So, mid-afternoon, a press release lands on my desk, containing some very interesting Harry Potter information, but in big bold letters across the top is stamped the words ‘Please do not release before publication date on 19th March 2003′. Now what am I supposed to do with it between now and then? There’s no way I can keep track of a piece of paper until March, no matter how important or interesting it might look.

Hmmm…

Elsewhere, the Wall Street Journal has found its sense of humour and published a great piece on what to do if your TiVo recorder decides you must be gay. TiVo, as pretty much everyone knows, automatically records TV shows it thinks you might like based on what you have recorded in the past. Worth reading in full, as it’s an interesting piece, it explains how:

Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described “straightest guy on earth,” he tried to tame TiVo’s gay fixation by recording war movies and other “guy stuff.”

“The problem was, I overcompensated,” he says. “It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich.”

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3. Dedicated follower of fashion
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