{"id":5040,"date":"2011-05-15T20:08:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T19:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2011-05-15T20:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T19:29:41","slug":"things-pile-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5040","title":{"rendered":"Things pile up"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Cameron is a twat.<\/p>\n

That statement relates to nothing in particular, apart from David Cameron’s natural twattishness, obv.<\/p>\n

Early Sunday evening and we’re doing our best to become part of the furniture.<\/p>\n

Soph’s mum, dad and nan came down for Sunday lunch.<\/p>\n

We didn’t do the honourable thing; we went to the pub. I know, we’re shocking aren’t we?<\/p>\n

We put in the absolute minimum of effort and by return Soph’s dad paid for everyone’s meal and later, both Soph’s parents weeded and tidied up our garden.<\/p>\n

Afterwards we connected Soph’s new laptop to the TV and, as a reward for being quite so excellent, we bored them rigid with Californian\/Nevadan photographs.<\/p>\n

That’ll learn them.<\/p>\n

I’ve put a bunch of photographs from our recent trip in to my Flickr account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I didn’t wear my ‘I heart Cameltoe’ T-shirt on our trip out to lunch.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

Over the last four days I’ve spent a huge amount of time tweaking and fine-tuning the functionality behind a website redesign.<\/p>\n

I now need to do a PR job on the language; the message has to be broad but meaningful to a wide range of professional-level website users.<\/p>\n

Quite a lot of challenge there, then.<\/p>\n

If you’re a PR type and you’d like to proof\/read the website and give me your thoughts, let me know.<\/p>\n

In other news.<\/p>\n

I am gradually pulling out of Facebook.<\/p>\n

I’ve spent ages over the last few weeks deleting photographs in my profile, and untagging myself from photographs in other people’s profiles.<\/p>\n

I really can’t be arsed to continually chase Facebook’s revolving security policies.<\/p>\n

And I was recently pissed to a major level to get spammed, from within Facebook, by various – but unsuspecting – friends.<\/p>\n

But the straw that broke the cameltoe’s back, and convinced me – without too much effort – to leave Facebook behind is paragraph 2.1 in their updated policies.<\/p>\n

I own my photographs, buggerit.<\/p>\n

If I travel somewhere – remembering my camera – and see something so amazing and\/or intriguing that I want to photograph it.<\/p>\n

And then I come home and upload that photograph to my Facebook profile, here’s my view.<\/p>\n

Facebook doesn’t own it.<\/p>\n

Understand?<\/p>\n

Well no, Facebook plainly doesn’t understand, because according to their rules, Facebook owns all of my photographs.<\/p>\n

Utter twats.<\/p>\n

Except they don’t, because I’ve deleted them now.<\/p>\n

Twats.<\/p>\n

I *get* social media.<\/p>\n

I don’t get the greed-driven motives of the social media giants.<\/p>\n

Make a profit?<\/p>\n

I’m good with that.<\/p>\n

I understand the need to pay costs.<\/p>\n

But Facebook stealing my intellectual property?<\/p>\n

That’s just twattish.<\/p>\n

But, just as Facebook are becoming even further embedded up their own arsehole, they’re not alone.<\/p>\n

I think Google’s recent acquisition of the Blogger\/Blogspot platform will soon reveal fundamental changes for the people who still use this tool.<\/p>\n

Google never miss a trick to make money; their advertising is all over the Google web-brand.<\/p>\n

It is just a matter of time – and not much time at that – before Google’s advertising campaigns infiltrate the Blogger\/Blogspot products.<\/p>\n

And anyone who thinks I’m wrong just needs to consider Google’s long track record in providing commercial services for no fee.<\/p>\n

Oh. Wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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