Look, Google zeitgeist. Another part of this wibbly wobbly web that displays car crash like qualities. You know you shouldn’t look but you can’t help taking a peek. I have a sneaky suspicion that this will make it on to my daily list of sites to visit. Which is more of a comment on me …
Author Archives: Andrew Todd
There goes my television watching
Tell me its not true. Celebrity Big Brother is back. Still, it will keep a bunch of talentless no-hopers off the streets for a while. Plus, if we all turn our backs (metaphorically speaking) it should go away and never bother us again.
Customer Segmentation
I have been spending money again. I bought a Christmas present over at Amazon. Not such a big thing you would think, except that it was the first thing I had ever bought there. At Amazon they operate a customer segmentation and classification system where the front page of the web site changes to suggest …
Socially Responsible
Who was it who said that the internet was just a load of pr0n? Oh yes, that would be me then. Just in time to save its sad and sullied soul comes Project Gutenberg a selfless effort to make available as many books as possible to as many people as possible. Those of you who …
Quote of the day
Welcome back to an old favourite on this blog. I couldn’t resist; "Of course he stood alone as wickets tumbled, not unlike Horatio on the bridge, though not quite as cheerful and much better paid." Thanks to Peter Roebuck for those magical words.
Reporting on progress
The gadget duly arrived, as did another hole in the wall. The Sky+ box has two satellite decoders so that you can watch one channel whilst recording another. What I didn’t realise is that to achieve this they simply run two cables from the satellite dish to your living room. Hence another hole in the …
The sofa never looked better
Our new gadget turns up tomorrow. Armed with the remote control and suitable quantities of comestibles I don’t see me leaving the couch until Monday morning when I have to go to work. Add a rugby match tomorrow afternoon I think I’m going to have a good weekend. Oh, and this afternoon I have mostly …
Spooky
It looks like somewhere up there was listening to me. Mother nature has been criticising bad Tim Allen movies. Serves them right for going to see such a shocking piece of cinema, I say.
Eyes Right
Those of you reading this in the UK can move right along now. Everyone else, check out the Office, which is the funniest comedy since Fawly Towers.
Greetings
Mr Templeton has been angling for a mention here for a while now, so hello Mark. I hope you are still enjoying being in Jakarta and aren’t pining too much for Sydney. The fact that I mention Mark today, and that he is a Kiwi is just a complete coincidence.