I’m seeing this kind of thing a lot lately:

Safari dialog reading, 'Are you sure you want to close this window? You have entered text on [this page]. If you close the window, your changes will be lost.'

I seem to start writing a lot of stuff that I can’t be bothered to finish. Or, equally, I write stuff that I decide is stupid, and so I decide not to post it. The latter, at least, is good, I think — I’m being my own editor. And everyone knows that every good writer needs a good editor.

Therefore, I am a good writer.

…but it is very difficult when the Clinique UK website tells me to use my Scruffing Lotion (3.5, for normal to oily skin) before shaving, while the Clinique USA website tells me to use it after shaving.

What is a boy to do?

Update: I have ‘email[ed] an expert’ at Clinique. I will let you all know what they say.

On 13 November I mentioned that Rackspace’s Texas datacenter had suffered a major power and service outage.

Now their London datacenter has suffered a similar loss of power and service. Half the servers are down.

Not a good couple of months for Rackspace.

From the article about MFI:

For many years, MFI allowed customers to buy their items in the store and leave the store with their furniture . This was stopped in the mid-1990s due to cost and from then on all furniture was delivered from large warehouses. This has resulted in MFI having the largest two-man delivery service in Europe.

It’s true.

The Register reports that O2, Nokia and Transport for London are starting a trial of a technology which lets you use your mobile phone as an Oyster card.

It’s based on a new Nokia handset, the ‘6131-NFC’, which has a specific new kind of wireless technology built in. So you’ll need to buy a new handset for it. There are also issues with “the logistics of managing tickets within the phone interface, and the security of the system”. The handset actually has a special “secure memory module” to store the ticket information.

Impressive collaboration. And technology.

Too bad I got there first:

Mobile phone with an Oyster card sellotaped to it

Open University advert reading 'Upgrade your IT skills' next to news article about HMRC losing computer discs containing child benefits records for 25 million people.