Charles on… anything that comes along

I mentioned here how daft the idea of portion-controlled coffee is in an environment where you have thirsty hacks trying to banish last night’s drinking, and working a constant eight-hour day.

And now, the reckoning: in the five days we’ve been here, the 60-odd journalists have consumed 600 pounds worth of coffee/tea things.

The lesson: portion control sucks.

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Yesterday I grumbled mildly about the way that Wordpress won’t allow superscript tags in comments, but its restrictions also have benefits. Here’s an example where a blog spammer tried to use an HTTP tag to make the page you were viewing go straight to the spam page. Happily, Wordpress ignores it. As the guy says, “I love it when things work silently in the background, protecting [you] from stupid evil people.” If only more programs were designed with a knowledge of the grifters of the Net in mind…

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