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Re: 5 cheapest electric cars in South Africa

paulmwatson — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:25:01 -0000

Agreed, a plug in covers most people's commute while allowing for that odd long range trip. We have surplus solar PV at home, perfect for a PHEV.

Re: 5 cheapest electric cars in South Africa

paulmwatson — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:23:55 -0000

A used BMW i3 seems a better bet than many of these new.

Hopefully the Dacia Spring EV comes here.

Re: Irish Politics, Current Affairs and Magazine Archive - Politico.ie | Time to get tough on marriage

paulmwatson — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:35:58 -0000

As a South African living in Ireland with a 3 year old Irish daughter and lovely Irish fiancée I'd like to marry some day I say bring on the tests you foreigner hating bunch of retrogrades.

I say go further and demand flag pledges, mandatory learning of Irish, Catholic religious conversion, national anthem (and the Rugby one!), Irish history and myth and legend. Obviously much of Ireland would fail these tests but sure we only want real Irish so all the better.

Re: Scripting News: Are you part of this community?

paulmwatson — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:23:50 -0000

http://blog.paulmwatson.com...

Re: What a Tweet Can Tell You

paulmwatson — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:03:48 -0000

Good to shine the light on DataSift and the potential it provides, a query language for all of Twitter, that's gold.

(Thanks for the mention too though I should point out I'm the CTO of Storyful, not the CEO. @marklittlenews is the CEO.)

Re: Flash, boom, bang! Android and the Adobe Flash clash

paulmwatson — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:16:01 -0000

You sir are a fool. Admit your mistake and move on.

Re: Apple quietly begins iPhone as wallet in-store trials

paulmwatson — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:43:16 -0000

What is Apple's cut? Not 30% I hope.

Re: Google+ Launches Brand Pages [updated]

paulmwatson — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:07:58 -0000

Any idea how to let others admin the same Google+ Page once created?

Re: Scripting News: A wifi pocket disk

paulmwatson — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:29:45 -0000

Evolved sneaker net, nice.

Re: http://blog.metalayer.com/post/11699008878

paulmwatson — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:19:35 -0000

The link to your sentiment analysis algorithm just takes me to the API wiki? Would love to read more about it.

Re: Tattooed Barbie doll is 'overly-sexualised and inappropriate', say parents

paulmwatson — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:47:12 -0000

Not more offensive than the stereotypes pushed by the standard Barbie doll.

Re: http://littlebigdetails.com/post/11653314560

paulmwatson — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:15:57 -0000

But that is just the thing, my keyboard doesn't show any accented letters. To do á I have to know to press alt-A. Having it in the OS with a long press is an alternative and helpful method. It doesn't replace modifier keys.

Re: http://littlebigdetails.com/post/11653314560

paulmwatson — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:10:30 -0000

Nice for the rest of us though, lot better than using a Symbols window or fiddling with modifier keys.

Re: Irish Politics, Current Affairs and Magazine Archive - Politico.ie | This should not pass

paulmwatson — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:50:19 -0000

May I just say that this issue needs to be presented in much plainer language than above. The radio and TV adverts seem quite biased (towards voting yes) and they get their message across in under a minute.

Re: http://littlebigdetails.com/post/11395333904

paulmwatson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:03:27 -0000

The visual pattern for other check-list requirements is a good little detail though. If you are going to enforce password patterns then make them visible and understandable before the user bangs away at 10 variations on their usual password. So I think it is a good little big detail. The larger problem of password requirements is one for another day.

Re: http://littlebigdetails.com/post/11395333904

paulmwatson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:18 -0000

Unfortunately it is not consistently that good. http://cl.ly/AtmP

Re: http://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/articles/228902/20111011/iphone-4s-sold-out-pre-order-record-memory-steve-jobs.htm

paulmwatson — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:09:06 -0000

Well done for getting pageviews. That's a great world you are helping to create there.

As Jobs was a buddhist I believe your karma is about to be appropriately debited.

Re: Newbay's €100m sale was done far too soon - European, Business - Independent.ie

paulmwatson — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:07:29 -0000

Was Newbay's outlook on its own bright or was this cash out at the right time?

Re: Scripting News: Command-line for browser

paulmwatson — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:12:32 -0000

Firebug, JavaScript consoles etc. are all the obvious and decent suggestions but I would love a command line for the browser with a bash-like helper environment. Not all websites have jQuery loaded, so load that in the cmd line, and then etend jQuery's helper methods for obvious tasks like listing all images etc.

Re: #toomuchdoubt trends in campaign to save Troy Davis - storyful

paulmwatson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:22:54 -0000

Test

Re: storyful

paulmwatson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:20:50 -0000

Test

Re: The Verge

paulmwatson — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:55:36 -0000

I hope you review lawn care products on The Verge.

Re: http://littlebigdetails.com/post/7727567604

paulmwatson — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:04:06 -0000

It *is* attention to detail, but wrong surely? Video plays "left" to "right" and I doubt there is an Arabic version of the play symbol.

Well spotted though.

Re: King of the hipsters

paulmwatson — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:54:42 -0000

He is probably playing Angry Birds. Damned hipsters.

Re: One case for Apple bringing the cloud to average users at the right time

paulmwatson — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:19:14 -0000

Where did that report a year or so ago come from that said iOS was the most up to date mobile ecosystem then? Something like 80% had updated to the newest version within a month of it being released vs. Nokia, RIM etc, all having terrible upgrade numbers.

Makes me think this 50% birdie figure is not credible neither.Lies, damned lies and statistics.