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Okay so technically TV because by now I’ve watched all the films I wanted to on the various One World flights around the word. Qantas though are promoting Australian home grown TV which is awesome and Barracuda had me waiting for my next flight so I could watch the next epsiode.
Best line from a DJ on radio ever!
“Before Grindr and scruff people used to meet in clubs listening to music like this.”
Still crying. That is all.
Well actually I love Microsoft Speech Technology. It doesn’t bode well for Cortana. This voicemail preview message bears no relation to the actual voicemail. None. Not even the phone number is correct.
From: 1555481000
Subject: Voice Mail from 1555481000 (25 seconds)
Date: 20 October 2014 20:38:31 BST
To: “Croll, Iain” <—-.——@—–.—>
Voice Mail Preview:
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Thanks have a great day.
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I love a good panto and when I say panto I mean men in dresses and more innuendos and willy gags than you can shake a stick at along with a tiny bit of male nudity if you sit in the right place. Spoiler Alert: Jack (Chris Clynes) gets his kit off!
So the annual Above the Stag Theatre (now in their new venue at Vauxhall) is a must attend fixture in the festive calendar.
Jack is not for the easily offended or if you sit in the front row, the easily embarrassed. Political correctness doesn’t exist in panto land so be ready to chuckle at gags that make popbitch look tame.
Oh and this year you get to scratch and sniff your way through the evening of filth with the wonder of “odour-drama” which includes sniffing Cillian’s pants (played by Joseph Miller). You really can smell the action!
Far too many one-liners to pick a favourite but with gags including topical Tom Daley jokes and a cameo from Sue Pollard this is a must see and is on until January 10th at http://www.abovethestag.com
Supermarket group Tesco has bought the restaurant chain Giraffe for £48.6m.
The move will see the supermarket open Giraffe branches near to Tesco stores as it seeks to create “retail destinations” for customers.
Tesco will hope that the acquisition will help revitalise its UK business.
via BBC News – Tesco buys Giraffe restaurants.
This is genius! I wonder how many people at my office are doing the same as a lot of their days seem to consist of the same ‘work days’.
After getting permission to study Bob’s computer habits, Verizon investigators found that he had hired a software consultancy in Shenyang to do his programming work for him, and had FedExed them his two-factor authentication token so they could log into his account. He was paying them a fifth of his six-figure salary to do the work and spent the rest of his time on other activities.
The analysis of his workstation found hundreds of PDF invoices from the Chinese contractors and determined that Bob’s typical work day consisted of:
9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos
11:30 a.m. – Take lunch
1:00 p.m. – Ebay time
2:00-ish p.m – Facebook updates, LinkedIn
4:30 p.m. – End-of-day update e-mail to management
5:00 p.m. – Go home
via Security audit finds dev OUTSOURCED his JOB to China to goof off at work • The Register.
Really interesting article afrom Anil Dash about how the web has changed, a few points I like are his views on single-sign-on – In 2003, if you introduced a single-sign-in service that was run by a company, even if you documented the protocol and encouraged others to clone the service, you’d be described as introducing a tracking system worthy of the PATRIOT act. There was such distrust of consistent authentication services that even Microsoft had to give up on their attempts to create such a sign-in. Though their user experience was not as simple as today’s ubiquitous ability to sign in with Facebook or Twitter, the TypeKey service introduced then had much more restrictive terms of service about sharing data. And almost every system which provided identity to users allowed for pseudonyms, respecting the need that people have to not always use their legal names.
Also his view on personal websites – In the early days of the social web, there was a broad expectation that regular people might own their own identities by having their own websites, instead of being dependent on a few big sites to host their online identity. In this vision, you would own your own domain name and have complete control over its contents, rather than having a handle tacked on to the end of a huge company’s site. This was a sensible reaction to the realization that big sites rise and fall in popularity, but that regular people need an identity that persists longer than those sites do.
via The Web We Lost – Anil Dash.
I may have to have children just so I can sacrifice them to Molek (18:21)
Sex seems to be a big no no in the rules stakes, 14 out of 76.
25. Having sex with your mother (18:7)
26. Having sex with your father’s wife (18:8)
27. Having sex with your sister (18:9)
28. Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)
29. Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)
30. Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13)
31. Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14)
32. Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15)
33. Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16)
34. Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (bad news for Alan Clark) (18:17)
36. Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)
37. Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20)
39. Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22)
40. Having sex with an animal (18:23)
via Banned by the Bible | 76 things banned in Leviticus.
When will brands ever learn? Do people not use the internet and read stuff? When it comes to social media we are now at a point when we have a fat pile of case files detailing how various brands have failed at social media, but this does not apparently stop other brands copying these mistakes over and over again.
This time around it is the turn of American Apparel. It has had the bright idea of rolling out a “Hurricane Sandy Sale” ad and as you might guess has sparked something of a Twitter backlash and ensured its brand will forever be linked with the words “social media fail”.
via American Apparel causes Twitter outrage with ‘Hurricane Sandy Sale’ | The Wall Blog.
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