I did have a post about how I didn’t hate Windows media Player quite as much as I did last week having used it for a little while and found some useful things, however…. As I was looking through some Unknown Artist files, I noticed some funny items in the Comments section of the mp3 [...]
yes, it would appear that lighting a pipe and smoking it on set on Top Gear causes the health and safety Nazis to get their knickers in a twist again. “Ash’s spokeswoman said smoking was “not appropriate for the BBC”. “There are no exceptions,” she said, adding: “You cannot smoke in a public place. This [...]
It would appear the music industry is just not thinking, listening or doing anything more than bitching a sueing to try and maintain a business model thats just got working anymore. They’re even contradicting themselves now, for example check out these gems, only lines apart. “when people steal, when they take music without compensation, we [...]
Between my Outlook install for work, and my gmail account which aggregates the mail from about 4 or 5 pop3 addresses, I was drowning in a sea of email. I got about a thousand messages a day, of which a good 800 were spam, and of the remaining 200 I probably only had to deal [...]
It breaks my heart when people come out with such complete rubbish as “Condoms are not sure because I know that there are two countries in Europe, they are making condoms with the virus on purpose” (Archbishop Chimoio). HIV will ravage and rape your entire flock is you preach such complete tosh. Interestingly though “Archbishop [...]
Elitism is alive and well One of the perks of my job is that just occasionally I get to travel first class on the British Train network. This afford plenty of opportunities for a spot of people watching. First Class travel by train not like first class air travel. The cost is roughly double, rather [...]
As I have noted beofre, I really don’t like Microsoft Word. It does everything, badly. I’ve just written than last post about storage using JDarkRoom, saved it as plain text (6kb for 1000+ words) and normally would have then pasted it into Word to spell check it. Luckily remembered I’ve got ASpell install so I [...]
Just when I thought the music industry was getting the hang of the new economic models that are around, they come up with a totally moronic idea. Did they thing they were being innovative? Maybe. Did they think this would kill downloading? Possibly (though I imagine even the painfully optimistic realized this was unlikely). Did [...]
I went into Fenwick’s this lunchtime to buy a sandwich form their very excellent sandwich counter. As we found though the aisles of ladies fashion and then the chocolate counter, I realised I was facing the wrong way and had lost the sandwich counter. This was followed up by realising that actually, I hadn’t lost [...]
yesterday in the longrunning saga of me trying to have my very expensive brick replaced, I spoke to their UK based sales team. They couldn’t be directly helpful, but did give me a contact address for the “Helddesk careline”. I emailed explaining the back story and what i did for a living (and what my [...]
Another day, another call to Buffalo technical Support (Ireland). After yesterdays confusing but fairly productive call, I thought I’d better follow it up. Today they explained that whomever delt with my case had been too busy yesterday to send me out the form (I assume it must be more complex that hitting reply and attaching [...]
So, my continuing trials with Buffalo technical support continues. I’ve now got them to admit the device is faulty (easy enough, as the box didn’t say “Extreamly expensive space age brick”). I’ve sent them the details of my purchase, and aparently they couldn’t work with those. So I sent them a photo of my reciept, [...]
i really really like the idea of audio books. I spend all day looking at screens, and my eyes get sore. I also love reading, and hammer though a book a week and then some. To be able to go to bed with my comically huge 1970′s headphones and listen to a book from my [...]
As pointed out very recently, I’m having some problems with my Buffalo LinkStation Live. I’ve just re-emailed my details to them and rang up to make sure the email had arrived. The person I spoke to pointed out that “written details were pointless because we can’t work form them”. When I asked how excatly I [...]
Buffalo Technology’s UK help desk is appalling. Rude, snappy and frankly appauling. A few weeks ago I bought a Buffalo LinkStation Live (320Gb version) and very nice it was too, for the first 2 days. After 2 days, it simply made a beeping noise, and did not do anything more. After 2 phone calls to [...]
I have many arguments with our American cousins about cocktails* but this is just silly. Wine based cocktails are bad enough but beer based cocktails, you fucking heathens. *A martini is gin/vodka and vermouth, and nothing else. Nothing. Leave it alone. It’s the nearest thing you’ve invented to poetry. All other mixtures are just cocktails. [...]
This is a really interesting post. A share buy back and dividend package is a common thing in the market at the moment (as far as I understand), and they seem to be driven by people who ar eout to make money (hedge fund manager, share traders, Wall Street analysts, etc), and by people who [...]
Well it appears that some of our leaders have been smoking the weed and taking hits from the bong whilst at university. Big surprise. Lets face a simple fact, that I would suspect that more people under the age of 45 have ingested something illegal at some point in their life, and to rule them [...]
This is really beginning to bug me. I have a large mp3collection, mostly because I spent 2 weeks ripping my cd collection to mp3 in case of theft and fire, and so I can take it on the road with me when working away from home. I’ve been used iTunes to try and mange it, [...]
My parents are arriving into the airport at some point today, and I want to meet them. Iknow where they are flying from, and which airport, and all I need to know is what time their flight lands. I don’t know the flight number, or which airline they are flying with, but I assumed this [...]
Accourding to “Bush Commutes Libby Prison Sentence” BushBaby has got his old mate off the hook. Just like policemen and breathaliser tests in this country, it appears you can be a corrupt cunt faced motherfucker, and still get away with it, so long as you are high enough in the olegarcy. Come on people of [...]
First up,an apology. The spacebar on myibook isplaying up and notfiring evertime I hit it, which is extreamly annoying. Nodoubt I’llmiss a few spaces in tonight diatribe. At the weekend I was reading an article about girls who hunt down their men based virtually entirely on thier wealth. Not unusual I admit, but nowwith the [...]
I remember my first ventures into the wonderful world of coffee, almost 20 years ago. My dad has a caffieter (a “coffee press” if you will) and from it’s heavy jug-like glass body would come dark black poison which I quickly became accustomed to. He has a set of very elegant dark green hexagonal coffee [...]