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archive for Jun 2005

whither lembit opik?
09 June 2005

imagine my horror when i tuned into a ‘talking heads’ programme on radio five [aka "radio PC"] this morning to find that liberal democrat MP for montgomeryshire,  lembit opik,  was not amongst the panel of guests, offering his rent-an-opinion on anything from asteroids to …er… zoomorphism, in that ever-so-slightly camp sounding ‘norn iron‘ accent of [...]

drowning in a sea of widgets
06 June 2005

on the face of it, it must have seemed a great idea when the boffins at apple thought up the idea of building the dashboard and widgets into tiger [mac OSX 10,4].  now anyone with a smattering of javascript and the ability to throw a bit of HTML and CSS together could design pretty looking [...]

i hate clipart people!
03 June 2005

this morning i had to go online to pay another  wodge of my hard-earned cash to powergen to cover my electricity bill.  on the online payments page i was greeted with this inanely grinning tart.  what the fuck is going on here? why  do these huge companies; energy suppliers, banks, local government -  insist on [...]