Category Archives: WTF

GMail. Stupid.

By Mark | Published: 21:15 Sunday 5 Sep 2010
Making sure you are logged out of all your Google accounts go to http://gmail.com. You want another email account and being the savvy net user you see that you can check availability of a name. Having signed up at places like AIM, Yahoo, MSN etc it saves hassle to get that name checked first. So [...]
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A WTF from the PM

By Mark | Published: 00:05 Thursday 22 Jul 2010
BBC Mr Cameron referred to the situation in 1940 during an interview with Sky News in which he was asked about the changing nature of the “special relationship” with the US and his meeting with President Obama on Tuesday. “I think it is important in life to speak as it is and the fact is [...]
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Volumes do not exist

By Mark | Published: 20:29 Sunday 11 Oct 2009
cd Volumes ls Carrie Ext-1 Mac2 Play Play is the actual HD . Carrie is an external HD but it is not attached. It is unplugged, not there, off. Ext-1 is an external HD but it is not attached. It is unplugged, not there, off. It is actually called something else. Mac2 is an external [...]
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Dr Google wants to sell you meds.

By Mark | Published: 16:43 Monday 6 Apr 2009
Google: When I first started working on Google Health, I was shocked by how hard it is for people to access their own medical records. I wondered why that’s the case when it’s so easy to access other types of personal information like bank transactions, cell phone records, and utility bills. In many states you [...]
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Want to link to GoDaddy?

By Mark | Published: 00:06 Monday 29 Oct 2007
From their website: *By electing to place a link to GoDaddy.com on your Web site, you acknowledge and agree that you have no right to modify, change or alter in any way Go Daddy’s trademarks and other intellectual property, including, but not limited to, the link to GoDaddy.com. Any modification, change, alteration or similar action [...]
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Shore it’s mine.

By Mark | Published: 09:34 Wednesday 26 Sep 2007
Under a new UN treaty, countries can claim a greater share of the ocean floor if they can show a direct link with their own land mass. Belfast Telegraph So the UK can have lots of places then – after all, we are an island and unless we were directly linked we’d sink. It’s another [...]
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Trevor “Call me Mr PC” Phillips

By Mark | Published: 16:57 Tuesday 25 Sep 2007
British history should be rewritten to make it “more inclusive”, says Trevor Phillips, the head of the new human rights and equality commission. BBC There is no other word for this – bollocks. It’s complete garbage. History is done. Rewriting history is the stuff of Dictators, censors and those with an alternate agenda (That’s you [...]
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Fancy a corgi kebab?

By Mark | Published: 19:14 Tuesday 29 May 2007
BBC. A performance artist says he will eat a corgi live on a London radio show in protest at a hunt led by Prince Philip. That would be so much better if it said live corgi. I blogged about this nutter some time ago with his water ‘event’. What you need to do though is [...]
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Council Intrusion

By Mark | Published: 13:57 Wednesday 17 May 2006
Council agrees on home smoke ban The near-total ban even applies to people who receive home visits – they will now get letters asking them not to smoke in front of council staff. What? Telling people what they can do in their own homes? We had someone around yesterday. Said he has a dog phobia [...]
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