Posted in Digital-lifestyle on December 19th, 2005 No Comments »
We’ve held our business banking accounts with Barclays for quite a number of years. It’s for historic reasons more that anything else as the level of badness of service is consistent across all business banking.
Needing to check the receipt into an account today I was met with the above message - ‘the service is unavailable’.
How […]
Posted in Media on December 14th, 2005 No Comments »
I thought I’d start an occasional series - Things I’d make illegal.
__#1
Door bell noises in audio broadcasts _must_ be banned. Immediately. Allowed in Video sound tracks, only if it’s clear that a door bell is being pressed.
_Reasoning
Picture the scene. Sitting at home, relaxing. Enjoying the evening delights of Isle Of Wight Radio then, the […]
Posted in Liberty on December 13th, 2005 No Comments »
I have yet to write my long-planned piece on the proposed ID cards scheme and, more importantly, the need for protection of personal information. In summary, it’s suffice to say I’m against the ID card.
It was with some horror, but frankly not a great deal of surprise, that I read the governments reply to the […]
Posted in Trivia on December 13th, 2005 No Comments »
Don’t say I heard that correctly. Is Makosi, of a previous years Big Brother, going to me made Woman of the Year in the UK?
If this is true, I would suggest that the judges couldn’t have bestowed a greater insult on Woman-kind in the UK.
It is beyond belief that she has ‘achieved’ more that […]
Posted in Unprocessed on December 8th, 2005 No Comments »
Bits and pieces that I’ve come across today that I don’t have time to look at.
Play music over Skype With TimeUp
Mercora builds in GTalk - I knew niche VoIP applications would be a trend.
Phidgets - Phidgets are an easy to use set of building blocks for low cost sensing and control from your […]
Posted in Trivia on December 8th, 2005 No Comments »
It was with some delight that I heard that Carol Thatcher, daughter of an ex-leader of the UK, had won I’m a celebrity Get me out of here.
Why did I smile to myself with delight? Well, I hadn’t seen a single episode of this over-long running reality TV show. It hadn’t even entered my thoughts […]
Posted in Design on December 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
Hurrah. Got hold of a TV24 today.
It’s a little bit tatty and will need some work to get it back in rude health - but that can come later.
Here’s the bonus - £20.
(I’d take a photo, but it’s dark now, so here’s a link, it’s the sixth one down)
Share and Enjoy:
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