I was surprised to learn that Toyota still has not issued a worldwide recall of its troublesome Prius NHW30 model, even though one had gone out in New Zealand. In layman’s terms, the brakes allegedly don’t work when you want them to. In more complex terms, the software has trouble distinguishing between different types […]
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Blogger has announced that it will cease supporting its FTP publishing service, which means the shifting of this blog to Wordpress was well timed. It seems I would have had to shift in any case—the fact that this happened just over a month ago was fortunate. I received an email about this for the […]
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If you pop down to the comments at an earlier post, you’ll find that a chap called Mark was very upset I used a thumbnail (100 pixels wide, 67 high) of one of his photos. In fact, I’ve done exactly the same in this post with another gentleman’s work (albeit this one is under Creative […]
Rick Klau’s action today in restoring Vincent’s Social Media Consortium blog got me putting things into perspective. We know sites like Blogger and Vox are free, but what happens when they fail? Vox, the Six Apart blogging service, had been where I had put my personal posts—as well as a bunch of private […]
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I wanted to add a comment to the Reuter post from Felix Salmon (see previous blog post), and, as always, I read the small print. The Thomson Reuters terms and conditions have this, inter alia: If you have agreed to such contact, the Reuters Group may contact you about those of its other services […]
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