Category Archives: tangent

My mind is on a permanent tangent

Tesco Spam

Posted on 20/7/2011 by Rich

A few weeks ago I ordered from Tesco online. I then received one of their follow up emails suggesting I complete a survey, and then another and another … hourly. I wrote to Tesco: hi, thank you for spamming my … Continue reading →

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PEBCAK

Posted on 29/7/2010 by Rich

came across a new acronym today – Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

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WordPress – oops

Posted on 29/6/2010 by Rich

rather unfortunate advertising there… WordPress Users 10! (ok so it points to Nimber10gov website, but I find it funny.)

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Crashing Firefox

Posted on 4/8/2008 by Rich

Note to self: 13 million characters in a textarea will crash firefox, either that or the associated javascript can’t handle it…

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Order Fuel Online

Posted on 16/7/2008 by Rich

Just came across this – must be one of the best ideas in a long time. Petrol Direct

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Blame the developer

Posted on 3/7/2008 by Rich

Do not worry. Just blame the developer because you obviously didn’t make a mistake. Ignore all the evidence, the database backups, the time stamped changes, just blame the developer.

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