone to lying for the sake of entertainment.
Media, charity and the art of caring
· 1588 words (munches about 8 mins)The problem with doing something for a good cause — say, releasing a charity single — is that any attack on the effort is automatically equated to an attack on the cause. Thanks, mainstream media.
Election 2017: the clear winners are us
[2 comments] · 1082 words (munches about 5 mins)Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa. That’s me laughing at the cocksure Conservatives who have given the UK another hung parliament. Which is actually fantastic news.
Adam Smith faces investigation for feeding people
· 752 words (kills about 4 mins)Trading Standards have clearly nothing better to do than prop up our throwaway society. Commerce over common sense has to end.
Football violence is built into the game
· 1240 words (devours about 6 mins)Ask anyone for ten things they associate with football, and pretty high up on everyone’s list is the word ‘hooligan’. Turns out there’s a very good reason for this, and it’s not what you might think.
The changing face of broadcast TV
[1 comment] · 1167 words (vacuums up about 6 mins)The BBC are desperate. They need your money so badly, they’ve changed the way they impose their tax, regardless of how you consume TV. I don’t think they have the resources to do that.
Security without atoms
· 174 words (eats up less than a minute)Ambiguous signage is a pet love of mine. Saving a few bucks to print less is fine, unless the meaning can be misinterpreted.
Down with negative logic in programming
· 699 words (eats up about 4 mins)I’m on the warpath against any programmers that employ negative logic in their code. Desist from never supplying positive assertions. Right now.
Samsung / Kit-Kat battery drain weirdness
· 742 words (kills about 4 mins)Android is alright as far as operating systems go. It’s no iOS, but far more usable than Windows phone software. Unless it starts eating your battery.
