Don’t buy Vista…

If you want to be able to connect to a wireless network. I’ve had my new Vista laptop for a bit now and yet, here I am, on my old trusty XP laptop. Why? Because my the Vista laptop won’t connect to the Internet any more, its just says “Local...

Mr. Vista

OK so here I am on Vista.Some first impressions:Eh, like, its WindowsWindows Media Center is very pretty (but I imagine I can’t be bothered with it)It found my NAS drive very easilyWhat’s the deal with wireless networking?My immediate gripes relates to the...

Dear Amazon…here’s my prior art

This post has a dual purpose. To ask Amazon to make a change to their website by implementing my idea and then to discuss whether or not me posting it here constitutes prior art when I take them to task for stealing my idea.First, the idea.Dear Amazon:Please stop the...

Domain Name : Use it or lose it

Something is really beginning to annoy me. Been investigating the next in my list of pointless web projects and, as ever, you spend a large amount of time hunting for a suitable domain.In a large number of cases they are often being used. That’s fine. In a...

www.yada…eh…thingy what was that?

During a brief, but ultimately successful, shave this morning, I had the radio on as usual. Listening to XFM as I sometimes do, you get the horror of radio ads.I heard one today for the FSA and specifically Money Made Clear. It was an expensive ad, known names doing...