Archive for January, 2008

BT - an exercise in excellence

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Not content to let Orange and O2 be the only idiots in town, BT have stepped in. First they LIED about the activation date for the line itself and now they can't give us any forecast of when the line will be made available to broadband. They claim to have ...

Humans. Overrated.

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Humanity never fails to surprise me. Or disappoint. FakeSteve comments on Jens leaving Apple and the comments produce this gem. NO ONE ASKED YOU TO STAY FOR 16 YEARS OF BEING MISERABLE YOU SAD ASS LAMETARD FUCK MONKEY BITCHTARD GIRLY PUSS SHITBAG Ouch. I gotta remember that for the next time I'm told ...

17/100 After the Event - Carrying the Conversation Forward

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I may be a tad old-fashioned but if someone gives me their number or their email address, even in the form of a business card, then I assume they want me to use it. The Business Card is an amalgam of the Visiting Card and the Trade Card. Wikipedia provides: Visiting cards ...

One restaurant I’ll never go to…

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I don't pay a lot of attention to reviews of things. Maybe a little more for things where it's a mass market product, I'm only going to buy one and I know nothing about the product. Like when I was buying a dishwasher. I know nothing about them. I went ...

10 million kids will die.

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Tim Weber (BBC) has a report on the World Economic Forum which is going on right now in Davos, Switzerland. It was not just celebrity that drew the audience, the topic was weighty as well - actually, it was a tad pretentious. Mr Gore and Bono promised to discuss a "unified ...

You ratted me out, you dirty rat…

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Damien posted this link to a story on the Machinist blog about how smartphones (and not just iPhones) can get you into trouble. One exception to this is a search incident to arrest -- if the police are arresting you, they can search you and your possessions without first obtaining ...

Map of Free WiFi in Ireland (and the Black North)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

James, the EirePreneur, is maintaining a map of Free (or cheap) WiFi hotspots in Ireland. Log into GMail and then you can add extras. I've added a few in the North, mostly centred around McDonalds (which explains why I look like I've been Supersized). Add some more in? What about your ...

The market is phucked

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Monday, this happened [Link: BBC News]The FTSE 100 index tumbled 5.5% to 5,578.2, wiping £77bn ($149bn) off the value of its listed shares. Indexes in Paris and Frankfurt slumped by about 7%, while markets in Asia, India and South America also dropped. and then this [Link BBC News] The US Federal Reserve ...

Microsoft P.R. says “Oi, Apple. you’re shit you are…”

Monday, January 21st, 2008

It doesn't matter what side of the fence you sit on, Microsoft has a terrible PR problem at the minute. Hot off the news that Windows 7 will apparently ship in late 2009, we have a Microsoft PR guy slagging off Apple's PR efforts.. Fair enough, but it's a bit ...

Translink for iPhone

Monday, January 21st, 2008

David Rice on NiMUG wrote up this little app: Translink for iPhone