Thursday January 7
 
11:18
 
Dr Slaughter

Great page of funny names. Can you believe people are really called…

• Bonnie Beaver
• Chip Munk
• Dick Face
• Dr Slaughter
• Sharon Fillerup

Don’t miss the “Longer submissions” at the end:

Meg Boner sent me this: “This one is real – it’s mine. My maiden name was Meg Ann Childress. Nothing exciting. Well, I married Alan Boner, and now I am Meg A. Boner!”

Thursday January 7
 
10:13
 
Yaeba

A new search term suddenly became popular on my blog yesterday – Yaeba. I mentioned Yaeba before on my post “The blog for Japanese girls with bad teeth“. Why the term should suddenly become popular now, I don’t know.

Wednesday January 6
 
17:17
 
Redownloading paid apps on Apple’s AppStore

For a company that is usually good at interfaces, the way the AppStore handles redownloading paid apps makes me squirm.

Take this app. I paid for it in the past and deleted it from my phone:

I can download this for free, but to do that, I have to click the price, then click BUY, then enter my AppStore password. Only then do I get a popup saying the app is a free download. I shouldn’t have to commit to buying it before finding out I can download it free.

Here’s a case where this is relevant. I “purchased” Ping when it was free, then during a New Year clean of my iPhone, I deleted it. But today I wanted to try it out again, so I went to the AppStore. Now there are two versions of Ping – Ping Lite and Ping. Ping now costs money. Do I have to pay for it even though I’ve “purchased” it before? Maybe the developer renamed the old Ping to Ping Lite and release a new paid version called Ping - do I have to download Ping Lite instead?

In the end I took the plunge and after “buying”, I was told the download is free. Not nice at all.

In fact, there’s no clear indication on the AppStore of which apps you have purchased. I have only found one way to confirm - attempt to write a review. The AppStore will only let you write reviews on apps you own.

Very poor design Apple. Don’t make people commit to buying apps they can download free.

Don’t bother downloading Blocked – it’s crap. I used it for the screenshot above because with the exception of Ping, it’s the only other paid app that I’ve deleted – and I’d already reinstalled Ping before writing this.

Wednesday January 6
 
11:02
 
Cute Japanese Girl

For comparison, the search terms that bring people to this blog:

Today
cute japanese girl
canon eos 5d mark ii nikon d700 comparis
finepix real 3d w1 sample
panasonic gf1 raw samples
louis vuitton men wallet
hanging knickers
shin okubo sex
them windows 7 tokyo
popcorn hour upscaling
canon eos-1d mark iv compared to nikon d

Yesterday
japanese girls
panasonic gh1 focus points
nikon d90 purple fringe
japan girl
tamron 17-50mm vc
g1 lightroom 2 sharpening setting
tamron 17-50mm vc review
difference between d700 and mark 3d
nikon d3s vs canon 1d mark iv
lumix gh1 14-45

Sex, cameras, and Japan. You bunch of camera wielding perverts :)

Wednesday January 6
 
10:43
 
Byron Dorgan?

I stumbled up Google trends “hot searches” page. The most searched phrases in the states at the moment are:

1. byron dorgan
2. eclipse script leaked
3. randy johnson
4. chicago executive airport
5. angelyne
6. rory markas
7. royal air freight
8. upillar
9. chicago plane crash
10. matt holliday
11. orange bowl kickoff time
12. bill hall
13. nexus one vs droid
14. casey kotchman
15. ye li
16. jet crash
17. new google phone nexus one
18. jon reep
19. dahn yoga
20. minneapolis airport

What is the implication of Byron Dorgan being the #1? Is it that Americans are seeing news about him and don’t really know who he is? I certainly didn’t. But after seeing news about him, I wouldn’t be inspired particularly to search for him – so there must be more going on than that.

Randy Johnson. Snigger.

What happened to the days when free, sex, porn, and mp3 were in the top 5?

Looking at the UK hot topics:

1. google nexus phone
2. mike shanahan redskins
3. casey johnson and tila tequila
4. toyota
5. body scanners
6. sam mendes
7. tna
8. ces
9. american idol
10. dorgan

I can’t believe an American sport is #2 hot topic in the UK. That’s just wrong.