* Posts by Z

11 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Oct 2008

Elevator music files for Chapter 11

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Utterly pointless company

Good riddance to atrocious noise.

Contractors and managers hit in Alcatel-Lucent layoffs

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What?

He said: "The new management team is committed to rapidly executing this new strategy and leveraging the new streamlined organization. We are focused on delivering results and restoring profitability."

Could you get him to repeat that in English?

Dell battles HP to trash Mother Earth

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Dubious

I can see how they got their environmental award - they never through anything away. Instead it gets used as packaging material, which gets sent to everyone else who then has to throw HPs rubbish away for them.

Ridiculous. Also goes to show that these awards are worth less than Gordon Brown's recent raft of economic policies...

Did speaker's statement show he doesn't know what day IT is?

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M-M-M-Mr S-S-Speaker...

Never has there been an man more unsuited to the job than the speaker.

Except perhaps Gordon Broon at playing prime ministers...

Or Wacky Jacqui playing home secretaries...

Or Peter Mandelson playing an honourable man...

Government still losing at least a computer a week

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Not found?

"Despite a £20, 000 reward for the child benefit discs and a 47-officer strong police investigation they were never found."

Did they check ebay? I'm sure that 20k would have snatched up all copies of the disk!

BBC has newsgasm over Obama's dog

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I weep...

So much for UK Journalism. Scandal and juciy stories about the corrupt who run this country are but an investigation away and all the BBC can concern itself with is dispatching news readers to the US to talk about Obama's new dog.

Das überdatabase: Inside Wacky Jacqui's motherbrain

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IngSoc here we come

Excellent article worthy of Private Eye. I quite like the semi-recent el-reg move to reporting UK politcal stories alongside it's IT coverage.

iPhone beer maker sues Carling over virtual suds

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Carling?

Carling? Refreshing beverage? Shome Mishtake Shurely?

McCain begs for YouTube DMCA takedown immunity

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@el reg

Agreed with Unitron above - we need orwellion icons to use! Where are our Ingsoc V's or the beady eyes of big brother?

Wikipedia plumbs the filthy depths of plumbing

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Too late

aaannndd some spoil sport has edited it out...

Verity's further education

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Oh dear

There's something eminently satisfying when PR puff utterly fails and actually causes more ridicule to the target!

Excellent piece of investigative journalism V, I applaud you for throwing back attempts at fobbing you off.