Category Archives: Fail

HP touchpad sells out

There was some controversy as to what happened with HPs webos, their latest device challenging the iPad, HP touchpad has died a death before even shipping. Today, someone from Dixons announced the touchpad will sell for £89, usually selling for … Continue reading

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Copyright protection ‘Cinavia’ on PS3

Sounds like Sony has implemented their Copyright control on movies encoded with Cinavia technology. Most of the movies I watch are downloaded from the web. Most of them are available to me on Lovefilm, a monthly service I pay for … Continue reading

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Riot police. 4am. Palace Rd.

Saturday morning. At about 4am there’s lots of shouting, screaming, sounds of broken glass. My door bell buzzes a couple times. I thought it was maybe a party going on downstairs so I was really pissed off. I picked up … Continue reading

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Safari 5.1 (Lion)

Understandably, the latest version of Safari is awesome, but bug ridden. It’s still an unreleased version with the upcoming OS Lion. There are a few issues.

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Spanish Gash

Last night I fell out of bed, top bunk of a hostel bed, flat onto my forehead. Quick trip to Spanish A&E and six stitches later. This is the result. WARNING: Content may offend.

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No Germany

I arrived at the airport with my passport in hand, neatly packed suitcase and a wee smile on my face. To my surprise EasyJet’s checkin queue was empty – what a great day for flying. I went to the counter … Continue reading

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Stupid Flash MysteryMeat

I work in the web industry for a reason. Because I can’t stand stupid websites which confuse the crap out of crapheap. Especially when they’re Flash websites which load and load and load without any sort of cancel function. “Sound … Continue reading

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Why PCs turn me away

Because they’re laden with so many features you will never use. Just look at this motherboard for a PC. It has: 1 x 7.1 Audio I/O [perhaps, but i prefer my external soundcard] 1 x D-Sub [no] 1 x Line … Continue reading

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Google having trouble with Safari 5 (malwaring?)

Recently I’ve been seeing some weird things happening with Safari & Google. Lately, gMaps is very slow and takes up a lot of process. Streetview is horrible in Safari 5. gAnalytics doesn’t display content correctly. I’ve been using Chrome for … Continue reading

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USA wins..! wait, whaa?

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