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EDF WTF?
If you add together the number of different UK tariffs for gas, electric, and mobile phones, you get a number greater than the atoms in the known universe. It took a while for me just to decode one of...
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Patently obvious
Last year, IBM published one of my inventions and another where I was a co-inventor. I was quite pleased, even though they were published, not patented. Then I saw a churlish article in The Register...
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Put in my place
I know my place. These are the top search results used by people coming to this blog. I’m not sure whether I should be so amused that more people come here looking for pixie-faced Russian minstrel...
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A handle on good design
I recently reposted a photo on Twitter that I thought neatly encapsulated poor design. This documentation would benefit from end-user testing. pic.twitter.com/7MsWvu9lDp Via @authorterryo — Peter...
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Rainy Days in Cardiff
My Torchwood novel Another Life was translated into Hungarian, and apparently published in 2010. I was pondering why I hadn’t seen a copy. I asked my publisher, and they’re now puzzling about it, too....
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Fry’s jerkish delight
I was going to post something about Stephen Fry’s odd assertion about Doctor Who being a drama for children not adults. It seemed like an odd knee-jerk reaction unsupported by viewing demographics and...
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Disappointing! Customer! Service!
The transfer of the Yahoo! small business… er… business to Luminate, no, hang on, I mean Aabaco has been a bit of a fiasco. People who have been with Yahoo! for over a decade have found the transfer...
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Yahoo! BooHoo!
The successor to Yahoo! has failed to fix my problem or respond in a timely manner, and I have therefore decided to aabandon Aabaco completely. What a shame they seem so uninterested. They are not to...
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