By tim, on August 23rd, 2010 at 9:30 am Earlier on this year, I had a quick trawl through the search terms people had used to find this blog and published a number of the more unusual ones (with a number of tongue-firmly-in-cheek comments and answers.)
As I’m off work at the moment, I thought I’d have another quick look – and I haven’t been disappointed by the sheer creativity of things that get typed into search engines. Here are my favourites from the last few months.
Q: citpbreadthofknowledgetestexamples
A: Is your space bar not working? If you apply for BCS CITP, you will get . . . → Read More: There are more questions than answers (#2)
By tim, on April 2nd, 2010 at 1:46 pm This morning, I’ve had a quick look through the statistics that are provided by 123-reg, the company I’ve used to host my blog since October of last year. One of the reasons I moved from a free wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted wordpress.org environment was to be able to have a little more control over what I could do. One benefit of self hosting is the improved statistical information you can gather.
For example, I now know that I get more visits to the site from people using Internet Explorer than Firefox (3,642 vs 2,908 since last October), but that . . . → Read More: There are more questions than answers
By tim, on December 24th, 2009 at 9:36 am When it’s to do with Open University cut off times for TMAs.
There has been a well publicised change to TMA cut off times in the works for some time now from 12 midnight to 12 noon. Clear so far. However, the following message has been posted to StudentHome this morning (my italics):
Reminder – Change to cut off time for TMAs, CMAs, and iCMAs
With effect from tomorrow, 25 December 2009, the cut off time for tutor marked assignments (TMAs) and computer marked assignments (CMAs and iCMAs) will change to 12 noon. This means that you should ensure that . . . → Read More: When is a change not a change?
By tim, on December 19th, 2009 at 6:45 pm While I was suffering from man-flu, this letter arrived from the “Customer Experience Team” of East Midlands Airport. Dated 9th December, it arrived on the 17th.
It’s just a holding response that thanks me twice in four sentences (cunningly disguised as three paragraphs) for writing to them. Apparently the manager of car parking and retail will reply to my points, recalled here, soon.
By tim, on June 28th, 2009 at 1:26 pm Seen at Oakwood Community Centre last night – an advertisement for citizencard – slogan: “Everyone who’s anyone has one … Be someone!”
Citizencard Poster
Which on closer inspection reveals just how extraordinary an anyone you can be if you get one:
Add 18 years to 23 Apr 1990 and you get …
This all seems a bit embarassing for the organisation that proclaims itself to be “The UK’s leading proof-of-age scheme”. I hope the scheme is better than their marketing material suggests.
. . . → Read More: Citizencard rewrites the laws of physics
By tim, on June 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm Cardiff Central station must have been designed by C programmers – it has a platform 0!
It also has the loudest and most incomprehensible tannoy system (even when English is being spoken), further proof of the influence of Kernighan and Ritchie methinks.
By tim, on June 9th, 2009 at 8:46 am Seen at Reading Station this morning:
Reading Explorer is an award winning pedestrian orientation and navigation system that helps visitors find their way around the town, while providing an insight into its fascinating past.
That would be a map, then?
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