hackbash

I’ve come to a mini-realisation. There is no getting away from IT. Let me fill you in – I used to work in tech support, which was OK, but there’s only so many progress meters a man can take. If you laid mine end to end they’d probably reach Belgium. My plan was to begin [...]

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I’m hurt. I’ve been trying very hard not to just slag off the BBC lately, and a friend pointed out this evening that he kind of missed it. Well, if you think I’m going to say something sarcastic about under-bonnet forecourt-proximity-detecting depreciation devices you’ll be sorely disappointed. Instead, a mini rant about Microsoft. Regular readers [...]

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Recent experience suggests that I’ve lost my IT mojo: that silicon and I are no longer on speaking terms. And yet, I persist in fooling around with forces more powerful than I can imagine. First it was the broadband upgrade, then a tedious episode over Christmas that started out as an attempt to breathe new [...]

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