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Google Moderator – Ask a Google Engineer a Question
This was a bit out of the blue, but for the first time in ages I clicked on the ‘Everyone’ stream in Twitter, and the second tweet on the screen was this from Brit. Turns out I caught that tweet 22 seconds after she posted, and as far as I know it was the first [...]
A Few Odd Links
Just a few things I’ve picked up over the last few days / weeks / months…
tr.im is a handy URL shortening service, since Jane over at the Moz went into such depth on the various services that have sprung up I thought I’d try a few out and this one seems to fit. Not quite [...]
99 Problems and a Stitch Is One
Triffsco Inferno sent me this link earlier. It’s pretty funny. Ok, it’s not so funny that I have a stitch in my side, but a stitch in time saves nine. Or something..
I saw some of Jay-Z at Glastonbury a few weeks back. Watched about 15 minutes. He was shit, so I moved on to go [...]
Propositioned by a Bot
Well, it appears that bots are getting reasonably sophisticated in the throwing not too non-sensical lines back over IM. Either that or this bloke is a moron. Either way, I felt I had to just keep the conversation alive just a little while longer; I was being idle, but of course their time (or processing [...]
Obey teh Kitty
Having interesting things around is always a good thing. It keeps us stimulated and provides both inspiration and the potential to lift a mood.
One of my good friends is an artist, and he’s starting to make a career out of it which is good for him. All of his family are a bit arty in [...]
My Cats’ Incessant Hunting
Just as I was about to go out the door this morning I noticed that one of my cats, Ethel, had not taken any food. This is unusual to say the least. They’re pretty much always hungry, and she didn’t even want her favourite biscuits. It turns out that there was a mouse under the [...]
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