The Smell of AI
I thought this was another AI hate piece, but then I found myself nodding along.
I regularly get marketing emails off the back of this site. "Here's a free license for our tool" or "can we put a link to our service in a post?" At least back then they were slightly human.
Now all I get are AI generated shitty emails with no personality whatsoever. Not bashing AI, I'm bashing the lazy marketeers.
Working great 👍🏻
Last November I replaced my oldest son's PC with an £88 iMac that was so successful that I'm now doing the same thing again for my youngest son!
On Publishing Your Salary
I don't think I agree with publishing your salary online. Here's why...
Rebirth
The 4th book in the Extracted series, RR Haywood continues to make these books great.
Wife: I need help clipping the goat's hooves. Here, hold this...
Me: ...
Follow up from this post - I just signed into my Vinted account (to delete it) and it didn't send me an MFA SMS so how the fuck is me giving them my number securing my account in any way?
The internet is fucked.
Brilliant. I'm such a "valued customer" that they couldn't even be arsed to put my name in the email.
Why is it even necessary to have a "business intelligence database" with a 3rd party? I ordered a fucking laptop. Can a tech company not create their own customer database?
Full email here - https://cdn.kevquirk.com/framework-breach-email.pdf
I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for each of our dogs. We've Nelly for 4 days and already I have:
Nells Bells
Nelly Bean
Nelly Furtado
Man Eater (after the song)
Nelly the Elephant
It's anyone's guess which will stick. Our other dogs, Tia and Sid, are t-bone and squid (short for Sqidley) respectively. 🤷🏼♂️
New Pets, Sick Pets, and Hemorrhaging Money
It's been a crazy (and expensive) couple months at home!
Thinking about selling the 64GB RAM from my laptop and paying off my mortgage...
Our new addition to the family, Nelly, has arrived and she's causing havoc already. 🤣
Signed up for a Vinted account. My options to "secure my account" were adding a phone number, or to logout.
I fucking hate this side of the internet. Scumbags.
Today is the first of August. Where the hell did the first two thirds of 2026 go??? 😵💫
Linkception
The backbone of the internet is the hyperlink, so go forth and link out to your fellow bloggers with reckless abandon.
Left-Handed People Can’t Use a Fountain Pen
Apparently left-handed people can't use a fountain pen as the left hand smudges the ink as they write. I call bullshit on that.
Toot.community is shutting down
Sadly, toot.community is shutting down in October. This post talks about why Jorijn has made that decision.
Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work.
Note to self: connect the trickle charger TONIGHT!
(Wife is on the way with my jump box to save me)
The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hopefully nurse him back to health. 🦅
