Articles on Medium, particularly @ozm. Media techie, app builder, software person, web-stuff doer, writer. Expect silly comments and personal views. he/him

Joined April 2009
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17 May 2024
Is Alan Partridge a reference to Alden Partridge from Norwich, Vermont who... invented PE?! (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alden_…)
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23 Apr 2024
RT @craiguito: If you put Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for an infinite amount of time, he’d eventually come up with the complete…
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I’m filling out a medical form online and I’m curious who’s out there speaking Old English.
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"John Dillermand ("John Penisman", "John Willieman" or "John Dongman") is a Danish stop motion animated children's television series about a man and his very long penis." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D…
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Wikipedia summarises the plot of episode 2 as: "Imagine if you had the world's longest penis! John has."
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11 Mar 2024
Photoshop can't even
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18 Feb 2024
I hear Clippy is going to be the villain in the next Microsoft Cinematic Dataverse movie
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It’s not Christmas until you’ve hung the traditional Christmas octopus on the tree
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This book won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the John W Campbell Memorial Award, the BSFA Award, the Jupiter Award, and the Locus Award for best novel. Martin Amis called it "triumphant". The Guardian called it "a stone-cold classic".
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27 Oct 2023
Extended edition with a commentary and deleted scenes
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23 Nov 2023
Deleted SCONES
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31 May 2023
Theatre of the ab-turd
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23 Dec 2022
I was going through some Lego today and found a few red flags
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14 Dec 2022
It blows my mind that Apple's services now turn over more than AWS
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Not enough Star Wars for you? I've asked ChatGPT to write a script for us from a few prompts
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It's fascinating how confused GPT3 gets about palindromes. It seems to love the idea of them and starts spotting them everywhere. Even when they don't exist
AI will reduce boring manual work for humans so we’re freed up for more creative activities. To get DALL-E to draw you a beautiful picture, click on all the squares that contain traffic lights.
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12 Nov 2022
Just picked up a second book that had been a present to Biden from Sunak
22 Sep 2022
And if he behaves like that again he’ll be expelled
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15 Sep 2022
Today would’ve been Agatha Christie’s 132nd birthday … if it had not been for the actions of one of the people in this room.
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