The Obvious?

Keeping things in perspective

When I learned, via twitter, of the car bomb that didn't go off in London last night my first thought was "oh well".

When I heard of the Glasgow car attack my first thought was "If I'd been them I'd have checked with a tape measure the night before"

When I watch the television I am being told that "Britain is under attack" and my first thought is how sad journalists are these days.

iPhone Stress Tests

I couldn't watch

Maybe not.

The marketing person from Toshiba who offered me, as a "prominent blogger", a trial of a Toshiba laptop has obviously never read my blog.

I wonder if they come with free rubber gloves .....

Business Twitter

Paolo wants his own Twitter server - I reckon he is right.

iPhone keyboard even better than a real one?

I have just been watching a video of the new iPhone's keyboard functions. It has a really neat capability to recgnize which area of the keyboard you have been typing in, compare what you have typed with a known word which uses nearby keys, and allows you to easily select that instead.

As one of the most common reasons that I have to use the backspace on ANY keyboard is typing letters next to the ones I meant to press I really want this capability on ALL Mac keyboards.

Public service notice

So when Typepad gives me the option of turning off CAPTCHA they are bluffing. Whether I have the option enabled or not commenters on this blog, including myself, have to fill in those fuzzy letter thingies. I appreciate the efforts Six Apart put in to protecting blogs from spam but I'd rather decide about how annoying I am to my readers myself!

Soflow

Another grumpy post about social networking sites.

So I get an e-mail from Soflow telling me someone wants to connect. No link to the message or their page just one to my own space on Soflow. No message in my inbox from the person so I search for their name and write a message in the form Soflow pops up. Only after typing the bloody thing does it tell me that to message people not in my network I need to upgrade!

This is why I don't use Soflow.

Plaxo

I almost tried the new version of Plaxo but it has been so annoying for so long that I couldn't bring myself to do it.

A great incentive to be interesting!

More than 60 per cent of business executives think about sex while listening to boring presentations.

The thought will either put you off or make you try really, really hard!

Powerpointless musings i) Always check your audience’s body language…

Sign of things to come

I will not go out of my way to listen to a programme which tries to make it inconvenient for me to listen to it - there are plenty of other programmes produced by both the public and private sector as well as plucky individuals which see the benefit in podcast distribution. There’s a whole universe of things which I can get delivered by RSS directly to my podcatcher. I haven’t got the time or energy to bother going to the things which are made intentionally difficult to listen to. If everything you could possibly want is only one click away, why would you want to bother with things that are two clicks away?

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