Recursive

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  • Recursive Word of the Moment

    vituperate vī-ˈtü-pə-ˌrāt
    verb

    To overwhelm with wordy abuse

  • Is it April still?


  • ‘Groovy Dancing Girl’ Video

    Awesome, great music too.

    EDIT:

  • Conning The Conmen

    BBC Three‘s Conning the Conmen was on late on Thursday night, and a pre-watershed version will be shown on Wednesday at 2030.

    Strengths

    • General Concept – revenge, even if only on a representative of the people we dislike, is bound to appeal to many.
    • Becca – Her first work in front of the camera is impressive – real acting talent to stay in character, and a natural presenting style too.

    Weaknesses

    • The white guy presenter (Dan) simply has an irritating voice, and a strange personality tbh – seemed like he was straining to be more interesting (TeleVisually) than he really is…

    Opportunities

    • Restrain the energy a little, make the programme a touch more serious, and I think the show could do well.

    Threats

    • It can’t be ignored that there are some similar programmes out there. First to mind is Rogue Traders though perhaps they have a more limited ‘victim’ list due to their choice of title.

    [tags]BBC, BBC Three, TV, Television, Review, Opinion[/tags]

  • Deviance

    Deviance is both admired and admonished, desired and deplored.

    While growing up deviance is bad: “don’t break the rules” and good: “don’t succumb to peer-pressure”.
    During your career deviance is good: “think outside the box” and bad: “you must follow protocol”.

    So why is the word deviant so often assumed to mean criminal?

  • Browser Wars (not much fighting)

    Having created the new Saints site, I have access to the visitor [tag]statistics[/tag].
    I was surprised to see that over the first 9 days (27,682 visits, 10.6GB) 92.2% were using [tag]Internet Explorer[/tag], and I was more surprised to see that ~57% of those were still using IE6.

    So more than half of all visitors are using IE6, the now very outdated [tag]browser[/tag], despite IE7 being a critical update.
    Do these people not have Automatic Updates on? Or are they all using pirated versions of XP?

    Sadly (imho), only 5.7% were using [tag]Firefox[/tag], and just 2% were using non-Windows Operating Systems.

    My SketchUp site, the SCC, has a very different browser profile: 50.12% use IE (63% v6, 36% v7) and 43% use Firefox.

  • BA drops ban on wearing crosses

    BA has announced that it has changed its rules regarding [tag]religious[/tag] items its staff can wear.

    As with many [tag]rules[/tag] and [tag]law[/tag]s, problems only appeared because they were far too specific.
    English law has the benefit of the word ‘reasonable’, allowing sensible flexible rules.
    Had their rules simply said “non-uniform [tag]cultural[/tag] and religious [tag]jewellery[/tag] and attire should be kept to a reasonable minimum”, they could later point to that and say “we feel that what you’re wearing is in breach of these employment requirements” to whomsoever they thought necessary.
    By singling out groups they were bound to create inconsistent treatment, or in other words: negative [tag]discrimination[/tag].

    They could even simplify their rule even further to “staff must wear the uniform as it is specified, any deviation should be within reason” – eliminating the references to [tag]religion[/tag] and culture all together, thus avoiding the inflammatory issues.

    I feel that the underlying issue here is that people are finally sticking up for the majority.

    I may be being cynical, but it is convenient that this announcement was made during the current [tag]Celebrity Big Brother[/tag] ‘racism’ scandal, thus not being the un-PC story de jour.

    BBC NEWS | UK | BA drops ban on wearing crosses

  • The IT Crowd

    … is to return!

    Originally Posted by Graham Linehan
    Series 2: Hopefully we’ll be on air round about/just after summer. And thank you! Good to know there’s people waiting for it. I’ll try not to let you down.

    Watching the first series, and hearing the criticism it received, made me think that it was unpopular only because IT as a subject is unfashionable and they weren’t trying to ‘sex it up’ as so much TV does.

    Hat-tip to Hex in The IT Crowd thread at bit-tech.net.

  • Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions

    Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions with a few lines of computer code, need I say more?

    [tags]MS, Microsoft, CO2, emisssions, kyoto, abatement[/tags]

  • Neglect

    I’ve been neglecting this blog.

    The main reason is maybe because I’ve lost a lot of my time freedom by going and getting a real have to commute to the office and work regular hours job.
    But it could also be because I’ve not had much to talk about.
    Which in turn could be because I’ve got the new job.
    Which suits my blog’s name quite well.