May 2009
25 posts
1 tag
Usability: Reply/Reply All buttons should be...
Recently, I had to apologise because I had inadvertantly sent an email reply to more people than I had intended to. I had inadvertantly hit “Reply to All” instead of “Reply” - a mistake that many, many people have made from time to time. No doubt it has sometimes caused an awful lot of grief, too!
In response to my apology, my correspondant said “these things happen...
“It is better to have peed and stoped, than never to have peed at all.”
– Toilet philosophy by me this morning while we were in a big hurry :-)
Top 10 Reasons to Love Viruses | Top 10 Lists |... →
The Grim Reaper Goes Shopping
(I am stocking our stationary section, and a customer walks up to me.)
Customer: “Do you sell condolence cards?”
Me: “No. Perhaps try Target or Walmart?”
Customer: “I’m looking for them in bulk.”
(from Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes)
Tumbularity
lonelysandwich:
As a matter of principle, I fear and thus despise the new and the different. That said, notes on tumblr’s new feature, Tumblarity.
1. The design is really neat. Keep it up, tumblr designers!
2. The Tumbluality score in my Dashboard reminds me of my mortality. Stop that. Let me hide that rapidly decaying metric or I swear to Christ I’ll never visit my Dashboard again. Consider...
cabel.name: Canon SD960: Great Pictures, Great... →
Hmm - unless something better comes along in the meantime, the next time I buy a camera, it may well be one of these.
Schoolkids go tech-free for a week →
e.g. “Without her headphones, Flor Salvador heard strange chirping sounds. “I didn’t know we had birds!” she wrote in her journal.”
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg... →
A number of the local signs incorrectly said “Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaoggagoggchaubunaguhgamaugg”.
… meanwhile, to me, here in New Zealand the high-profile debate about the spelling of w-h-anganui suddenly pales in comparason.
4 tags
Four Things Not To Do To Your Kids →
April 2009
60 posts
WatchPlaying For Change | Song Around The World “Stand By Me” on Vimeo <— click there to read about it :-)
@gruber sneezed!
See?
To me, this completely unironic update epitomises the aspect of Twitter that I find hardest to comprehend.
Could be worse, I guess.
(Note: In fairness, this is of course at a time when Swine Flu is in the forefront of many people’s minds, so i imagine that’s what makes a sneeze twitter worthy.)
Complete List of things I have achieved today:
Breathed, both in and out, about 26148 times.
Decided to create this blog post.
Breathed, both in and out, about 6 more times.
