Following on from my “where am I posting” a few weeks ago, this morning I notice a very weird reaction to the Geo-IP issues of tracking people’s location. I use Google Reader for my RSS feed tracking, and this morning it has decided to put all the Google supplied text into German.

Now that is just plain daft.

Even if I am actually in Germany, does it mean I then want my computer to switch to German? Of course not!

Quite why Google would switch my RSS reader over to the German language completely defies understanding.

Here I am sat at home trying to do some work. The balcony door is open and there is a cool breeze in the flat.

There is also an almighty racket outside from the seagulls. Quite staggering amount frankly. So, thinking that one of the neighbours is probably throwing chunks of bread from their balcony to attract the local birds (its quite a fun thing to do), I wandered out to watch the commotion.

All I saw were two seagulls on the riverside.

That’s it - just two birds making enough noise for a couple of dozen of their brethren.

I hope they get a sore throat from all that screeching!

Three teenagers are being sought by the police after a cat was drowned in the Thames. The cat was a rescue puss from the Battersea Dog and Cats Home and was just starting to settle down as the “cat in residence” on HMS Belfast when he was simply thrown overboard by this sick bastards.

I feel really upset about this - as I used to have a cat from the same shelter who had been previously abandoned (and they think, hit by a car) and he was the most wonderful cat I have ever known. It was devastating when he eventually died after a couple of years with me - as he had a long term illness. I know he got a better home for those couple of years than he most certainly had in the past, and judging by how he would always trot out to greet me when I came home from work, I think he rather liked my company as well.

The staff of HMS Belfast were doing the same and offering a loving retirement to a cat who had probably had a bit of a rough time earlier - only for that to be cruelly snatched away by a trio of idiots.

The mens deoderant brand, Sure is currently running a campaign on the tube (and probably elsewhere) claiming that their anti-persperant has been proven to work at, and I quote - “58 degrees Celcius - the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth”

Now I don’t know about you, but my domestic oven can exceed that - heck the kettle in the kitchen exceeds that on a very regular basis. Scientists have even momentarily created flashes of heat which are hotter than the surface of the sun.

I guess what they mean is that their test was at the hottest temperature ever recorded which was naturally occuring over a wide spread area.

Not quite the same thing - and yes, I know I am being a tedious pedant.

Have you noticed a rise in corporate email footers with the admonition to think of the environment before printing an email out?

What was once a rare but oddly nice bit of comment has now become a flood as it seems everyone is desperate to show their green credentials by telling me how to behave.

Today though, when scanning to the bottom of an email to get to the attached image, I noticed in bold red text the following: Pulse Communications is climate positive.

What the **** does that mean?

It’s pointless stupid drivel.

I’ll gloss over the fact that roughly one percent of electricity consumption in the world is by telecoms operators and all these “eco-footers” are increasing the load on the telecoms network and hence are alone probably responsible for a few hundred tons of CO2 as well.

If you want to be “climate positive”, then cut down the massive legal disclaimer footers than no one ever actually reads and reduce your impact on the telecoms network.

Oh, and turn off that silly screensaver on the office PC while you are at it.