In yesterday’s Daily Mail, a woman called Samantha Brick wittered on wrote an article about how life was so difficult for her ‘because she was so beautiful’. (That’s a link to the story, if you really must read it – but hang on before you do so) Predictably, t’internet – and Twitter in particular – [...]
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Recently I’ve noticed a similar ‘message’ in at least two songs on Radio 1‘s current playlist. I know, I’m way outside the target demographic for R1, and blah blah, but I just can’t bring myself to switch to either Radio 2, or some godawful commercial hunk of crap. Anyway. First is Lana Del Rey’s “Video [...]
I’d forgotten about this ’til now, but it annoyed me at the time. Over the weekend, I went in to the local Asda store.Along with some other things, I bought some Diet Coke in 500ml bottles. I prefer them that way for drinking in the car, or whatever. Anyway, I got to the till, and [...]
So, I’ve now linked this site to my Twitter page With luck, this will be the first Fat Al post to show on Fat Al’s twitter…
One of the things I’m working on at the moment is my identity on social networks. On Twitter I’m already FatAlDotCom – although there’s not much going on there yet. On Facebook I’m also FatAlDotCom – and again, there’s not much there yet. Social Network stuff is just another of the facets of this entire [...]
On March 1st, Google’s privacy policy is changing. If you don’t want your web history stored past that date, you need to delete it in the next week. If you leave it ’til 1st March, it will be too late – you need to have done it by the end of 29th Feb. The EFF [...]
“For every £100 I’m paid, £30 isn’t mine.” Over on MoneySaving Expert (MSE) Martin Lewis has a piece about how freelancers and the self-employed need to remember about Tax, and save it away rather than treating it as ‘just another bill when it comes in’. It’s a really good point – and it’s something that [...]
Today is, allegedly, “Safer Internet Day“. Surprisingly, it’s not being mentioned or promoted by CEOP, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection bunch of muppets Centre. Not a thing. Wouldn’t you think that – if CEOP were actually any fucking use at all – they’d support and cross-promote this Safer Internet Day? Or even have created [...]