Tales from the pandumbic – part 2

Price negotiable; infection possible This second tale should arguably have been the first – it predates by a couple of weeks my trip to the shop in which I spotted the one handed shopper, but I’d completely forgotten all about it until, looking back through my comments on Twitter to find something else, I found this tweet, and it all came flooding back.

Read More

Silly, repetitive addresses FTW!

I said ‘@’ there, not ‘at’. Not there, no, that’s definitely ‘at’ – and so’s that bit. If you ask me for my email address, what I’ll give you in response depends on the context. If that context is that we’re chatting in a pub (so there has been some drinking) and perhaps you want to forward a link to some really funny video clip to me, there is a specific address I’ll give you. I will say: “at dot co dot uk at dot co dot uk at dot…

Read More

Should HSBC rebrand itself as HSSC?

The Hongkong and Shanghai Spamming Corporation. Based on my various inboxes, it would appear that HSBC have recently become spammers – or it may be that they’ve been spammers for a while, and I’ve only just noticed it. Before delving into the spam emails I’ve received from HSBC, I should explain why it’s possible they’ve been doing it for a while, and why I may not have noticed before. This is down to the way I have my mailboxes configured – and some recent changes I have made to them.

Read More

Eurovision 2017 – as seen through cider-specs!

Until 2014, the Eurovision Song Contest wasn’t something I was inclined to watch, other than checking in towards the very end to see how the UK was doing. However, in 2014 I happened to be at a loose end on the evening the contest took place, so I decided to watch it, and comment on Twitter as I did so – with plenty of cider handy. I enjoyed doing that so much that I’ve repeated the exercise each year since – and this year, I’ve decided to pull my comments…

Read More