Archive for the “Internet” category
iStockphoto just utterly fucked its biggest asset!
by robert on September 7, 2010
iStockphoto was a fantastic way of me getting a handful of images to pay a very small return, very small, less than the amount of pocket money I’d pay my kids… but it was wonderful to know that someone wanted (…)
GPS tracking software for the Mac
by robert on November 25, 2009
I have the Garmin Edge 305 GPS gizmo for my bike and it’s fantastic… it uploads to their own website fine (but the site is a little slow, completely flash based and at times I find it somewhat annoying that (…)
fackin’ apple have done it again!
by robert on June 17, 2009
this time last year with shiny new iPhone in my sweaty paws I was unable to activate it… this year the iPhone is rather less shiny and my paws somewhat less sweaty as a result but like many iPhone users (…)
Restore Windows MBR
by robert on February 22, 2009
http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/ This software is stonking! I’ve just had a wobble on a dual-boot Debian/Windows machine, started getting strange errors and couldn’t seem to get grub to behave… eventually I found a utility called ms-sys which compiled with no problems and (…)
just how big is a “chunk”?
by robert on June 13, 2008
http://img.moonbuggy.org/i-had-a-mishap-this-morning/
merry christmas world…
by robert on December 16, 2007
…bah humbug!
RoyalMail self-printing stamps…
by robert on October 14, 2007
…handy on the surface, useless in practice! We need to post a letter that needs to arrive by a specific date. Given the current situation with postal strikes, we don’t want to take a chance so decided to use Recorded (…)
facebook…
by robert on July 22, 2007
…this could be a load of nonsense but it really wouldn’t surprise me if it was only half the truth… http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/facebook
Adobe Pricing
by robert on April 11, 2007
Adobe appear to have lost the plot a little… They’ve certainly not covered themselves in glory regarding the pricing for their CS3 release which appears to be truly shafting non-US customers. The Register have a great write up on it (…)
Be…
by robert on September 22, 2006
it was upon receipt of this letter that he said to me, rather wonderfully i thought, even at the time, that he would give me a five-pound note if i came home and told him i had got a barmaid (…)