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I'm not going to write an article to accompany this one, I think it speaks for itself. The only thing I will say is that was neither set up nor is it an error. Enjoy.

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I'm not going to get into the nature of the title, you're either going to get the reference and throw things at me or you won't – and probably still throw things at me. Let me set the scene: I was in the West End of Glasgow near the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and had just finished lunch in the excellent restaurant, Firebird, with a friend. We had been diving into cafés all morning as there had been regular short-lived, but rather heavy, showers. As we were waiting for a particularly heavy shower to pass before leaving Firebird and walking in to the centre of Glasgow to meet more friends, we decided that there was little chance of completing the thirty minute walk into the centre without becoming drenched, so we walked to the nearby Kelvinhall underground station instead. For those of you wondering what the underground is, you may be more familiar with terms like subway or metro.

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Last night I attended a Scottish Usability Professionals' Meeting with an excellent talk and group discussion lead by Andy Bright of tattie+toppin which was hosted by Scottish Enterprise in Edinburgh. While there I had to use the facilities (apparently that's a polite way to say I went to the toilet...) and discovered a very irritating light switch design. I'll apologise for the poor photography up front, you would never know I'm also a professional photographer when I'm using the camera in my phone!

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Well not quite. Although I do want to talk about that nifty little “unsubscribe” link that comes along with, or should come along with, corporate emails you've signed up to receive (because we all know businesses won't email you without your first having chosen to be contacted, right?). Assuming there is one present, I've usually found it lurking right at the bottom of the email, often in a smaller font and not unusually buried amongst a fair amount of irrelevant dribble absolutely no one except their legal department cares about.

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When you create a new account on a computer, some software or a website, you will normally be asked to create a password at the same time. On occasion, however, the system will automatically generate a password for you without asking if you would prefer to do this yourself. There are a number of reasons for this and one, for websites at least, can help to reduce spam as automated scripts would have a great deal of difficulty discovering this new password, thus preventing the script logging in and pasting adverts all over your forums, comment fields or messaging other users etc.

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