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We’ve got great backing

We managed to convince VCs to give us money but we haven’t convinced any actual customers to do so.

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• Top Ten Lies of Engineers
• Top Ten Lies of VCs

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At last all the social media BS can be revealed with a site called What The F... Is My Social Media Strategy which will generate your strategy for you. See example gem below. So you no longer need to hire over-paid pseudo long haired time wasting consultants to define your strategy for you. Joy.

"Facilitate audience conversations and drive engagement with social currency"

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Elegance in fiagiance.

Guijin shop corner of Huaihai and Maoming.

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WELCO ME

Art gallery Wukang Lu Shanghai.

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The above is a screenshot from the end of the Adobe Acrobat update process on a Mac. Adobe thinks you want to view PDF documents in your browser via their plugin. No you don't. Do you? I mean come on. Repair? Huh? Even if you've unset the "View in the browser" option in Acrobat's preferences. Anyway, notice the "Repair Setup" window does not focus. No problem, you think. I'll just click on the window and give it focus, uncheck the box, click Continue and this experience will be over. But no! No I say. You can't click on the window.…

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What's wrong with this picture? Taken from the BBC Sport home page today. See below for picture in context.

I guess given the complaints the BBC has been receiving about the noise they'd like to blow up all the vuvuzelas...

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Video of Australian band Axis of Awesome demonstrating why all pop songs sound the same: four chords.

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Every so often Shanghai goes through various schemes to improve how it looks. For example, we've had the ban on the hanging out of washing and a general disapproving eye turned on the wearing of pajamas in the street. These schemes usually take hold when they're first introduced for a few weeks then gradually everything goes back to the way it was. Take spitting for example, during SARS there were lots of public service posters about spitting, it declined a lot. The problem is a Shanghai male cannot pass an ashtray or a urinal with out feeling the need to…

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According to the China Daily an average of 2.1 billion SMS messages are sent per day in China. Imagine the infrastructure required to support such volume. The monitoring systems must be huge! Gotta go and delete some junk Chinese SMSs from my phone...

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Nice cup of tea and a biscuit? There's a standard for that. British Standard 6008 available from the BSI for a mere GBP 32 or for free on Scribd and from this Hacker News thread. But wait, British standards are not enough. It is also an International Standard - ISO 3103. It turns out ISO have a whole range of tea related standards. Good to see our taxes being put to good use.

Little it known of this reclusive standard. In 1999 BS 6008 won the Ig Noble prize for literature and made a brief public appearance. Since…

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