Author: Carrie

  • Life imitates Brasseye

    ORLANDO, Fla. — A local family is outraged by a school photo. When the pictures came back from the studio, a seven-year-old girl’s image appeared to have been doctored to give her cleavage.

  • Sony boss: our rivals’ consoles are too expensive at half the price of a PS3

    What on earth are they putting in Sony’s coffee? The firm’s Australian MD tied himself in knots in an interview with The Age newspaper, nicely summarised by the Inquirer: Ephraim said that to have a good Wii you need shedloads of accessories and this makes it cost about $372. He said that $372 was a…

  • One of our routers is missing… well, 7,200 of them

    An appeal from D-Link: London, 12 October 2006 – D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business, urgently appeals to the public for help in a major product theft. D-Link’s popular wireless starter kit, consisting of a Broadband Router and USB Adapter carries the model number DWL-922. 7200 pieces of this product bundle…

  • Quote me unhappy

    You learn something new every day. Yesterday, I learnt that from an insurance point of view, being a named driver on your partner’s policy is utterly useless. The very short version: in September 2004, I had a seven-year no claims discount with Esure. No claims discounts are important, especially if you’re a hack – the…

  • Get your PS3 now

    All you need is access to eBay and two thousand dollars. And that’s one of the cheaper ones.

  • PETA: twats

    New ad campaign from PETA: [photopress:m_meat_child_abuse.gif,full,pp_image]

  • My back pages

    Long-term I want this blog to include an archive of all my various scribblings for cash, but unfortunately I keep forgetting to do anything about it. However, I’ve uploaded a couple of things: three “hypertheticals” columns for PC Plus magazine. The idea behind “hypertheticals” is to take an interesting question, choose one side of the…

  • Blog weirdness

    Sorry if things went a bit mad overnight – a configuration file was goosed. Should be fixed now. On a related note, any wordpress experts with l33t design skillz kicking around? I’d like to give my WP theme a good kicking and nick some bright ideas from other, prettier designs. On a low budget, naturally.…

  • Saab-y days are here again

    Every now and then, someone posts a bizarre photograph to the popbitch message board. It’s been going around the Internet forever, but if you haven’t seen it it’s a shot of a chubby bloke kneeling down in a field on a grey day. Two things make it bizarre: one, he’s wearing some sort of corset;…

  • Nominations time again – this week, podcasts

    I’m putting together a feature on tech podcasts, and as ever I’d appreciate any suggestions for must-listens – ideally web-related ones rather than “woo! iPods!”, heh.