Posts are missing yes.While the legal process moves forward nothing relating to the joy that was the end of June will be posted
In the meantime…
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Small otter fluff
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Otter sans hotsauce
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Today’s otter shot of the day is a tasteful reminder that the central question of existence is not who am I? or What am I? but where shall we have lunch.
otter of the day.
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It’s interesting but we seem to have to rediscover that exchanging value is a valid business model.
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From the 500 hats blog comes a nice summation that matches many of my feelings with regards to how programs are pitched, created and go to 2 cups (He has a much better line but I’ll not steal it totally out of context.) He brings up login friction, e.g., how easy it is to actually use the service and creating infrequent use apps can cause problems by itself.
So listen up I’ll share a little secret with you — there is one very simple way to avoid forgotten passwords.Basically, it’s this:
Make a Frequent-Use Product.
That’s it, you say?Yeah, that’s it Sherlock.Make a brain-dead simple, frequent-use product.If users login a lot, then they don’t forget their passwords
While my favourite inner-Austrian applauds lines such as
Newsflash folks: The Internet does NOT want to be FREE… It wants to GET PAID on Fucking Friday, just like everybody else on the damn planet.
It’s kind of sad that this has to be restated that making a program that needs to be useful is another.
Do not like. The crappy ,Damascan, conversion rate on samaritan clicking
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Point of this.
To let you know how much I dislike the affinity posts, re-posts, tweets and retweets about serious issues that run the risk of causing the appearance that something is actually being done.
Problem 1
I wanted to know what my friends were up to, their thoughts, accomplishments joys and sadness. Instead it’s a pile of app-generated crap intermixed with memes copied from others that often contradict how that person sees themselves.Challenging them has usually resulted in a defensive “I’m just sharing it” and usually without a review of the original material ergo they really aren’t in any way responsible for the material.
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde’s above quote fits into a tweet by the way. Sad thing is I follow you because I am interested in what YOU have to say and not you by Proxy.
Problem 2
The Facebook child abuse cause has over 2 million members and has raised around $1600 dollars or eight hundredths of a cent per member.You’ll find the same disparity reflected over and over again within groups for domestic-violence,anti-torture, land mines and just about any other topic of human misery you care; sorry you –pretend- to care,about matters.
The actions don’t match up with the words. It may give someone the idea that it’s under control, I mean 2 million people wow, that’s an achievement that’s worth well it’s worth about $1600. Rather trivializes whatever the cause de jour is nes’t pas?
7 of 9 Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris), female, marine mammal, with her baby pup
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7 of 9 Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris), female, marine mammal, with her baby pup
Originally uploaded by mikebaird.
This is definitely my otter of the day maybe even the month.
Wow.
I knew Bell Honda was full of gas. Say no to N2 refills and other overblown upgrades.
If there’s one thing that bugs me more on not knowing enough about the physical world it’s those people that try to sell you a service, product or in the case of carbon credits a total line of bullshit. Bell Honda appear to follow this model of customer service. Their ploy, based on their reliance, that your ignorance of the subject will be such that you’ll gladly pay a premium to have N2 fill your tires.
They try to up sell you on nitrogen which has nominal to NO practical value when fitted to your average car. I had read anecdotally that Honda were not a fan of the practice and I send a tweet to see if I could get a reference for this.
There you go. I’ve been to this dealer twice and while the service was done quickly,the waiting area is clean, nice wifi,play area and coffee It’s only been after the usual chat re, “service this to Honda’s requirements to keep the extended warranty valid”How they then want to add injector cleaning agents, N2 and suggest a transmission flush on a < 30k car, a 30k MANUAL car is beyond me. Despite declining the injector cleaning they billed me for it anyway and took money of the air filter instead. They must have some kind of weird bonus structure going there but a 30k car that’s performing well does not need it.
Needless to say I’ll be using another dealership for future warranty work.
Crappiest marketing of the week Sam’s club for Windows 7
What you are looking at is the subject line from a mail that I received this weekend
There’s a slight issue with that subject line which one could charitably call a willing attempt to deceive,to appear fraudulent or maybe even to be an outright lie.
The price refers to you already having Windows 7, aka Windows 7 starter edition.
How can you upgrade to 7 by already having 7? This is such a trivial thing that it pains me that they would even try this line out. Upgrades –from- $78 or Upgrades –to- $78 are still speaking in weasel-words but at least it’s supportable on logical and grammatical grounds.
Follow up. Several weeks have passed. I’m a member so I wrote them a letter which they didn’t respond to. Well that’s one membership that’s not getting renewed.
Ramblings from my phone
Mobile post sent by haltse using Utterli. Replies. mp3
Test post from posterous.
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Making sure my Meta weblog api is happy with the service.
