Archive for the ‘Annoyances’ Category
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
From the BBC:
"A row about who should pay for extra network costs incurred by the iPlayer has broken out between internet service providers (ISPs) and the BBC.
ISPs say the on-demand TV service is putting strain on their networks, which need to be upgraded to cope."
So, Mr Whiny ISP guy, ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Dear Wordpress people,
Please move the categories back to beside the entry text and not below.
And hire some UI people. Or something.
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
NotAnMBA writes:
"The IT guy tells me that it’s necessary to “lock down” the network. He doesn’t want anyone using unauthorized services running on high ports.
Of course, anyone can tell you that it’s trivial to circumvent this obstacle by tunneling to the unauthorized service over unblocked port 80 via a friendly ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Diamond Dan
A pathetic attempt by the Orange Order to increase visibility and relevancy.
Rather than paying for the commission of a comic book character they could have started policing their own people and weeding out the bigots and louts. As I said last year:
As a Catholic who attended the celebrations on ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I hate April Fools day.
The internet is full of stupid and you never know when a news item is going to be true or false - because some of them are subtle and some are ridiculous. And it takes days for all of the BS to be uncovered and laid ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
You broke it...
...it's your fault.
(I'm kinda tired already of people thinking that if they email the CEO that things will magically happen. Goes to show that Mac users are really whining snobs.)
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Jared writes"Fun bit of political activism from the first blogger to make a UK MP resign."
The problems I have with Staines/Fawkes are:
Pointless anonymity - if you've got a point to make, then make it. Don't hide behind a pseudonym. Especially with the ego-fellatio that went on with sitting in shadow ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
BoyGeniusReport reports on a curious exchange between a Mac owner and Apple's Steve Jobs. Said customer was irate because he spilled water on his MacBook Pro and was quoted a base $300 to start the repair with no guarantee it would fix the unit. He emailed Steve Jobs and the ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
I'm going on a 12 day holiday in August which will involve visiting Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Germany and Denmark as well as time on the open seas.
Anyone know any options that would cover me for data and not require £7.50 a megabyte?
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
ENN.ie describes itself as "Irelands IT Newswire" which is why I subscribe to their feed. But like all modern technology journalism, it's a load of bollocks.. Their contributor, Ciara O'Brien, just made some stuff up and posted it to ENN.ie as news. In her article she describes the iPhone as ...
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