Month: June 2010

Another way of screwing ADSL salesfolk

If using cold calls as a free sex chat service doesn’t stop the bastards, you could always try A’s dad’s technique: “Internet? Yep, I’ve heard of that and could maybe use it, but could you just spend a few minutes explaining what it is?” And then walk away.
An irrelevant techish photo from Barcelona

Daily Mail confuses Rudyard Kipling with George MacDonald Fraser

Here (thanks JD): Rudyard Kipling, renowned for his brilliant books celebrating marital glory at the height of the British Empire, was also left a broken man when John – a chronically short sighted teenager – was cut down in the mud and rain of northern France. So perhaps not really. I suppose Kipling might now…

Traditional and Mediterranian Root Entertainment Fair

Watching them grow? Or is there a sexual metaphor in the Government of Catalonia’s 9 billion euro March bond issue? The document is actually fine as a whole so I guess they just copy-pasted the list of public “companies and organisations”. Arrel in “Fira d’Espectacles d’Arrel Tradicional, Mediterrani” is correctly translated as “roots”, but a…