Blizzard - WoW Typo's

I'm not tempted back to the depths of World of Warcraft, certainly that game - at least for me - has had its day as a pay to play title. I might, just might, be tempted to take a look if it were free to play - but I know deep in my bones it won't be like the good old days ever again.

But, Blizzard aren't really tempting me with their marketing, not with typo's like this:

Oh a siege OF somewhere... right... Horde bias, gotcha. 

Eh, what's this?

Oh its a typo, right in the predominate headline item.

LOTRO - Disappointing English

I played LOTRO when it first came out, I played a Dwarf and soon hated it.  At the time I was not willing to pay for the game - and since it went Free to play that barrier has been removed, I still don't play it, and I had to ask myself why?

Well, the look and feel of the game, I don't like, its awkward looking and I remember it looking pretty dated.  Things might have changed, but I'm simply not willing to download the mammoth sized download just to find out.  And I don't trust other peoples rigs capturing video, because their rig is not my rig.

But I don't think things have turned up very much in the quality, not least because this game representing one of the biggest names in English Literature, a book which sold so much in the twentieth century as to overshadow everything around it... this ENGLISH book through and through gets advertising mail like this:

"Through August 6"... its so yankie doodle fucking dandie.  Its not even correct English, and I hate that...

"Join the festivities from now until the 6^th of August" would have been the more correct, Hobbiton, fashion of writing this, and its more meaningful.  The moment I see US tailored brain dead English like this I disengage with the topic, I don't want to have to wade through it, if you work in PR, then for god sake work in Language, not colloquialisms.

I think this is a personal peeve with the slap dapse approach to PR from across the Pond in the US of A, a better example of this might have been the birth of Britains new top baby boy, Prince George.

Lots of US news outlets were reporting him to be a new "to be" KING OF ENGLAND.  We don't have kings or queens of England, its the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (not to forget all the commonwealth realms - Canada & Anzac loving vibes to all - across the globe)... But oh no "England" they came up with... Hey ho...

Maybe when Scotland vote on their independence the US news-tards can get that all to cock and someone will give a shit, they don't seem to give a shit when they piss off the English, but you pick on a "minority" and you get focus.

Outlook Web Mail

Here's my review of outlook web mail - which I've oft moaned I've been forced into using - from a working e-mail system to this piece of shit.... And that's my review...

ITS A PIECE OF SHIT

And just so you can see just a few of my problems with it, a picture speaks a 1000 words.

And yes, I've tried it on all the major browsers, I try to use it from different locations (i.e. different internet connections) and from different Operating Systems.  It just does not function sufficiently, and I'm fast becoming forced to have to resign myself from using it - after over 15 years using that e-mail address - which is a major MAJOR ball ache.

Been Ill

Sorry there have been no posts in order this week, I've been rather ill.

However, I'm back at my desk today on wards and I have a couple of projects brewing which might make for useful things for people wishing to spy on the kids and keep them safe whilst they browse the interwebs... So watch this space.

But other than that, I have just been settin gup a new google account for a customer so they can use it to receive mail directed from their website, this is all trivial stuff, but for some reason they'd rather pay me to do it for me... hey ho...

But I noted, the advert google had stuck into the inbox for me...

Why the hell have they decided that is a legitimate thing to do, call some random person to fix Outlook, and also why is there an advert like that, for Outlook, on google mail?... Pointless.

Annoying Google Banner

I've just opened google for the first time this morning, and noted that their title has changed.  Its a small game you can click on and get a chance to clean the ice on the rink as little girls and boys skate around on it... I get its a little game.

What I don't get is why its on the google home page, usually when they do something like this it makes sense, its a reference to some historical event or anniversary... This one seems to be celebrating, with no explanation, the fact that its cold outside and we've had a bit of snow.

And you know what, I think I know where it came from.  I just got through re-reading "I'm Feeling Lucky" one of the few candid retrospectives about the internal workings and history of Google.  And the author, one Doug Edwards, goes into pains to explain just this kind of thing going on... Random changes to the branded headed title page... He was frustrated by it... Today, so am I.

Apples for Adverts....

Oh yeah, one other thing... The wife and I settled down with ITV player last night, to watch Take Me Out... don't ask, we love it, its our guilty pleasure...

Anyway... The adverts came on, and the wife thought she could skip them, so clicked on the player window in the browser... and we noticed something strange... No matter when we clicked, or what was being advertised.... the ITV player took us to the Tesco web page, for Apples... Specifically Red Gala Apples... I'm sure the other advertisers are so happy that when we clicked on their paid to play advert, we were guided to Tesco and to buy our apples.