I’ve come across this before and complained (to no avail, but the vent was worth it) but today I discovered that Ofcom has an accreditation scheme for broadband sites. This sounded promising so I checked out the two sites that I was advised had received said accreditation: SimplifyDigital.co.uk and BroadbandChoices.co.uk.
Long-time readers (pretending there are any) will know that misleading advertising broadband is a major pet peeve of mine. Not misselling speeds, because there’s no reliable way an ISP can accurately predict what speed your line will take (if you don’t already have broadband). This mis-selling is much worse; I’m talking about the companies who lie in their headline speeds by advertising broadband “from £4.99 a month” for the first...
I have a tiny following on Twitter. I’m comfortable with that). In fact I’d much rather have nobody listening than have a list of people following me who are also “following” 162,458 other people! You’d have thought Twitter would take a dim view of such blatant spam, but apparently not.
To that end my tiny following just got tinier with the deletion of anyone following more than 10,000 people. That seems more than fair to......
I’ve decided there’s probably enough material out there to start running “Things that Piss Me Off” as a regular feature. I’m going to retcon Friday’s PHP niggle as “Things that Piss Me Off 1″, so today’s entry is number 2.
A quick google has revealed that I’m not alone in being pissed off by this. There is even a blog dedicated to “tracking abuse of the word ‘literally’” (apparently it happens even in works by respected authors, I mean come on!)
“It is bad enough to exaggerate but to affirm the truth of the exaggeration is intolerable.”
Ambrose Bierce, discussing the example sentence “His eloquence literally swept the audience from its feet.” in Write it right: A little blacklist...