Author: Carrie

  • Has a review hurt your feelings? Then why not sue?

    This is rather worrying: according to Slugger O’Toole, a Belfast restaurant successfully sued the Irish News for libel after the paper printed a negative review. If Slugger’s commenters are correct, the jury didn’t find the paper guilty because the review was factually incorrect; it found it guilty because the review hurt the restaurateur’s feelings. [Via…

  • Doing my bit for charidee

    As part of fundraising for Comic Relief, Girls Aloud have posed for photographs while wearing school uniforms. In that spirit, I’m posting one of the promo pics here, because I think it’s important to raise awareness of such an important charity. The fact that it’s quite possibly THE GREATEST PHOTO EVER is purely coincidental.

  • Wii want boxing gloves

    According to Engadget, someone’s come up with boxing gloves for the Wii that make you feel slightly less silly when playing Wii Sports. Surely you could get the same effect for a lot less cash by popping round to TK Maxx and getting a pair of those skiing gloves with heat pad pockets?

  • Vista myths

    Over at Tech Republic, Deb Shinder’s written a good piece on the various Windows Vista myths flying around – not just anti-Microsoft FUD, but pro-Microsoft nonsense too. It demolishes the “Vista needs a brand new PC” myth, points out that it definitely won’t solve all your security problems and addresses the (bizarre) suggestions that you…

  • Steve Jobs: “dump the DRM”

    Here’s a turn-up for the books: Steve Jobs has published an open letter to, well, everybody. He’s talking about music and in particular, the calls for Apple to licence FairPlay so iTunes music works on anything. As you’d expect he’s not a fan of that idea, on the grounds that the more people licence FairPlay,…

  • My prefererred operating system is superior to your preferred operating system

    Wasn’t that an Onion story? Anyway. File this one under predictable: Guardian writer and professional misanthrope Charlie Brooker calls the Mac faithful a bunch of smug tossers, the smug tosser element of the Mac faithful wades in, a PC versus Mac thread kicks off and there’s the occasional Linux evangelist too. It’s not all bad,…

  • Some good points about journalism

    Kieren McCarthy’s written about the Net, Vista, journalism and remote controlled planes in a typically epic post – but almost in passing he nails something I think about a lot. I know a fair amount about a comparatively tiny number of things. But thanks to being a journalist where I write about subjects publicly all…

  • Engadget’s looking for writers again

    Mobile expert? HD expert? Based on the US East Coast or able to wibble during the night (US time) or weekends? Details here.

  • Can you trust eBay?

    No, this isn’t about my long-running problems with eBay customer service, or the evils of online ticket touts, or any of the other eBay irritations. It’s about eBay users – or rather, abusers. My locked account has caused a few problems, and while some of them are probably good – I can’t drunkenly bid on…

  • The Times, it is a-changing

    The Times has unveiled its spanking new website, and it’s really rather nice – in a “takes ten years to load” kind of way. I’m assuming the redesign has created a big spike in visitor numbers; either that or the hamster powering the servers needs a caffeine hit.