That Danny!
From the monthly archives: July 2008
I just found this piece of scaremongering prudent advice in the safety instruction manual of my new Toshiba laptop:
Turn Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Wireless WAN Functionalities off for Cardiac Pacemakers Turn Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Wireless WAN Functionalities off when near a person who may have a cardiac pacemaker implant or other medical electric device. Radio [...]
Video Cameras for Cyclists – Using video to film your cycling journey and protect you from drivers.
There seems to be a new fashion in England for cyclists to wear helmet cameras. My other half cycles to work, and I was intrigued by this trend. From my experience as a car driver in London, cyclists [...]
Table manners and etiquette – Rules for Children about how to behave around the formal table.
I came across this charming collection of rules and manners for children from the middle ages – this one is an edition from 1701, reproduced by the V&A in 1983. These sort of courtesy books were used by [...]
I wanted to highlight an excellent article by Charlie Brooker about the impact of SEO requirements and the pressures of web-traffic-oriented journalism on the quality of news.
The article sets out to demonstrate its premise with the first paragraph and then explains it:
“Miley Cyrus, Angelina, Israel vs Palestine, iPhone, 9/11 conspiracy, Facebook, MySpace, and [...]
I’ve been embedding JavaScript into my WordPress posts the hard way for ages. It means creating a separate file to define a function (that is the JS script) and then calling it into the post itself, as explained by the WordPress guys here.
Then, today, I discovered that there is actually a very [...]
Enter “VPAMAZON” or “VPAMAZON2” into Google to get these great offers, said the promo slip, that arrived with my Amazon book in the post today. It was advertising premium business cards.
I was intrigued by this marketing tactic. Was the advertiser sure that no one else would muscle in on his preferred search terms? So [...]
Robert Murat, the first named suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has settled his libel action against a number of British newspapers over claims he was involved in her disappearance. And the sum of the settlement? It is estimated at somewhere in the region of £500,000.
To you and me this might be a [...]
This posting is about an Internet Ghost called Keith Ledger, aka Heath Ledger. Some (mostly in the US) have also referred to him as Keath Ledger.
What is an Internet Ghost? A term that everyone is searching for but doesn’t actually exist. (see internetghost.com)
It is likely that you got here because you [...]
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