Category: Rant

  • I hate cyclepaths. Sometimes.

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    I use cyclepaths every day when I ride to work, I support & regularly donate cash to Sustrans, the awesome organisation that has created thousands of miles of cyclepath in the UK and continues to drive new paths across the country, and I am cheered whenever I see one of those little blue and white…

  • Kids & tech part 2

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    Given my previous post, the flipside of children being so involved in technology is that they have no idea how delicate or expensive it can be. Apart from getting an Apple TV that I can stow away somewhere and sticking speakers on walls I’ve been put off buying any decent technology for the house. My…

  • iTunes film prices

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    I have a personal plea. If you’re going to watch films from the iTunes Store (link opens in iTunes) and feel that you need to comment, can you please shut the hell up about the price? It is not expensive. Every film I’ve rented or bought from iTunes has a huge list of reviews, and…

  • I hate chevrons

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    I hate these damned chevrons! They try to hypnotise me, and instead of making me focus on the distance between me and the car in front they confuse my eye and take my attention away from driving. And it’s a bloody long section too! You keep thinking you can see the end….. and then there’s…

  • iTunes Heroes

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    Yey! You can buy the TV series “Heroes” on iTunes! Wait a minute – £43.47 for series 1? Are you mad? Who the hell would pay that? Dammit. Guess how I’ll be catching up on my missed TV viewing.

  • Producer plans Barbarella remake

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    According to the BBC, “A remake of the cult 1960s science-fiction film Barbarella is in development”. “Original producer Dino De Laurentiis has secured the rights to remake the 1968 film, which starred Jane Fonda.” Oh for the love of scifi, create something new! Barbarella is a cult favourite, don’t “remake” it! Why, oh why, oh…

  • iPod add-on ‘fails’ privacy test

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    What a load of rubbish. I cannot believe that the BBC are taking this seriously: BBC article link. This was slashdotted as a piece of research to be ridiculed weeks ago. In a nutshell, it says that one can intercept the information coming from a runner’s shoe via the Nike iPod Sport Kit and in…

  • More rain

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    Today is the first Monday since August(ish) that we haven’t been teaching anatomy. To commemorate this I thought I’d have a lie in, and read a book before starting work a little later than usual. It *is* late December after all. When I did get on my bike to cycle in, it started to rain.…

  • Web Design Warning

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    Be warned, the next person that asks me to build them a website will have to up the sound quality in my study for me by buying me these items: PMC DB1 (plus a sub to match probably…) Cyrus 6vs And probably a couple of hundred egg boxes for the walls. All my web construction…

  • MSN upgrade

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    So after the post below I checked for updates, and there’s a new version of MSN Messenger for the Mac: Version 6. So I downloaded and installed it. It won’t even log me in, and only gives me an error if I put the wrong password. So now I can’t even use the software. Great.…