Posts by David

Men could have kids with chimpanzees - gov must act

Surely its been going on for years...

...the only thing I'd like to know is, how do the offspring all manage to end up in the House of Commons?

Paris - because she wouldn't have a clue what we're talking about.

Phone with foldable e-paper display to get summer roll-out

foldable e-paper

...is it absorbent?

Google, Yahoo! and Amazon sued over email patent

Latest: BT patents the hyperlink

Just like British Telecom when they were convinced they had invented the hyperlink:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/06/19/bt_claims_ownership_of_hyperlinks/

And lawyers wonder why they get a bad name?

Microsoft grows despite Windows Vista

...XP, Vista?...

I see no reason to upgrade from my stable version of Windows 2000.

If you're serious about business and getting things done, the last thing you want is to be pushed around by MS to keep upgrading your OS.

Even MS have extended support for W2K until 'at least' 2010.

In MS' own words "...[W2K]...remains a robust, mature product."

Saudis to execute Sri Lankan teen

IT Connection...

...is obvious. The execution will be videoed and posted on the Internet, as is the norm.

Police officer arrested over IT abuse

the evidence is in the facts before us...

The Commissioner is trying to tell us something, he mentions 'independent oversight', this is an anagram for 'Deed Preventing Hot Sin', so presumably this guy was trawling through the sheep shagging section?

Rivals torture consumers via Microsoft

What on earth are you searching for?

I must be so old fashioned, had no idea. As the years go by I've simply maintained my structure of directories containing squillions of files (all with meaningful file names of course), as a result I've hardly ever had to 'search' for anything. So I couldn't care less if there was no search facility.