Archive for the ‘Annoyances’ Category

H is for ipocrisy

Monday, July 28th, 2008

TechWire writes: For dull, repetitive reportage, stick with the blogs. Somewhat ironic considering that's the second post on that blog made decrying the Irish blogging scene as "crap" or "dull". You have to ask though - what is TechWire (and by extension, Damien Mulley and TwentyMajor) expecting from blogging? There are a lot ...

Do Not Assume. Do Not Resize

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Last-Standing.com is the web site for a local Battle of the Bands. I meant to just highlight it but as this is an ANGRY BLOG, I have to be pissed about something. Two sins It uses Flash. And it's their way or the highway. If you have a device that doesn't like ...

FSF: easy targets

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

The Free Software Foundaion is now asking their drones to go into Apple Retail Stores and book up appointments at the Genius Bars to ask the hapless support staff about Apple's software policies. This will, of course, have the effect of depriving real customers with real issues of their support. This, ...

Thorny Issues in Politics

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Russell writes about the thorny issue of abortion. My bone of contention comes from the fact that the Parliment on England are trying to force this ammendment onto us, when all 4 churches and pretty much the whole Northern Ireland executive have said leave as is. There's are two logical fallacies here, ...