Comments for The Cunning Code http://thecunningcode.com Thoughts that are Cunning Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:11:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Make people listen with your language by Matthew Rigop http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-people-listen-with-your-language/#comment-325 Matthew Rigop Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:51:38 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-people-listen-with-your-language/#comment-325 I use as many quirky and unusual expressions as possible; I find it great exercise for the grey matter. It's also great fun to see the look on people's faces as they pretend to understand what in the name of $DEITY you're trumpeting on about. Not to mention, of course, you instantly earn my respect if you play along and can keep up. I use as many quirky and unusual expressions as possible; I find it great exercise for the grey matter.
It’s also great fun to see the look on people’s faces as they pretend to understand what in the name of $DEITY you’re trumpeting on about.
Not to mention, of course, you instantly earn my respect if you play along and can keep up.

]]> Comment on Make people listen with your language by chris http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-people-listen-with-your-language/#comment-324 chris Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:58:54 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-people-listen-with-your-language/#comment-324 Go to www.english2american.con Go to http://www.english2american.con

]]> Comment on Make your friends think you’re caring and organised - Birthdays by Ian http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-your-friends-think-youre-caring-and-organised-birthdays/#comment-300 Ian Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:12:23 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/?p=11#comment-300 Just happened upon your blog - personally I love the idea of having a www site dedicated to remembering birthdays. I prefer to keep the iPhone/Cal apps free of such things and use them only for business dates and times. Now if it would only send proper handwritten cards unlike moonpig Keep up the cunning tips. Just happened upon your blog - personally I love the idea of having a www site dedicated to remembering birthdays. I prefer to keep the iPhone/Cal apps free of such things and use them only for business dates and times. Now if it would only send proper handwritten cards unlike moonpig

Keep up the cunning tips.

]]> Comment on Make people listen with your language by Pat Parslow http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-people-listen-with-your-language/#comment-217 Pat Parslow Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:22:26 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-people-listen-with-your-language/#comment-217 Ummm - I am English and have always used that phrase. I don't tend to modify my idiom much, except in a few cases where people have demonstrated that they don't really understand what I am blathering on about. Then I make things simpler - but in the main, I let people figure out my somewhat quirky turn of phrase. Ummm - I am English and have always used that phrase. I don’t tend to modify my idiom much, except in a few cases where people have demonstrated that they don’t really understand what I am blathering on about. Then I make things simpler - but in the main, I let people figure out my somewhat quirky turn of phrase.

]]> Comment on Make people listen with your language by Leda http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-people-listen-with-your-language/#comment-169 Leda Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:14:09 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-people-listen-with-your-language/#comment-169 Thanks for writing this. Thanks for writing this.

]]> Comment on Make your friends think you’re caring and organised - Birthdays by Simon Taylor http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-your-friends-think-youre-caring-and-organised-birthdays/#comment-14 Simon Taylor Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:15:06 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/?p=11#comment-14 Hmmm... I'm with Guarav on this one. iCal is great, syncs with my iPhone (obviously), and you can see those birthdays creeping up on you. And, I really have to say, if this is your "favourite website", you need to stay in more! ;) Hmmm… I’m with Guarav on this one. iCal is great, syncs with my iPhone (obviously), and you can see those birthdays creeping up on you.

And, I really have to say, if this is your “favourite website”, you need to stay in more! ;)

]]> Comment on Good foundations - with bras not pants! by ::Wendy:: http://thecunningcode.com/2008/good-foundations-bras-not-pants/#comment-12 ::Wendy:: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:13:01 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/2008/good-foundations-bras-not-pants/#comment-12 I guess I'm doomed to 'look older, saggy and dsiporportioned' but I can confirm that I do not suffer from back or neck problems - I feel good. I am completely deluded to believing I look fabulous in anything I choose to wear from woolly dressing-gown through to tailored suit irrespective of underwear choices. Bras are not a foundation to my knowledge, skills, attitude or capabilities, I'm lucky that way. Just call me old saggy disproportioned retro-CR wendy ;-) I guess I’m doomed to ‘look older, saggy and dsiporportioned’ but I can confirm that I do not suffer from back or neck problems - I feel good. I am completely deluded to believing I look fabulous in anything I choose to wear from woolly dressing-gown through to tailored suit irrespective of underwear choices. Bras are not a foundation to my knowledge, skills, attitude or capabilities, I’m lucky that way. Just call me old saggy disproportioned retro-CR wendy ;-)

]]> Comment on Make your friends think you’re caring and organised - Birthdays by Gaurav http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-your-friends-think-youre-caring-and-organised-birthdays/#comment-11 Gaurav Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:09:51 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/?p=11#comment-11 Great tip, I think and do the exact same, although I do not use a website to notify me nor do I really see the need. I use iCal (calendar application for Mac OS X) which is integrated into Address Book (funnily enough, an address book application for Mac OS X) which I have all my contacts in. I just add the dates for people in my address book and use iCal to notify me as iCal automatically picks up the fact that my contacts have birthdays. I then use iSync to sync across all my contacts and calendar entries to my mobile phone (Sony Ericsson K850i) which notifies me of birthdays because they're now in the phone calendar. I then sync my iPod Touch with the exact same, blah blah, this comment is already way too long. Get my drift?! Great tip, I think and do the exact same, although I do not use a website to notify me nor do I really see the need.

I use iCal (calendar application for Mac OS X) which is integrated into Address Book (funnily enough, an address book application for Mac OS X) which I have all my contacts in. I just add the dates for people in my address book and use iCal to notify me as iCal automatically picks up the fact that my contacts have birthdays.

I then use iSync to sync across all my contacts and calendar entries to my mobile phone (Sony Ericsson K850i) which notifies me of birthdays because they’re now in the phone calendar.

I then sync my iPod Touch with the exact same, blah blah, this comment is already way too long.

Get my drift?!

]]> Comment on Make your friends think you’re caring and organised - Birthdays by Amy http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-your-friends-think-youre-caring-and-organised-birthdays/#comment-10 Amy Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:10:18 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/?p=11#comment-10 Which is why I like the fact that they only have my email address and not my family's one :-) Agreed, there are too many invites flying around the internet these days Which is why I like the fact that they only have my email address and not my family’s one :-)

Agreed, there are too many invites flying around the internet these days

]]> Comment on Make your friends think you’re caring and organised - Birthdays by Anthony Howe http://thecunningcode.com/2008/make-your-friends-think-youre-caring-and-organised-birthdays/#comment-9 Anthony Howe Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:19:45 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/?p=11#comment-9 I despise and simply don't trust these sites. I can easily remember birthdays with my Nokia cell phone calendar or using Thunderbird's Lightening add-on. I avoid giving such info to any 3rd party as I simply don't trust them to NOT to spam me or my family/friends directly or via some seedy "partner". For the same reason I always refuse LinkedIn and Plaxo requests; gone as far to just blacklist them on the mail server. Sometimes it is better to use private tools over some web service that claims to be honest. I despise and simply don’t trust these sites. I can easily remember birthdays with my Nokia cell phone calendar or using Thunderbird’s Lightening add-on. I avoid giving such info to any 3rd party as I simply don’t trust them to NOT to spam me or my family/friends directly or via some seedy “partner”. For the same reason I always refuse LinkedIn and Plaxo requests; gone as far to just blacklist them on the mail server. Sometimes it is better to use private tools over some web service that claims to be honest.

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