Mar 4

Procedures Like Cretiny

This was going to be a rant about Thus PLC’s online billing system, but I got a bit off track.
There are two types of bad customer service in Britain. I will call them Ltd Company style, and PLC style.
Ltd Company Style is where you get through to someone who may or may not be an [...]


Jan 5

Ultimate Shite-on Cloud

Well, it must have been the solar winds or something, but my plans to take a significant amount of leave at Christmas and make something of it (i.e. spend it making a big dent in the — now 1 year old — bathroom job) fell apart.  Certainly would repeat the taking leave part of the [...]


Oct 28

Worsterer, but not a GUI problem, per se.

The thing is, if it KNOWS how to do it, why doesn’t it just do it that way?


Oct 16

Pity The Sentence

Please, people, show mercy when rendering sentences. Each is a newborn—formed and nurtured at your fingertips. Each is completely at your mercy. Sentences don’t deserve the treatment they have been receiving on the internet. Take this opener from the Cambridge UAV project:
CAUV stands for Cambridge Autonomus Underwater Vehicle, it is a student developed autonomous submarine, [...]


Sep 29

Downhill from here.

My recycling box from the council is made of plastic. So is the spare one I found knocking around the garden one day. In 1978 we had a dustbin made of tin. In 2008 I have two wheeliebins made of plastic.
The “benefits” of plastic include “extreme durability”.  Is extreme durability a benefit [...]


Sep 15

Sideways like a led balloon

The past tense of “to lead” is “led”, not “lead”.
I led a horse to water, but I couldn’t make it drink.
Lead baloons go down because they are made of lead. A led balloon will go wherever you lead it.
Now the wrong spelling of “to lose” is loose, I regard that as lost, [...]


Sep 1

1 in 10

If a man faces a firing squad of ten men, and nine of them refuse the order to shoot him, does he survive?
Go ahead and

Recycle your plastic bags
Avoid excessive wake on the rivers
Drive under 56mph
Go LPG
Give up your car
Buy fair trade coffee and cocoa
Buy an A-rated washing machine
Don’t build that [...]


Jul 10

Act of Faith



Jul 9

Grmbl

So right now my Bro is in Japan climbing mount Fuji, my Mum is in Canada going to rodeos and being left breathless by mountains and forests and lakes, and I’m… uh… planning a weekend in the Norfolk Broads in a few weeks’ time. Grmbl.
Still, at least last year I managed to get a [...]


Jun 13

Missionstatementese

Missionstatementese is an extensible, informal, human-readable, intuitive tool for the ????????formulation, expression, and recording of generic or specific thoughts, slogans, statements, predicates and other syntactic and semantic constructs having the properties of generality, sublimity, verbosity and bullshit.


 

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