If I've got an Amazon Gift Certificate, why doesn't checkout ask me if I want to use it? #darkpattern

Email from TNT inviting me to track a consigment using a 9-digit number. Their web form only accepts 8 digits #fail #dinosaurs

The Dropship exploit is very elegant http://j.mp/hcUMQW, and an impressively fast proof-of-concept http://j.mp/h99ZlU #dropbox

Very proud of Gilbert (5) and Edgar (3) who just climbed to the top of the dome of St Paul

Bears lurk in my inbox

Web designers: "a:focus" is there for a reason. Some of us use the keyboard occasionally, you mousetards.

An upgrade to my webcam driver needs a system reboot? @logitech, why do you despise your customers so much?

It's not just me then. Phew. http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-economist-to-halt-production-for-month-to-let,20090/

Met Police thinks it "protects the public" by imprisoning them without water or toilets http://j.mp/fMQSHY

Interesting story of how Mark Benson's umpiring career ended: http://j.mp/hIOnwU

Found some good advice on tumble dryer ducting on uk420.com, the website of the UK cannabis-growing community. Odd that.

Here's one for you. Which 4 countries have held Test Matches that straddled 2 calendar years? (#cricket) (@jobsworth)

Once in a blue moon Peter Roebuck hits a DLF Maximum (or whatever they call a 6 nowadays) http://j.mp/gsEsCK

Unfortunate but necessary light shining on WI Cricket Board http://wicbexpose.com/ (@wicbexpose) /HT @LalitKModi

Busmaggedon, Oxford Street http://flic.kr/p/9xGsNG

Go and sit at the feet of the grown-ups as they discuss .uk internet policy http://www.nominet.org.uk/about/events/?contentId=8302

Love Tim Minchin's poetic defense of rationality http://youtu.be/HhGuXCuDb1U but why are they drinking red out of champagne flutes?

I've already put her back on the floor 3 times this morning http://yfrog.com/h2lhhtlyj

The official Masters scoreboard site crashes every browser I've tried. No other site is permitted to tell me the score. How can this be good for golf?

Idiot locked his bike to mine. Stern test of my temperament. Failed.
Locked mine to his. Went home.

I now have more respect for the WBO and FIA than I do for the ICC http://j.mp/gxbPSz - beyond parody

Chrome is making soft hyphens visible: http://clearleft.com/ (Experience displays as Exper-ience). Bug or ISO compliance?

AV might actually hand my constituency to the Tories. http://www.voterpower.org.uk/poplar-limehouse

When I installed your app I said I didn't want a desktop icon. Why, when I install an update, would you assume I now wanted one? #darkpattern

Finally, some meaningful DRS analysis http://j.mp/fQG3Un (page bottom). But where is the *data*? #cricket

I must have missed the BBC News story about my first two Wikipedia edits http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12887075

Is the 4th sentence of Andy Zaltzman's article the longest ever in a piece of cricket writing? http://j.mp/hDJQAO

Gerry Adams didn't last long as Steward of the Manor of Northstead http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_36_11.htm

I highly recommend The Register's guide to Silicon Roundabout digerati: http://j.mp/fsUDy4

On the GoCompare website you *can* opt out of being called, but you have to click a link to even see the check box #darkpattern

Call me naive, but if you've already got an industry-funded body (IWF) to block criminal internet content, then why do you need another one?