February 8, 2010 – 8:48 pm
A rant I’ve been queuing up for a good couple of years, but haven’t yet got round to committing to ink (or pixels) is the strange phenomenon of e-things. It started reasonably enough with e-mail. Its like normal mail, but sent electronically. Fair enough. I’d argue that the UK should be talking about “I’ll drop you an e-post” but it’s tolerable.
E-mail is one thing, but enough is enough. In the last week I’ve been heard of e-newsletter (aka. newsletter, sent via email). I can live with this. I cannot take anymore of the following though…
I’ve had enough, I’m fed up to the back teeth with it. If you say these words on a regular basis why not just go and chop off the first joint of your little finger to teach yourself a lesson, I’m off for a w-bath.
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January 31, 2010 – 4:43 pm
I saw this at the weekend in the window of a wedding cake shop. To me it clearly looks twitter inspired, I wonder what the story behind it is?
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January 25, 2010 – 9:10 pm
I’ve no idea exactly what this stuff it, it’s not crazily hot, but it is crunchy and has that slightly soapy taste of Chinese pepper and is amazing on top of noodle, soup noodles and grilled meats. Go to your local Chinese supermarket and hunt it down.
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January 24, 2010 – 11:36 am
Most of my readers can ignore this, or just roll their eyes.
I’ve just seen a tweet by Suw that made me thing of a post I half wrote about a year ago and never got round to publishing. I keep hearing people mixing up their nouns for “nu-media”, so here’s a handy guide for all you radio/tv/people.
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January 23, 2010 – 9:00 pm
Finally, I’m up and running with Virgin Media broadband at home. They give you a free wireless router, but all the setup instructions and the setup cd’s are for Windows. The bloke who installed the cabling suggested I rung the £80,000 a minute phone line. Panic not people, follow these instructions…
With everything turned off…
Follow setup instructions as per Windows (eg. log into it via pointing your browser to http://192.168.1.1/
Why these noddy instructions, well… If you plug the modem into your computer directly it will work BUT the modem will remember your MAC address of the computer and not talk to the router (until you turn everything odd). If you start the router without the modem having establish an external connection it fails to find the external IP address (dodgy Virgin firmware doesn’t pick up the connection unless it’s established before the router kicks up).
Really shouldn’t be as hard as it was, there was nothing to it, but it still took me a day.
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