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 having a midlife crisis has me reaching for the Glock — 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.
Unexpected item in bagging area
[2 comments] · 466 words (sucks up about 3 mins)If I hear that phrase one more time I’m going to hunt down the person who invented self-service checkouts and put an unexpected item in their bagging area.
Toaster RIP
[4 comments] · 276 words (munches about 2 mins)The trials and tribulations of buying a replacement toaster in the gadget age.
BUI: Bad User Interface
· 1322 words (wastes about 6 mins)What do cars, supermarkets, the weather and software engineers have in common? Poor design.
Phone dance
· 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] · 779 words (kills 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
· 476 words (kills 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
· 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?
· 95 words (vacuums up less than a minute)Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Go away, I’m… washing my hair.
