Friday, May 9th, 2008
Microsoft has always treated the Mac as a second class citizen and the bugs in Office 2008 are just added icing on the cake.
Back when I started using the Mac, there was Word. It wasn't known as Microsoft Word to me, it was just Word, it was the word processor ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
At 2.20 am, ninety-six years ago, the Titanic sank.
Since then, it's been pretty much public knowledge that Northern Ireland make a big deal out of crap.
I mean, look at George Best. His feet had more action off the field than on it, even when he was sober enough to stand, ...
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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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Friday, March 28th, 2008
A good article on PC game piracy:
Anyone who keeps track of how many PCs the "Gamer PC" vendors sell each year could tell you that it's insane to develop a game explicitly for hard core gamers. Insane. I think people would be shocked to find out how few ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Alistair Croll writes about Microsoft for GigaOM.
Microsoft is fighting a war — one in which it’s being attacked on three sides. ... what emerges is the Redmond giant’s three-pronged defense strategy: consumer, enterprise and developer.
What emerges is that consumers who have previously been buying nothing but Windows don't care ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
So while we Northerners might be shit at blogging (as evidenced by our complete lack of talent at the Irish Blog Awards), we're pretty much in the top-5 for self-hatred, hatred of neighbours, hatred of foreigners, hatred of animals and hatred of things we don't even know about. Judging by ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Twenty Major on the problems with kids today.
They shoplifted, they drank cider, they smoked John Player blue, they wore pants too short from them and those squiggly jumpers you used to see in Dunnes Stores and they got up to no good. They sniffed glue and generally made a nuisance ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Yes, it's time to stop buying anything to do with Western Digital. They think we're scum.
One of the world's largest hard disk manufacturers has blocked its customers from sharing online their media files that are stored on networked drives.
Western Digital says the decision to block sharing of music and audio ...
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