Posts by Mike Byrne

Manchester ID staff suffer isolation as new dawn fades

half a million quid

"The government has been spending almost half a million quid trying to publicise the scheme in the city, touting its uses when travelling to Europe and clubbing."

As a Manchester resident and someone who commutes about the city on a daily basis and who reads the Metro every day - I haven't seen one single piece of marketing material to push the ID card to me.

Where has this half a million been spent?

I wish I won that contract :-/

Third-gen Apple iPhone in development?

Balls

I only bought my iPhone this week...

T-Mobile G1

So how long till we get a better handset?

As I'd rather get an Android phone over an iPhone because there are 5 iPhones in my office and I like being awkward.

North Korea photoshops stroke from Kim Jong Il

I always wonder with North Korean Photoshopping

Did they pay for a license for it?

Or did they Pirate Bay all their Photoshops?

T-Mobile Googlephone to hit UK in two weeks

Without multi-touch...

...its never going to take on the iPhone.

Fringe box office FAIL pushes sales down 10%

Show cost

I agree, the cost of the shows are partly to blame.

Several times I said "why would I pay seventeen quid to see ..." and sometimes I favoured the waffles from the pleasance over going to see a show.

Incidentally, the waffles from the pleasance were awesome.

Plunging player prices to reveal Blu-ray vs HD DVD winner?

Sony != ftw ?

Surely you just back the format Sony isn't?

Minidisc might have beat DCC but it couldnt be considered a winner since HMV is still full of CDs and not minidisc music.

Betamax failed to beat VHS and Video8 which Sony pushed didnt really take off.

(ok so Playstation kicked Sega and then Microsofts respective rears in the console wars, but I never liked the awkward controllers for the PS anyways)