Category: tech

I just got an email from The Motley Fool that started like this: To prevent this and other Motley Fool email newsletters from getting swept up by an overzealous spam filter, please add our “From” address (removed@xxx.xx.xx) to your address book. Several problems with this. Firstly, not all email programs have an address book. Secondly,… Continue reading Not Spam

This blog has always run on Movable Type. It’s a great piece of software which makes building and running a site like this very easy. I run a couple of other sites on this server which are completely powered by MT. I’ve always had one small problem with MT tho’. And that’s the license. MT… Continue reading Movable Type 3.0

Things that make you like a new employer, number one. Arriving at your desk on the first day to be shown a computer and told to install whatever operating system you feel happy with.

I have a number of email addresses. And unfortunately many of them are on spammers’ lists. This means that it’s common for me to three or four copies of any spam that is going around. This morning, I checked my spam folder for the first time for a week. There was far more new spam… Continue reading A Lot Of Spam

Because of my usual circle of friends I sometimes forget that the world is still largely populated by people who regard computers as magical artifacts of a most mysterious nature. This was demonstrated recently when I was at a clients site. Everyone in this company is really Not Technical. They were having a problem with… Continue reading l33t h4xx0r

Sometimes I wonder if people really realise what “WWW” stands for. Surely “world wide” implies that everyone should be able to access your site. Not just people who use one particular browser on one particular operating system. The one particular browser is, of course, Internet Explorer and the one particular operating system is Windows. In… Continue reading World Wide Web

A survey published yesterday says that most people have no more than 1000 songs stored on their computers and that therefore portable players that store 5000 songs are unnecessarily large. See, to me that sounds a bit too close to the famous quote (usually attributed to Bill Gates) that “640 Kb should be enought for… Continue reading Only 1000 Songs

Following on from my recent rant about ntl customer service, I see that they have just announced that they are closing 10 of their 13 call centres and laying off 1,500 people. That’ll be a great help.

I get my digital tv service from ntl. You hear a lot of people complaining about ntl, but in general it’s all worked pretty well for me. Then on Saturday evening at about 7:30 I discovered that one of the set-top boxes had a problem. I was missing most of the channels that I subscribe… Continue reading Customer Service

According to a correspondent in the New Scientist, Dr Seuss invented nanotechnology.