History of the decade, part 1: 2000
I have had a busy decade. I was best known in 2000 for designing typefaces and I start the new decade running for mayor. Somewhere in between I wrote and co-wrote some books and still publish a bunch...
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Yesterday: 20002001Britain was embroiled in all sorts of diseases with its livestock and foot and mouth, blamed on a threat by Telly Savalas in the movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In fact, it...
View ArticleHistory of the decade, part 3: 2002
Yesterday: 20012002The euro is introduced in Europe as the most boringly named currency in the world. Enron, the winner of climate change awards and a self-proclaimed leader in green energy, and...
View ArticleMerry Christmas
I wish all family, friends and whanau a merry Christmas. And god Jul, 聖誕快樂, joyeux Noël, kαλά Χριστούγεννα. And yes, the weather finally looks summery, thank goodness. Take it easy out there and have...
View ArticleHistory of the decade, part 4: 2003
October: Arnold Schwarzenegger travels to Sacramento to attend the première of Terminator III, only to find himself stuck at the Governor’s mansion. He has been trapped there since.Yesterday:...
View ArticleHistory of the decade, part 5: 2004
Earlier today: 20032004Martha Stewart goes to jail and likens herself to Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela says his ANC newsletters had a far bigger circulation than Martha Stewart Living ever did and...
View ArticleAre Hewlett–Packard’s webcams racist?
Evidence (hat tip to Tari Akpodiete) that the Hewlett–Packard webcam’s face-tracking feature is racist, and does not like black people:If there’s some whites-only thing going on, then it might not work...
View ArticleIn the Christmas panto tradition: oh, no, there isn’t! Oh, yes, there is!
As far as I can tell, this is how my experience of getting Vincent Wright’s wrongly deleted-by-Google Social Media Consortium blog restored has gone. 1. Follow the Google Captcha and expect Google to...
View ArticleAnother bad TV concept idea
With the 1980s in vogue as evidenced by Ashes to Ashes, how about a spin-off of Roger Hall’s Gliding on? After their department is privatized, some of the staffers are forced to work as civil...
View ArticleHistory of the decade, part 6: 2005
Christmas Eve: 20042005Pope John Paul II dies, leading to speculation that Robbie Coltrane would be the new Pontiff. However, he is too busy making Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and it was...
View ArticleHistory of the decade, part 7: 2006
Yesterday: 20052006Newspapers scared of declining circulation decide to publish cartoons of the prophet Muhammed, causing outrage and no noticeable long-term rise in readership. Warren Buffett...
View ArticleWhen Chrysler had world-beaters
Remember when Chrysler made cars that people (even the industry) salivated over? It wasn’t that long ago. The original, base LH cars went up on Autocade today. It’s a real pity these were not widely...
View ArticleHistory of the decade, part 8: 2007
May: Despite donning miniskirts during her campaign and raising the hotness stakes above what Geena Davis could manage, Ségolène Royal fails to become the president of France.Yesterday: 20062007As...
View ArticleHere’s some more evidence for you to delete, Google
Remember this? Well, you would if you’ve followed this blog, and I go on and on about it. As the last entry on the page, and seeing as Nitecruzr pasted the incorrect code from the Yahoo! cache...
View ArticleUnlike Jimmy Carter, some of those peanut growers are mean
Found in David Vinjamuri’s Accidental Branding (one of several books I have still to go through), talking about the founding of the Clif Bar:Gary loved the package, but he was reluctant to name the bar...
View ArticleWe are running out of time
I posted this on my Tumblog earlier today but it is worth repeating here:I captioned it, ‘We probably will keep thinking this is someone else’s problem till we encounter threats like the Maldives and...
View ArticleResearch isn’t that important if you write in an encyclopædia these days
Here’s a very good example for why I don’t think Wikipedia can be trusted. Below is a screen shot of a page at Wikimedia Commons, which I assume is where you can submit pictures for Wikipedia. I...
View ArticleHistory of the decade, part 9: 2008
Yesterday: 20072008Raúl Castro becomes Cuban president as the dislike for khaki tones, which hit the US earlier in the decade, finally arrives there. President Sarkozy fulfils his hot-women election...
View ArticleAny how-tos on shifting to Wordpress?
Before you answer that, I know there are heaps on going from Blogspot to Wordpress or to a self-hosted domain. I wouldn’t mind finding one which allows me to go from a self-hosted blog run on Blogger...
View ArticleThe newer the program, the buggier it gets: a reminder of departed software
One reason I love working with the NZCS as a client is that they promote professionalism when it comes to ICT. That brought my mind to software in general, especially if I am to shift this blog to...
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