Product placement gone wild
Films and TV need money to cover their extravagant budgets but is product placement the right way to cover those funds?
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digg’s friend feature is a complete debacle
Many aeons ago, digg added a social aspect to their news site: friends. Hailing it as a new way to find news at a more personal level, it was seen as a good way to follow your favourite diggers. Now there’s a new game for would-be spammers: add whoever you can and shout your crappy submissions at them.
The cruel joke: Seagate RMAs
Last year while moving to Linux, one of my 300gig disks from the just-broken-up RAID5 array decided it was time to call it a day and died. It’s within warranty but that doesn’t mean that much when the support is run by Seagate.
Zookoda’s mother was a hamster!
Zookoda, the RSS to email republishers have been spamming me since a newsletter I was subscribed to closed down. I’ve complained several times yet the junk keeps coming. Not on my watch.
Is all charity good?
In light of some of the feedback surrounding my last post, I address the core problem I see with good causes like FreeRice, namely that they don’t do nearly as much good as they could and probably harm other charitable causes.
Is FreeRice.com making $150k each day in profits?
FreeRice.com is a site that tries to educate and feed the world at the same time, but just taking a quick look at their figures shows there is a massive potential of earning money from this “philanthropic” gesture. Just how much is the owner keeping?
Murphy’s Law
If something adverse can happen, chances are it will, just to spite you. I’ve just had my first hard drive crash in years and it waited until just after I dismantled my RAID5 array. Just perfect. Strong and colourful language in this post.
Apple needs to respect its users
They warned you but Apple decided to follow through and give those iPhone enthusiasts exactly what they wanted: shiny, bricked iPhones. Well done Apple. Way to meet the needs of your customers.
Spinning the figures
Stats are a tricky thing. When you’re trying to push an argument and you have raw statistics by your side, it’s usually very easy to feed them to your audience in a fashion that misrepresents them. Using that as a base you can form conclusions varying from just misguided to outright lies…
O2: Unlimited means less than 35megs
Another day, another “unlimited” claim. This time from the mouth of O2’s CEO regarding their new “unlimited” data plans. What he didn’t tell people at the iPhone unveiling is that unlimited actually means just 35megs. Spot the difference.
MPEGs cause Vista’s Explorer to crash
Video: watch a simple download crash explorer over and over again. This really reminds me how feeble the underlying systems are in Windows.
ADSL is holding back the online economy
While the internet continues to grow in both size and complexity, the speed that rural ADSL users are almost completely stagnant. Something needs to be done before the gap between urban and rural ADSL harms the online economy.
An executive at Microsoft has an unusual idea
I really wish that reporters would get their facts straight before they publish articles… Especially when the core idea behind the subject is my own little brainchild.
The Dvorak Bubble is about to burst
Dvorak is a complete nonce. I mean that in the kindest possible way because sometimes he’s hilarious to listen ranting on and occasionally I happen to agree with him but now he’s predicting the second downfall of the Internet…