During my daily commute I congratulate myself on transferring away from London to the local branch of my company and replacing an expensive, overcrowded, uncomfortable and unreliable train journey with a 5-minute walk, and even more so on strike days. Mind you, I hear that even non-strike days are now pretty dreadful and for the […]
Entries from October 19th, 2016
Solving the Southern Fail problem
October 19th, 2016 · Comments Off on Solving the Southern Fail problem · Life, Politics
The Trump taxes
October 5th, 2016 · Comments Off on The Trump taxes · Politics
I was not greatly surprised to hear those revelations that Donald Trump declared losses that could have led to him paying no income taxes. I am a little surprised that all the emphasis has been on the not paying taxes bit rather than the making a loss bit. Trump’s main claim has always been that […]
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No more ‘Chinese friends’
October 5th, 2016 · Comments Off on No more ‘Chinese friends’ · Life, Technology
The news today is that Amazon are banning ‘incentivised reviews’. What that means is that you can’t accept anything in return for reviewing a product, not even a free or discounted product. It has always been the case that you can’t accept payment in return for writing a review, and especially not for writing a […]
Trouble adapting
October 3rd, 2016 · Comments Off on Trouble adapting · Technology
Why is it so hard to find an adapter that lets you plug a 3.5mm TRRS jack into a 3.5mm TRS socket? The reason this is a problem is that it is getting harder and harder to find headphones with an old-fashioned TRS jack to plug into my old mp3 player. They are all TRRS-style […]
Tags: Toys
