Category Archives: Random

In the competition to deliver the items ordered online in the most ridiculously-sized box, that is. This one knocks anything I’ve had from Amazon into a cocked hat (which you can probably get Amazon to deliver, in an oversize box, … Continue reading →

If it ever will be 🙁 So you really shouldn’t design systems that assume it is. A couple of examples… The bank I use for my business recently “improved security” for setting up transactions over the internet so that any … Continue reading →

“Counselor to the President”, whatever that means, but described by the BBC today as a “Top Trump aide”. Does that mean she can remember the stats on all the cards and knows which one is best?

My daughter likes to listen to Heart FM for reasons I’ve never quite felt the desperation to get to the bottom of, so it’s often what the car radio is set to when we go anywhere. I’m not a big … Continue reading →

And it’s nothing to do with “the day when shops get out of the red and into the black”. As far as I can see from the news reports of the last two days and recalling the same from last … Continue reading →

I’ve just watched the Horizon programme from a week or so back — “Is your brain male or female?” presented by Michael Moseley and Alice Roberts. My enjoyment of it was somewhat curtailed however because of Alice Roberts’ uncanny similarity … Continue reading →

Amazon has just announced that it is bundling it’s streaming media service with the existing “Prime” membership and putting the price up from £49 to £79. I don’t know what the business motivation is for such a change, but it … Continue reading →

I see today that yet another person (the Chief Inspector of Schools, this time) is taking a cheap pop at private schools in a poorly-veiled effort to grab a few headlines. One more strike against the privileged on behalf of … Continue reading →