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Newspapers - Who's At Fault?
This morning has seen some rambling debates (some might say 'arguments') on Twitter, regarding the current phone-hacking maelstrom. After filling up my poor friends' timelines, it seemed right to move here, to where I can try and explain my views in a few more than 140 characters ( Read more... ) -
Revisiting Old Friends
Ok, so I haven't touched this blog for close on a year now - blame Twitter; I can mini-vent there and never have anything longer to say any more ( Read more... ) -
New Year, New Rant
I'm very aware that this blog gets virtually nothing posted to it these days. It's not because I'm less ranty, but more because a lot of my rants are (a) fleeting, and (b) fit in about 140 characters. Twitter killed the LJ star, and all that ( Read more... ) -
Missing the Point
I am aware that these days all I seem to do is poke fun at bad spam, but this amused me greatly this morning ( Read more... ) -
British Gas - Get A Clue!!
To be fair, this is an issue with all energy companies (although to be honest, I haven't really noticed those nice people at Good Energy doing it...) but British Gas were the ones foolish enough to send me my new bill today, so ( Read more... ) -
Why Can't We Have REAL Coders?
I have the dubious pleasure of acting as more and more of the "Consultant" it says on my job description these days. Due to policies at a certain client, actual software development is all supposed to take place elsewhere, with the cheapest developers money can buy, rather than getting people who know what they're doing to do the job in a fifth of ( Read more... ) -
I Love Spotify, But...
But sometimes it does some Strange Things ( Read more... ) -
Oh Joy
Loudtwitter is back. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted... -
For a change... a rave!
Well, you've had to put up with various rants and I'm aware that a lot of them have been directed at Demon. So, by way of penance, I give you a first for this blog - an anti-rant ( Read more... ) -
Bad Spam
Just received some spam offering me design services, to mamtaskitchen. I'm choosing to ignore the clear implication that they don't think any design went into the website, but I was amused by the line:
If you already work with a designer, why request a quote to see how much you could save through one of our agencies.
Why indeed?