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The warm fuzzy feeling of feedback

November 28th 2008

Funny what makes grumpy about things isn’t it.  When I was a regular windows user and I was copying groups of large files around it was the totally bonkers time estimates that annoyed me.  You really had not idea how long copying a thousand files around locally was going to take, but 7777623 minutes seemed [...]

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Charging VAT? Foolish to say the least

November 26th 2008

So, it would appear that the government in it’s wisdom, has reduce UK’s value added tax to from 17.5% to, erm, less (15%).  I wonder how far through this one was thought then? Firstly, how much different is it actually going to make?  £2.50 in the £100.  If that was a discount in a sofa [...]

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Dysons just suck

November 25th 2008

The Dyson vacuum cleaner is something of a design legend. The man who created is probably is a genius, and reportedly learns pneumatics in the space of 6 months. There is no bought that they are excellent at sucking hard and continuously, but I’d like to call them out on their over all design. They [...]

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