Posts by Richard Crossley

Virgin Media broadband goes titsup for 3 hours

Nice one Virgin.

I went to the pub and interacted with real people.

Durban failed: Relax, everyone

I deliver more

with a greater degree of success using far fewer resources.

We send Chris Hune and is clunkiest around the world at great expense, to agree nothing except to have another meeting. If that had been me, I would make them pay their expenses and the fire them.

Attention swingbellies: Pizza sauce is a healthy vegetable

EU doctors say...

...drinking water doesn't reduce dehydration, or some such...

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/1982.pdf

Maybe if I stick the 95% pure stuff my thirst will be quenched.

Compact Disc death foretold for 2012

My oldest CD still plays perfectly...

and I'm listening to it right now.

Purchased in 1987 it has travelled with me to University, overseas and has moved house countless times. It's still in it's original jewel case with sleeve notes and lyrics.

Actually I can't think of any purchased music CDs that have become unusable.

As for downloads, I have never purchased any music that way, preferring CDs. One CDs may no longer be produced, but I doubt it will be in 2012.

Crap alchemist jailed for poo-into-gold experiment

I bet...

...that caused a stink!

Rogue toilet takes out Norfolk server

Pub o'clock has come and gone

Thx for the laughs,

Clearly the log had been truncated.

Entire London 2012 Olympics' cultural events database held on Excel

IT = Excel + Word

or "EW".

Death of netbook exaggerated, says researcher

Lurid Limpet

I do wish Canonical would call them something like.

BT to push fibre to 1.5m more homes and businesses

You chose to live there....

...you could always move to an area with decent connectivity, I did!

Sony's Windows 7 virtualization switch-off (partly) reversed

Is see this...

...being hacked!

Open-source .NET splits for extra Microsoft protection

Not Yet

@Homard,

"Surely they would have done so by now if it wasn't in their interests ?"

Mono is probably still small enough to be an itch that isn't worth scratching. If someone produces a competing killer application that starts to take business from MS, I'm sure they will pursue.

Remember the mantra; Embrace, Extend, Exterminate.

Philips prices up 21:9 ratio 'cinema' TV

Black bars

They're going to be used for in advertising whilst you're watching the programme.

Tens of thousands of kids need to be protected from ContactPoint users

Re: By the way what happens to your data once you do become an adult?

Your data will be migrated to the ID cards database as you turn 18.

Iowa: How the vote was won

Why can they do that?

Why can US parties purge the voters from the electoral register (or whatever it's called Stateside). Shouldn't that be handled by the local authorities?

In the UK you have to complete a voter registration form every year. Updates can be made to it and provided you're registered by a certain date you can vote. The parties can't say, "We don't like this person because they might vote against us." and remove them from the register.

Well done for rescuing the voting rights of so many.

Home Office preps fudgetastic ISP data rules

Home knows what it's doing

"It's left some in the internet industry wondering if the Home Office knows what it's doing,..."

It will be news when the Home Office does know what it's doing.

New taskforce to discuss why more people aren't turning to digital

Just how many radios do you have?

If the digital switch for radio is handled as badly as the digital switch for TV, we'll all have to buy new radios.

Without including those provided by Sky or Freeview I have 5,

Car Radio

Lounge Radio

Study Radio

Kitchen Radio

Clock Radio

I'm sure some people have many more, for example MP3 players, mobile phones etc. No doubt the Government would like us all to replace our fully functional analogue radios with digital ones. Allowing us to give the Government another wedge of VAT.

Can we have a picture of Parliament in flames?

Expel the IT bodgers, says Microsoft

No experience necessary

I see on TV companies advertising training courses to become MSCE, with "No experience necessary". Doesn't this take the gloss off the whole certification/accreditation process?