Every now and again, while searching randomly on the internet I come across something a bit obscure. Yesterday’s obscure thing was a blog about big mens clothing (really quite good, although the bit with lots of larger people in shorts was quite comical, it has to be said), followed by a blog about communication and how important it is (and how overlooked it is, more importantly). Read the rest of this entry »

Hands up: who sees “can’t display net root hdfghjp98765 net root is invalid xxx ccc” or something similar on their computer screen and feels every one of their organs – including ones previously so hidden they could not be felt – retracting in cold hard fear? I do. Some new ones occasionally appear, too, as if grown from the tumorous dread that has collected over the years. I dread the day that my computer won’t turn on, or suddenly shuts Read the rest of this entry »

Put your hand up if you don’t use Google. Even if you hate it, chances are you’ve used it a fair bit in the past. Personally, Google is rapidly going down in my estimations and being replaced by just about every other search engine around. Why? Because Google were doing fine, then they had to ruin it all, didn’t they? Not content with having the world’s most reputed search engine, they had to go and change it.

Now we have Read the rest of this entry »

If I search hard and go right to the very back of my mind where all the things that I don’t ever wish to think about ever again are – along with one memorably poor episode of Everybody Loves Raymond and that bit in Home & Away when Ailsa imagines Bobby coming out of the fridge (I think, it was a long time ago) – I see a few things: one of them is the time when you could sit Read the rest of this entry »