Posts by Michael Hutchinson

Increased risk of death?

How can being fat or skinny increase the risk of death? The probability of death is 1/1, you can't increase that!

The font looks shockingly bad in Chrome.

And no mention in the article of how to change it back (if you wanted to for whatever reason).

In the email settings there's an option to hide from timeline, which has been set on all non fb email addresses, easy to change back if you're that way inclined.

Still, they shouldn't have blanket changed everyone's settings without notification anyway.

Surely the problem...

...is a combination of over population in the affected areas, much more people than the water systems were designed to ever need to cope with, coupled with the sheer idiocy of having companies, whose only purpose is to make a profit, running vital infrastructure.

And before the pedant-mobile turns up, all private and publicly held companies exist for one sole ultimate purpose, to make a profit. That's the part of capitalism that people fail to understand.

All the previous comments already deal with Lewis, so I needn't add anything more there :-)

And here's an example of the extreme weather conditions in the North East:

Now you see it

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=dl3+0ph&hl=en&ll=54.550313,-1.588297&spn=0.021381,0.066047&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.598104,135.263672&hnear=Darlington+DL3+0PH,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=54.550259,-1.58811&panoid=1k3TMU29OmkIAfKNuwImfA&cbp=12,108.3,,0,14.5

Now you don't

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=dl3+0ph&hl=en&ll=54.550263,-1.588125&spn=0.021281,0.066047&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.598104,135.263672&hnear=Darlington+DL3+0PH,+United+Kingdom&t=h&layer=c&cbll=54.550253,-1.587893&panoid=tNSD9rMIwrDV-Cu-0xgYwQ&cbp=12,108.3,,0,14.5&z=15

Come on, even BBC didn't resort to the G word... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16158374

Get over yourself

Just another parent making a woe-is-me rant...

would have been better if the screen on the back wasn't at least a foot higher than the one on the front...

5%

Is there a prize for being part of the 5% that didnt get streetviewed?

It's all speculation - but wouldn't it be fun if Apple did come up with its own search engine?

No.

Na na na na, Good bye

Good riddance! It's just a shame the next person in the job will be just as "Wacky"