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Category Archives: Communication
Adventures with a dumbphone: Morse Mania
Just over a year ago, I finally joined the smartdumbphone crowd (I wibbled about my experience at the time, in case you’re interested). I’m proud of myself in that I haven’t succumbed to the urge to become a meanderthal — … Continue reading
Posted in art, Communication, Education, Games, Health
Tagged app, dumbphone, Morse code, Morse Mania, Review
9 Comments
How to time travel using WordPress
Disclaimer: this is how it currently works; I offer no guarantees that this information is valid in your epoch! The only constant is change. Heraclitus (c.535 BC – c.474 BC) The ‘permalink’ Each WordPress post is allocated a permalink (short … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Computers and Internet, Education, Phlyarology
Tagged permalink, scheduling, TARDIS, time travel, Wordpress
5 Comments
How to quote someone else’s words in a WordPress comment
A couple of people (Sam “Goldie” Kirk and… someone else, whose comment I’m unfortunately unable to find) have asked me how I quote others’ words in WordPress comments, so I thought I’d pen a quick blogette about it. For many … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Computers and Internet, Education
Tagged blockquote, HTML, quotation, quote, Scotty, Star Trek
16 Comments
Scribble: Rant – No Variations on the Theme, revisited
The preamble to the preamble I spent three hours (!) this morning talking with ‘a’ WordPress Happiness Engineer, (to whom I shall refer as ‘HE’ and ‘they’, for reasons that will become apparent, should you actually make it that far; … Continue reading
Goodbye, facebook — and, good riddance
[Addendum 27Feb2021: The Juice Media’s latest video adds further context. It looks more and more like my first knee-jerk response to the news was ill-informed. That still doesn’t affect my decision to leave faecesbook; two evils don’t make a good.] … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Communication, Computers and Internet, Core thought, Drama, News and politics, People, Strategy
Tagged Australia, facebook, faecesbook, Frank Herbert, Mark Zuckerberg
23 Comments
Bank of England: stop funding the climate crisis!
tl;dr: Here are the links to the petitions by Positive Money, 350.org and SumOfUs; please pick just one and add your name before 24Feb2021. These three organisations are running the same petition; current signature counts as I write this are … Continue reading
A letter to The Co-operative Bank — a rant
Dear Sir or Madam, First of all, please accept my apology for the fact that I have been so curmudgeonly of late. I attribute this to an ear infection that has been causing me grief for the last few days. … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Communication, Computers and Internet, Critiques, Phlyarology
Tagged ethics, fraud, HCI, software
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‘Click the tiny square’ — a rant
A few weeks ago — 20Jan2021 to be precise — I encountered a problem with Windows Update: an optional, but ‘recommended’, update that, according to the ‘help’ article about it, should have installed automatically without my intervention. I searched for … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Computers and Internet, Education, Phlyarology
Tagged checkbox, HCI, KB4598502, Microsoft, user interface, Windows Update
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Feedback for Ocado
This wibblette is in two parts; they are in reverse chronological order, as I wish to begin by highlighting and giving credit to Ocado for being incredibly responsive in this case! The second part is the message I sent to … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Computers and Internet, Food, Ludditis, Strategy
Tagged HCI, Ocado, online shopping, rant, seppuku, website design
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Sign the petition to the UK government for more trees!
tl;dr The UK is hosting the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference and has already enshrined a net zero carbon emissions target in law. Now is the time for the UK government to set a legally-binding tree planting target, in … Continue reading