MSN Toolbar are trying to drum up downloads with a competition (hey, this time it’s UK based). It’s investigative based, play a game and find out who kidnapped tha cat. You’re supposed to download the toolbar to play. No real problem I rarely use IE anyway. SO it gives me a toolbar search, popup blocker, […]
Flickr Login Broken
Flickr is slowly amalgamating itself into Yahoo and this weekend the IDs started merging. At this point you have a choice, but at some point in the future you won’t. So I combined them and now, annoyingly, you have to login every single time you go to Flickr instead of just using a cookie. Clicking […]
Flying Spaghetti Monster
FSM. FSM. FSM. FSM. Click and find out about its wonderful noodly goodness.
Six Feet Under
Dear 17674 American bloggers who have posted about the season finale of Six Feet Under. Stop – or at least mark your posts with big spoiler warning. Some of us who live in other countries haven’t seen it yet
22 Aug notes
From Engadget, a look back to 1985 and how the technology blog may have looked then as a BBS. I remember of lot of these; the Windows1.0 screenshot in particular struck home considering how much time I’ve spent starng at such screens. From Niall Kennedy, blogs as a communication tool. Blogs usualy – hopefully ;o) […]
Medical Hacking
Intersting BBC article about an Vietnamese doctor who built his own endoscope. The machines normally go for $30000, but he put the home-made version together for around $1000. After 2 years perfecting the device, he;s now making them for colleagues.
More flash sites
A couple of flash sites coulght my eye today. The first is from Gap. A dodgy idea poorly execited in this case. It comproses a virtual strip tease and the ‘model’, whom you have designed, removes their clothes. The file size is large enough to freeze my browser, the interface is clucky and the animation […]
Customer Feedback
Online feedback continues to be a way of responding to bad service from companies. Jeff Jarvis writes an open letter to Dell summarising his feeling todate. Meanwhile, Comcast gets slammed after one of its representatives forgot that certain fields in Customer databases get printed on correspondence; LaChania Govan got to find out what the call […]
London Flickr Meetup
One of the monthly London Flickr Meetups took place yesterday. The venue was Richmond, in particular Richmond Park. There were 8 people, which semes to be about average. The order of the day was pub, picnic, pub, with photos taken at many points along the way.
Massager
I followed one of the links through to Amazon’s Adult Toys and Games section (coy name for not so coy product section). In amongst the variably shaped pink and purple vibrators I came across this picture. My initial reaction was along the lines of WTF…how do you use this? A closer look at the caption […]
Reporter accuracy
I wonder if the reporter I’ve just seen on Channel 5 news has ever used a search engine. He was demonstrating Google, looking for flower shops. From his commentary, he apparently was expecting the results to be in alphabetical order and also appeared to be put out that there were paid results at the top […]
Roundup 20 Aug
Lots of fun to be had with Ultimate Flash Face. Mix and match your favourite facial features in a myriad of ways. Far better than Mr Potatoe Face. Via Paradox1x Virtual Life: a Chinese student has been arrested for carrying out muggings. In this case, all the muggings were virtual, in the game LineageII, but […]
BA Service
When I eventually got on a plane back from New York, the BA catering issue had not been resolved. Luckily, the lounge was serving breakfast, but there was to be no food on the plane. We got handed a pack as we boarded, containing cheese and biscuits, chocolate, a brownie and some pretzels. Although they […]
A levels
It’s that time of year again – the release of the A level results. The media continue to spin two messages: – the exams are getting easier, the grades are being inflated, the pass rate massaged – don’t worry if you fial, they;re only exams and there are plenty of things you can do. The […]
17 Aug Snippets
Been a bit busy over the last few days. The Gilry Geek Dinner yesterday was fun, Sarah did a great job of organising and has a round-up of the event. Today was interesting; most of it with no connectivity fromthe office due to a certain virus and then some noise on the job front that […]
Too hot
It’s been hot in the city today. Wandering around, slowly as there was no incentive to rush, I visited a street fair. It was called a UN fair, to celebration of difversity, but I guess it’s the same stalls that comeout every time for the large number of fairs this city has. For 10 blocks […]
Blogging and the Observer
The Observer have an ar ticle about bloggers from the emergency services. A mainly positive piece, there’s a little bit about how ‘dangerous’ blogging is with a reference to Jo Gordon’s sacking from Waterstone’s, but no reference to the fact he got another job pretty quickly, which included blogging. There’s a glaringly obvious error in […]
Advertising and Bias in BLogs.
Dave Taylor has an analysis of ‘professional’ blogging or the steps towards it. Whether we like it or not, we’re likely to display bias for or against a product based on past history and personal values. If a company is either paying or just providing a product to review, subconciously you are more likely to […]
Analysis of a Rumour
Mathew Hurst does a nice analysis of the path of the rumour associated with Technorati, tracking the spread and how it can change from rumour to a more definite statement.
13 Aug snippets
Interesting snippets. Delaware Supreme Court being asked to rule on identity disclosure of anonymous posters to a blog who allegedly defamed a local council man. Google have stopped copying books for 4 months until they can sort out copyright issues. I’m surprised they could even think about doing this without getting specific OKs from the […]