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Nokia Music store doesn’t work on Macs, Firefox
May 2nd, 2008 – 11:07 am
Quoth the Nokia Music Store:
Nokia Music does not currently support the Mozilla Firefox (Mac OS X) browser on your operating system Supported systems are currently Microsoft Windows XP or Vista Supported browsers on the above systems are currently Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above [...]
Blast from the past
April 29th, 2008 – 12:22 pm
Have you got a kitchen drawer full of dull knives that need sharpening? Thankyou very much, thankyou very very very much CHIPPIES SAO brings out the flavour of any food you savour! There’s chocolate, strawberry, ripple swirl and bubbleberry too! Feel it crumble and melt in your mouth! Double double cheese cheese burger burger please! Break a finger!
Attn: Mac noobs
April 28th, 2008 – 12:06 am
How lovely, you have a shiny new Mac and I’m sure you’re finding all kinds of wonderful new surprises and things that don’t work the way you expected. So you shoot your mouth off at work/on a blog/on twitter/something else about how such-and-such is broken or doesn’t work or whatever.
Let me let you in on [...]
Where be the search?
April 18th, 2008 – 5:36 pm
With thanks to stilgherrian for the heads up:
Australia 2020, the meeting of the best and brightests whatever in our great wide brown whatever. It has a big pile of submissions. It has no text search that searches the fucking things. For real. Try out the ’site search’ for the word ‘imperative.’ It [...]
Tacky
April 6th, 2008 – 7:16 pm
Theme park adds up to Disney down under
Some of the world’s biggest and best adventure rides are proposed for the park, to be called African Safari World and set in the grounds of Werribee Open Range Zoo. Village Roadshow is behind the bid to create Australia’s first safari-themed adventure park, [...]
Captioning sucks!
April 1st, 2008 – 10:00 am
And now, a short message from the Open and Closed Project:
I shall presume it is an April Fool’s Day gag that the homepage I saw on Sunday is set in Comic Sans.*
In a related note, it’s 2008. What is it with all you vlogger types not providing a captioned version? What about you SERIOUS BUSINESS [...]
From “happy hacking” to “screw you”
March 24th, 2008 – 11:16 pm
From “happy hacking” to “screw you” - the story of Meraki | virishi.net
So… in the course of six months Meraki has gone from “happy hacking - buy our equipment and use it to help poor people access the net” to “pay three times as much for our hardware and we’ll install whatever we [...]
Lamer catblogging
March 24th, 2008 – 5:07 pm
My weekend was much like this too. Happy Easter everyone!
Enhanced episodes - Lostpedia
March 24th, 2008 – 5:01 pm
Enhanced episodes - Lostpedia
Beginning with the launch airdate of Season 4 of Lost, ABC has broadcast “enhanced” versions of episodes. These enhanced episodes are not part of ABC Enhanced TV, which provides Internet-interactivity during viewing. The enhancement features pop-up captions of text, in some cases accompanied by still images of [...]
Train plan a ‘third world’ joke | Herald Sun
March 21st, 2008 – 10:28 pm
Train plan a ‘third world’ joke | Herald Sun
A CONNEX investigation into ripping out train seats to ease overcrowding has been slammed as a ‘third world’ joke and safety risk. Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu today branded the idea an insult to passengers suffering overcrowding, cancellations and delays. [...]
Open source sucks… sometimes
March 21st, 2008 – 7:47 pm
Quoth Myles:
Modifying open source software seems like a perfect solution to managers - the solution is almost done, so surely it is just a matter of a few tweaks here and there, a splash of paint and Bob’s you uncle. Yeah - nah.
Yeah, nah indeed. He then goes on to describe a [...]
Haiku Project
March 19th, 2008 – 11:45 pm
Haiku Project
Haiku is an open-source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and free of any unnecessary complexities.
Pay more for iPod, get free access to iTunes? - Technology - theage.com.au
March 19th, 2008 – 11:44 pm
Says the Age, and presumably a heap of others.
Apple is talking to music companies about giving customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices, it has been reported.
It’d better be able to burn CDs and all that, the same as [...]
WordPress › Blog » 2.5 Sneak Peek
March 19th, 2008 – 9:35 pm
Hmmmmm. And I was thinking about going back to Movable Type, but…
WordPress › Blog » 2.5 Sneak Peek
A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the [...]
Buyer beware
March 13th, 2008 – 2:50 pm
Geese Aplenty: Be My “It’s Complicated” on Facebook.
(I thrust a paper in her hand. She looks at it, reads):
MADAME: “Great work on the introductory paragraph! Be sure to work on your transitions, and also support your thesis statements with secondary reference sources. Other than that, another sterling essay and you’re well on track to [...]
