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[Cross-posted from Tumblr] Found via Chris Brogan: if you Google Helvetica, Google will deliver the results in your default typeface—in my case, Alia. (If you look at the Snap Shots thumbnails that pop up, they’re in Times.) It’s weird, because I thought a fun trick would be to deliver the results in Helvetica (which is, […]
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I took a few digs at the forthcoming Chevrolet Malibu on my Facebook yesterday. First: a few things GM got right. It’s right to put this on a global platform—in this case, the Opel Insignia‘s. It’s also right to make it a world car of sorts, where it can be sold globally with […]
Read More… from Chevrolet’s new Malibu might still look like a Daewoo
What a great post today from Eric Karjaluoto on his blog about Macs v. PCs. He outlines his gripes on a number of fields and doesn’t believe Apple holds a great advantage any more. I have to say I agree with him. On his Facebook, I wrote the following. Well said, Eric. […]
I was prepared to put up with the epic fail of IE9, since I hardly use the program. In the years I’ve had IE8, I’ve only opened it accidentally (e.g. when certain programs are removed, they load IE for the ‘Why did you remove it?’ customer screen). But I forgot one thing: some programs […]
Read More… from The epic fail called IE9 has consequences for other programs
A while back, I came across Benjamin J. Heckendorn (a.k.a. Ben Heck) and his Commodore 64 laptop. This is a quite a fascinating machine, considering the actual “portable” 64 Executive was a heavy beast that could kill if hurled at you. While Ben took the 64’s odd colour, keyboard and 64C’s motherboard, his is structured […]
Read More… from And now, Ben Heck makes an ‘Atari’ Xbox 360 ‘1977 edition’
I know you’re sick of reading three of these blog entries on three consecutive days but here’s what my Google Ads Preferences Manager has shown me today. I’m sick of writing about it, but Google’s being so damned predictable. First, the cookie is back, though it hasn’t picked up preferences yet this morning: […]
Read More… from Three out of three: Google’s Ads Preferences Manager does not work
While I was out, I had noticed on Twitter a news item about an octogenarian, working for American Airlines, who was sacked for his use of the word faggot. I despise words like that, just as much as chink or nigger, but the question arises: should he have been sacked, losing some of his […]
Read More… from A bad choice of word, but what does the gay community actually think?
Yesterday, I wrote about Google’s Ads Preferences Manager. I mentioned that I had opted out before, but had found myself having to repeat the exercise. I did, however, stop short at levelling blame at Google for another privacy gaffe, despite its behaviour with Web History, Buzz, Reader, Notes, etc., just in case I had fiddled […]
Read More… from Google advertising doesn’t understand that opting out means opting out
I have opted out of Google’s Doubleclick (and others’) advertising cookies many times. In theory, you only need to do it once, but I have been to Google’s opt-out page many times to find that the company has set another new cookie on my system. I fiddle around with my cookies a lot, so […]
Read More… from Check that your Google ad opt-out has been honoured
I am happy to say that Firefox 4 Release Candidate 1 is working smoothly with no crashes to date. It reminds me of, well, Firefox 3·0, before Mozilla started doing weird things to it and we had the multiple-crashing 3·5 and 3·6. Let’s hope this situation lasts. Meanwhile, the bugs I reported to the […]