Centric Events are repeat spammers
Like most people I get a bit of spam in my email, even after GMail’s mostly-excellent filter has done its work. Most of these are at least polite enough to have an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom, and...
View ArticleMy new bat-plan
My bat-sons and I are very fond of the 1966 bat-film Batman: the Movie (though my bat-wife is not so keen). One of the distinctive bat-features of this bat-film is of course Batman’s tendency to...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to Twitter
I’ve been on Twitter for a couple of years now, first as @SauropodMike and more recently as @MikeTaylor. I have to admit, it’s hugely surpassed my expectations. I thought it was a medium for the...
View Article… Or maybe they’re doing web-site registration completely right
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that DeviantArt are getting web-site registration completely wrong by asking for the email address (which you can see as you type it) to be repeated, but not requiring...
View ArticleSit the heck down, and watch the darned rugby!
Yesterday afternoon I went to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, to watch a Rugby World Cup match, Pool A, Australia vs. Fiji. Here is what I saw: Constantly. People getting up, wandering along the...
View ArticleThe concept of “victim blaming” is not helping
A few days ago, THINK! — a confusingly named education group at the UK Government’s Department for Transport — published this 46-second-long video aimed at cyclists: Its message is — to quote the...
View ArticleMajor releases are disasters, and should be avoided whenever possible
If you use semantic versioning in your project — and you should — then you fix bugs in patch releases (e.g. going from v2.4.6 to v2.4.7), and add new features in minor releases (e.g. from v2.4.6 to...
View ArticleWhat Skyrim taught me about wealth
A few years ago, I got into playing Skyrim on our XBox 360. There are many wonderful things about Skyrim, including its immersive sense of place, its vast and varying geography, its brooding landscapes...
View ArticleKeep Calm but Don’t Carry On
I’m fond of the old WWII slogan Keep Calm and Carry On. It’s not just that it captures something appealingly British (yes, there are still appealing aspects to the stereotypically British character),...
View ArticleLet’s be clear. To be honest. Putting it simply
When writing, or indeed speaking, do not begin sentences with any of these phrases. “Let’s be clear” admits that, up to this point, you have been obscure. “To be honest” implies that you’ve been lying...
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