Category: Rant

  • MSN Mess

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    I’ve been having problems with my Mac for the last couple of working days. It’s been really, really slow, and everything drags and takes an age to do. I work it hard, and have a lot of things running together so I couldn’t easily put my finger on the cause. So I had a look…

  • Disconnection disconnections

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    How hard is it to cancel a service via modern company phone systems? I recently signed up for a contract with TalkTalk after discussion with a sales rep as to how it would cut my phone bill. After studying my phone bills in more detail and finding a £3.95 monthly charge that would appear after…

  • Teen Horror Films

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    I’m watching “House of Wax”, and as usual I’m rooting for the killers. It must be my age, but the kids in these films annoy the hell out of me. They’re rich, sexy, sex-focused, moronic, insensitive, stereotyped, serial-killer-fodder. I’m just glad the secretive nutters that prey on them keep coming up with new and interesting…

  • Scan scan scan (cont)

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    Naturally, after yesterday’s network installation of new virus scanning software to my work PC nothing works now that I’ve rebooted. I’ve spent most of this morning either waiting for File Explorer to wake up or trying to view an Excel sheet. I’m seeing a lot of those joyless “(Not Responding)” tags on the end of…

  • Scan scan scan

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    I’m not PC bashing, really I’m not, and I do understand some of the problems of running the same operating system as 90% of the rest of the world. You see my office PC has just had a network-delivered install of Symantec anti-virus software. This is on top of the Windows Defender beta, Zone Alarm’s…

  • No XBox360 for me

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    Some of the reasons why I won’t be buying the XBox 360: www.opinionatedgeek.com/Blog/blogentry=000178/Blog.aspx Microsoft really seem to have missed the point AGAIN. Lots of people may sway towards the 360 as a living room multimedia hub, but not if it is noisy, not if it doesn’t interact with existing kit, and not if you can’t…

  • In the gutter again

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    People suck. I had a short cycle on the road today, on my way home from work. Just 200m or so from the gates at work to the cycle path. Believe it or not, that was almost enough to get me knocked off my bike. Impressive, eh? In that short distance on a dual carriageway…

  • Valentine’s Day

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    I hate Valentine’s Day (sorry Kim). Actually, that’s not totally true, I’m just very, very annoyed by Valentine’s Day. It all feels so false, contrived, cheap and tacky. I guess when you’re single it can be fun (or can drive you to suicide or a killing rampage or both), but I don’t really remember that.…

  • Repaint

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    Over the last couple of days the interior of my house has been getting its third paint. You may remember that they rushed the job to get us moved in on time, and then had to repaint the whole house from top to bottom to bring it up to standard, because the previous painters had…

  • Comment Spam on the Up?

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    When I sit down to write a short blog entry, a list and number of recently posted comments is included in the login page. Usually I don’t have any comments (poor me and lazy you), but recently the comment spam has been on the increase. Comment spamming is the use of automated programs on some…