Posts by grahams_xwing

It will never be safe to turn off your computer: Prankster harnesses the power of Windows 95 to torment fellow students

hmmmmm....... *thinks*

either:

"My mind is telling me noooooooooo..... but my body....my body's telling me yeeees" (how is this song 26 years old....)

or

"I like big....."

We knew it was coming: Bureaucratic cockup triggers '6-month' delay of age verification block on porno in the UK

Re: Bollocks

Sky even default to a watershed type time window for smut to get through to the user. So if the precious ones are in bed (without their tech preferably) then it's c(h)ocks away.

Out-of-office email ping-pong fills server after server over festive break

Reverse Problem

I had quite the opposite problem when I applied to my previous job as a print composition dev. I turned up to my interview to be faced with the guy who would be my line manager. He spends a loooong time reading through the CV in front of him (with me thinking - nice of you to have prepped for this before hand...) and then opens with: -

"So you have a fair bit of experience with xxx?"

**Long pause**

"Um... no?"

"Oh. How about yyy?"

"Um... no, and I don't recall putting those on my CV either" - After all, I didn't fancy taking on a role using software i'd never seen before.

"Ah... you are Gareth yes?"

"Nooooooo, Graham - I suspect you have someone else's CV in front of you"

Somehow - despite not technically being chosen for interview, I got that job, and of course I was known jokingly as Gareth for my whole time there, much to the bemusement of the higher managment who my line manager chose not to tell....

The Quantum of Firefox: Why is this one unlike any other Firefox?

Re: 30 per cent faster

I also would approve of 'Fuck ton(ne)'

No super-kinky web smut please, we're British

Re: What about Reddit?

And Twitter... and Facebook (who's filters have just given up recently)....Instagram. The list is lengthy...

At what point would Snapchat get labeled a 'website' by the luddites in Whitehall and follow suit?

Going shopping for a BSOD? We've found 'em in store at M&S

Re: You could try going to Swindon :)

This November I ended up at a Halloween Party with the Curator of that very museum.

Me(Death) and him (Shrek) had a very interesting chat about computing and programming before the wailing of the ladies who had found SingStar made conversation difficult.

Got an invite to a BTS tour when I can round up my Nieces and Nephews to go and see it next time i'm down that way.

US docs halve screen time for tots: No more than an hour a day

Re: I took...

Not sure what charming TV you've been avoiding but gobbledegook filled TV for young kids has very much gone out of fashion. Tellytubbies is now an exception, not the norm.

For example CBeebies' programming is predominantly narrated in clear, simple English these days, ranging from hippy weirdness of the Waybuloos (who do talk some balls) to live recorded Shakespeare plays casted with the regular members of the daytime programming.

My (almost) 3 year old would watch it all day given the opportunity (which he doesn't get) and he would see; a Sitcom based on Aladdin, a game show based on number and music skills followed by a race, a football program with Rachel Yankee and John Motson. A live game show revolving around pirates. Animated morality tales with Sarah & Duck. Learning Makaton and acceptance of disabilities with Mr Tumble. Horticulture with The Veggies, Animal Care with My Pet & Me... you get the drift.

Good quality, educational, ENGLISH SPEAKING programming is out there without having to hunt for it. Attacking the standards of children's TV is an outdated 'easy target'

As for detuning the TV etc - that just sounds mean. Right now my boy is at home poorly, unable to go to nursery, and, just like millions of adults around the country would do, is curled up on the sofa with his dog and his quilt watching TV to pass the day until he feels better.

Video game retailer GAME in email marketing FAIL

Customer Service specialists.

Not surprised... I tweeted at them at Christmas mocking them for their utter distain for PC gamers now they stock roughly 7 PC games at a time (plus all the Sims Expansions obvs), only to receive a tweet mentioning their new partnership with a PC Peripherals company starting this spring.

Really? Miss the point much? You don't sell games for the platform anymore but you expect me to pay over the odds to receive terrible customer service while I buy a keyboard from you? And be excited about this prospect?

Riiiiight...

Re: The real fun starts...

Those are great. Especially when the big bosses start getting involved and start SHOUTING IN CAPS LOCK that everyone should stop replying to all....by replying to all and telling them so...

Snarky emails to point out the irony (replied to all of course) never go down well...

Re: Harrummppphhh

Bugrit!