Posts by Deb Swinney
10 posts • joined Tuesday 19th August 2008 14:45 GMT
Posted in Microsoft discovers disposable email
Google already allows email+x@gmail.com
Have done so (quietly) for a while. It's less useful than you think, as a lot of email forms won't recognise this as a valid email.
Posted in UK set for eBook pricing showdown
I'd noticed that
"editors, and decreasingly, proof-readers"
Yes, I'd noticed the decreasing use of proof-readers in several books recently.
Not for pages
You can do the groups thing with most of the site, but not Pages you like, which are always public. No option. What FB just did was convert your employer, school, music, TV and movies to Pages, making public. The only option was to remove them all from your profile.
Nice bark. Nasty bite.
Sadly, just today Facebook forced me to switch all my music, tv and movies from my profile to Pages, which are publicly visible. Only alternative was to remove them all from my profile (which I did). So it seems that the words are just words, the contempt for privacy remains.
Yeah but
I'm guessing that if the EFF want to start any lawsuits, then the evidence (the Agreement) will need to be acquired legally. Anyone who signed up and discloses it isn't entitled to (under the Agreement), so they had to find a workaround that got them there within the law.
But IANAL, and I don't know what the EFF's plans are - just guessing.
Except...
"Here's what everyone taking a position of leadership throughout history has had to accept: if something bad happens, it's all *your* fault. Ask any politician..."
You think our politicians accept that it's their fault when something goes wrong? Jeez, which country are you living in?
Posted in Apache terminates 'outdated' web server
Final cut-off
"[ASF] has released HTTP Sever 1.3.42".
Are you sure? Maybe they severed release 1.3.42?
Posted in Kindle to come to Blighty on 19 October
But will it sell UK editions of books?
I really can't put up with reading everything in US spelling.
Posted in Google remodels top secret money machine
If Google really believe in automatic matching...
... then why not place the extra ads for free, but charge double (or some multiple) for click-throughs. Then people will pay more if Google really does find them more customers, but not otherwise.
Of course, that model would only make sense if Google really believes that their extra ads are appearing to the right audience.
The pirate logo, because it seemed relevant.
Posted in iPod Nano trouser fireballs sweep Japan
UK Nanos Warning
"* Your dryness may vary. For UK readers, this would be dry in the sense that dry white wine is dry."
What, full of alcohol? That'd explain the sudden flammability, I guess.
