Choosing speakers or headphones based upon reviews

Have you ever tried to base the decision about which heaphones or speakers to buy on customer reviews?

If not don't! My advice: pick a well know make, pick a price that suits and click that "buy me" button before your journey of confusion and hate begins...

Here is what you will come up against if you choose to ignore (why would you though... its free!!!) my advice:

There are always 3 types of people that write reviews on these products:

• Gamers / movie fanboys: These are only interested in how loud and earth shattering the bass is.
• Audiophiles: This niche, but very vocal, group who have more money than sense like to write in depth reviews featuring complicated terms you don't understand and always complaining of insufficient mid range.
  
• EDIT: I never finished this and no idea what the third one was now!

Hymns

Bloody hymns

YouTube Comments

Is there actually any point in allowing users of YouTube to leave comments? I don't think I have ever read a useful one to date. Most people are just insulting each other, which is of course rather entertaining, but utterly pointless.

As a classic example, here is a comment from a workout video:

"you are the geek king and you must be gay like a fucking fag"

The Puzzle of Job Applications

As I am reaching the sunset months of my degree, I am faced with the horrific task of trying to find myself an interesting job. This, of course, is made much all the worst by the suicidal tenancies of bankers and the economy as a whole. Anyway, better put that aside, as it isn't really the main grumble I am wishing to present.

What is my grumble then? Well at the risk of sounding like a politician I am going to answer that one with another question! What do employers really want? It's a really common question, which I have discovered has a surprising answer.

I have spent three years of my life (and countless thousands of pounds) studying for a degree. I have undertaken work experience during my holidays, and even attempted writing a kick arse CV. But what do they really, really really want? The answer is of course: the ability to complete visual logic puzzles quickly, whilst bathed in copious amounts of stress.

So a university education, employment experience, personality and all the other skills I have developed come second in importance. It's not even as though this skill is weighed up along side everything else, (who wants a well rounded individual anyway?) it is given centre stage as the one decision maker as to whether your application is even looked at!

Here I was thinking puzzles were meant to be fun!
Anyway, rant aside, I passed the test!

Twitter, the internets greatest invention?

Originally written 04/05/2009, but not published until 02/02/2011

The question I am sure you would be asking if you'd had the misfortune of stumbling upon my blog is: "Why have you started a blog? Isn't Twitter the big new thing?".

Initially it seems a logical and valid point, Twitter's micro-blogging is meant to have killed off the traditional blog for good! I however intend to show you how twitter is one of the most useless, annoying and pointless inventions the internet has seen!

An exciting tweet per day calculator!

News-flash: My twitter is launching soon!

So to sum it all up, and actualy answer the question I posed, (is) Twitter, the internets greatest invention? I think the answeer here is going to have to be a no.

My first post!

So, I have decided to start this blog to share my thoughts an opinions with the world, or more realistically just with myself!