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 this video from Vice about it, I can see I wasn’t alone…
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Justifying an unnecessary expense
Can an expensive purchase, replacing something that, technically, isn’t actually broken be justified?
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Idiots run the world
My entire life until now, I felt humans were making progress. Uneven, confused, wrong at times, but progress. Now? Idiots run the world.
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Beware the Bosch Cashback
Bosch have a current promotion where, on certain appliances, they will give you cashback via a pre-paid Mastercard. For my recently purchased washing machine, this was £100 – not to be sniffed at and certainly helped justify the cost!
But getting the cashback out of them is proving rather tricky.
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My WordPress plugins and future support
Don’t panic, I’m still supporting them 😉
However, I’ve realised that I’m doing a lot of work to maintain backwards compatibility for quite old versions of WordPress. But why? It’s a small number of users and is there a point in me updating a plugin, say, to add new security features if it’s running on an old, insecure version of WordPress? You should really have your site on the latest, or near to latest, version of WordPress at all times.
So, with the next release of each of my plugins, they will now have a minimum requirement of WordPress 4.6.