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		<title>Google. Bastards.</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2010/06/17/google-bastards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I wake to find that Google had disabled a GMail account. No reason at all. It cannot have been compromised &#8211; I use stupidly long passwords &#8211; I have not spammed, it is superlow volume, they just did it for kicks. As everyone who has ever tried to contact them knows Google has no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I wake to find that Google had disabled a GMail account. No reason at all. It cannot have been compromised &#8211; I use stupidly long passwords &#8211; I have not spammed, it is superlow volume, they just did it for kicks. As everyone who has ever tried to contact them knows Google has no Support team. No-one. Nothing. Support budget? $0. So the option to send a Support request is useless. And what do they want otherwise? My mobile phone number. Those &#8220;privacy means sod all unless you work for Google&#8221; people want another piece of my information just so they can give me access to my email account. So that account will be closed and I&#8217;m off to Hotmail or even another domain of mine. I barely use Google now and I&#8217;m no worse off and events like this just make my hatred of them burn brighter.</p>
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		<title>Touch</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2009/05/24/touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 11:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Idiot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ever worked in a shop or a bar? You know those people that don&#8217;t actually give you the money but put it on the counter? Doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s a note or someone determined to empty their penny jar it really annoys me. It&#8217;s like you are not worthy, that you are an untouchable, that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever worked in a shop or a bar? You know those people that don&#8217;t actually give you the money but put it on the counter? Doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s a note or someone determined to empty their penny jar it really annoys me. It&#8217;s like you are not worthy, that you are an untouchable, that you are there to serve and do their bidding. That&#8217;s why they count the money out so they don&#8217;t have to touch anything that you have had your filthy dirty disease-riddled necrotic fingers near.</p>
<p>Well it&#8217;s the same when someone sends an email which is full of junk but has no actual substance because it says &#8220;Read the attached&#8221;. IT USUALLY HAS A LOT OF CAPS IN IT. Oh, and it&#8217;s sometimes a .doc screenshot. What in hell is going on there then?</p>
<p>Really fucking irritating.</p>
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		<title>Outsourcing help</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2008/11/08/outsourcing-help/</link>
		<comments>http://romanticrobot.net/2008/11/08/outsourcing-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So when you turn the television up your xbox starts making a noise?&#8221; Yeah right. I would never buy another Belkin product of any sort because they outsource their help. You cannot ring and describe the issue because you have to go all through their little flow chart help system before they realise that you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;So when you turn the television up your xbox starts making a noise?&#8221;<br />
Yeah right.<br />
I would never buy another Belkin product of any sort because they outsource their help. You cannot ring and describe the issue because you have to go all through their little flow chart help system before they realise that you have a clue, they do not and Yes Please just escalate the thing.<br />
I would have thought that Microsoft could afford actual help. Having to give my name 3 times, my phone number really slowly, my post code twice and the serial number twice and really slowly does not make me happy. It makes an angry me even more angry. And they never ever speak at a decent volume. It&#8217;s always really quiet like they are a long way away&#8230;..</p>
<p>If you want to make Customer Service cheaper then you are effectively giving the finger to everyone who buys your products.</p>
<p>And having no email address, a contact form that allows only 500 characters and help in hell knows where really does mean you don&#8217;t want to hear from anyone, ever.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d get a refund on the console but because I opened the games I can&#8217;t get a refund on them because I&#8217;d be a nasty software pirate.</p>
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		<title>Snitching on Mail.</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2008/01/10/snitching-on-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://romanticrobot.net/2008/01/10/snitching-on-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I installed Little Snitch on the mini for amusement. It requires a restart. On that restart LS shows Mail.app wanting to make several outgoing connections. I don&#8217;t use Mail, I&#8217;ve never used Mail, I&#8217;ve never run it, I would never run it. I have never given it permission to run, it&#8217;s not in my login [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I installed <a href="http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html">Little Snitch</a> on the mini for amusement. It requires a restart. On that restart LS shows Mail.app wanting to make several outgoing connections.<br />
