Posts by Martin Greenaway

One millionth English 'word' is... Web 2.0

How do retards like this get publicity?

This guy got coverage on the front page of CNN, on Newsnight, and on BBC this morning. Irrespective of the irony of claiming to be a linguistic reference whilst counting "web 2.0", "jai ho" and "carbon neutral" as WORDS, and ignoring their unwillingness to publish the exact method for inducting new terms, it gets plastered all over the media.

I really wish I knew his secret, so that I could use it to publicise worthwhile causes. In the meantime, I can't get an article on Wikipedia without independent coverage that doesn't come from a primary source, i.e., people who know what the fuck they are talking about.

Reg Reader poll on notebook quality: results are in

This is hardly food for thought ...

... for people making procurement decisions, unless "what other people who may or may not ever have used a laptop in their lives remember of XYZ manufacturer's media-driven reputation from a piece they read in a magazine once" ranks highly on the check list. Say, above the REAL value for money, support costs and battery life of the REAL laptops that these companies produced. Perhaps if you could actually evaluate the products, instead of the perceptions of 400 people ... oh wait, sorry, how Paris of me.