Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter et al diluted the realtime pool.
Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people pretending they are the centre of the universe reduces my vocabulary to four letter words — 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. Txt spk iz da bom.
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.
Virus protection no no no no no
· 1483 words (vacuums up about 7 mins)How effective is your virus/malware/rootkit protection? Do you think the software’s doing its job properly? I think otherwise.
The acquisition scam
· 676 words (kills about 4 mins)Buy, buy, sell, buy, sell. The scramble for your customer data is as hot as ever, but it comes with a price tag that need recouping.
Wears the keys
· 476 words (vacuums 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.
Insult my loft
· 373 words (sucks up about 2 mins)You’d have thought that unsolicited callers would have given up calling us by now. The number of times I’ve bought anything or given any detailed info about us is zero. But still they persist.
Smoky and the binned it
· 181 words (munches less than a minute)Light. Drag. Chuck: The three-point programme of the smoker when out and about.
All the 1s
· 134 words (laps up less than a minute)When is a date not a date? When you find a computer science nerd to mis-represent it.
The bank security myth
· 411 words (munches about 2 mins)Don’t get me started on the “security” offered by systems like RBS Secure when buying things online. Can anyone spell snake oil?
Where have encyclopedia salespeople gone?
· 95 words (devours less than a minute)Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Go away, I’m… washing my hair.
