Autosave is for wimps

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Kerbside flytip or museum exhibit: that's where we're headed, IT comms peeps
Scraping – and rolling out – the barrel of computing history
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Alistair Dabbs
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Mark my words, GenAI critters… if you know what I mean
“It looks like you’re typing an obscenity. Would you like help?”
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March 2024

The day I almost pinned my butt as a Google Maps landmark
No you can’t see it from space
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Why are you holding your phone like that?
If you stop it now, that might just count as a 'Brexit bonus'
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Hide your extramarital affair by doing it online. What could possibly go wrong?
Put the rolling pin down and step back
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Greetings from the Leap-ocalypse bunker. Did I miss anything?
Is human evolution still on permanent stall?
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February 2024

My life story, told as a trail of rubbish PCs
They were so bloated, even defrag broke wind
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Alistair Dabbs
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Wish away tech billionaires’ obsessions with home-grown demonic spells
“No, love, yer can’t park there, it’s private”
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January 2024

Video ads: The only good autoplay is a dead autoplay
I can’t hear you, la la la – no really I cannot hear you over this racket
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Alistair Dabbs
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Every generation invents new ways to fall off the shoulders of giants
Oh and they invented ‘falling’ too
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"Boundary pushing" in-car stereo tech is driving me up the wall
Can I flip it over to play side 2?
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How many screen-taps to get through your customer funnel? Three? Five?
By my count, about 17,000
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