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Customer complaint email and response by GASP clothing goes viral

These people have no idea of the hellish mess they have gotten themselves into. They deserve it. Oh , they are so exclusive are they? Well, I think they are probably going to find themselves too exclusive to have customers at this rate.

GASP clothing has defended its position involving a customer dispute, releasing yet another jaw-dropping response.

The statement came after a spat between the retailer and a customer, who was told that their clothes were too exclusive for her, turned into a viral email sensation.

via Customer complaint email and response by GASP clothing goes viral | Herald Sun.

timelady

September 29, 2011

Blogging, Events, Funny, Twitter

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funny, idiots, Internet, Twitter, viral

Fooey, Facebook, Farewell.

I know, I tried once before. I didn’t manage it. But tbh, the last few months have seen me avoid Facebook, except to update The Serval Project Page. I now have an identity to do that, and find I am merely annoyed and overwhelmed by Facebook. I have so much happening in life, that I avoid responding. It is making me rude. I don’t like being that. And I guess the story today of cookies from Facebook tracking you even when logged out was the final straw. Also see this ridiculous Facebook Timeline (Facebook Invaded My Privacy, And All I Got Was This Lousy Timeline). Enough already.

I find am actually interested in engaging people now the dread of it Facebook had instilled in me is gone. But why the dread?

I think the simple answer is, many people do a lot on Facebook, and I just became overwhelmed. Guiltily, the unanswered messages piled up. Facebook, like me when the kids rooms are beyond my acceptability limit, turned into a screaming +10 monster of nagginess. Actually, I am much more mellow…I just remove tech from their reach until fixed – or unleash Daddy (the Gary Larson cartoon featuring a small boy in front a whiteboard with formulae, and a professorish man with a pointer standing next to it, with caption ‘eventually Billy came to dread his father’s lectures as a form of punishment’ is terribly apt here:) ). Anyway, Facebook is starting to feel like the Internet‘s version of the beginnings of an abusive relationship. Questioning me endlessly about what I am doing, who I am seeing. Tracking me endlessly. Demanding endlessly. That is a lot of endlessly:) Yes, hyperbole, but I honestly came to dread Facebook emails.

I do participate more on Google+, I have found. That might be temporary, but I am more comfortable there. Twitter I don’t mind dipping in and out of, but have never found the right tool to wade through the flood of information. I would love to, so recommendations, please!

So, henceforth, all will centre back with my blog, Google Plus, (this is me) and sometimes, Twitter (me there too). My blog updates Twitter. I update Google+, until APIs from Google allow me to blog-> + the same way,with a nifty plugin. Posterous occasionally will be kept in mix to update log, Tumblr,(which just mirrors this blog, so nbd), and Twitter all at once, in lazy fashion.

So if you want to actually interact, Google Plus, or here on blog:)

A massive increase in Google+ sign-ups! Time to delete my Facebook account? (pakos.me)
Give Me More: Our Information Binge on Tumblr (newyorkfashionparsons.wordpress.com)
Facebook Ads API: You Can’t Measure What You Can’t See (programmableweb.com)
Why Facebook is Still Not ‘Open’ (polleydan.wordpress.com)
What the new Facebook taught me about Google Plus (urban-bellwether.com)
Facebook Ends Anonymous ‘Defriending’ (maboulette.wordpress.com)
Want Spotify? Get a Facebook account (digitaltrends.com)
Facebook will not be charging but you’re going to freak out about the new changes in a couple of weeks (bonjupatten.wordpress.com)

timelady

September 27, 2011

Facebook, Family Friends Pets Kids, Google, Internet Technology, Meanderings, Privacy, Social Networks, Social Philosophy, Twitter

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Facebook, Facebook Timeline, Gary Larson, Google, Online Communities, Social network, Tumblr, Twitter

Good news for Neil Gaiman (yay)

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Neil announces yet another well deserved award via journal.neilgaiman.com

(He is, i will cheerfully claim, up there as one of the most stunning, talented and accomplished authors of my generation – or of any…)

Yeah i know, i snuck in the photo of him with his equally amazing fiancee Amanda Palmer (i am an equal opportunity fangirl…)

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Gaiman wins children’s book prize (news.bbc.co.uk)
Neil Gaiman delivers his Doctor Who episode [Doctor Who And Neil Gaiman] (io9.com)
Neil Gaiman Wins Carnegie Medal, Top Children’s Book Prize In UK (huffingtonpost.com)
Hodgman, Gaiman and Kulash – So Happy Together (infosecurity.us)

Arts, Children's literature, Neil Gaiman, Northern Lights (novel), Online Writing, Stardust, The Graveyard Book, Twitter

Death as a social experience

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I sent this to a group of uni friends who keep in touch:

I am fascinated by social media and lifestreaming, though i have removed myself from a rather large amount of it.

I was surprised at the loss so many otherwise non geek type people felt when i left Facebook, quite odd reaction – how much they missed connecting with me. Erm, the phone? email? my blog?

Some of the best conversations i have had online have been since leaving, with people who would just follow my updates – who had no need to ask, to discuss, they KNEW already what was happening in my life.

We have reduced our lives to 140 characters or so in many cases, a series of updates and photos and location updates and…noone needs to find out the backgrounds, the feelings, life is a fast paced series of vignettes and snapshots. fake, junk food like equivalency. filling without nourishing or satisfying, yet we crave more.

