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Sky Handling Partners Gay?

20/06/2007

Heading to Glasto in about six hours so I don’t have time to comment Damien, but hopefully a link will help a little bit. Good luck giving it back to them up the arse. :)

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19/06/2007

Is a complete, grammatically correct sentence according to Wikipedia. To buffalo means to bully, confuse, deceive or intimidate apparently, in addition to the two meanings you were probably already aware of. So the sentence is roughly equivalent to:

Bison from upstate New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.

Poor buffalo!

Google AdSense Optimisation Muppetry

18/06/2007

Google offered to optimise one of my sites a few days ago, for the second time. The first time my revenues took a dive so I was naturally sceptical, but they’re sinking all by themselves now anyway, so I said I’d give it a shot. The attached is a screenshot of the very first suggestion in their optimisation list. I haven’t included a thumbnail because you really need to see the full size image to appreciate the sheer stupidity of it. I can only imagine what my users would think or do if I tried to implement this idiocy.

I despair of what Google is becoming, I really do. In the past month I’ve had to threaten them with the Data Protection Act several times over multiple implicit refusals to delete an AdWords account; I’ve had a very frustrating conversation with them over a leak of someone else’s private data to my email account, that demonstrates carelessness and ignorance about privacy; and now they throw this shit at me. I’m thinking maybe it’s time to start dumping Gmail, Calendar, etc. They’re hardly leading the field in anything but search anymore anyway.

The New Bruce Lee

18/06/2007

Cute baby stuff is almost as bad as cute animal stuff*, but there are always exceptions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdJjgau5vk

Thanks osarusan.

* Are you listening b3ta? Enough with the cute crap already.

Beer

15/06/2007

If you’re around in three hours, drop into Tom Barrys for a pint. Or if you won’t be finished work until later, drop me a line to find out where I am.

Do I file this under Entertainment, Business, Art? Education? :)

Don’t sign Avaaz.org petitions

14/06/2007

[NOTE FOR THOSE LACKING CLUE: Comments are closed on this post for a reason. Commenting on other posts about it is moronic and futile. Fuck off.]

Not if you value your email address, that is. I’ve signed quite a few of them on prompting from Sista, but recently I’ve started received spam on the unique email address I set up to subscribe. I reported it to Avaaz and received an assurance that they don’t sell or share their list, but that they’ve received reports and are investigating. I asked them to follow up, they didn’t. Obviously their security has been breached.

Move Over

12/06/2007

Want Want Want! Only for right-hand drive, obviously!

Blogopho.be

12/06/2007

Just a quick note to thank Frankp for the header image on the new WordPress skin here. This is a temporary skin and domain before I settle on a permanent one next month, and come out of the closet as a bl… before I finally admit that what I do here is actually bl…

Sorry, I just vomited a little. I’ll be alright later.

Where did the rock go Marcus?

11/06/2007

It’s the hand-gesture at the end that makes it. Just in case the description wasn’t 100% clear.

IBM 704