once were journalists
Posted in digression on Mar 19th, 2008
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 will know [...]
Posted in digression on Mar 12th, 2008
Posted in digression on Dec 12th, 2007
I’m not happy.
I worked for too many years in IT, and if there’s one lesson that you’d think I would have learned from my time there it’s that faster is not always better.
This would, on early evidence, seem to apply to my internet connection, which was upgraded about a week ago from a faultless 8Mbit [...]
Posted in journalism on Oct 28th, 2007
There are people starving, others dying of disease and many millions who are oppressed and victimised, but if there’s one thing that people seem to give a shit about it’s technology. I’m utterly at a loss to explain why.
This isn’t the grumbling of a marginalised old-timer, I should point out. I may (dimly) remember playing [...]
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