wake up and smell the copy
Posted in digression, marketing, technology on Feb 12th, 2010
Having my weekly rant this morning, I remembered something trivial that annoys the shit out of me, and thought I’d share the love. See, now, I hate adverts generally, and I reserve a special bile for ones in which two of my favourite TV people prostitute themselves at the altar of car insurance, but there’s [...]
Posted in technology on Jan 6th, 2009
Linkanalyst sent this particular slice of Onion genius around today: In fact, the Macbook Wheel reminded me of this year’s Royal Institute Christmas Lectures (a fine institution that has been steadily slipping down the channels over the years, and which now resides on Five, alas). The last lecture dealt with the challenge faced by computers [...]
Posted in technology on Dec 28th, 2008
Right, listen up. I’m digging Hicks out of the cold earth and we’re going to work on some advertisers. Why? Reason the first is that I’ve met a couple, and at least one of them is without merit as a human being. But the second reason – and the point of this rant – is [...]
Posted in internet, technology on Sep 23rd, 2008
You know how, once you get familiarised with something, it’s hard to spot that it’s stupid? Well, every now and then you get a flash of perspective. Earlier my brother sent me a link to a Times Online story. As sometimes happens in email, the link got broken across two lines. In this case just [...]
Posted in digression, technology on Sep 8th, 2008
Unless you’ve been beyond the event horizon of late, you’ll know that on Wednesday this week the Swiss will be flicking the on switch on the Large Hadron Collider, with a small chance that they’ll precipitate the formation of a black hole that will snuff us all out of existence. I’m optimistic. I read a [...]
Posted in technology, work, writing on Sep 3rd, 2008
I’m hereby submitting a new support incident to every single helpdesk in the UK, asking that you each please make your monkeys set up computers for the correct country.
Posted in digression, technology on Aug 28th, 2008
OK, more customer service-related whinging. I have a BT landline so I can get broadband, which doesn’t come from BT. The line’s intermittently noisy. Sometimes it’s unusable. When it’s bad, the broadband’s slow, when it’s not bad the broadband flies. When it’s bad, it’s almost cured by disconnecting the broadband modem. Almost, but not quite. [...]
Posted in journalism, technology on Aug 27th, 2008
Every now and then on the internet you come across some boring old bastard with an axe to grind about some company that’s pissed them off lately. This is that bastard, Orange is that company, here’s my axe: My mobile’s fucked*. I bought it from Orange, a customer of whose I’ve been since 1996 – [...]
Posted in internet, online journalism, technology on Aug 20th, 2008
It’s embedded YouTube videos and embraced social bookmarking, but in one particular area BBC News Online has always remained a little old fashioned: related links have remained fenced in the right-hand navigation pane. Earlier, DanG spotted that the Beeb is trialling bringing links in from the cold; placing them in the body copy where they [...]
Posted in blog, technology on Aug 20th, 2008
Oops. A week or so ago I finally remembered to delete the original Hackbash, hosted on WordPress.com Are you sure you want to permanently delete this blog? it asked. Yes, I duly confirmed. I’ve just discovered that exporting the blog to our self-hosted WordPress install at the beginning of January didn’t bring 2007′s image uploads [...]
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