Google’s directions are getting more flexible.

Posted on June 29th, 2007 in Stuff, Work, travel by pete

I hadn’t noticed this last week, but the last set of directions I tried with Google Maps are much more flexible than before.

Directions from Thatcham to the City (not that you’d want to drive that route).

It’s possible to drag the blue route line around to different roads, add and remove destinations, all with real-time updates to the description of the route.

Very nice. We just need it linked in with real time traffic and roadworks info and it would be perfect

Phrase of the day..

Posted on June 24th, 2007 in birthday, kids, luke by pete

…comes from little Mark. Telling him that we’re on our way to Luke’s fifth birthday party, he asks:

“Will there be playing?”

Yes Mark, there’ll be playing.

“Will there be games?”

Yes Mark, there’ll be games.

“Will there be cake biting?”

<silence>

Yes Mark, there’ll be cake biting.

(WTF?)

Update: This site is now result no. 2 on google for cake biting, just nudged out of top spot by cakebite.com (potentially NSFW galleries)

Luke blowing out the candles.

Getting to the point

Posted on June 20th, 2007 in Stuff, WTF? by pete

An excellent analysis of marketing speak from a drug company.

Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect

Very, very funny.

More spam effects.

Posted on June 7th, 2007 in Stuff, spam by pete

Tonight, I find myself on the butt end of a joe job from some bottom-dweller that wants to pump and dump German stocks.

Joe Job

Look at that inbox - 893 emails, some of which are real but most are ‘returned delivery’ replies. Maybe it’s for the best to configure your mail server to not even bother replying these days (as I do).  With the vast majority of email being delivered being spam, and all pretence of good behaviour on the internet vanishing, I think it’s time the protocols of email delivery (notification if undeliverable) were retired.

Protocol is dead