UPDATE: The Norwegian Newspaper VG (Verdens Gang - roughly translated as The Way of the World and apparently not usually the most cerebral of papers) has included a photo from Bristol in its coverage of the 10:23 events. I passed the link on to a Norwegian very close to me, and […]

This is a comment I received from Thomas Britton of thetrainline.com, which I thought was worth publishing in its own post. Nice that he’s noticed and taken the time to write, and I’m happy my frustrations with their support people has been noted.
The original post this refers to is at http://www.hairysocialistsforcatlovers.com/2009/07/14/thetrainlinecom-screws-up/
Hi Oliver,
My name is […]

thetrainline.com - what a horrible mess. If you want to compare two journeys, you might think it’s OK to look for Journey A, open a new window to look for Journey B, then return to the Journey A window and continue to book it. Oh no… if you do that, Journey B’s data is the […]

Well, everyone’s writing about it I’m sure. But what other purpose does this blog serve?
It’s slow. It’s really slow. Horribly slow. Can type several words in a text message, URL, etc, before any words appear on the screen slow.
Not all the time, mind. Maybe about a quarter of the time. Often enough to be annoying.
It […]

This has been written about elsewhere, but thought it worth sharing since I’ve not posted much recently, and I find it both hilarious and very annoying.
The Cisco ASDM - Adaptive Security Device Manager - is  a Java client (which, utilising all that is best about Java, only runs on Windows) that gives you a GUI […]

The O2 store down at the Horsefair end of Broadmead had some in stock the other day, so I went and waited in a line of 3 people for over half an hour: the purchasing procedure has been made a lot more complicated since the original iPhone came out. Still, I passed the time chatting […]

Incremental backups on unix systems are annoying. For a start, you have to do a “full snapshot” fairly regularly, otherwise it takes rather a lot of time/effort/disk-usage to restore to, say, yesterday (which is the most likely place you want to restore to). You can’t delete older backups willy nilly. You also can’t compress older […]

A quick piece of advice for anyone thinking of purchasing a Netgear GS748T - don’t even think about it until they’ve brought out newer firmware than 1.0.3_10.
We’ve been using Netgears as our access and distribution layer switches for years now, and never had a problem with them. Reliable, easy to use (especially the old-style telnet […]

Hoorah - O2 is upping the limits on the number of minutes and txts included each month. Basically, the base tariff goes from 200 mins & txts to 600 mins and 500 txts a month. Existing users get transferred onto the new levels automatically.
The only thing I did notice was that on O2’s page for […]

It’s been a little while since I last posted - I thought it’d be more useful just to use the iPhone for a bit and see if features I thought were great turn out to be gimmicks that wear off.
The feature that’s faded most for me is the keyboard. While I still think it’s fairly […]