I’ve lamented many times at how easy it is to get credit some places and the UK seems no harder than here in the US. I am sometimes surprised at the places that have said “no” to me, when I know some of the people they’ve said “yes” to …
At the end of the day, they’re still functionally equivalent to a floppy drive, but the increase in size does bring new uses. I’m a convert.
The results of this survey don’t surprise me. I’d be interested to see a similar survey from other countries in Europe or in the US to see if this is a global phenomenon, or just the Brit’s being backwards.
Irony is obviously sadly missed by some people. My favourite meaningless company name is Song Airlines. What does singing have to do with flying? What were they thinking … “going for a song”, maybe? Who knows!
Now here’s a funky alternative to the Segway Human Transporter: the Bombardier Embrio. I can’t possibly wait until 2025, me want one NOW!
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I find Bluetooth interesting: articles like this talk about the huge number of enabled devices that have shipped, in yet it still hasn’t really taken off. Not sure why this should be the case, as it’s obviously a great piece of technology with so many great uses. Maybe the fact that hackers are taking the time to find holes in implementations, is some indication that it’s starting to become mainstream?
I didn’t claim to follow this Nova mini-series the first time round, so maybe watching it again in small chunks I won’t drift off into another dimension …
I’ve been incredibly frustrated with the (in)ability for CSS to efficiently centre things. So much so that I’m almost resorting to using the deprecated … tag.
Lifestyles of the rich-and-famous now seemingly includes having a Qantas jet parked in your drive! Okay, so Travolta owns the jet, but still I haven’t seen many houses for sale advertising “4 car garage, and 2 plane apron”!