Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
Seeing hearts and flowers
“Mr Haji-Ioannou said he was prepared to go to court to defend his company’s use of the colour orange. “I’m quite happy to see them in court,” he told the BBC. “I don’t believe they have a case.” “
Stamp collecting will never be the same again…
“Stamps.com…launched PhotoStamps about a week ago and has been receiving submissions ever since.”
The downward path’s worn and weary, and it’s not going to plan
“RFID passive tags and readers that can be used to monitor vehicles at a read distance of 17 feet traveling at speeds of 160 mph” … brought back some memories of designing such a system ten years ago, we never completed it because we never got the funding we needed, and the technology at the time was marginal for the 250mph spec we had set ourselves (F1 cars)….it was going to be an add-on to the first ‘handheld’ system I worked on…I can’t believe that page is still there, I wonder if they still support it?
Official: Buffy the Vampire Slayer “not sufficiently explicit or graphic to be indecent….no nudity, and…no evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon, or was used to pander, titillate or shock the audience”.
…we can only hope they do a better job next series…
“Children aged 12 to 16 will learn the benefits of using correct grammatical constructions, such as “you were” rather than “you was”, in everyday speech”
I’ve ranted before about how language evolves, and how this is not a bad thing…but really, if we’re going to be complaining about ‘you was’ the complaint should be that it is an over generalisation of ‘you’, taking the place of the now-archaic ‘thou’. Using ‘you was’ and ‘you were’ for second person singular and plural allows a distinction that has otherwise been absent since the adoption of ‘you’ to replace ‘thou’.
Let the language live.
Floats by in clusters in our water supply
‘This looks like a case of hidden mass medication upon the unsuspecting public,’ Baker said. ‘It is alarming that there is no monitoring of levels of Prozac and other pharmacy residues in our drinking water.’
At last, the killer application for mobile phones…
“Hey, this is your Escape-A-Date call. If you’re looking for an excuse, I got it. Just repeat after me, and you’ll be on your way! ‘Not again! Why does that always happen to you? … All right, I’ll be right there.’ Now tell ’em that your roommate got locked out, and you have to go let them in. Good luck!”