Posts by sean

Chilean anti-piracy law drafted on pirated software

maybe his name rhymes with 'train' ...

... and someone wanted to stitch him up.

Hey Guillermo! You've been Frêne'd!

Mine's the one with the parrot on the shoulder.

BOFH: The Mandelboat virus

fan-bastard-tastic!!!

i love it! one of the best episodes in a while but the comments & wikipedia just add to it.

top work simon, and all you lot above this comment also.

HBOS could shift 2,000 IT jobs to India

Bollocks to this!

If they move jobs offshore, I'll move my bank accounts and cite that as reason #1 when asked why I'm leaving.

I know from personal experience that offshore doesn't work, I work for an ISP with an offshore support centre, and the best of the staff over there are fucking clueless. Don't ask how bad the worst are, I haven't the words for it.

Its all very well saving a few quid, but if the UK keeps on like this India will be shipping menial jobs like call centre staff here in a generation's time.

Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhh!!!!

/rant

Paris, because, well I used the word 'clueless' so that's good enough.

Meat Loaf gets Q gong

Re: What about Gordon Lightfoot, eh?

"And there was one Led Zeppelin tune of the late 1970s that I recall as lasting about the middle 2/3 of the Missouri stretch of I-70."

That would be the live version of Dazed and Confused that they managed to drag out to around 43 minutes then? And yes I have a recording of the gig when they did this.

Meatloaf was OK in his day, as were Zep, but I wouldn't give either of them an award now for what they did circa 30 years ago.

Paris, as I know she knows how to rock and moan.

Axon takes 100mpg wonder car for a spin

re: Photos?

It's really hard to find photos.

/sarcasm

try here - www.axonautomotive.com/cars.html

Anyone else get a flashback to the mid 70's bubblecars?

Microsoft bags European price comparison sites

@ Michael, Tom & Andrew

try this site ...

www.givemebackmygoogle.com

... it strips out all the shopping comparison stuff. very useful.

Scumbags punt Trojan with baby kidnap lure

re We've Kidnapped Your Mother In Law

How about ...

"We've kidnapped your mother-in-law. Give us $50k or we'll send her back"

That would surely get a better, or more profitable, response.

Paris, cos if you kinapped her, you'd want to give her back. Eventually.

Apple is Fisher-Price of sound quality, says Neil Young

Oh, for FLAC's sake

Sorry 'bout that!

Firefox 3 Download Day falls flat on face

guess what browser i used to read this article?

(which translates as "it's working again now!")

Tokyo 250Mbps mobile supernetwork speeds into life

How about ...

... calling it Super Mega 3 G?

Or SM3G for short?

Wii Fit to hit UK in April

@ Barney

wouldn't it be better to make sure the 'vast' minority are gonna be ok to use this?

paris, cos she would deffo be ok (weightwise!)

M&S flogs lingerie model with 'durable hardwood feet'

well now

if she was in my house dressed like that, i'd be the one with durable wood

ahem

RealPlayer dinged by software watchdog group

oh dear

do people still use this crap?

it's almost as naff as quicktime

nice to see stopbadware has their finger on the pulse, shame it's a corpse!

paris, cos she has as much clue as stopbadware does

Junk food ads target net

hosts files rock :)

(see subject)

and no it's not an ad!

Nokia wins hearts, minds with breakthrough mobile

oh hell

i'm gutted now. i've just sold my 6310 to a mate for a fiver. yeah, really!

if i'd shown her this article first, i probably coulda got £20 for it.

Paris Hilton cavorts naked in middle of desert

@ Rob

so Spam is why dogs lick their balls? To take the taste away? Ah, it's all making more sense now. Thanks for sharing ;)

Phone phreaks spoof LSD-induced multiple homicide

"Jason Trowbridge, of Louisiana and Texas"

bloody hell!

that one fat american

Fox News: Filthier than the internet

after seeing that, all i can say is ...

"oh for fox sake!"

Ukrainian eBay scam turns Down Syndrome man into cash machine

is it just me ...?

... or are ebay going at this in completely the wrong way?

their site is gonna end up with a bad rep and thence no customers if stories like this continue doing the rounds. and that will happen unless ebay themselves start being just a little more active in help in people when situations like this arise.

that would be my view anyway.

This page has been left intentionally blank

why?

"Stay vigilant, and try not to look like a tin of dog food."

What? Can dogs use tin openers too?

Saga shuffles into social networking

Saga shuffles into social networking?

That'll be *old* news then?

Oz censor bans Soldier Of Fortune: Payback

damn!

i'd buy that :D

when's it out in the uk?

WTC collapse voted 'most memorable TV moment'

@ Ben

i remember watching live aid

i remember geldof saying "we want your fucking money"

close enough for you?

Vista launch jamboree leaves PC World with indigestion

who'd of thought it

maybe if pcworld were cheaper, and had the stuff people want in stock when they want it, they might make more profit here in the uk.

/statin' the bleedin' obvious

Shattered teens subsisting on 'junk sleep'

lack of sleep

my lack of sleep all through my teenage years was due to listening to late night radio, john peel and then local pirate stations.

so things have changed a lot, the music kids listen to now is obviously nowhere near as good lol

So, what's the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum?

@Eddy

"Wouldn't the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum be 26.22 kilobrontosauruses per nanofortnight?"

only until the sheep has run out of pda's to campbell* in the opposite direction

*verb, means to throw viciously

Dolly Parton's theme park shells out for more silicon

ah yes but ...

...will the chips only work 9 to 5?

taxi!

Evesham ex-employee registers Geemore.com

Re: Re: What's in a Name

i always though evesham was set up by a lass who was really into jimmy pursey and his popular beat combo

taxi!!

Fun with passports and paperclips

from adam's website ...

"All items will be sent via UK Post Office tracked services."

using RFID chips i hope

Stealth bombers to get bunker-nobbling weapons

bunker bombs are old news

something like this was developed during WWII to go after the V2 rocket launch sites and also massive concrete submarine pens. i think barnes wallis (invented the bouncing bomb used in the dambusters raid) was involved, and i know 617 squadron (the dambusters) dropped the things on various missions over mainland europe. i seem to remember reading the bombs were 10 tonnes, and they could penetrate reinforced concrete quite easily.

Yahoo! buys Indian ad firm

@ jonathan

don't you mean you are ...

Shocked! And! Appalled!

*coat on, taxi outside with engine running*

Derbyshire cops get into deep water

oh dear

police vehicle flooded in huge puddle.

a spokeman said they were looking into it.

*putting his coat on*

MPs call for British manned space flight

@ ash

*agrees*

Sony BMG sues DRM developer

oops!

"Sony BMG now says the Amergence Group violated its deal with Sony because its software did not perform as it was meant to."

I wonder if they read the license agreement lol

Mum given young nympho's phone number

excuse me?

the virgin spokesman said they will "send an engineer". how exactly is that gonna help? is the engineer gonna answer the phone for them or something?