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  • Digging Away From “Beep, Beep, Beep”

    There’s been a lot of interest in the Apple ‘Switch’ ad campaign, telling the stories of real-life people who made the switch to a Mac, with a large amount of interest in the story of Ellen Feiss, the allegedly doped-up student who “beep, beep, beep”‘s her way through her tale of schoolpaper-munching PCs. Yah, that’s…

  • It’s alive .. alive I tell you!!!

    what abomination is this … it’s alive! ta to iyanus for preinstalling solaris 8 tho i might switch to either debian or solaris 9 at some point …

  • And now on BBC One, ‘Things Which Continually Piss Neuro Off’

    subtitle: “But To Everyone Else, They’re Petty Wee Things And Don’t Really Matter In Life” #1: people who can’t be arsed deamazonising URLs. Example: “Hey, that Photoshop 7.0 is pretty neat!” Roll over that link for a second. That URL is huge. HUGE. It’s got the Amazon ASIN (their SKUs), which here is B000063EMG; it’s…

  • Lancey Boy Ain’t Gonna Fly

    Nae luck, Lancey, nae luck son, nae luck, Lancey, with luck you’ll get boosted up on a Long March with some dodgy Chinese pr0n satellite real soon now 🙂

  • fun with blogs (# 231,401,531 of a 1,015,492,640 part series)

    updated my blog template somewhat today, adding permalinks (at bloody last) and a per-post comments facility, which I think michele asked for at some point … Play nice now 🙂

  • Damn Douglas Coupland …

    … god damn him all to hell … Just as I finally managed to get Souvenir of Canada from amazon.ca — which is only available in Canada, natch — I notice he’s published God Hates Japan … which — you guessed it — is only available in Japan. I can’t even find it on amazon.jp,…

  • Bah. I never do these.

    Bah. I never do these. I never, ever do these. Unless it’s a “Which Hackers Character Are You?” quiz … Which Hacker’s Character Are You? Find out @ She’s Crafty In other news, someone held up a mirror to Google – freaky!

  • Dude-ah! Sweet-ah!

    accidentally found a realaudio clip of the “Dude! Sweet!” tattoo thing from Dude, Where’s My Car? which i and dekay immortalised on #speccy the other day (as found below). and here it is …

  • server up!

    server up! I had to buy a copy of PowerQuest Drive Copy to really make it stick, but at least I get a spare 20 gig when this P/// arrives later today. *sigh* and indeed relief.