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Quick hardware review: the O2 XDA IIs
The good: Wi-Fi Bluetooth Quad-band Nice display Slide-out QWERTY keyboard SD/MMC card slot Cheap depending on contract It’s black and grey The bad: It’s heavy It’s the size of a house You look stupid using it as a phone You’ll need to recharge it every night Windows Mobile 2003 is a pain in the arse…
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The work in my house is nearly finished!!!!!
If “nearly finished” means “not even close, and everything looks like vietnam”. My brother’s coming to stay on Friday. *weeps hot, salty tears*
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Google rumours
Google is rumoured to be launching some new communications tool tomorrow. It’ll probably be the chat system described here, but it’d be mind-blowing if instead, Google announced the Universal Translator described here. [Via Metafilter]
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Every little helps, unless you’re a PC retailer
Good news for punters and bad news for PC retailers: if you thought PC prices couldn’t get much lower, you ain’t seen nothing yet. As The Inquirer notes: In the UK, for example, supermarket chain ASDA is, as of this week, selling PCs for under £300. And not bad PCs either, with 256MB of RAM,…
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Physician, heal thyself
Or rather, tech expert! Fix yer PC! I know it’s inviting hubris but… some tech hack or tech PR who has my details in their address book has got the W32/Netsky-D virus, which is sending out virus-laden emails using forged “from:” addresses. As a result I’m being inundated with “undeliverable” returned mails from various media…
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(Not) doing it for the quids
As some of you know, when I’m not scribbling I’m the lead hollerer in a rock band called Kasino, although the band’s been in hibernation for more than a year (partly because of back problems that prevented me from lifting a guitar let alone throwing rock shapes, and partly because guitarist David now lives hundreds…
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Northern Scotland is a strange place…
…where dogs drive cars.
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Please excuse the dust
I decided to try and fix the blog design, which wasn’t working properly in Internet Explorer. As ever I’ve probably made a right arse of things so if anyone passing is running IE, could you let me know if the page displays properly? Ta. Update, Saturday morning I think I’ve fixed all the major problems.…
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It’s good to talk (to yourself)
We’re getting some major work done to our house at the moment, which means there’s been a steady stream of builders, plumbers, electricians, plasterers and decorators working on the place. One of the things that I’ve noticed: if a tradesman is working alone, within a few minutes of starting he’ll begin talking to himself. I…
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Which is worse: the spam, or the anti-spam?
Thank god I’m back on broadband: at about 20 past eleven last night, I received 464 spam emails – or rather, emails from anti-spam systems telling me “my” message had not been delivered. These things are worse than the bloody spammers.