Carphone Warehouse scam

Posted at 12:27pm on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Tom, over at theOTHERblog, makes some interesting points about what is and what isn’t mis-selling.  While I have little sympathy for mactards in general (it is, after all, just another shiny cog in the “Apple are the new Fox” machine, people) even those poor souls shouldn’t suffer the Carphone Warehouse Scam.

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That’s not a leather Muppet

Posted at 10:15pm on Friday, July 11th, 2008

that’s the queen.

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Well I voted for it

Posted at 2:39pm on Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Although I have to admit it’s the only one of the shortlist that I’ve actually read.  But it is one of my favourite books:

Midnight’s Children wins the Best of the Booker

I’m surprised only 8,000 people voted.  I’d imagined a heated debate taking place across the nation. I think that says more about me than it should.  Heigh ho.

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I make no apology…

Posted at 10:35am on Thursday, July 10th, 2008

…that this link will make little sense to the vast majority of people.  Still.  You should read it anyway.

Features of various file systems

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What’s your preference?

Posted at 10:36pm on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

For bug tracking and source control?  For us it’s Subversion and Trac, but that’s primarily because of the quality of Trac; I doubt we’d be so wedded to Subversion if there was equally good integration with other source control systems.

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Flickr and Getty

Posted at 10:34pm on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

The news is coming out about a tie up between Getty and FlickrThree and a half years ago Monoman suggested this might happen.  What took ‘em so long?

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Brace yourselves!

Posted at 6:42pm on Monday, July 7th, 2008

Bracewell is returning to Glos. This (to a Gloucestershire supporter) is awesome news.

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Dead Head at the dead drop

Posted at 2:07pm on Friday, July 4th, 2008

Britain’s top spy is seriously ill.  No foul play, so little news really, except for the gem at the end…

“[he] is known for running a website for fans of the band The Grateful Dead”

Pardon?  I’m sure there are rules about mixing LSD and the Official Secrets Act.  Aren’t there?  Surely?

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I had not thought of that

Posted at 1:30pm on Friday, July 4th, 2008

Probably, to be fair, because I hadn’t needed to.  Yet again the Internet takes all forms of obsession to beyond their logical conclusion.  Herewith an extremely detailed guide to collecting and managing your promotional coupons.

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The 11 best foods you’re not eating

Posted at 2:30pm on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

There’s actually quite a few of these in our cupboards. Which is nice.