Self-Inflicted Pain

Have you ever watched an animal die? A helpless creature expiring in pain and suffering before your eyes? Wanting to help in some way but being unable to? This is how I felt yesterday. As I watched, for the first time in my life, one of the two pilots for a defunct US version of … Read more

Jumping on the PC Backlash bandwagon.

Because cynicism is so in vogue it’s actually considered lame in society to actually be passionate about anything. So the majority tend to keep their ‘passions’ under wraps or out of the public eye in fear that an army of rather pathetic and material-starved stand up comics will descend on them and make fun of … Read more

Redirect Responsibility

I wanted some benchmarking software for my windows PC. I think it’s running a little sluggishly. Tweakfiles I remembered was a place online that had such software. So i typed www.tweakfiles.com into the address bar. A redirect took me to Gamespot. Gamespot doesn’t have what I want. I’m not sure Gamespot would make anyone looking … Read more

Concept is Property = Property is Concept

Seems that almost all concepts are property now. Every idea has been registered as a trademark at some point. The concept of ‘activity’ notification in instant messaging is registered patent of Microsoft. At any time they could demand payment by anyone else who makes a messenger that detects the user typing or being away from their … Read more

Kazaa whines about copyright theft… no seriously.

[Kazaa pull DMCA over copyright infringement violation] – Seriously. Not a joke. I found this looking for Kazaa Lite on google. All links to the various Kazaa lite (Unnoficial free Kazaa alternative with all the dodgy spyware and ad crap removed) have been deleted from Google. Apparenlty the Kazaa people who have helped to violate … Read more

…in the not too distant future…

BREAKING NEWS: MUSIC POLICE MAKE MAJOR RAID by Our Legal Entertainment Correspondent, Frampton Bulbous-Fish Yesterday the music police confirmed that they had made a major bust on a warehouse outside the city where they found thousands of illegal CDs featuring bootleg artists. Seven people were arrested at the warehouse and another five at a simultaneous … Read more

Another rant about kids today…

What really gets my already overworked and downtrodden goat is uppity little online wankers who’ve had their AOL connection for a year and think that if you don’t type like you have are retarded then “ur a n3w-B”. Reminds me of those old BBS sysop v User stories when the kid had been online for … Read more

The neighbours and their kids

Been trouble between some of the neighbours. Thankfully we aren’t involved but one of the pompous ones from the other side of the street are throwing their weight around, as they do, and threatening to get one of the people on our side of the street kicked out of their house. No idea how that … Read more