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 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. 'Coz propah spelling is so last century.
Amazon reviews of note
[2 comments] · 258 words (sucks up about 2 mins)Hands up anyone who’s ever read a product review on Amazon? Ever written one? You really should flex those literary muscles and join the ranks of people with too much time on their hands.
Teen music fans get a bad name
· 67 words (eats up less than a minute)If you had the job of marketing and promoting a teen rock festival, what would you call it?
Lost in translation
· 31 words (vacuums up less than a minute)When translating sites from foreign languages to English, always be aware of the potential pitfalls of using the wrong word.
Google+ vs Facebook: take your bets
[2 comments] · 733 words (kills about 4 mins)Google’s latest social networking buzzword is here. Is this divide and conquer or fade and die?
Suckipedia
[5 comments] · 882 words (eats up about 4 mins)Type in almost anything into a search engine and, aside from porn, Wikipedia will feature fairly prominently in the results as representing facts on that topic. Is that really a good thing?
Craptcha
[5 comments] · 505 words (devours about 3 mins)CAPTCHA allegedly stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. What it actually stands for is “Chuffing Awful Process That Completely Humiliates Anyone”.
Facebook set theory
· 201 words (laps up less than a minute)The privacy settings in Facebook really are pretty confusing and they’re not helped much by nebulous terminology.
A personal appeal to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
· 45 words (eats up less than a minute)Fed up with the Wikipedia banner advert that refuses to die no matter how many times you click ‘x’? Me too.
