Getting yourselves an Twitter account and then blindly following everyone you can find is not a way of generating more traffic for your Squidoo lens.
Rather, it is a way of generating anger and hatred from normally-happy and mild-mannered Twitter users who will, as a result of your stupid spammery behaviour, then go out of their [...]
I don’t do a lot of presentations. In fact, I don’t like presentations very much. I’ve been subjected to too many boring ones in my time, and have been guilty of delivering boring ones too.
But tomorrow I’m doing a talk in front of 50 or 60 media professionals at a conference in Bath, and [...]
ME: Hello?
NORMAN: Hello is that Mr Turnbull?
ME: Yes.
NORMAN: And are you the only Mr Giles Turnbull at that address?
ME: Yes.
NORMAL: I’m calling today to tell you that as one of our most valued and loyal customers, you’ve been pre-selected for our amazing new credit card—
ME: I don’t want it.
NORMAN: You don’t want the card… may [...]
I have a Mac mini. I want to run it “headless”, and manage it over the network using Screen Sharing. It runs Leopard just fine. But there’s one minor problem that brings the whole plan crashing down around my ears, and having spent two whole evenings trying to fix it, I’m flummoxed.
The idea, you see, [...]
SAVE JODRELL BANK RADIO TELESCOPE
Not that signing these petitions seems to have any effect on government policy. If we really want to save the telescope, we’ll probably have to all go and sit inside it. For a week.
As usual, I woke my computer up as I prepared breakfast. My habit is to glance down the list of new emails that have arrived overnight, just on the off chance that something important has cropped up that needs my urgent attention. Nothing ever has, but the habit remains.
On Thursday morning, no email was to [...]
I’m a bit bothered about the idea of Matter boxes.
What are they? They’re “a new and unique idea in communications that brings companies and people together around real, physical stuff–things you can hold in your hands, keep in your drawer, or give to your friends”, but that just sounds to me like marketing, or promotion, [...]
This comment, on a post by Charles Arthur, sums up the most frustrating thing about working in a newsroom:
Once a story has run in one mainstream outlet, it’s put up to conference *before* it’s given to a writer to check. Once it’s been sold to conference, the news desk can’t nix it without looking silly, [...]
There’s a cycle path from Bath to Bristol, loved by many in this area. It’s great for commuters, it’s great for families on a Sunday afternoon’s outing, and it’s great for anyone wanting some fresh air by bike or on foot.
Now some foon wants to build a bus route on it.
The stupidity of this idea [...]
Stevenote absorbed, specs examined, and prices boggled at, and I’m thinking that a MacBook Air is not likely to be on my shopping list in the near future.
I don’t deny it looks wonderful, and I applaud Apple for having the courage to ditch the optical drive - something I’ve been hoping they’d do for years. [...]
