Archives for “Just wondering”

Yesterday about thirty Intranetters (thanks to Andrew for pointing me towards the yahoo group) got together in central London. It was a really good event - ...


Never can say goodbye

Have you noticed that on the radio very few, if any, presenters and guests say "goodbye" at the end of an interview or phone call? More ...


Do you stand on the right on the escalator in John Lewis or your local shopping mall? Did "Please stand on the right" originate on the ...


Automatic accents

Do you have a lift at work? Does it have a male or female voice? Who decided that? Does a lift in Belfast have a different ...


GROW

Goal Reality Options What next?


WAIT

Why Am I Talking?


Sounds like it should be a blast

If you'll pardon the pun. I've just been sent this info about an event taking place in July. I've added in the link showing where the ...


Ad nonsense

Listening to Xfm on my phone on the bus on the way home from work on Thursday night and an ad came on that went ...


Running track question

Why do we run in an anticlockwise direction on a running track? Has it always been anticlockwise? Is it clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere? [No, actually scrap ...


A good excuse for a musical reference, but this isn't to do with choosing between the Beatles and Radiohead. I was just wondering what kind of ...


Funeral Parlour question

Why are funeral parlours so often on street corners? My folks were discussing this recently and have a theory about access/parking of hearses, which used to ...


How long will it be …

... before wifi is a prerequisite to saying yes to babysitting?


Is it just me or…

...are more and more people saying things like "Is it just myself or..."? And am I the only one feeling somewhat irrationally unnerved by this grammatical ...


Just a thought

What if the text messages you receive on your phone appeared in bubbles above your head? [Thanks Lydia]


Is Google down?

It's 14:00 GMT and I haven't been able to access google or gmail for the last 15 minutes. Every other website I access regularly is working ...


So does that mean when it snows when it's sunny you get a snowbow?


They were in a primary school classroom our team painted today.


Revolving door etiquette

It may be old school, but I prefer to hold the door open for someone and follow rather than going first and letting it close ...


Thigh Tech

Just wondering... Was this intentional? Does it bring in more business than if they'd placed their logo somewhere else?


Just wondering... does anyone anywhere know of a webserver-based RSS aggregator that will run on an intranet? Commercial, open-source, it doesn't matter at the moment, I'm ...


For the record

A search for a definition of the currently much- (some say over-) used word mashup takes you to this wikipedia disambiguation page (i.e. it has ...


Who pays for fraud?

Fraud has hit the headlines again in the last couple of days after recent statistics revealed it cost the UK £16bn last year. I've just been ...


When is a photo not a photo?

When it's of an illustration according to Flickr. Monkstyle.net who's been posting illustrations to Flickr says: I noticed a while ago that when I searched for photos ...


Can you think of an example of something that exists in one size and one size only and is manufactured for one purpose? I can't. Yet. Some ...


Magazine dates question

Why do some magazine publishers bring out the January 2006 issue in November 2005? So far, after a little searching, I've found this explanation from someone ...