Google+=giveusallyourdata
I thought it was generally understood that lifespan on the web is pretty transitory. Yes, there are a few stayers such as delicious, flickr, twitter, facebook, etc. But as myspace proved, there are no guarantees. What people seem to struggle to relinquish is the pointless quest to find the one web service that will do [...]
Sherlock and Einstein on linkedin …
Its nice to see Albert finally made it onto linkedin … check the screenshot – my latest Linkedin recommendations list – comes under heading of WTF Nice to see a site as serious as linkedin, has a sense of humour! Well, I assume it was linkedin …
“Fast” food
There is this scene in Fawlty Towers in “The Hotel Inspectors” episode, which epitomizes what I see in terms of current english service in takeaway food places. In the scene, Manuel comes into the dinning room with a load of napkins. He then puts the pile down then, then proceeds to take one to a [...]
Oh the sad pettiness of website owners …
Oh the sad pettiness of website owners who get a bad review – are you teenagers? Maybe you should just blub in your pillow about that awful man who slated your service in his grumpy-old-man blog. Using email attacks is a very common method, but any half-decent spam program will deal with this crap. Re-invent the [...]
You tube 500 error
500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, show them this information:
Tell me what to think, I am too stupid
Sign or fine – the modern British way to deal with problems. A large amount of council investment is in signs, which they believe is the best way to address modern problems such as anti-social behaviour, smoking, littering, what the green man on pedestrian crossing actually denotes, etc. Now in London we have CCTV cars [...]
