Touchscreen
Posted: Wed 14 December, 2005 Filed under: Customer Services, Thoughts 2 Comments »I wonder how long it’ll be before some bright spark figures out how to use a touchscreen to scan for fingerprints at the same time.
That way when you’re using an ATM to get money, and touch the screen to say what amount you want, or what options you want at the time, the screen could scan your fingerprint on the button, and lo, instant ID verification without having to twat about with PIN numbers, cameras, fingerprint scanners or anything.
Seems like a good idea to me, but I assume there must be some kind of technical problem with it. Otherwise surely someone would’ve done it already, right?
Memetic
Posted: Wed 14 December, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Festering Season, Thoughts 1 Comment »Snaffled from Pix…
Welcome to the 2005 edition of getting to know your friends. What you are supposed to do is copy this entire blog entry and paste it onto a new blog entry that you’ll post. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then publish! Leave a comment if you do this.The theory is that you will learn a lot of little (random) things about your friends, if you did not know them already.
- What time did you get up this morning?
7am - Diamonds or pearls?
Neither – Jade for a preference, or polished cabochon (not cut) sapphires - What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Harry Potter IV - What is your favourite TV show?
West Wing, although there’s also a liking for stuff like House, CSI/CSI:Miami (Not New York), Have I Got News For You and a few others. - What do you usually have for breakfast?
Cereal with dried fruit, and an Orange Juice. - Favourite cuisine?
Edible - What food do you dislike?
Raw Tomato - What is your favourite CD at the moment?
Tough One – taste changes too much even in one day. - Morning or night person?
Night - Favourite sandwich?
Subway Melt or Club on Honey Oat bread - What characteristic do you despise?
Being self-centred - Favourite item of clothing?
Currently my long (knee-length) wool coat - If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be?
A place where no-one else went - What colour is your bathroom?
Light Blue, with White tiles - Favourite brand of clothing?
No preferred brands – just whatever fits - Where would you retire to?
Somewhere else. - What was your most memorable birthday?
Thirtieth. I’d always said I’d spend it on a beach somewhere, and did so in Lanzarote. - Favourite sport to watch?
Snooker, or British Touring Car. - Who do you least expect to complete this?
Anyone - Person you expect to complete it first?
*shrug* - Person who is least busy?
*shrug* - When is your birthday?
5th Nov. Every year. - What is your shoe size?
11 - Pets?
Two, Psychotic Cat (Turkish Van), and Hound (collie) - Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with us?
Nope, not yet. - What did you want to be when you were little?
Bigger - What is your favourite flower?
Passion Flower. Or a carnivorous one. - What date on the calendar are you looking forward to?
27th December, when the Festering Season’s over. - One word to describe the person who you snaffled this from?
Knockout.
Bastards
Posted: Tue 13 December, 2005 Filed under: Festering Season, Work-related 1 Comment »
When I got in to work this morning, the office had been done out in bloody silvery streamers and so on. Apparently this is “festive”, as opposed to the correct word, which is “tacky”. Bah Humbug.
It also appears that my colleagues may have got the impression I’m not a fan of the Festering Season. Where they’d have picked up this idea is anyone’s guess. *cough* So the rotten bastards have used my desk as a nexus for all that’s tinselly and tatty.
I hereby predict it won’t be long before there is either a) a *cough* fire-test to see if the tinselly crap is fire-retardant, or b) some kind of accident where the area around my desk suddenly becomes rather clearer of twinkly tat than it is now…
Delicious
Posted: Tue 13 December, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts, Travel 4 Comments »I’m sure there’s a word to describe this feeling :
The sourness and contempt felt when you watch a dickhead talking on his mobile phone while driving his BMW. The humour and amusement when you watch that dickhead swing his BMW one-handed into a parking space too fast, and smash the front end into a bollard.
But I can’t think what the word is.
However, it can be defined in Simpsons-mode as Nelson Muntz pointing and chanting “Ha Ha”.
Lucky
Posted: Tue 13 December, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts Leave a comment »Last night I wasn’t in the mood for walking home, what with having done some shopping and the like, so I thought Sod it, I’ll get a taxi.
Getting in to it, I spotted a fiver on the floor. So that paid for the cab home. Can’t be bad.
Like the man said, it’s better to be lucky than good…
Postcode Finder
Posted: Mon 12 December, 2005 Filed under: Customer Services, Festering Season 2 Comments »At last – it appears that Royal Mail have finally let their Postcode Finder be used without having to sign up for the service first.
It may be just over the Festering Season – I don’t know – but for the moment it’s sat on their homepage. This is where it should be all the time, and I hope they’re finally learning. Of course, my registered email address of ” fuckoff@youtwats.com” is hardly useful to them, and I’m sure I’m not the only one using such useful email addresses in order to register with business…
Trade Descriptions
Posted: Mon 12 December, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 1 Comment »Over the weekend I noticed that Gilette are now marketing a brand of deodorant known as “Invisible Stick”.
Surely this is inaccurate? If it truly was an “Invisible Stick” then I wouldn’t be able to see it…