January 13th, 2008 — Namibia
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The fatcat bosses at troubled mortgage lending bank, Northern Rock, will still get their huge bonuses. Absurd. Why when the bank is in such dire financial trouble?
January 13th, 2008 — Global
January 7th, 2008 — Global
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
January 4th, 2008 — Global
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.
January 3rd, 2008 — Global
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.
January 1st, 2008 — Global
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……?
December 29th, 2007 — Global
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.
December 23rd, 2007 — Must Read
Part Two of iScatterlings’ Exclusive & Final Blogroll Slagging Off
And finally, here is Part 2. Thanks for waiting so long.
I need to thank each and one of you bloggers who calls by here on a regular basis, for supporting iScatterlings through 2007. Without you reading the blog and commenting, I would be a fulltime couch paotato. And that is bad. At least with blogging I do not need a Nintendo DS with Brain Training…. yet.
Maestro, the drumroll please, it’s playback time……………..did I issue a content warning? Oh goody I forgot!
December 22nd, 2007 — Inspiration
It’s about Facebook. I am at home thinking:
Hopefully the conversation around FB vs Blogging is not dead. Is it?
December 22nd, 2007 — Global
I thought it pertinent to reprise this post from April 2006. It is still as pertinent today as it was then.
December 19th, 2007 — Must Read
Part One of iScatterlings’ Exclusive & Final Blogroll Slagging Off
At long last, the first part of your exclusive and final commentary roundup about your blogs is here. I will publish Part 2 shortly.
My, my, my how quickly time flies. But we don’t want to talk about that now do we? No! Not when we want to get right on with the bitching and slagging off! So gascon if you please, kindly pass out the Kleenex and distribute the poison quills then fill their plastic champers flutes with crocodile tears and let’s get on with crushing loadsa self esteem!
Maestro, the drumroll please, it’s payback time……………..did I issue a content warning? Too bad, too late.
December 18th, 2007 — Business
OK. While my hosting service or BT’s exchange is down, I’ll just Rant on Tuesday Too!
I want to reprise my article about the type of service I experienced in New York at the hands of the waiting staff at diners, restaurants, on tour buses, banks, delis etc etc - everywhere. Brilliant. They know exactly how to make you very happily take your money out of your wallet and then gladly put it into their till. And they are experts at getting you to come back and do it again and again and again.
And I am more than happy to do so. But why not in UK?
December 17th, 2007 — Global
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL BLOGGERS EVERYWHERE!
from iScatterlings
December 15th, 2007 — Global
December 14th, 2007 — Global
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…….
