Trick or treat

Thanks to Jon C for sending in this article from the online version of The Daily Telegraph about the recent rise in so-called sextortion cases.

As the article says, these cases involve the intended victim being approached online by an attractive young woman who engages in explicit conversation until the victim is caught on camera performing a sex act.

According to The Telegraph, a treat is then in store.

Shooting from the hip

In a recent football match against Huddersfield Town, Gill Swerts, a Notts County football player, was sent off, no doubt for some kind of foul on the field.

I don't think it was this foul though.

They say that your predictive text is based on your own personal typing history, so someone at Sky Sports has a little explaining to do.

Kinky boots

In the cliffhanging six minute gap between the two messages, I wonder how many members of the congregation changed their plans.

Either way.

Sniffing around

The Boston Globe says it has a policy of never deleting its tweets.

I wonder if the staff there realise that 'investifarted' could only have been suggested in auto correct if it had previously been used by the creator.

Now there's an embarrassing story waiting to be told.

And it's never going to go away.

Recipe for disaster

How this one could have slipped though any net is beyond me.

Many a slip

Meanwhile, on Twitter, Sarah was feeling needy.

Just for the taste of it.

Predict-ive text Part 2

We've had a similar one before from Predict.

Prefer this by text?

I don't actually care how you send it. I just want to be able to read it.

Harder than ever

The Large Hadron Collider has been out of the news for a couple of years while it's been shut down and upgraded.

But now it's back with double its previous capacity.

And with it, the same old headlines from BBC News which, clearly, hasn't matched the upgrade to its spell-check system.

Less of your sauce

I know that Salsa is a great way of achieving weight loss.

But not, as I thought, Salsa dancing.

No. Apparently, it's the sauce.

You can stick your jaws together with it.

Priest hole

Sheltering no less than 25 of them.

Well, I have heard that such work can be exhausting.

No, No, Nao

I don't follow so-called celebrities on Twitter but, luckily, I know people who do and I rely on those good people to point out their solecisms. Here's a good one from @annfirth.

It's Naomi Campbell attempting to congratulate the fabulous Malala Yousafzai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize last week. And failing miserably.

Close, Naomi, but no cigar. Not even a tobacco leaf.

Even more astounding was her attempt to explain her errors on Instagram.

Not good enough, Nomes. Probably best to stick to whatever it is you do.

And keep well away from writing.

Predictive text

I ordered some stationery from Ideal Envelopes the other day and received this message from DPD, the delivery service that Ideal uses.

I have to say that the Predict online tracking system is nothing short of excellent. You can follow your DPD delivery van on its route and the web page shows you on a map exactly where your parcel is in the delivery queue.

So Predict's ability to provide an accurate delivery time is brilliant.

But Predict's ability to provide a meaningful email header?

Far from Ideal.