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E by gum
February 8, 2010 – 8:48 pm
A rant I’ve been queuing up for a good couple of years, but haven’t yet got round to committing to ink (or pixels) is the strange phenomenon of e-things. It started reasonably enough with e-mail. Its like normal mail, but sent electronically. Fair enough. I’d argue that the UK should be talking about “I’ll drop you an e-post” but it’s tolerable.
E-mail is one thing, but enough is enough. In the last week I’ve been heard of e-newsletter (aka. newsletter, sent via email). I can live with this. I cannot take anymore of the following though…
- E-postcard eg. an email
- E-shot (a spammy mass email)
- E-brouchure (a PDF created from a brochure)
- E-database (fuck only knows)
- E-CRM – yes – electronic customer relationship manager, the alternative being one of those very fashional things, a card index
- E-flyer (you guessed it – an email)
I’ve had enough, I’m fed up to the back teeth with it. If you say these words on a regular basis why not just go and chop off the first joint of your little finger to teach yourself a lesson, I’m off for a w-bath.
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A twitter inspired wedding cake
January 31, 2010 – 4:43 pm
I saw this at the weekend in the window of a wedding cake shop. To me it clearly looks twitter inspired, I wonder what the story behind it is?
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Amazing tasty Chinese seasoning stuff
January 25, 2010 – 9:10 pm
I’ve no idea exactly what this stuff it, it’s not crazily hot, but it is crunchy and has that slightly soapy taste of Chinese pepper and is amazing on top of noodle, soup noodles and grilled meats. Go to your local Chinese supermarket and hunt it down.
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A lexicon for the uninitiated
January 24, 2010 – 11:36 am
Most of my readers can ignore this, or just roll their eyes.
I’ve just seen a tweet by Suw that made me thing of a post I half wrote about a year ago and never got round to publishing. I keep hearing people mixing up their nouns for “nu-media”, so here’s a handy guide for all you radio/tv/people.
- Blog
- A sequential listing of blog posts, written by a defined person or group of people. You can’t post to my blog unless I invite you. You can comment however comment on one of my blog posts however I I provide that facility. Example: www.coldclimate.co.uk is my blog.
- Post (or blog post)
- An individual article on a blog. Often associated with a category or set of tags (to allow readers to find other posts on a related subject). Blogs often organise their posts into reverse chronological order, making the newest posts available first.
- A service which allows users to post tweets and follower other Twitterers.
- Twitter feed
- A list if tweet by a single user. Only I can post to my twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/coldclimate/) Often identified by the @ symbol eg. @coldcliate
- Tweet
- An individual post to Twitter
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Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac
January 23, 2010 – 9:00 pm
Finally, I’m up and running with Virgin Media broadband at home. They give you a free wireless router, but all the setup instructions and the setup cd’s are for Windows. The bloke who installed the cabling suggested I rung the £80,000 a minute phone line. Panic not people, follow these instructions…
With everything turned off…
- Plug the router into the modem they give you
- plug the router into your machine by cable
- Turn on the computer
- Turn on the modem
- Wait a couple of minutes
- Turn on the router
- Joy – Internet is yours!
Follow setup instructions as per Windows (eg. log into it via pointing your browser to http://192.168.1.1/
Why these noddy instructions, well… If you plug the modem into your computer directly it will work BUT the modem will remember your MAC address of the computer and not talk to the router (until you turn everything odd). If you start the router without the modem having establish an external connection it fails to find the external IP address (dodgy Virgin firmware doesn’t pick up the connection unless it’s established before the router kicks up).
Really shouldn’t be as hard as it was, there was nothing to it, but it still took me a day.
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