Category Archives: Rants
Theatre aficionados
I went to see a play the other day, haven’t been to one in ages, and it was fantastic. The play I saw was the old Russian comedy, The Government Inspector. A story about a small village panicking about the … Continue reading
Advertising in OS’s
Would you or better yet, could you use an operating system that has adverts? Google are working on their web-based OS which would probably have the usual targeted adverts based on either surrounding content or user profile data.
Inconsideration
This is one of my pet peeves.
London, unprepared for anything
London has been around for quite a while now. And yet every winter the metro transport system is heavily affected.
Music Piracy, Album Sales, &… Second Hand Sales?
It’s obvious that pirating music is the cheapest way to obtain music. Pirating because you’re interested in the band or just don’t want to pay the money. Buying an album usually costs around £8 for a digital download (in my … Continue reading
Out of Office Autoreply
I think OoO messages are ridiculous and I blame Microsoft. It’s so easy to setup an Autoreply for holidays and when you are out of the office.
present + past = new english mongrel
The English LOVE to ruin their language. One of their latest abominations is using past and present verbs in the same sentence, because “everyones doing and sounds so cool”.
RipIt vs Handbrake
RipIt is a great small app to quickly rip a DVD to your harddrive. However, it uses ffmpegx which can only utilise two cores. Handbrake goes nuts. It uses as many cores available and can rip discs from DVD to … Continue reading
Look at this f*%^ing hipster
Sorry but this has really suddenly annoyed me. Just *everyone* wants to wear the latest in cool and neat desgin, Superdry… Superdry clothing is then new Bench. They need to go on http://www.latfh.com/
Nokia E71, finally.
To cut the story down to bare facts – i first ordered the Nokia E71 at the start of November from Amazon Market Place. A month later, no contact from the seller and i’ve been ripped off. Well, the dude … Continue reading