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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Babbling Fool in the Engineering

Have I Made Google Angry?

For some strange reason Google have sent me £75 worth of free adwords advertising. Never being one to look a gift horse in the mouth I’ve set up a ridiculous marketing campaign. The initial problem I had with this was I’m not actually selling anything, however having pondered this for a while I decided to promote a few of the  projects I’m working on including the “Corporate Death Penalty” gravestones. Unfortunately when I submitted this to Google it seems to […]

I’ve built a Time Machine, but I don’t think the Dragons will care…

What the hell is it with the muppets in the Dragons Den? Unless you rock up with a signed,sealed, delivered patent approved miracle they seem to be utterly unwilling to give you the price of a cup of tea. Are we to believe that these people never took a single risk in their solitary money obsessed lives? Have they lost site of the fact that they got rich though taking a few risks and let’s be honest quite a lot […]

I’m Going to Blow Up My House (NOT REALLY!)

So Paul Chambers has been fined for his supposed Twitter “Bomb Threat” on Robin Hood Airport. That seems sensible eh? On the basis that we are now taking everything everybody utters as the absolute truth I think the police should be arresting the guy in the current BT  118 commercial who states: “Most days I could murder my boss, but today I could murder a curry” Seems like an open and shut case to me, perhaps we should warn his […]

Left Vs Right

So here’s a beautiful thing courtesy of David McCandless at informationisbeautiful.net

Camouflage

Oh that’s nice, they’ve attempted to camouflage their satellite dish so it’s not so much of an eyesore. It’s good to see the label has lasted  too.

Back from the Dead

Here’s Malcolm Mclaren’s grave in Highgate cemetery. Pretty cool hey?

Useful cycle lanes.

I thought I was the only one ranting about stupid cycle lanes. it turns out I was wrong there’s a whole site dedicated to it. http://www.warringtoncyclecampaign.co.uk/

Facebook Privacy…Again.

So the iPhone Facebook app offers to sync your contacts pictures with you phone book contacts. A relatively appealing idea you might think until you read this legal notice that pops up. The cost for this? Facebook wants to datamine my whole contact list. Nice. I particularly like the fact that it puts the onus on you to check with your friends as to whether this is OK. After all why would you expect Facebook to look after the data […]

Jon’s Stag Do.

For your entertainment some photos from  LEEBS – well, that’s what the sign seems to say anyway. The occasion – Jon’s stag do. Apologies for my tourette’s photography style, I put it down to the lateness of the hour and the level of alcohol consumed. I’ve made the pictures a funny colour so we all look slightly healthier than in reality. Believe me this is a vast improvement on what I actually captured.