Posts by Edd

UK IT should 'fire men first', says Kate Craig-Wood

Stupid.

Speaking as a male in IT, i've lost a number of contracts because the bosses prefered a pair of tits to actual on the job experience, i've missed out on promotions because i couldnt "blow" my way to the top, and ive been forced out by female bosses who decided they wanted their boyfriends needed my job more than i did.

Im sorry Katy or clive or whatever, ( kate.craig-wood.com ) but you kiss my swinging friends... those ones you chose to have removed yourself.

By all means campaign for equal pay, Im all for it, i might even get a raise myself, in the female dominated department i work in where i spend every day explaining the kind of computing basics my 7 year old has already grasped.

The kind of discrimination you believe in is no different to the kind of discrimination ACTUAL women suffered for decades before you decided to take hormone pills.

Or in summary, bitch, shut the fuck up.

BT feels the need for 50Mb speed

Wooo upgrades.

Woo 50Mb.

Well lets see now, my upgrade from 2 Meg to 8meg unlimited meant my line speed "increased" from bang on 2Mbps to 135kbps...

so following that trend, 8Mb to 50Mb should see my connection being increased to around -56kps so as long as i broadcast a constant dial up stream of data, theyll let me keep paying them stupid amounts of cash for a useless connection.

Seriously BT, sort out the problems you have with a huge number of existing customers before blowing money on upgrading your service. For most of those (myself included) affected by broken bRAS profiles, all it would take is an actual english technician who isnt working off a script to take our calls for minimum wage and push a bRAS profile reset through the system for each of us to correct the problem...... or even better, get a web consultant in, and build a site for "advanced" users where they can request it themselves.

Google Checkout downchecked by UK users

Yet another "it worked for me"

Ive spent just over a grand through google checkout this last month on pc upgrades, havent had a single problem with using it at all.

Status emails were better organised and more pertinent than the ones id get from the company i was dealing with, if id used them direct, (eg "weve dispatched your order" messages before i recieved the item, rather than after) and over all i was really impressed.

Sorry to hear folks have had problems,

Terminator kill-bots to be run by system called 'Skynet'

Advance Preparations

So yeah, im wiping all contacts named Sarah Connor from my contacts list as we speak.

Sorry ladies, but dont want to be around when they come looking for you.