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 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'm too good to be tweeting.
Have the bad old days of SEO gone?
· 854 words (devours about 4 mins)Manipulation of search engine rankings leapfrogs between search aggregators and designers. Have we learnt anything in 20 years? It appears not.
Phacking gibberish
· 151 words (eats up less than a minute)When is a hack not a hack? When the media decides how to name it.
MicroSkype
· 72 words (laps up less than a minute)Hands up if you want your encrypted voice communications to go through Microsoft Exchange. Thought not.
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[1 comment] · 61 words (kills less than a minute)What has become of calculator art in the Internet age? Is there a place for it any more?
Email without wires
· 41 words (sucks up less than a minute)Either someone’s playing games with our minds, or this is a neat trick that defies electrons.
Ill fitting toast
[1 comment] · 244 words (eats up about 2 mins)Manufacturers of toasters take heed: would it hurt to do a little more research before releasing your products?
Why I love Textpattern
[9 comments] · 518 words (sucks up about 3 mins)Want to choose an open source CMS for your website? Know HTML and CSS? Like designing and doing things differently to the one-click crowd? Try Textpattern.
Snow smarts
[4 comments] · 905 words (vacuums up about 5 mins)An automatic car is a nightmare in the snow. An automatic car that thinks it knows best is worse still. Remind me again why I took the smart car out.
