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MS Browser Ballot fails

24/02/2010 – 15:06

Just got the first XP machine with the Browser Ballot update on it.
I clicked “next” and IE8 came up with a window asking me to choose my settings. I closed it and selected Firefox from the available options. Internet Explorer opened and downloaded Firefox. I installed it and the browser ballot window was still there. [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Internet, software | Comments (0)

Vistaprint can’t print red

09/02/2010 – 18:46

I decided to get some business cards made. I produced the design in Inkscape according to Vistaprint’s specification:

A nice shade of red I thought. Unfortunately, Vistaprint can’t print red:

I included a few red and different colour items in the photo for comparison. I was a bit surprised at this as I had followed all the [...]

By mojo | Comments (0)

No more Wikipedia editing

08/12/2009 – 18:31

I have decided to give up editing Wikipedia.
Stupidity, American-centric ideas and the ability of people with too much time on their hands to enforce their personal preferences has not only driven a lot of good editors away, but it has also done a lot of damage to the content too.
If you compare the Japanese version [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Internet, politics | Comments (1)

Halfwit racists

25/11/2009 – 22:49

I don’t know why I keep reading the BBC Have Your Say forums. I fear I may be turning into a Daily Mail reader, hooked on that feeling or moral outrage.
Anyway…
No. There are millions of pictures of non-black people being ridiculed (i.e. George Bush, Tony Blair, Bunker Brown, Nick Griffin, Wayne Rooney etc, etc), should [...]

By mojo | Also posted in politics | Comments (0)

BBC Have Your Say as a mouthpiece for the BNP

17/10/2009 – 18:08

If anyone were in any doubt that the BBC Have Your Say forum is being used by right-wing extremists like the BNP to push their views, today’s question about Binyam Mohamed should soon clear them up:
Send him home!!!!
[RulaBritannia], Bradford, United Kingdom
and
Yet again the system making me think its time to give the BNP a closer [...]

By mojo | Also posted in politics | Comments (14)

List of things installed by iTunes 9

15/09/2009 – 21:41

iTunes for Windows is by far the most bloated bit of software I have ever seen. The shear amount of crap it installs in unbeliveable:

iTunes itself
Quicktime
Apple Mobile Device service
Bonjour Service
iPod Service
iTunesHelper startup task
QTTask startup task
Firefox plugin
iPod Classic drivers
iPhone drivers
Apple Software Update

Grand Total: 276MB
Actually, they removed the DNS Resolver service from iTunes 8 (wtf – Windows [...]

By mojo | Also posted in software, windows | Comments (1)

eBay is broken

15/09/2009 – 18:57

The idiots at eBay have done it again. They managed to break the auction pages:

Nice one. You broke the most important page on your site.

By mojo | Also posted in Internet | Comments (0)

More BNP nonsense on BBC Have Your Say

03/08/2009 – 18:59

It seems that the BNP has been making a big effort lately to push their views via the BBC Have Your Say forums. It’s not surprising really, as the forums get millions of page views but you only need ~150 votes for your comment to rise to the top, something any interested group with more [...]

By mojo | Also posted in politics | Comments (0)

Weycrest really suck, kNET are really good

15/07/2009 – 21:40

For about a year now my site, including this blog, has been hosted with Weycrest. During that time, their service has really, really sucked.
First, there is the down-time. For months my site would randomly go offline for a few hours and then come back. Messages to tech support via the ticketing system or direct email [...]

By mojo | Also posted in networking | Comments (13)

I'm really upset with Subaru's attitude

08/05/2009 – 21:02

The government scrappage scheme for 10+ year old cars seems like a good opportunity to replace something that will probably need replacing in the next few years anyway. Sure, I could get another few years out of my Suzuki, but I won’t get Â£2000 for it and won’t get the 2.5% VAT reduction either.
I sat [...]