Archive for the ‘Annoyances’ Category
Friday, June 27th, 2008
After reading this article in the Financial Times, I would recommend that Verizon's shareholders start to demand a new CEO.
While describing Apple as a “great company”, Mr Seidenberg highlights its small market share of global handset sales.
Yeah, there are a hundred small PC manufacturers who went out of business when ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Two reports from two unconnected O2 stores agree that they will not be dealing with existing iPhone customers looking to upgrade to iPhone 3G for an estimated two weeks. The stores will only be dealing with new signups. Both of them said (separately) that existing iPhone customers who expressed interest ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Apart from the issues we've seen when attempting to contact web sites belonging to digitalcircle.org, momentumni.org and investni.com when you do something as simple as omitting the 'www', I'm presented with this...
Renders badly in Firefox and Safari. Renders okay in Internet Explorer.
Come on guys...I know a couple of web ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
According to ENN
BT has launched what it calls a 'Tech Mass Index' calculator, to enable SMEs to work out the health of their IT spending. The Tech Mass Index works on similar principles to a Body mass Index, according to BT, which says the tool helps SMEs check if their ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
GreenPease need to change. This isn't the first time they've self-identified as media hungry shills willing to bend any factoid to suit their whims.
Headline: Nintendo 'least green tech firm'
At least it's not Apple these days.
"Greenpeace chose to conduct a survey and produce a report, which graded companies upon the voluntary ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Outing to Kainan Cafe postponed to another day due to work. Canteen down at NISP closed due to some event. Not enough time to go get actual food so have to go to the 'Coffee Deck' for some overpriced drek.
OmNomNom....no. Don't even go there.
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Okay, this one left me scratching my head.
When I arrived at BarCamp, we were allocated two IP addresses on the QUB network and I set about using one of them to provide a public network and the other to provide a Private network for the Webcasts or whatever and to ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
"For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer
Which explains why Linux seems to have no unique UI. It's either a UNIX-alike, Windows-alike or Mac-alike.
Mood: Scowling
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
I had a problem with my iPhone last night.
The 123, space bar and Return key were not working on the software keyboard - they just didn't respond. There was nothing physically wrong with the device because if you opened Safari, the bottom bar worked fine - so the hardware ...
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