Posts by Matt Williams

So if aliens were to catch all of these things we're firing out into space they would observe Moore's law.

They pushed SOPA, I stopped buying new CDs and DVDs. They pushed ACTA, I stopped buying second-hand discs and cut down to just Netflix, Lovefilm and Spotify. In June Ofcom announced the three strikes plans under the DEA, so I cancelled Netflix, Lovefilm and Spotify. It seems to me that every penny you spend that goes into the hands of the "creative industries" results in lobbying to destroy your Internet freedom.

They said on the BBC that Angry Birds had a billion downloads. That's a lot. A viral video on YouTube wouldn't have that kind of reach - even Charlie bit my finger has had less than half a billion views.

Does this article mean anything?

These all seem like randomly generated words, sprinkled with a few that I recognise, like "the" and "big".

App store

I think the big turning point was when Apple's app store started to give me a huge stream of things to fritter my money away on and all that Windows had to compete with it was the Vista widget gallery, that seemed to never change and never have anything innovative to offer.

One of our BT Infinity lines fell over this morning so we switched over to the other one which is fine. If they both fall over, I'll be bothered to try and fix it.

My point is, though, that I would be willing to bear a hundred years of such service from BT in preference to ever having to deal with TalkTalk again. A couple of days ago they started to try and invoice me again for a service that they cancelled a year ago - cancelled through sheer incompetence and deceit on their part. Something good came of it though - it prompted me to create a diagram that shows where TalkTalk appear on the customer service continuum: http://revs.org/blog/where-does-talktalk-appear-on-the-customer-service-continuum/

Blah blah blah copyright maths http://blog.ted.com/2012/03/20/the-numbers-behind-the-copyright-math/ blah blah blah.

Firebird?

I had to go and look at a picture of a reverse Firebird to figure out what was missing here. It was such a fantastic, evocative shape, somehow melding an Explorer into a Strat. I'm sure this would be an interesting guitar to play, but the body and headstock shapes don't do it for me.

Maybe

Maybe BT employ more and better lawyers than the ICO so threatening them with legal action would be destined to fail.

Ringtones

I just tried out the mosquito ringtones and now I realise why I don't mind the standard iPod earphones - I can't hear anything above 15kHz.

The cat went a bit mad though - he can hear all the way up to 22kHz.

Putting rubbish out too early

Being told off for putting rubbish out early in England was the first thing I thought about when I read this article. I mean, there are just so many similarities. Foxes, for a start. Linking to websites encourages foxes, doesn't it? Doesn't it???

I hate my new mobile

I recently published my disappointment over my new Nokia N82 in my blog. It replaced a trusty Nokia 6300, and I was lured away by the promise of a better camera and GPS. What I got was a phone that requires multiple button press for the simplest of operations.

How could they have got the user interface so very wrong?

This is correct

I got my Tom Tom after three wrong turns:

= firstly in Guildford when we went to the Holiday Inn and I took a wrong turn to another town when we could actually see the Holiday Inn, and this made my children cry.

= Secondly, trying to get back across the Thames after visiting Bluewater in Kent, and heading toward London by mistake.

= and thirdly, trying to come off the M1 onto the M25 and missing it not once, but twice, when I failed to spot the turn off coming the other way too.

Adobe bought into the Rip Off Britain big time

Adobe need to do something to fix the difference in price of their software between the US and the UK.

Adobe software that costs $1599 in the US costs $2844 in the UK.

Image compression

I don't understand why they make it so hard to find out that they compress images.

I'm not going to go through the pain of installing a Vodafone device again, repeating my previous experience when I found that all of our carefully crafted websites were made to look like rubbish, unless they are honest about whether the compression system exists and can be switched off.