wake up and smell the copy
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 [...]
Posted in technology, writing on Aug 18th, 2008
Word processor: job number one = display text clearly on screen. Word 2007: fail. Is that two spaces to the left of the dash, one to the right? One space left, no spaces right? In fact, it’s a space on each side: But of course. Is it me? Is it Calibri? Has anyone found a [...]
Posted in digression, technology on Aug 8th, 2008
Because that’ll work.
Posted in technology on Aug 7th, 2008
While writing Sunday’s post I remembered that the Nokia Suite lets you connect your phone and browse its text messages. At least in theory. Version 6.something of the Nokia Communication Centre seemed to hang once it had chalked up a couple of bars on the progress meter, so I’ve downloaded version 7.0.7.0 – didn’t the [...]
Posted in technology on Aug 3rd, 2008
Ah nuts. My mobile, which has been hanging on gamely since going on the fritz last October, looks to be finally shuffling off this mortal coil. It’s still working, but the screen isn’t, so I’ve no idea who’s calling me, or who’s texting me and about what. I was pondering this, and what a pain [...]
Posted in marketing, technology, writing on Jul 30th, 2008
Now look, I’ve been turning a blind eye to this but enough is enough. Copywriters everywhere, please pay attention. Iconic means relating to, or having the characteristics of an icon. An icon is something ‘that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it’. I think one can, perhaps, describe the [...]
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