Posts by McParland

Google to fund 'video Street View' for Central London

April Fool

Nice one.

US Senate wants answers on soaring text rates

The answer is, because they can.

txts were given away free here in the UK at the beggining. Until people started using them and then the operators started charging.

The IT Crowd goes west

@ Chris Simpson

American's do wonderful things to our Sitcoms. Their remake of Fawlty Towers was remarkable, albeit for the fact that it did not have a Basil Fawlty character.

BT slams bandwidth brakes on all subscribers

Eclipse

I've just left Eclipse for this reason. Despite the fact that my surfing habits were not great I was annoyed that throttling would kick in for the 1 torrent a month I'd be interested in.

Not worth the £20 a month.

O2 PR calls Reg readers 'techie nerds'

@ O2 Muppet

You sounded like you had a "lot of respect" in your chat with your colleague or were you doing it to look big?