Is there no end to this John Naughton nonsense? Does anyone really care if John doesn’t understand that economists, financiers, brokers and anyone else interested in the US finance markets will love Google Finance?
The Clan #lugradio Maps site has been updated with new download locations for the maps, and a shell script to assist Linux users (and Windows users running Cygwin I suppose) in keeping their clan maps up-to-date. The script defaults to downloading to ~/.etwolf/etmain, so if you’ve changed that from the default, make sure that is […]
Dippy Bint Originally uploaded by neuro. This dippy bint, driving a Citroen with number plate R734 TSR, decided to track the inside lane of slow moving traffic two miles from the roadworks ahead. She eventually pulled in at 800yds. This is the second time I’ve seen someone attempt to take the road traffic laws into […]
Here’s a neat trick for anyone who has just blagged themselves a Telewest TVDrive PVR, has set the output mode to HDMI and can’t get it to reset or go back to SCART: Hit the RESET button Press and hold the STOP and PLAY buttons on the front panel, until BOOT appears on the panel […]
While googling about the new Fiat Grande Punto, which is the Mark 3 Punto, I stumbled across the fact that Fiat licensed the design to Serbian car manufacturer Zástava, who we know here as Yugo. Zástava are marketing the car as the Zástava 10, although Fiat have mandated a “Licence by Fiat” badge on the […]
I got a beauty forwarded to me this morning in my email: —–Original Message—– From: [snip’d] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 08:56 To: [snip’d] Subject: Message from Strathclyde Police THIS MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM STRATHCLYDE POLICE CAR JACKING SCHEME You walk across the car park, unlock your car and get inside. Then you lock all […]
After reading about Bill Gates’ inconsistent predictions for the future with regard to voice recognition, here’s further proof that Gates doesn’t have a fucking clue what he’s talking about: The other fascinating thing about this change is that it has, to some extent, fulfilled Bill Gates’s prediction of January 2004 that “Two years from now, […]
Bit disappointed in John Naughton today … first he gets the year wrong for the first commercial SMS — it was 1992 regardless of when your phone supported it, John. Then, in today’s new spangly Berliner-format Observer, he states that the Internet was “developed between 1973 and 1983”. The first international connection — from the […]