Month: April 2009

Someone at the White House is smoking something

You’ve got to wonder what was being said in the White House Military Office a few weeks back when someone had the insane idea of a “photo op” for Air Force One… “Hey guys, why don’t we take Air Force One and fly it really low over NYC” “Over NYC? Are you mad man? We need a fighter jet behind… Read more →

Web surveys – evil, annoying, pointless

Why? Why spend stacks of cash designing a site and display annoying pop-ups everywhere ? Not normal advertising pop-ups, oh no. These are “please tell us what you think of our site” popups. I’ve just been to two websites and got these.. why do this ? Just do a beta of your new site and then ask people to test… Read more →

Another security blunder

What was this guy thinking, really? You’re Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer, you’re reading a secret document about a massive police operation. Then, you turn up at Number 10 Downing Street, you put it on the top of your files, then get out of the car in front of dozens of photographers. Photographers have zoom-lenses y’know, as we’ve seen by several… Read more →

Residents panic over Google Street View

This one is from b3ta.com user Furness and pretty much sums up the Daily Mail here in the UK. Every day a new front page appears which seeks to provote hatred towards something or someone. This week it’s been Google and the whole Street View thing, with Milton Keynes residents trying to block the Google car from driving up their… Read more →

Overseas call centres

Now, I don’t mind paying cheap and getting cheap, but when you’re paying the same and getting a totally different service. Yesterday I called the Orange directory service. It’s on 118000. I asked for the phone number for “Sues Tyres” in Cannock. I was looking to get one of my tyres checked, but I didn’t have the number. The guy… Read more →