Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
One of life's reassuring constants has just quit on me: my bicycle dynamo. I bought it from a German website about 10 years ago after a German colleague told me such a thing existed. This was in the days before translation engines on the web, so I recall some trial ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
I was surprised to see in an article at the BBC today that London has the worst air pollution in the EU. I remember working in the Square Mile in the mid 80s and having permanently black bogies and a sore throat which only abated when I went on holiday. ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2012
What do you do when you can't communicate with a web-based organisation using their own 'Contact Us' method? It's frustrating, so I'm going to copy this here. I've just topped up my prepaid mobile phone using a debit card on Vodafone's website. I got a confirmation text saying
Thank you for ...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
While you may have spotted Googlebot POST requests in your logs and dismissed them, you may also have spotted some odd requests and search phrases turning up in your traffic analysis. For me it was "slike za facebook". Not only was it turning up in my search phrase stats, I ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
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My parents always told me never to attempt to profit from the misfortune of others. Mum, Dad, sorry. I'm a BBC news addict in much the way a former colleague once told me "I love red wine, but it doesn't love me back". ...
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