Earlier today got an email pointing out that the folowing attempt to post a comment had been blocked. (The word for a place where you stake money while wearing black tie has been replaced by ‘biscuits’ throughout.)
Another Word tic. If you try to open a big document, get bored waiting and then double-click the original document to open it again, you’ll eventually get a document up with the query from Word:
Do you want to revert to the saved [document name]? Possible answers No and Yes, with No the default.
Except I don’t understand the question. How can I be reverting to something I haven’t changed? Does it mean I’ll lose changes, if I had made some? It’s a really bad dialogue box.
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So you’re buying something online. And you have filled in your inside leg measurement, mother’s middle name, etc etc and you’re on the home stretch. And now it’s simply time to choose which country you live in.
What do you get? The country popup:
(Go on, click on it. There’s more, much more. See how long it takes to find the United Kingdom.)
Which never fails to vex. I mean, is Afghanistan such a thriving hub of e-commerce now G.Bush got it bombed that it must come at the top of all e-commerce country popups? Is it an incentive scheme for the Afghans, who do of course need every help, though perhaps something more material than that? In an age where databases can track your food purchases, it is really so impossible to generate a list of countries based on where people buying from your site actually live? Often you’ll find the US at the top, but then it goes back to the long, long alphabetical list. And some sites really outdo themselves to include every possible territory. Look! The Pope can order some V**gr* with this popup! The Vatican is there are a location!
Another example of just because you can doesn’t mean you should. How many countries does the typical e-commerce site get business from? How many where the request doesn’t need some sort of human examination (quite a few countries have full-time scammers)? And I’d bet that the number of countries follows some sort of power law - eg 10x more from the US than the UK, 10x more from the UK than France…
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Some days, there’s too much news. Robert Verkaik, the Independent’s legal affairs writer, expended a lot of shoe leather and charm trudging around Connaught Square in London over the past few days pinning down a fantastic story: that Tony Blair has bought a £3.5 million house that will become his family home when he leaves Downing Street.
He and Andrew Grice, the political editor, finally nailed it at about 7.30pm last night. Fantastic story, perfectly timed a year after the Indie turned tabloid compact.
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