Are you the sort of person who likes to know the truth of what someone thinks of you? Most people do, some people don’t. I’m firmly in the latter and would entirely rather not know anyone, at any time, anywhere thinks of me unless it is 100% positive. I know it is said that it… Continue reading The mixed blessing of reviews
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My life is too short for long scroll-bar selections
Do any of you remember the old fashioned telephones. I don’t mean just the ones that have a cable that connects into the wall but those with a dial on the front rather than push-buttons. I always liked those phones for some reason. Maybe it was the noises the analogue lines would make when it… Continue reading My life is too short for long scroll-bar selections
Why is there no history on History TV?
I know, I’m a bit old-fashioned. I like history, I visit historical places, I read about history and write about it too and when I switch on the History TV channel, I kind of expect history too. I used to find it too until a few years ago. When the History Channel started, it was… Continue reading Why is there no history on History TV?
Stupid corporate customer surveys
We all have them don’t we. Every time we go somewhere, every time we do something, every time we visit a website we are urged to share our opinion. Tight companies offer us nothing in return, others offer us a 1 in a million chance to win £10 or something similar. Those lucky enough to… Continue reading Stupid corporate customer surveys
Clouds loom over the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web
You might not know it but the modern internet is 25 years old today! It started life as an idea in a paper written by a young computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee in a rather obscure laboratory in Europe known as CERN. At first his idea wasn’t exactly taken on enthusiastically by his colleagues with… Continue reading Clouds loom over the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web
Stephen Liddell 