Posts by randomHandle

Hewlett Packard Enterprise hiring temps to cover for redundancies - sources

FTFY

"the company undertook minimal consultations with standard impact on our clients."

Cisco email accidentally sent to 1000s of employees causes message list MAYHEM

Be my friend

Or the person at a Scottish financial institution who somehow managed to import the entire corporate directory into their Facebook contacts and then sent everyone a friend request. The recipients were surprisingly unfriendly.

The Management subsequently insisted that the directory should be hidden from everyone.

Attention, CIOs: Stop outsourcing or YOU will never retire

randomHandle & Sons

How about an old fashioned approach? Train our own children and become 'randomHandle & Sons. A family run consultancy since 2013'.

Why did your outsourced IT fall over? Cos you weren't on Twitter

"IT Services Sourcing Cycle and the Nexus of Forces"

aka Transformers IV. Same old lame plot with lots of explosions, grinding metal and a crap director.

I've seen it before.

Windows Metro Maoist cadres reach desktop, pound it flat

Z-Buffer who needs it.

The solution is simple. The active window is focused. Everything else is blurred-to-feck, thus making it obvious which is the top window.

Yeah, that'll work. MS, wanna hire me as your next UI Guru?

Ten... Kitchen Gadget Treats

Daily bread

All this talk of coffee and toast and no mention of bread makers?

Get yourselves a Panasonic SD-2501 and never buy a loaf of 'bread' in a plastic bag again.

It's dead easy to use and the bread is awesome. I slapped the doings for a garlic and rosemary focaccia loaf in at lunch and the most beautiful aroma is now filling the house.

I think I might pop to the shops for some butter. Not the namby-pamby, lightweight, spreadable oil and water emulsion; one of those rock hard slabs of creamy lovelyness! :-)

Steve Jobs action figure set for shop shelves

Users who purchased this item...

... also bought Voodoo For Beginners.

30,000 Shreks besmirch BeautifulPeople

FZ...

"I have an important message to deliver to cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful, I just want to tell you something. There's more of us ugly motherfuckers than you are!"

Frank Zappa, 1940-1993

(Come back Frank, we miss you. You'd have a whale of time with todays assholes)

Peugeot compo cam aids amateur espionage

Transparent bathroom!

How about this stunning rooftop house complete with transparent bathroom.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/196/captureim.jpg/

If I'm not mistaken there is water in the bath but no bathing beauty, shame.

Renault readies sub-£7000 e-car for Blighty

Uh?

So that's seven grand for a quad bike without doors and battery. I can buy a second-hand Golf for that and still have change for petrol.

Besides, where exactly are these flat-dwelling urbanites going to park the doorless wonder?