Meerkats, once famous for their group spirit and dealing with the adversity of their desert life, are now more famous, at least in the UK, for being confused with an insurance website. For those outside the UK, that might be a bit harder to explain. However, I saw this video of a giggling meerkat on…
It’s my dog Berta‘s birthday – or rather, the anniversary of when she came home with us as we don’t the date of her actual birthday – this weekend, so in her honour, here are some dog jokes. I hope that you like them, and I will tell them to Berta later to see how…
I know the title, “Siri and The Three Laws of Robotics” sounds like the topic of a really dull lecture or the title of a science fiction episode, but it is neither…. My investigations of humorous responses when asking Apple’s Siri silly questions has so far included an awareness of Monty Python, a view on…
You may be familiar with the odd responses the I have previously had from Siri showing that someone in the team responsible for the personal assistant on the iPhone is a fan of Monty Python, and that Siri also has an interesting view on the announcement of Peter Capaldi as the latest incarnation of Dr…
I mentioned the odd internet phenomena of 241543903 yesterday, and a few people have pointed out the existence of Google’s Easter Eggs since then. Now, I know I’ve talked about Easter Eggs before, and the great Easter Egg Extravaganza from once upon a time, but this is a more technical meaning of an Easter Egg,…
I was talking to a colleague today who mentioned that he had recently bought a freezer, so I asked him if he had google 241543903. This confused him, until he did Google that number, which answered his question as to why I had enquired, but in its own way, created more questions than it answered.…
I normally consider the BBC to be a bastion of truth in the UK. I assume that their news stories are neutral, and report on the facts, not the sensation. This feeling is enhanced by the fact that I regularly see the corporation accused of both left and right bias. That’s a good sign. You…
Some of you may remember that I discovered a few weeks ago that Apple’s Siri actually knows something about Monty Python, and given the big announcement that we have a new Dr Who in Peter Capaldi, I thought that I should ascertain what Siri’s view on the new Doctor might be. I asked the rather…
I do live in quite a rural part of the country, so farm animals are a relatively common sight. That said, they are normally in, or in transit between, fields. They certainly do not pop around for dinner on a frequent basis. Last night, I went out to put some rubbish in the bin, and…
If you, like me, have an accent that has anything other than a very standard intonation and no hint of a dialect, and have an iphone, then you will probably also consider Siri to be nothing more than an unusable feature who does not understand you. Tonight, for the first time, I have managed a…
It’s Mothers Day today. Or is it? The answer is, it depends where in the world you are. The UK, and some other countries, celebrate what is commonly known as Mothers Day on Mothering Sunday, the Christian festival that falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent. As far back as the sixteenth century, people would…
It’s the 30th January. It is a date that always strikes me as one which attracts “events”. The history books seem to have more than their fair share of this date, and I have often wondered why. Perhaps it is just that certain events of which I am aware have occurred on this date, and…