Category Archives: Stupidity
Lovefilm shouldn’t be advertising
I pay a service to Lovefilm. £13 per month for 2 rental movies at a time. I can usually get about a maximum of 10 DVDs per month. This is good value. However, their website is increasing with the amount … 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”.
Fix PDF in Safari
If you’ve just installed Adobe CS3/4 you may be wondering why your Safari on OS X can’t display PDFs anymore. It’s because Adobe mucked up the plugin which tells Safari to choose an application to view the PDF files. To … Continue reading
Multiple selections in Windows on VMware Fusion
I’ve always had the headache of trying to multiselect in windows and have now finally sorted it. Follow the screengrab to fix the CTRL+CLICK madness!
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/
Apple + Microsoft vs Google
The days are numbered for all the Mac vs PC debates. Apple and Microsoft may be once again harmoniously holding hands as they skip down digital lane to beat the crap out of the neighbourhood bully that is Google. Now … Continue reading
Fix your Bluetooth in your MacPro
Apparently Apple have been hooking up the antenna incorrectly to some MacPro computers. Mine, a 2x 2.8ghz quad core Xeon (from early 2008) had built-in Bluetooth but not Wifi. I’ve just installed a 802.11n card and noticed that the antenna … Continue reading
BT advertise against mobile phones
I just heard an interesting advert on the radio from BT, saying “if a conversation is worth having – use your BT landline”. Sounds like BT are feeling a bit left out in the cold while most people these days … Continue reading
GBP/NZD Worst in three years
When I arrived in London at the start of August 2006, the pound was 3.2x the NZ dollar. Now, November 2009, three and a bit years later, the pound is 2.2x the dollar. Check out this graph from fxstreet.com: