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Blogging = Dogging
A nice wee story in The Register: apparently much of the population believes that blogging and dogging are the same thing. Which is ridiculous: one is blatant exhibitionism, and the other one is dogging. I thank you.
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Men, make-up and marketing
I’m always amused by the way in which firms sell things to men, particularly the cosmetics industry: for example, in the world of razors you have the Mach 3, the M3 POWER, the Mach 3 Turbo and the Wilkinson Sword Quattro. Strangely many of the terms used are from the motor industry: Quattro is the…
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Road safety
To say the roads round here are bad would be an understatement: some of the potholes are so deep they contain sharks and submarines. To make things more entertaining the council has started putting speed bumps on the roads, which means going to the shops is a bit like driving from the highlands of Scotland…
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How flops can be big hits
If you’re interested in movies, Tom Shone’s “Blockbuster” is fantastic. It looks at the evolution of the blockbuster from Jaws and Star Wars to today’s big-budget behemoths, and it also covers some of the high profile failures such as Godzilla and Pearl Harbor. One of the most interesting bits is the section on Godzilla which,…
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A brief summary of this month’s music mags to save you spending money on ’em
John Lennon: still dead.
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Christmas is coming a bit more quickly than I’d like
My local supermarket has put out its Christmas stock. On the one hand I’m appalled: it’s still September, for Christ’s sake! On the other hand… MINCE PIES!
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My ‘book is broke
The display on my Powerbook’s packed up. Why do these things always happen when you’re broke? Update, 28 Sept Oh dear. After much Googling it seems pretty obvious that the fault is an inverter board, but speaking to my local Apple Centre it’s much less straightforward than that. I have to drop the ‘book into…
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Razor madness!!!!
Just when you thought it wasn’t physically possible to put more blades on a razor, Gillette has done it. The forthcoming Fusion has not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE BLADES. Count ’em! Five blades! It’ll deliver a shave so close that if you’re not careful, you’ll saw off your own head.
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I need a holiday
I’m going to be away all of next week for a much-needed holiday. The plan is to do absolutely nothing for a week: no laptops, no cybercafes, no mobile phones. Hopefully it’ll recharge my mental batteries, because right now I’m *knackered*. See you in a bit…
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Predictive text for PCs?
A scots tech firm reckons it can cut your typing keystrokes by 80%. The technology is essentially a grown-up version of the predictive text you find in mobile phones. Interesting, particularly in terms of fighting RSI..