I officially hate Google+

I’m tired, didn’t really want to come to work this morning. Apparently we’re due for a little heat wave starting this week. I do hope so. We didn’t really have much of a summer. And I’m sure it would help ripen our tomatoes. We went to Devon for the weekend. Saw some steam engines.

I did not manage to recover any parts of fallen satellite at the weekend. I did find a lump of metal in Mother’s garden, but it turned out to be a caster from the bottom of an arm chair or something.

I joined Google+ last week and downloaded the app for my android phone. It’s taken me this long to work out that my phone has been automatically uploading every photo I take with it. Didn’t anyone at Google think that it might be wise to at least tell users before they made that a default setting? And who the hell would want to upload every single photo anyway? I bet those people paying as they go for mobile bandwidth were chuffed when they realised their phone was doing that. It’s the Eric Schmidt philosophy I suppose, “if you’re taking photos you don’t want other people to see, you probably shouldn’t be taking them in the first place”. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here, and check out some of those comments there too.

That man says some astounding things. I’ve come to the conclusion that he’s thick. He’s educated, and possibly even knowledgeable, but I’m pretty sure he’s not smart. He doesn’t even have the sense to shut up. You’d think after the first couple of dozen horrendous gaffs he’d let someone else handle tv interviews.

Mother’s ten-year-old PC is getting glitchy. It’s running XP. We went out to PC World and got her a new box on Sunday with Windows 7. I’m not a PC World fan, but if you want a machine with an operating system, you get a reasonable deal I reckon. I wouldn’t go there for anything else. I haven’t set it up. I’ll do that next time I’m there.

I see Spanker Mosley has lost his appeal in Europe for tougher UK privacy laws. He wanted legislation that would make it mandatory for papers to inform people before they run stories about them. This was after a video emerged starring Mosley performing with some PVC clad prostitutes who definitely weren’t dressed as Nazis. His case was thrown out in May by the European Court of Human Rights. It’s now been thrown out again on appeal.

I’m with Guido Fawkes on this one Max.“If you don’t want to be on the front page of Newspapers, don’t pay hookers to stick dildos up your bum!”