Facebook did a little thing this week which caused me some concern, as it showed that the people behind Facebook either don’t know or don’t care about how they get in touch with their user base. Facebook (unfortunately) plays a significant role in my life. I was press-ganged by a…
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November 29, 2014 at 11:15 am | Articles, Opinion Pieces, Portfolio and Work, Technology | No comment
Tags: Facebook, Facebook's terms and conditions are notoriously terrible, How not to treat users, UX design
Some weekends I get a little bit distracted with silly little projects. I’ve spent a good chunk of the last weekend on such an endeavour: the Authentic Silly French Accent Translator. Right about now you’re probably wondering why I would go to such ludicrous lengths to build an interface that…
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November 16, 2014 at 10:01 pm | Projects, Technology | 4 comments
Tags: 'Allo 'Allo, French, I have way too much time on my hands, Inspector Clouseau, Peter Sellers, silly accents, The Pink Panther, translator, writing
Last year I posited that, amongst all the terrible Engrish and awful crap that spambots generated, some of it was genuinely poetic. Since then I’ve noticed another trend from spambots – I’ve received emails and I’ve seen comments that look like they’ve been scraped completely out of context from a…
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October 4, 2014 at 12:00 pm | Spammers, Technology | No comment
Tags: creepypasta, spam, spambots
The following is completely opinion-based, has no factual basis and should be taken at face value for what it is – a biased diatribe against government control of the web. Oh dear. It’s time for another of those blog posts that’s topical and probably won’t have any relevance in a…
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July 23, 2013 at 10:36 pm | Opinion Pieces, Technology, Vaguely Topical | 2 comments
Tags: David Cameron is a lizard, incompetent goverments, pr0n, topical issues
When you run a WordPress-based blog (like this), you have to take measures to ensure that the people commenting are actually people. There are these clever programs that scamper about the web looking for WordPress sites to leave spam comments on. Then, once you’ve got those covered, you have to…
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January 24, 2013 at 8:38 pm | Spammers, Technology | 4 comments
Tags: poetry, search engine optimisation, spam, spambots
So I’ve lambasted Apple and stuck my nose up at the smuggery of the self-satisfied lifestyle that they promote, but I feel like maybe I’ve been unfair. Perhaps I’ve been overly biased, because very recently I saw something that made my blood boil and caused me to reach an epiphany….
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June 4, 2012 at 9:08 pm | Opinion Pieces, Technology, Video Games | 4 comments
Tags: Apple, Battlefield Heroes, digital download vs physical copy, DRM sucks, elitism, GAME, next gen, PC elitists, PC vs console, trolls
If you know me at all then you might be aware of my hangups over Apple products. There’s a vast misconception that I don’t like Apple hardware and software and that I’ve a personal embargo on the purchase of aforementioned products. Not at all! This is absurd for the following…
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May 7, 2012 at 6:56 pm | Opinion Pieces, Technology | 2 comments
Tags: advertisements, Apple, Apple bashing, elitism, fanboys, marketing
This was originally posted on deviantArt following an evening going through my list of people I follow on that particular site. I’ve just spent the best part of two hours cleaning out my Deviantwatch list, and its possibly one of the most bizarre mental experiences one can inflict on oneself….
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July 8, 2009 at 6:31 am | Real Life, Technology | No comment
Tags: deviantArt
This was originally posted on deviantArt after my PC’s motherboard had a climactic knife fight with the processor where both sides lost. This is the journal post I made after I got my repaired PC back from Roger the Almighty PC Repair Guy. I’m typing this on my own PC,…
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February 6, 2009 at 2:49 am | Real Life, Technology | No comment
Tags: odds and sods, PC repair
