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  • What were the marketing companies thinking?

    In the last week there’s been a spate of half-arsed attempts at marketing by leading companies which, at their worse, are racist. Of course they all deny trying to offend but I really have to wonder not only what went through their mind when they came up with their ideas but why nobody, at any…

  • The New Amazon Fire TV Stick

    The reason I purchased the new Amazon Fire TV Stick was because of its unique new shape.

  • Why the Cadbury Easter Story is Fake News

    In the last couple of days social media has been outraged by the religious desecration of Easter by Cadbury – a company that’s not even now British owned.

  • Designing WordPress Plugin READMEs for the new directory

    The WordPress.org plugin directory has had a massive overhaul and, as a result, plugin information is now shown differently to before. For plugin developers, therefore, a tweak to how you present your README (and associated assets) can ensure your plugin is presented better.

  • How The Running Man Predicted our Future

    I watched The Running Man again only the other week and thought, at the time, how well, back in the 80’s, this had predicted certain things, particularly as it is set in 2017. Having come across a video from Vice about it, I can see I wasn’t alone.