My life at Automattic
Every year Automattic has a “Grand Meetup” (GM), where all the employees, from across the world, get together for a week. This year it was in Whistler, Canada, a resort town which hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics.
As my first GM I was, understandable, apprehensive. I’d been told that a GM could be overwhelming, so I made it my task to make sure it wasn’t.
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Since late last year I’ve been going through a process of adding complex, long and individual passwords to all my online accounts. I’m still doing it, albeit the less important accounts. Today I looked at bt.com. I don’t use them but still have an account set up from when I used to use them.
Now, by default, I try and use a 50 character randomised passwords, complete with numbers and symbols, which is generated by 1Password. Some sites have length limits so this, sometimes, need adjusting. The BT account page lists no such limitations, so what could go wrong?
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I think most people are getting savvy to the customer reviews these days on the sites of retailers but if you’re still naive to it, here’s an example.
My Facebook timeline recently sported an advert for a pay-monthly toothbrush service – the Uber Sonic Club (no relation to the taxi service). However, reviews aren’t good.
Uber Sonic isn’t the answer to your dental woes.
Basically you get a cheap (and from the reviews ‘cheap’ appears to be accurate in all respects) sonic toothbrush for £19 and then new brush heads monthly (bear in mind that monthly replacements are way to regular). And all for just £54 a year.
If you then look at the Uber Sonic Facebook page, a response to the first post stands out.
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So, in the UK, if a retailer advertises a product at one price and then tries to make you pay for it at another, that’s mis-selling and they can get into trouble with trading standards, right?
Well, that was always my thinking on how this was supposed to work but, in the last week, I’ve learnt that it’s not the case at all.
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