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If at first you don’t succeed…

Posted in digression, technology on Aug 8th, 2008

Because that’ll work.

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How to turn off smart quotes and dashes in Word 2007

Posted in internet, technology, writing on Jul 29th, 2008

Anyone who’s used Word will know that, by default, it replaces bog-standard straight quotes (and here I’d demonstrate what they look like, but our theme will change them to curved ones) with curved ones. It also changes hyphens (-) to en dashes (–).
No big deal, you’d think. After all, it’s 2008. Surely nobody’s producing websites […]

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Ten nine things I could learn Microsoft about software

Posted in digression, technology on Apr 20th, 2008

We’ve been bashing Microsoft a bit lately, though I don’t notice anyone but Scott rushing to their defence. It’s a lazy pastime, so I promise to be nice to them. After this post.
I started thinking about the opprobrium heaped on Microsoft by bloggers, commentators and anyone else who’s used its products. Much of it unfair, […]

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OK T-bone, time for some serious crunching

Posted in marketing, technology on Apr 18th, 2008

I’ve just read that Microsoft was spoofing itself with the Vista SP1 video.
I’m not so sure - they’ve got a pretty long and rich history of making shite promotional films, such as this one, which just keeps on giving.

Still, fair play to MS if it is a spoof - I certainly believed it. They haven’t […]

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No, no, no, no, no, no

Posted in marketing on Apr 17th, 2008

I will contribute some text to Hackbash at some point soon. But for now I just wanted to share this very special and beautiful thing.

They seem to have cut off the bit at the end where Charlie Brooker appears on stage with an Uzi.
Perhaps we have to pay Micro$oft more money before we get that […]

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The NC brigade

Posted in internet, politics, technology on Apr 16th, 2008

This is sort of the second half to the earlier Microsoft post, where I was rambling on about people running lightweight operating systems on lightweight computers, and only requiring lightweight applications delivered through a browser.
I’m reminded of the Network Computer, or NC, something that a consortium of manufacturers and the database company Oracle tried to […]

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Is Micro$oft losing the $?

Posted in internet, technology on Apr 12th, 2008

A TechCrunch post yesterday helped focus my mind on something that’s been dawning of me of late: Microsoft is in deep shit.
XP refuses to be killed off and Vista is flat-lining, while people are increasingly inclined to dabble with Linux-based OS like Ubuntu. Meanwhile, Office is bloated, expensive and hideous to use. Open Office is […]

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