Memories

“No matter what Senators or the staff did all that would come on their computers were hard core gay pictures.” and, as far as I can work out, completely unrelated “If you ever thought carrots were boring, check out their new palette” (both worksafe)

Rod logic: “A square one centimeter on a side—about one-quarter the area of a postage stamp—could hold a trillion bits of information. That’s equal to more than a thousand CD-ROMs, or the contents of a bookshelf that is one mile long.” Snowcrash: “Warwick didn’t publicise the IP address of his arm in case someone hijacked […]

“They disintegrated explosively and bits of chocolate and shredded marshmallow splattered all over the windscreens and instruments panels…thereafter marshmallows were banned.”

“strangely-attractive bean-shaped drives with little Disney charms attached“

One microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan

Gods, I hate being socially awkward….apart from the associated embarrassment the Calling was good, hope all others involved have mostly recovered now… I’d forgotten just how horrible *smokey* atmospheres can be, somehow it was really noticable this week but I don’t think it was any worse than normal. Accidentally danced to Nick Cave and Ministry, […]

“This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered”

“85 per cent of consumers admit to being ‘too dumb’ to access or use mobile services due to increasing device complexity.” Or did they get sold up to a handset that exceeds their requirements?

The Register today urged readers to “strongly consider running an alternative browser (to Internet Explorer), at least until Microsoft deals with the issue.”…following an IFRAME exploit it hosted.

The death of the video cassette recorder appears to be in sight after the UK’s largest electrical chain said it is to stop selling them. Oh, and if anyone comes across “extreme theme.sis” in their travels I’d be interested if you could forward me a copy…

Product quality and the modern consumer

Have you ever bought something, excitedly unpacked it when you get home only to discover that it has a ridiculous defect which prevents it from actually being useful? I’m looking for (true) stories about problems with high-tech products – what kinds of problems annoy you most? Is there something you no longer use because the […]