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 retweeting the decades old picture of that cat with the lime on its head using bit.ly links isn't Like-worthy — 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.
Apple variance
· 67 words (devours 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 (munches 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 (sucks 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 (wastes 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 (vacuums 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 (sucks up 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 (sucks up 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 (wastes less than a minute)Confirming the stupidity of Facebook users isn’t hard to achieve, it seems: they largely do it all by themselves.
