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 writing #incomprehensible #twaddle u n me l8r lol @knickerlicker makes me long for a 'Shut up' button — 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. 'Coz propah spelling is so last century.
Apple variance
· 67 words (sucks up less than a minute)Are there twin divisions in Apple Corp codenamed Schwarzenegger and DeVito? Certainly appears that way.
The premium rate merry-go-round
· 270 words (eats up about 2 mins)The lengths that companies will go in order to try and secure some extra revenue via their non-geographic phone lines.
MicroSkype
· 72 words (eats up less than a minute)Hands up if you want your encrypted voice communications to go through Microsoft Exchange. Thought not.
Consult the Oracle
· 67 words (vacuums up less than a minute)Database giant Oracle seem to like trumpeting their own greatness. But it appears they don’t know the meaning of certain words in the English language.
Electric youth
· 306 words (eats up about 2 mins)Remember the everlasting match? Invented in the 1970s if I recall correctly. Have you got one? Didn’t think so, because the invention was silenced and bought by the match makers of the time to protect their business model. Same with electric cars, it seems.
Royal Automobile Cockmunchers
[2 comments] · 103 words (devours less than a minute)If you’re approached on the street by someone trying to sell you something and you decline, do you expect backchat?
Degrees of Catholicism
· 414 words (munches about 2 mins)Roll up, roll up. Is your religion not going in the direction you want? Join ours instead. We’re the true believers, after all.
NSPCCbook
· 219 words (sucks up less than a minute)Confirming the stupidity of Facebook users isn’t hard to achieve, it seems: they largely do it all by themselves.