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Is it pointless breaking out in a sweat, carrying a garland of garlic around your neck and carrying a crucifix while gnashing ones teeth over the prospect of opening a trouble ticket with IT support?

Is your support experience one of those smooth, prompt, courteous and relationsip strengthening affairs where even the most cynical non-tekkie arseholes like me would melt into an admiring gung-ho “support the support team” fanatic?

No, I thought not. I hear you ask why?

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Ooze TV Anchors

DISCLOSURE: Resolve in 2008 to speak clear, precise, simple English and avoid acronyms and technospeak like the plague.

I have this thing about Technobilge. If you don’t know what Technobilge is then go read my rant here.

It appears that there is a growing pushback on industry to begin communicating in plain English or mother tongue rather than in acronyms. The use of acronyms is a lazy way for people to gain respect. If people who sound off in acronyms to me think it makes me believe they sound clever, then they better think again.

I actually think it is very rude, arrogant, insecure and not at all clever.

This is what the BBC has to say about it.

Geekspeak still baffles web users
Britons are increasingly tech-savvy but are still bamboozled by tech jargon.
According to research from Nielsen/NetRatings, people are buying cutting-edge technology but often don’t understand the terms that describe what their device actually does.

So while 40% of online Britons receive news feeds, 67% did not know that the official term for this service was Really Simple Syndication.

Click here to read the full article

As well as Auntie BEEB “agreeing” with my sentiment, Matthew Stibbe across at Bad Language has a point to make as well. Click here to read Matthew’s Bad language article

A 2008 Promise

The master blogger smacks the subject right in the bullseye. Seth says this.

Online networking is about who you know. But it doesn’t stop there does it? No. It’s about who you know online and who you trust too. And boy is that so right.

Do not think you will befriend everyone and immediately begin to trust them. You should not and you won’t just as they will not trust you. Trust between bloggers, just as it is between real life strangers, does not instantly exist. It is earned the hard way if ever at all.

So who do you trust online?

Do not tell me you’d buy a car from the guy in the photo above. Oh please don’t shatter my already weakened perceptions. Surely he is the personification of a snakeoil salesman. I mean look at the pose.

All he is bound to see in you and I is a great big red ‘SUCKER’ stamped across our foreheads. He just knows there is a fool born every minute and all they do is wait for us to succumb to their slick ‘n sleazy call, join the queue and fall for the snakeoil charm offensive to encourage us to part with some of our hard-earned cash.

And apparently we do. By the million.

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As years go, the start to 2008 got off to a thrill of a start - server crash at my host. So much so that I have lost the contents of previous blogs which really amuses me. No it does not.

I now demand a restart to the year.

I am fuming with anger and frustration. I will be restoring the site and the missing blog content to their former 2007 glory.

Happy New Year! Who said that……?

Rant on Tuesday III

I was diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic at the start of December. A bummer, because it meant I would not be able to enjoy Christmas pudding or the mince pies! But having it officially diagnosed, I am determined that being a diabetic is going to be a positive thing in my life. Well, I have already lost weight by eliminating sugar and eating a more healthy diet.

For years I ignored symptoms and signs that something was wrong. Please don’t be as daft as I was. If you have the slightest feeling that something is wrong, go see your doctor. Meanwhile, to help you recognise the symptons earlier than I did, read this article by Elsie Chan.

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I thought it pertinent to reprise this post from April 2006. It is still as pertinent today as it was then.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL BLOGGERS EVERYWHERE!
from iScatterlings

iScatterlings Song

Blog 1.0 + Blog 1.0 isn’t Web 2.0

Blogging is a lonely, difficult, and stressful and most often an unrewarding exercise in futility. But we love it.

As the end of 2007 approaches many of you will be reviewing the impact of Web 2.0 on your experiences through the year. No? Gosh you are a blogging heathen! You mean you won’t be asking yourself some profound philosophical questions about you and blogging and the state of our universe? Get outta here. What is wrong with you?

Actually, there is not a single thing wrong with you. You and I and millions of others don’t do the wondering what Web 2.0 has done to our universe.

Instead…….

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Rant on Tuesday

In terms of evolution, I’d have thought that as a species we’d have learnt a good few things about living and creating things for members of our species and also for anything else that falls outside of our known definition of homo sapien. So why am I constantly struck by a feeling that certain social media applications are still being constructed to feed the developer/designer’s ego rather than user benefit? Are these applications too hastily and badly put together in order to be first to go live?

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Don’t know what Christmas gift to buy for Aunt Flo, Cousin Fiona and Uncle Melbourne?

Don’t fear my dears, help is at hand. Here is some great advice from Augustini Carthoson on the perfect gift to buy for those that have everything.

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Just when you thought this year had had enough excitement, here I come with a question? It’s a good question. Not a rubbish everday non-descript, beige question. No. It’s a sweet, kind, genteel, concerned, mindful sort of question and completely lacks guile.

Go on then. Read it.

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