Anyway, we have had twitter births, weddings – this was probably inevitable.

Now we have death. Death in the form of an execution. Government sanctioned death, tweeted by the official who confirmed the order.
Tweetage Wasteland : I Just Checked In To A Firing Squad.

Is it viscerally disturbing because it was an official? Because we don’t do death penalty here? Or was it the calmness, the almost indifference associated with tweeting? Just another piece of info, litter dumped in the stream, it has bobbed to the surface, but will
disappear again soon, just another piece of flotsam and jetsam that is human life online.

We are bytes of information.

I’m not sure if i am scared or optimistic. I value the connections i have made online, some really deep and valuable friendships that have lasted years. now, with a disability, i appreciate the ability to travel the world, as it were, even more.

It is terribly easy to think of it as fully living though. it isn’t. my kids keep me grounded, their sweet solid reality is a wondrous thing. The internet is people, yes, in that it is information and communication and entertainment – all people derived. Yet if we lose
touch with people here, around us, if we lose our humanity in being online, what then?

Noone bats an eyelid at births online anymore, they just shrug and say well, that funny old internet. Now death is headed the same way. But murder – execution. Wow. Still trying to understand how i could become indifferent to that.

I guess the same way we can face the evening news without flinching, the violent dvds. They have all been leading to this. The more you see, the less you flinch.

Maybe. If the day comes when i could not flinch at this stuff, i am
trading in my humanity card – i am not fit to be part of the species.

The Last Firing Squad (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
Last Appeal Before Utah Firing Squad: Don’t Shoot!! (riehlworldview.com)
Live-Tweeting A Firing Squad (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
Utah firing squad highlights death-penalty debate (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Twittered to Death (slog.thestranger.com)
Quote of the Day: The Twitter Firing Squad (abovethelaw.com)
Death by Firing Squad Execution in Utah (rawjustice.com)
The Last Firing Squad (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

timelady

June 25, 2010

Facebook, Internet Technology, Meanderings, Social Networks, Social Philosophy, Twitter

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Capital punishment, Crime and Justice, Death Penalty, Execution by firing squad, Facebook, Murder, Opposing Views, Twitter

Stuff…and nonsense?

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Todays odd mix: Javascript explained, an amazing gorgeous table that i lust after, JFK‘s moon speech with other meanings, fix smelly shoes,Google Buzz, and social media for small businesses. Variety people, i try to offer some variety!

Make: Online : Radially expanding and contracting table.

Why Small Businesses Shouldn’t Take Social Media for Granted.

Give Buzz another look

Throw Smelly Shoes In The Freezer To Freshen Them | Lifehacker Australia

Other things JFK’s moon-launch speech might have justified – Boing Boing.

What is JavaScript and How Does It Work? [Technology Explained].

Google Buzz Reconsidered (mikemoran.com)
Social Media Sharing Versus Self-Promotion: An Experiment (socialmediatoday.com)
Social Media Pillows by Craftsquatch (laughingsquid.com)

timelady

June 14, 2010

Creativity, Google, Internet Technology, Meanderings, Science Knowledge, Social Networks

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Boing Boing, Business, Google Buzz, JavaScript, Lifehacker, Small business, Social Media, Twitter

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HTML5 is gaining bigger exposure with Apple making a lot of noise about it, especially with the release of Safari 5 (and i thought nothing would make me switch from Chrome – but this did. I even have my much beloved Developer Tools). So, as this is part of what i do for a living, expect to see more about it here, (though, tbh, i generally Evernote 98% of such things – but this is a good general article, not a developer guide or technique). Prepare For Catchphrase, “HTML5 it!”

I quite liked the idea that Twitter Is So 10 Minutes Ago…

BP has committed one of the most heinous acts of this century so far – and that is saying something, given our increasingly advanced ways of destroying, aiming, and generally damaging the planet and each other that we have to play with. Here is somethign to make you want to take the BP executives out for a swim, say, in hot oily water…Infographic of the Day: BP’s Horrifying Safety Record

While we are at it with Twitter and BP, ’according to The New York Times, Twitter contacted @BPGlobalPR on Tuesday to remedy the identity issue (@BPGlobalPR is a parody account created by an anonymous user in response to the massive oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico). The twitterer in question poses as a clueless BP PR person, offering scathing commentary about the manner in which the spill has been dealt with. And, it seems, this week BP had had enough with the charade.“BP requested that the account holder be asked to comply with Twitter’s guidelines regarding parody,” read a statement from Twitter issued today. “Twitter subsequently provided suggestions of best practices that are found on our parody policy page.” ‘BP and Twitter to @BPGlobalPR: Tell Them You’re Joking.

Mind you, BP has purchased sponsored links that appear at the top of Google and Yahoo’s search results for terms like “oil spill” in its attempts to improve its public image in the wake of its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP Buys Top Google Result for “Oil Spill”.

With our increasing ability, and subsequent expecttion of being able to, stay connected jus about anywhere via wireless or 3G, what does one do when travelling? They guys at Endgadget have some possible solutions – and some gotchas too, in their How-to stay connected while traveling internationally.

One for my quilting side -6.9 Machine Quilter’s Showcase Pictures Part 2 from the delightful Scientific Quilter, fantastic podcast and ideas on quilting AND science, bliss:) (Check out part 1 while you are there, gorgeous…)

And last, but never ever least, a Doctor Who funny:

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