Posts by BonerHitler420

Reach for the popcorn: Obama opens personal presidential Twitter account

"half a million followers in an hour or so"

"Despite managing over 500,000 followers in just over an hour, the president has some way to go to reach the other accounts tied to him: @WhiteHouse has six million and @BarackObama has 59 million followers."

Dammit, pick one of those four number formats and stick with it. This isn't The Grauniad.

Adam Afriyie MP: Smart meters are NOT so smart

I already have a smart monitor of my own

I bought a Loop from Amazon for £30.

It has an induction loop that you connect to your supply and it connects to your wifi. You can log on their website and see your energy usage and all sorts of pretty stats.

The really clever bit is that it builds a profile and you can automagically compare energy suppliers via uSwitch.com and switch to the cheapest supplier.

It's paid for itself in 3 months. Never mind saving the world and being green, I want to give those greedy bastard energy companies as little as possible.

Mmm, what's that smell: Coffee or sweat? How to avoid a crap IT job

Nice to have the choice

Much as I enjoyed the article, I would quite happily accept a job offered by someone who kept me waiting for 4 hours and set fire to me in the interview.

I'm tired of being an unemployed IT manager

Google skids car insurance comparison engine onto rivals' lawn

Tried that

I tried a few of these comparison websites.

Then I did what I should have done at the beginning: called NFU Mutual and got coverage for a cheaper price, with better benefits and a local office and rep that you can visit in person if you have a problem.

If you don't mind a brochure with a picture of a tractor on it, it's great.

Outlook.com launch a gold rush for jokers, spammers

Lost my name

So, I have choice of sticking with my old '[e-mail]', or updating to '[e-mail]' - because they didn't bother to reserve usernames for existing users.