So here’s a good one if you fancy spying on your friends: Install the Facebook app on your iPhone. Enable push notifications for your messages and feeds. Show your friend how cool the iPhone Facebook app is by letting them sign in on your phone – this is probably best done in the pub. They will no doubt have a tinker around and then sign themselves out. Sign yourself back in. Discover that you are now getting push messages from […]
Being a practicing Atheist I decided I should ask my local parliamentary candidates some questions in regard to this. Here’s the email I’m going to send: Dear Candidate XXX, I am an Atheist , what Pro-Atheist policies do you have to tempt me to vote for you? In particular, what are you views on the following: Will you be banning Faith Schools ? Will you remove the Tax Exempt status of Faith-Based Organisations, including any voluntary donations? Will you Bring […]
Would you trust any of these men to look after your children? So I hear there’s a general election coming up. Here’s how to go about making a considered opinion about who to vote for in your local constituency. First look up who is running using a postcode search here: http://www.yournextmp.com/ Now go off and try and dig some dirt. You can get a financial breakdown and all sorts of other information at this site http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ Then there’s the obvious […]
A few people have mentioned that the Sims 3 has some heavy duty hardware requirements, so I looked into it. Here’s what is says on the box: Minimum System Requirements: OS: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Processor: Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5540 2.53GHz,8M L3, 5.8GT/s,turbo Memory: 192GB, DDR3 Memory, 1066MHz, ECC (3 DIMMS) Graphics CARD: Dual 4.0GB NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 5800, QUAD MON, 2DP & 4DVI Hard Drive/Controller: PERC6/i SAS/SATA Hardware RAID Card 4 x 450GB, 3.0Gb/s, SAS, 3.5 […]
Hmmm, that seems reasonable doesn’t it? £613.99 for the Adobe upgrade in the UK and $599.00 for the identical upgrade in the US. What is even more ridiculous is that you can buy the upgrade as a downloadable file – i.e. no box, no DVD and therefore no theoretical distribution costs at all directly from the Adobe site and the price difference is the same as above. And they wonder why piracy is so prevalent… A few years when […]
Do you think you know the English language? well if you think you do I’m sure you will be screaming by now about the above photograph on the basis that palletised – or I have to presume for our American readers’ ‘palletized’ – is, well, not a real word. The thing is, in our “content is more” Internet enabled culture defining things and making definitions of them available to the masses as quickly as possible is the way to generate traffic and […]
An abandoned Nat West Tie lies on Tottenham Court Road… A metaphor for the fall of the world banks or disgruntled employee who’d had enough? Unfortunately I didn’t get to see its owner discard it…