Beat them at their own game and see how they like it.

It's amazing that they even got the basics running so well, but the extra touches like the various animated logos and clear speech were the icing on the cake.

Headline: World’s biggest condom maker set to raise prices due to Iran war

oh great now where am I supposed to get my world’s biggest condoms

Also, I felt sorry for the two young guys loading and unloading my stuff. I thought I'd decluttered a bit since the last move..I was very wrong.

Currently sitting in the new house after my first night of sleeping here. Waiting on Virgin to arrive and set up my internet and looking around at all the stuff that needs putting away. So obviously I'm writing about doing it rather than actually doing it.

I guess that's one use for AI.. Keeping idiots occupied so they're not bothering the rest of us.

Oh, I'm blocked too and I didn't even know they existed till just now.

A Facebook ad for Audible, plugging Philip Schofield's autobiography

You know what, Audible, I think I'm gonna pass.

I was like that with Dark Souls. Enjoyed and it completed it, but the thought of playing more games like that? Nope.. I'm done.. You just know it's going to be a case of ramping up the difficulty more and more.

'Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego' boxed set for the mega drive (photo from eBay)

It's weird how that boxed set rarely turns up. I never saw it at all back in the day.. Just the regular version

The Wayback Machine has a copy of my first site from August 2000, built in FrontPage 2000. Obviously it's not the best of sites, but it's great that I can even look at something from back then.

Virgin Media: We're all set to install the broadband at your new address on the 22nd
Also Virgin Media: We've disconnected the broadband at your current address today. We saw no need to tell you this would be happening.

Sigh

Three-part web comic: Frame 1 - "I want things to be different" Frame 2- *trashes the place* Frame 3 - "oh no"

pal just mentioned having to buy tails for his wedding and I asked if the bride would be dressed as Knuckles, suspect I'll be riding that high for 12-24 hours

He's standing down?

Men will say 'those numbers are for a whole porn site, not the rape stuff.. they're overstating it', I recognised the site URL as they also have webcam screenshots and friends of mine have been screencapped without their knowledge from online chat rooms. So it's actually bad in multiple ways instead

I bought and sold one of those last year and some things are definitely more fun to test than others :)

I would say not, but I guess it's for companies that don't care about annoying non-customers.

In my side job, when I sell something, I hand-type an email to the customer with the tracking info and a personal message and although it takes longer, I think the personal touch is important

Virgin Media's chat bot, with an 'Amazing, cheers' response.

If you're going to have a chatbot on your website, please don't make it talk like this.

I guess people sacrificing any kind of personal touch to be able to do stuff at scale. In the area I work in, Copilot can be used to warm up leads and then pass them on to a real person, but if I ever got AI-sounding emails from a fake person trying to sell me something, I wouldn't use that company.

At work, I've been exchanging emails with someone with a Greathead. Not sure how much she embraces that surname though.

I see quite a few people in my area of expertise (which is just selling retro games, nothing really creative) popping up with videos on socials and podcasts and it just gives me anxiety even thinking about following suit.

Worth it for the two Card Fighters games and Neo Turfmasters :)

"... and some smoky bacon crisps, please"

A map of Clacton, showing where Nige isn't.

You got a more accurate result than I did

A search for Q*Bert on ebay, resulting in the message "Your query matches a large number of items. Please try searching within a category or use the - to exclude items. For example: shoes -Nike"

I assumed this kind of list would be well-known quotable lines, but No. 77 is over 200 words long.

Also, when I think about Q*Bert, it always reminds me of eBay, as the * makes it tricky to search for the game on there

A picture of the three Centurions from the cartoon of the same name

Power XTreme!

four cups of ice cream with spoons on a table ALT: four cups of ice cream with spoons on a table

Someone else can have this fourth one then.

Maybe the US will one day realise that 'playing as white' isn't a strategy.

If only I'd not already released my documentary the week before and finished my headline tour of the UK last month.