The so-called “blogosphere” pimps won’t like what Scott has to say about his experiences.
I hoped that people who loved the blog would spill over to people who read Dilbert, and make my flagship product stronger. Instead, I found that if I wrote nine highly popular posts, and one that a reader disagreed with, the reaction was inevitably “I can never read Dilbert again because of what you wrote in that one post.†Every blog post reduced my income, even if 90% of the readers loved it. And a startling number of readers couldn’t tell when I was serious or kidding, so most of the negative reactions were based on misperceptions.
This can’t wait until Monday. I order you to vote no in this Jalopnik poll immediately!
The Register: The Irish legal system has deployed the ultimate weapon in the war against inadvertent loss of confidential data – a foolproof system of outside contractors coupled to shredders which ensures that no potentially sensitive information is ever read by anyone.
In a successful test run of the new scheme last week, all of the mail delivered to Dublin’s Four Courts on Tuesday was destroyed without being opened. The Courts Service later attributed the trashing to “an outside contractor [who] mistakenly added two bags of mail to bags of documents for shredding”.
The service is now rather marvellously “asking people who may have sent post to the Four Courts in the past few days to find out whether it was received or not”, as RTÉ explains.
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Oddly fascinating, mildly disturbing, and horribly wasteful. I want a chocolate bunny now. Although I’ll settle for a Wispa.
Cork Internet eXchange is holding an open day next Thursday the 21st at 10am, do pop in if you’re around. It’ll be the last chance to see the underlying mechanics of the DC, as we’ll be covering up all the ducts and activating the security systems shortly afterwards. Worth the trip if only to hear the CRAHs spinning up, they sound like bloody jet engines! :)
Alberto Gonzales heckled at University of Florida.
University of California, Santa Barbara interrupting a CIA recruitment meeting.
Anal something anyway. The ten most popular pages on Conservapedia are…
(Via Graham, who most disappointingly has disabled comments on his blog. Not the done thing old chap, jolly poor form.)
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