I don&#8217;t use Mail, I&#8217;ve never used Mail, I&#8217;ve never run it, I would never run it. I have never given it permission to run, it&#8217;s not in my login items. So wtf is it doing running? Is this one of those &#8216;Apple knows best&#8217; moments? I probably can&#8217;t install it &#8211; like so many other Apple apps it seems &#8211; but I&#8217;m certainly out now for a way to cripple it into submission &#8211; it will not connect.</p>
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		<title>Guaranteed a question</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/12/26/guaranteed-a-question/</link>
		<comments>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/12/26/guaranteed-a-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vociferate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I need an answer and I think it could be in a geocaching forum. As a guest I am not allowed to search the forum. So I register. And now I find that not only can I not post for 24 hours I still cannot search. Great. So, here&#8217;s the thing &#8211; if in 24 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I need an answer and I think it could be in a geocaching forum. As a guest I am not allowed to search the forum. So I register. And now I find that not only can I not post for 24 hours I still cannot search. Great. So, here&#8217;s the thing &#8211; if in 24 hours I haven&#8217;t found the answer then the absolute last damn thing I&#8217;m going to do is search this new forum. I&#8217;m just going to ask. If I have searched for a day I really don&#8217;t want to continue. I don&#8217;t care if whoever reads it knows that the answer is on the front page, or that I need to go elsewhere or that &#8220;insert anything at all&#8221;. Fact is that this forum has gone out of it&#8217;s way to be unhelpful and allowing a search if registered would have helped not hindered. It&#8217;s information, it&#8217;s free and it should be allowed to be seen. And if it&#8217;s the forum software that keels over because of any sort of search (that&#8217;s Invision then) then they should get something that works. Groundspeak.</p>
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		<title>Google &#8211; bandwidth leecher</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/12/03/google-bandwidth-leecher/</link>
		<comments>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/12/03/google-bandwidth-leecher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Google has officially proclaimed that it doesn&#8217;t like webmasters trying to hawk their lofty PageRank status to other sites.&#8221; Cutts also says that if webmasters want to continue selling links, Google&#8217;s not stopping them: &#8220;Webmasters are welcome to make their sites however they like, but Google in turn reserves the right to protect the quality [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/12/03/google_in_official_pagerank_crackdown/">&#8220;Google has officially proclaimed that it doesn&#8217;t like webmasters trying to hawk their lofty PageRank status to other sites.&#8221;</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Cutts also says that if webmasters want to continue selling links, Google&#8217;s not stopping them: &#8220;Webmasters are welcome to make their sites however they like, but Google in turn reserves the right to protect the quality and relevance of our index.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Okay, so as those links are still in the sidebar (though fewer) and as you rank my site as being less important (and I never claimed it to be important anyway) and as you will be returning this domain is less search results (which you can) then how about you stop sucking the bandwidth? Every month Googlebot sucks in massive amounts of bandwidth compared to the size of the site. It leeches. Even though MY benefit drops, it still wants to suck that data. I know I can change the crawl rate in htaccess, but it should be a deal that they want less of me, I want less of them. I don&#8217;t give a damn that I have the bandwidth, it&#8217;s the f*cking principle. Less important? Visit less then.</p>
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		<title>Lame Tiger</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/11/20/lame-tiger/</link>
		<comments>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/11/20/lame-tiger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mac]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I know it&#8217;s all my fault for not using only Apple code on an Apple machine and I really should be just so damn happy because it looks so sleek and I can&#8217;t hold Apple to blame for anything at all because Steve Jobs is a GOD &#8211; but has anyone else using [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, so I know it&#8217;s all my fault for not using only Apple code on an Apple machine and I really should be just so damn happy because it looks so sleek and I can&#8217;t hold Apple to blame for anything at all because Steve Jobs is a GOD &#8211; but has anyone else using Tiger noticed that their machine too has gone to crap since the last update? I&#8217;m used to seeing the Beachball of Death often enough but it&#8217;s daily. Hourly even.<br />
