Older but not necessarily wiser. Been online since 1970s BBS

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Cake day: September 30th, 2023

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  • It was actually much easier than I expected. I used to smoke 40 a day about 30 years ago . One day I just decided to give up. The first few days aren’t that bad, you will get cravings but I found the best thing to do was distract yourself. Giving up while I was busy at work was a good way to distract my brain. After a few days the cravings get less and less.

    What is harder is months down the line when you accidentally catch secondhand smoke. I couldn’t help but think “I’ve given up for so long, just one wouldn’t hurt”

    It must be easier nowadays because fewer people smoke (in most countries) but back then it was common to see people light up when they left buildings.


    1. Some people prefer pages to scrolling (it’s amazing the strength of opinion about this for either point of view)
    2. Advertisements are charged per impression. So each page counts as a new impression
    3. Be grateful websites no longer auto scroll web pages
    4. Some things lend themselves to page by page. For example very long articles (this is why books replaced scrolls)
    5. Be grateful that websites stopped animating page turns etc
    6. Sometimes web developers don’t care and just use a bought in package

  • It depends also on what type of business. For example in Finance a consumer is a real person who buys/borrows uses something but a customer is a general term for a person, business, organisation or partnership that buys goods or services.

    For example, I might have an account at XYZ Bank and so might a company. We are both customers of XYZ Bank but I am a consumer and the company isn’t.

    [to complicate things small businesses might class as consumers in some jurisdictions]