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Geek Shopping

Am I allowed to get pissed off because the guy at Asda wasn’t packing my stuff into bags optimally? I twice ended up putting one bag into another. It’s alright for the mums and dads who have umpteen kids traipsing behind them and they can be used as slave labour at the other end when […]

'A bit early for April Fools..?'

“Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world’s wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for “services to global enterprise”.” Yeah, I know, I had to do a double-take on that one too. The Telegraph article also states that “commercial success has led to hatred of him among his competitors.” This in the same […]

Snickers, Er, Marathon?

Not content with attempting to homogenise the planet, the almighty Masterfoods, Inc., aka Mars in the UK, have released a new variant of their Snickers bar. In the UK, we have two – the Snickers, which used to be the Marathon of yore, and Snickers Crunch, a more recent arrival. In the US, the Snickers […]

off to belfast next week

off to belfast next week for a random Exchange Server installation … should be fun! The work is supposed to be giving me a 300 quid cash advance on my expenses, but they couldn’t give me the money through a BACS transfer cos our finance system is shite, and the promised cheque in-lieu-of still hasn’t […]

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