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Monthly Archives: November 2008

The warm fuzzy feeling of feedback

November 28, 2008 – 10:07 am

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 [...]

By coldclimate | Posted in business, rant, technology | Comments (0)

Charging VAT? Foolish to say the least

November 26, 2008 – 6:42 pm

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 shop, [...]

By coldclimate | Posted in technology | Comments (8)

Dysons just suck

November 25, 2008 – 1:10 pm

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 [...]

By coldclimate | Posted in rant | Comments (0)

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