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DNA IIfx
Someone managed to buy an old Mac that belonged to Douglas Adams from eBay — I wonder how the chuff it got from DNA’s home into the hands of a computer scrapper? Tip o’ the hat to 2lmc spool, who got it from linkmachinego.
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More BBC Tomfoolery
Looks like my fun with BBCi URLs isn’t solitary, as has been discovered regarding BBC iCan URLs, a reasonably major service the beeb have been pimping promoting … Yoz has set up a wiki to document bbc.co.uk site hiccups (what’s a wiki? I’m glad you asked … here’s the answer).
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Who Knew Celebrities Swearing Would Be So Cool?
Channel Four have slipped out a Flash movie advert which … well, it’s basically people who are on, or have been on programmes on Channel Four, such as The West Wing, ER, Big Brother, yadda yadda … and they’re swearing. A lot. I’ve no idea where it came from, but it’s certainly starting to gather…
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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…
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Microsoft Swastika Overdrive
Microsoft have released (admittedly a fortnight ago) an update to Bookshelf Symbol 7, a font included in Office 2003, for including two instances of the swastika. It’s labeled Q833407, after the MS Knowledge Base article giving (virtually no) extra information on the update, it’s marked “critical”—the same level of urgency imparted upon recent Windows security…
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SCO Foot Shooting Continues?
According to a Russian security site [babelfish translation], SCO are behind a new worm (Mydoom) which is designed to target www.sco.com with a DDoS attack this Sunday, while propogating itself in the usual win32 email fashion … seemingly the FBI has raided SCO, detained employees and seized equipment. Truth? Who knows — the whole SCO…
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‘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…
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Holy Hail, Batman!
I was just about to go make some brekkie, waiting for the Phill Jupitus breakfast show to start on 6music, when I heard a weird crackling in the office. “Crap, something’s on fire,” was my first thought, my second was to start reaching for a fire extinguisher … then I turned off dabbar, and listened…