Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

There are a lots of photoshop competitions on-line these days, people put up an image or suggest a topic and people use submit their entries. Some of them are really quite brilliant.
Some wag has suggested redecorating the cell of the now-disgraced US Queen of lifestyle. The results are well worth a look.
[via Dave Galbraith]

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The Inquirer, sister publication of The Register has a great turn of phrase… BT put broadband not so much on the back burner, but down the back of the cooker along with the congealed grease, cat hair and burnt chips.

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I dropped in to the Green Park Audi showroom on my way back from the Norman Foster’s talk at the Royal Academy. They had the new A8 on show and it was interesting to see how tech’d up it was, beginning at the car entry and starting it.
The key is an RF key, so when […]

Currently, if you carry out a lookup on whois.crsnic.net of any registered .org domain, it will bring up the followingwhois -h whois.crsnic.net simonperry.org …
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
No match for “SIMONPERRY.ORG”.At this point, it’s not clear […]

After seeing Fox News and other US TV coverage at the start of GWII, I wasn’t surprised to read the MIT Enterprise Technology Review and find:- In the last Gulf War, researchers at University of Massachusetts found that the more television news people watched, the less likely they were to be able to answer basic […]

I was reading through a discussion on slashdot about building your own PVR and someone foolishly piped up saying, “what about good old VCR’s?”. There was obviously a number of rude comments, it is slashdot after all, and one hilarious one that highlights the strengths of PVR’s.

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I heard something fantastic from David Poyser last night. George W Bush, in his obvious annoyance with the French, was reported to have said“The problem with the French is that they don’t know the meaning of the word Entrepreneur”Even if it’s not true, it’s a classic.
FYI — “entrepreneur” comes from Old French entreprendre, meaning “to […]

You know what it’s like, you’re hanging on the phone for ages, you eventually get through and the people at the call centre can’t/won’t think beyond their training script. Thomas Korte tells it how it is, when you’re dealing with customer services.

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I heard the other week what 3G really stands for — Girls, Goals and Games. To clarify — it’s the type of content that teleco’s are hoping will be successful.

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Well it looks like it’s started. Sitting here in San Francisco watching TV, we told that the initial strike on Bagdad has begun with an “target of opportunity”. The newscasters are constantly discussing conjecture, as no real information is available to us or them. As they thought it was a tomahawk missile, they’ve started showing […]