Posts by Chris Shaw

Ireland gives Google traditional pogue mahone greeting

Questionable facts.

"Dun Laoghaire, the main port for Dublin"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Port

"Approximatively two-thirds of the Republic of Ireland's port traffic goes via Dublin Port." How can Dun Laoghaire, which is about a 15 minute drive away from Dublin count as Dublin's main port?

Twitter topples over

Even better title.

Twitter down the Sh*tter.

Tories may scrap IR35 tax rules for contractors

IR35 stopped tax avoidance...

... nope, just pushed people to EBT's, now that's tax avoidance.

Permies who haven't been contractors always whine and moan, its funny the ones that were contractors, in my experience don't.

IR35 should have been scrapped a long time ago, or apply it to *all* business', with *firm* rules, not subjective guidelines.

I was contracting before 2000, I had three life destroying years as a permie, then went back to contracting and never looked back.

Paris, because the rich and poor don't pay tax, just the working class.

Tiger Woods' alleged mistress publishes X-rated texts

PAYG

all he needed was a cheap PAYG phone to flirt/arrange encounters and chuck it in the bin when finish with the totty. PIN the phone for privacy.

Mine's the one with the cheap phones in the pocket.

Microsoft finally debuts Euro-choose-a-browser screen

Behave

Some people are upgrading from XP which used the browser for updates.

Just because you had Vista, doesn't mean everyone else is upgrading from that.

Wrists playing up? You're shagging too much

Tonight love....

... you're on top. :)

Bank sues Google for identity of Gmail user

April Fools?

Surely this is all bullshit, because any bank that send unencrypted sensitive data via email should be heavily fined by the regulators.

I really hope the people who actually think the "recall" feature in Exchange (ONLY) is actually any use in this scenario, aren't working in IT, because that kind of stupidly we really could do without.