Two things arrived in the post today, on the same day. (incidentally, one via FedEx, which was great, and one via UPS, which was dire – and gave my package to a stranger even though I was in the building WAITING for them to arrive). Here they are, side by […]
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I never imagined I’d reach anything even close to 10k rep. Lots of thoughts and some analysis to come on this in a future post – but I’ve got two deadlines coming up, so very rushed right now.
(from 1982. Blogged now because … the named individual who apparently came up with this scam) http://imgur.com/a/P9kFa (for those that haven’t been following: four years after Langdell tried to bully an award-winning iPhone game into giving him their money, using his invalid trademark to threaten legal action … the USPTO […]
Visual spectral diagram showing the noises modems make, and box-outs for what they’re actually saying: …and Transcription for txtrs Modem A: hey babe, you dtmf? Modem B: u know it Modem A: what u up 4 2nite? wanna v.8? Modem B: i wanna ack u like my daddy net2phone use […]
Here’s the magic URL, that you can’t access directly from the site: http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/bookflightsandmore/bookflights/callme.jsp Huh? In 5+ years of flying with Virgin, their online booking system has always, every single time, failed – and redirected me to a page where I get that link to get THEM to phone ME. (which […]
Why does the login URL for internet banking: http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/marketing/businessinternetbanking …redirect to the newsletter for global investors: https://investments.hsbc.co.uk/article/world-selection-newsletter ? Do you *want* people to think your website has been hacked? Or do you just not know what a cool URI is? I think your VP Marketing / Marketing Director needs a […]
“Commander of the third reich, and a little known fact: Also dope on the mic!” EDIT: in case you missed it: “… of the people … by the people … for the people … EAGLE!”
As a developer, I’ve been using iPhone’s since they first came out. I have to test my apps on every version! iOS 6 is the first version of iOS “post Steve Jobs”. But it’s terrible – it seems to be a 2nd-rate product rushed out by a small team of […]
Screenshot taken straight from the official blog post: You see, they wanted to add a feature where you could “watch” a repository. Only … due to some weak design (or perhaps: technology-led) decisions in the past, they already had a feature with this name, which didn’t really do what it […]
So far this week, from Unity3d, I’ve received: A “personal” email asking me to respond if I want to know more about Unity4. When I replied, I got an auto-responder saying “I’m away for two weeks and will not be responding to email”; which reminded me this account manager had […]
StackOverflow.com now blocks anyone running Firefox 3.x (probably not deliberate – just someone wrote some bad code and didn’t test it?). But it’s interesting that sites that decide to go anti-HTML and pro-AJAX/JS can so easily break their whole site, just from some errant JS code. (it appears to be […]
To anyone in the games industry, this should be a cause for weeping and decrying the Godless universe: http://www.thechaosengine.com/forum/ (I’m guessing it’s just Network Solutions being typically crap and screwing-up the domain renewal)
…but they decided that only people with a Credit Card registered in USA or Canda are allowed to use it (even though it’s free). So. I’m going to repay that smack-in-the-face by not linking to it, nor naming it. Autodesk marketing: #FAIL.
One of the peculiar distinctions of Jack Vance’s writing is that he vomits obscure words onto the page as if he’d just eaten a dictionary that severely disagreed with him. Sometimes he seems to be parodying his characters – but other times he happily does it for himself. To be […]
I feel sorry for Toshiba; they make good products, but their marketing seems to belong to a much smaller, poorer company. Take this advert, from April 2012, when Apple is already far along with shifting their whole laptop lineup to “ultra thin” MacBook airs (rumour suggests the non-thin models will […]
Third Reich vs. Game of Thrones … one of the best Downfall mashups I’ve seen (particularly like the timing on “Headless”) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=1kLSYTHQbm4&NR=1
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=1&url=google.com (see what I did there? topical music + animated gif combo!)
Finally, I worked out how to type pinyin on a mac, using only the keyboard. Nǐ hǎo! Only, GoogleTranslate acts like a prick, and pretends it has no idea what you’re saying. This, Google, is just silly: (for comparison, I tested – if you hit the “switch” button, and type […]