Why do people say signage..
...when they mean signs? It really annoys me.
Posts by Martin H Watson
116 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2007
HP's bendy plastic e-paper display on the way
Lads from Lagos target Facebook
Yahoo! banks on the power of !
eBay: 'We will lower listing fees'
Windows 7 fake spotted on BitTorrent
CCTV must not record conversations, warns new guidance
FBI preps $1bn biometric database
eBay glitch wipes out 11 year-old account without a trace
Tuesday 13th November 2007 11:38 GMT
My eBay problems
I stopped using eBay after I complained about sellers expecting me to provide feedback before they would. I complained and got no response. Effectively it means that if I pay and don't get an item, then leave negative feedback, they just leave tit for tat negative feedback for me.
Beer better than water: Official
Maths might tell us how kids learn language
Monday 6th August 2007 01:23 GMT
Misleading figures
I think the 50K vocab is incorrect. I have always believed that a vocab of 20,000 words is typical of a graduate (at least until the last 20 years of dumbing down). Offhand, I think English has 250,000 words, so suggestions that we use 50,000 seems incorrect.
I am lost for words...
Best wishes,
Martin
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Martin H. Watson
Paris Hilton says jail term has changed her
Blogosphere is the net spawn of Satan: official
Thursday 21st June 2007 22:41 GMT
Mashup is my hate - why not use amalgam, blend or mix?
"You can choose which Mapplets you want, and you can create a mashup of mashups by combining Mapplets with each other or with built-in features of Google Maps, like driving directions and business search – and view it all on the same map."
That garbage was from the latest Google Earth news letter.
Best wishes,
Martin
http://www.martinhwatson.co.uk/puzzle_news.html
Martin H. Watson
JK Rowling badmouths eBay
Saturday 9th June 2007 15:58 GMT
eBay Jim, but not as we knew it
Three or four years ago I used to use eBay quite a lot. It was an environment that was honourable and there were lots of bargains. I recently decided to look at eBay to buy a Web cam. I was shocked at some of the negative feedback given but my biggest moan was the number of companies listing items as 'buy it now' for little more than 99p and then charging £10 first class post and packing, from English addresses. This is a clear avoidance of eBay fees and I reported several such listings. Unfortunately eBay do not provide any feed back to me as to whether my complaints were justified. Should I bother continuing to report this flagrant cheating?
It's eBay Jim, but not as we knew it.
Half a million kids' DNA on UK police database
Monday 14th May 2007 11:01 GMT
1 IN A (uk) BILLION
"The chance of a wrong match are approx 1 in a million, and the this evidence is brought to court; the jury convicts on the basis of it."
iT'S ACTUALLY 1 IN A (uk) BILLION
The chances of a mis-match are totally negligible, and there would be additional evidence.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
