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Alright, BT, now I’m mad

One of the things about being a freelance technology journalist is that things like a telephone line and the internet are, you know, useful. Imagine my joy then, on discovering last night that my phone line was misbehaving. It has subsequently died. I can’t really begin to convey my contempt for BT just now, but [...]

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Friday rant

Having my weekly rant this morning, I remembered something trivial that annoys the shit out of me, and thought I’d share the love. See, now, I hate adverts generally, and I reserve a special bile for ones in which two of my favourite TV people prostitute themselves at the altar of car insurance, but there’s [...]

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Advertisers: prepare to die!

Right, listen up. I’m digging Hicks out of the cold earth and we’re going to work on some advertisers. Why? Reason the first is that I’ve met a couple, and at least one of them is without merit as a human being. But the second reason – and the point of this rant – is [...]

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Spot the deliberate mistak

You know how, once you get familiarised with something, it’s hard to spot that it’s stupid? Well, every now and then you get a flash of perspective. Earlier my brother sent me a link to a Times Online story. As sometimes happens in email, the link got broken across two lines. In this case just [...]

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Sweary Mary

Everything’s been feeling just a little joyless of late. Tamsin has even been moved to ask if this is the Summer of Doom. Bugger me, I’m not arguing. I think I might have inspired the question. So, when AntonyM sent this link to Giles Coren’s latest tirade I could almost have kissed him. If you [...]

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Hi, it’s 2008. Just wanted to remind you, because BBC News thinks it’s discovered a security flaw in Facebook applications. Yes, apparently they can gain access to your and your friends’ profile information, so a malicious application could pose as a legitimate one and harvest profile details, even if they’re not public. I had to [...]

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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 [...]

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My name’s Simon and I’m a pedant

I can’t help it. I’ve trained myself to overlook a bit of apostrophic abuse here and there, and I’ve come to accept that people have to be left to stew in their own lax capitalisation and dreadful grammar, but this is just too much: Nnnnnnnng. Nnnnnnnnnnnng. Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng.

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Here come the dick jokes

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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