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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
What a pain in the arse! Migrating to a Google Account on Blogger is a nightmare.
Maybe it's an Apple thing, but that's enough to send anyone off to find another way of communicating with the world!
Anyway, clearly Google's ambition of world domination is one step closer as they take over another online service. Goodness knows they're having loads of success with YouTube the news today was full of stories of the $1bn (what's the smiley for a pinky in the corner of the mouth, Dr Evil type" billion?). Way to go guys!
"Guys" - there's an expression I don't use much, so why now? I'm not impressed with the insidious Americanisms spreading into the UK, it's inevitable I suppose; but at 40 years old, I'm in that grump-old state - so I can happily rail against anything.
In an attempt to "get down with the kids" at work today, someone called something "wack". I hope in jest, but still not sure. I was interested in the etymology of this word so went searching on the internet; and boy, did it come up trumps. Welcome to Urban Dictionary - I'm not sure whether this is a wiki-type site yet, having only just found it today, but a lot of people seem to be adding their own definitions of "urban language".
So "wack" is:
Lame, sorry ass, aint even legit.
This stuff is brilliant.
I found "yoink" listed too. One of my favourite words - taken from a Simpson's episode.
An exclamation that, when uttered in conjunction with taking an object, immediately transfers ownership from the original owner to the person using the word regardless of previous property rights.
Anyway, not for the first time, I've said that this is what the www is all about. You can keep you multi-billion dollar YouTube enterprises (incidentally, saying "you tube" to someone in Scotland is not advised), just give me more of this random stuff.
Example of random stuff - thanks to Martin Young in the office for this one!
We were talking of old sweets, the ones you used to get in proper sweet shops and generally lamenting the decline of old fashioned standards, when he forwards a link to www.aquarterof.co.uk - this is just gold dust. I don't have a sweet tooth, but I reckon I'll be ordering some of my favourites.
Most likely I'll end up with a sore stomach to go with the aforementioned pain in the arse!
.: posted by Ali 8:21 PM
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