It feels like I&#8217;m running Windows ME. That&#8217;s how bad it is.</p>
<p>But hey, must be all my fault?</p>
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		<title>Ferrari 1</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/09/13/ferrari-1/</link>
		<comments>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/09/13/ferrari-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a complete nonsense. McLaren are fined $100 million because they made a car with cheated knowledge McLaren are stripped of their points because they made a car with cheated knowledge Yet the drivers of the cars are allowed to keep the points. Now how the fuck does THAT work then? Answer: Mosley and Ecclestone [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a complete nonsense.<br />
McLaren are fined $100 million because they made a car with cheated knowledge<br />
McLaren are stripped of their points because they made a car with cheated knowledge<br />
Yet the drivers of the cars are allowed to keep the points.<br />
Now how the fuck does THAT work then?</p>
<p>Answer:<br />
Mosley and Ecclestone want Hamilton in the race</p>
<p>I trust that every Italian is rejoicing that their icon is seen to be right.</p>
<p>Formula 1 just fucked up royally.</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>If 3 weeks ago I&#8217;d seen that Sky had the rights to F1 for next season I&#8217;d have got Sky.<br />
I&#8217;ve missed few races.<br />
I&#8217;ve posted and discussed in forums.<br />
I&#8217;ve spent money on tickets and merchandise.<br />
No different to tens of thousands of other people but this judgement is stupid. They want a black driver and they&#8217;ll do everything they possibly can to get that black driver.</p>
<p>The whole thing stinks.</p>
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		<title>Why is Jean Todt such a little shit?</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/09/11/why-is-jean-todt-such-a-little-shit/</link>
		<comments>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/09/11/why-is-jean-todt-such-a-little-shit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jean Todt admits that the Stepneygate scandal is sullying the good name of F1, but is adamant that the truth must come out. (and whose truth is that?) When asked whether he felt that McLaren deserved to be excluded from the Championship, Todt explained that the Italian marque had no particular outcome in mind. (Really?) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Jean Todt admits that the Stepneygate scandal is sullying the good name of F1, but is adamant that the truth must come out. (and whose truth is that?)</p>
<p>When asked whether he felt that McLaren deserved to be excluded from the Championship, Todt explained that the Italian marque had no particular outcome in mind. (Really?)</p>
<p>Referring to the first hearing in July Todt said: &#8220;The decision [not to punish McLaren] was not appropriate. (But he had no outcome in mind&#8230;)</p>
<p>The CEO of Scuderia warned that legal action would continue even if the hearing exonerated McLaren.<br />
&#8220;No, I mean really, for us it is something which is too important and we will move forward in Italy &#8230; and move on with the civil case in the UK as well.&#8221; (In other words he won&#8217;t accept anything BUT what he calls victory) (and that means he DOES have an outcome in mind)</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a taint on the sport. (says the squat one despite the fact that Ferrari and Schumacher cheated more and gave team orders when they were banned.)</p></blockquote>
<p>From Jackie Stewart: <em>&#8220;There are more Ferrari representatives on the World Council than anybody else, and it seems that some of the most powerful people in this sport are more aligned to Ferrari than anybody else.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>The head of Williams: <em>&#8220;Sir Frank Williams believes the FIA have embarked on their quest in this saga with &#8220;enormous tenacity&#8221;. </em></p>
<p>and this piece of absolute bollocks from the top fool at Ferrari:</p>
<blockquote><p>Luca di Montezemolo claims that Ferrari would be deserving Champions should McLaren be excluded from the title race.</p></blockquote>
<p>What the other teams should do is what they did in Indianapolis &#8211; just let the red cars go. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.planet-f1.com/0,18950,10918,00.html">planet-f1</a> (and many other sites. The rotund one isn&#8217;t liked by many right now..)</p>
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		<title>Mac + mouse = crap control</title>
		<link>http://romanticrobot.net/2007/09/11/mac-mouse-crap-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Apple, Please can you stop making shiny toys for your adoring zealots and instead find 5 minutes to write decent mouse drivers. In this arena Microsoft comprehensively thrashes you. As Pirelli once said &#8220;Power is nothing without control&#8221; and Apple mouse control sucks donkey sized ones.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Apple,<br />
Please can you stop making shiny toys for your adoring zealots and instead find 5 minutes to write decent mouse drivers. In this arena Microsoft comprehensively thrashes you. As Pirelli once said &#8220;Power is nothing without control&#8221; and Apple mouse control sucks donkey sized ones.</p>
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