Microposts
I naively thought that, now that GDPR Day is here, we might see a reduction in annoying cookie popups. (I don’t know why I thought that; I was probably just being hopeful.) But it’s got worse Much worse. Giant, screen-covering popups; “Accept” buttons that don’t work. Oh dear.
This is a form of GDPR email I haven’t seen before (and I’ve seen a lot):
With new data protection rules known as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) effective 25th May 2018, we are reaching out to existing customers to notify them that RCP Parking Ltd will be unsubscribing all existing customers from our promotional communications.
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RCP Parking Ltd has determined that previously subscribed customers were not subscribed in a manner compliant with the new GDPR regulation.
Refreshingly honest.
Regarding Eurovision: I sort of understand why you can’t vote for your own country. Though if you could, would the most populous country automatically win? Or the country with the biggest LGBTQ community? I don’t think so. People would still vote for a song they liked. But it would be interesting to try it one year.
But more importantly: why can people in the UK not vote by text? Seems weirdly old-fashioned.
It’s been a 24-hour rollercoaster for my daughter (and all of us) as Brooklyn Nine-Nine has now been picked up by NBC. Phew.
Until his morning I couldn’t have told you the name of Frightened Rabbit’s lead singer, though I like some of their music. Now Twitter tells me of Scott Hutchison’s tragic death.
All I can say is: if you find yourself in a dark place, please, talk to someone. Help is there.
My daughter has just told me that Brooklyn Nine-Nine has been cancelled. God damn it. In this golden age of television that we’re living through, it’s consistently the funniest thing out there. Never an episode goes by that we don’t have to pause and jump back because one or more of us (to be fair, usually me) were laughing so hard we missed the next line.
I hope they don’t leave on another end-of-season cliffhanger.
I’ve never seen this before: my iPhone’s dock is missing this morning. Everything else is working fine, though.
Back to the Minnow theme. One of these days I’ll stop experimenting and settle on a theme.
When you’ve got a child who’s on the electoral register, but they’re not yet old enough to vote; and they have the same initials as you? That can cause problems.
Good day today: spent most of it struggling to get Java — running in Tomcat on the Mac — to call functions in R. Successfully in the end, thanks to Stack Overflow and others. Tonight: Infinity War!
What?!? Commando comics are still a thing? I used to love them when I was a kid. And look at those issue numbers: up in the five thousands!
Today was the first day wearing shorts this year. And also the first time ever wearing shorts to work. Another reason to love this new job.
Merlin Mann just said what I thought was “Trump loyal” on the Reconcilable Differences podcast. Intriguing.
Then I realised he said “trompe l’oeil”. Which made more sense in context, but was less interesting.
Why do Americans (or at least American podcasters) say “soddering” for “soldering”? Is it just a weird pronunciation (and if so, why?) or is it a slightly different spelling, like aluminium?
Ev Williams on the future of reading and writing on the net:
Now we can’t stand to sit through ads…
Where I come from we never could; because we grew up on the BBC. Whose funding, when you think about it in modern terms, is essentially a subscription model, though paying the subscription — the TV Licence fee — is mandatory if you have a TV.
In the early days that made sense, because the BBC was all there was on the TV. Now it seems harder to justify, but I’ve yet to see a solution that would be both as successful and as egalitarian. Because the licence is very, very cheap compared to the alternatives.