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Sometimes You Get To Ride Carly, Sometimes Carly Gets To Ride You. Out Of Town.
Seems that Bruce Perens, long time open source advocate and employee of hp, has been fired for ‘MS baiting’ [NY Times link – registration req’d]. Compaq and hp merging has created the biggest Microsoft customer ever, and it seems that hp’s management wasn’t too keen on Bruce’s rather hostile attitude to the Redmond behemoth. I…
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How Do I Explain This Without Referring To Damien Hirst Or Jakob Nielsen…
I stumbled across a bizarre little new media project while reading up on the reasons why Transport for London and the London Underground has such a hard-on for PPP (Public Private Partnerships, née PFI under the Tories). It’s called Flux 2.0, and it needs Shockwave. Basically, this ickle Shockwave applet goes off and fetches 16…
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Going Dark
After some feedback from Michele, which went something like … [04:15] <Mishka> white on purple .. ouch … the site now uses a dark coloured text for normal text and links, as opposed to the *chiiiing* white I used before. I doubt there’ll be probs, but if there are, 😛
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“LaMotte, LaMotte, our hats are off to you! Our I. B. M. has rightly honoured you!”
via telsa … IBM‘s page of dying hard drive noises. I personally want the album of IBM worker songs …
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“The only things i can read in that email are amazon.co.jp and my address!”
Weeeeeeell, thanks to someone who emailed me, called — c r a i g – 🙂 — I’ve wasted ¥2200 of my hard earned cash (about £11) and ordered God Hates Japan, which you may remember, I got a bit narked off about because I couldn’t find it on amazon.jp … but lo, someone has…
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via Michele … “13 people
via Michele … “13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.” Time to ban vending machines? They are of course the dark horse of the criminal world, you know. Alternately, a “TILT!” light and buzzer, akin to a pinball machine, might be useful. Early warning systems always rock.
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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…
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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 …
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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…