Posts by Dogbyte

Is this the start of...

Global Drying?

Well... yes and no

I go to news sites for detailed information but these days it's very often Twitter that alerts me to the existence of a story in the first place.

Well...

That was a cheery read.

Even as we read this...

...police are preparing a hambush.

Dad's Army of IT

"Your name vill also go on ze libel action. Vot is it?"

"Don't tell him, Pike!"

Integration...

Means that a civil servant can leave all of your data on a train in one go rather than having to do it piecemeal.

Oh dear...

So much for the BBC Trust report praising 6 Music for its distinctiveness and musical credibility.

Can't... resist...

Whey iPod, man!

Your tweet's too big

Don't want you 'cos your tweet's too big

Mad at you 'cos your tweet's too big

Hates you 'cos your tweet's too big.

(with apologies to Fats Waller)

Hmm...

Seems to be a typical lack of joined-up thinking. With no printing and transport costs ebooks are the greener option - something government=t ought to be encouraging.

Call me cynical...

Providing a computer and broadband is very nice, but it's no substitute for providing a decent education - or decent parenting for that matter.

Re Scott McKenzie

By Scott Mckenzie Posted Monday 28th September 2009 11:39 GMT

...the details of my registration plate according to the DVLA are 3 years out of date

Then you're almost certainly breaking the law for failing to properly notify them of a change.

I guess...

police are now hunting his dentist.

They must have been...

Chuffed!

I'm sorry but...

Would you Adam and Eve it?

Mine's the one with the pearly buttons on the back...

Vive la difference

Interesting. I seem to recall not so long ago the French banning shorts from pools and insisting on snugger garments, citing the hygiene grounds that you might have worn the shorts all day.

Attack of the...

Phantom Fondlers?

As Harry Enfield might put it...

Oi, No, no! Oh no, No. No, no!

Which means...

The real world has gays but Walt disnae?

That didn't last long

You could almost say it was KERSed.

The fireproof one with the sponsor logos, thanks.

Lateral thinking

Why mess about developing bulletproof turbans? Just make a bigger helmet so they can wear it on top!

The road to Google

I can't see "Binging" someone passing into to language in quite the same way as "Googling" them has.

On the other hand, lots of jokes for the generation old enough to remember Bing Crosby: "Gone phishing..."

Wot?

No mention of wasting the licence fee?

So...

...this will speed things up and stop them closing the roads for hours to gather "crime scene" data after an accident?

No, thought not.

Call me cynical...

But if they didn't do this nobody would buy anything until Monday.

Mine's the one with the firmly closed wallet in the pocket.

Hot air

Seems a bit of a strange policy when we're about to lose a big chunk of our generating capacity due to old nuclear and coal stations going off line. How many windmills does it take to power a car for 30 miles?

They'll ruin it

Can you see the Americans allowing lines like, "Slower than a spastic in a magnet factory"?

As the old joke has it...

Is this the right way to Oldham?

The dirty mac, please.

Windows? Luxury!

When I were a lad we had to get up at four in the morning, solder all the connections on t'motherboard with a two-pound gas iron, write us own operating system and then do a fourteen hour shift down t'pit.

They don't know they're born today.

Surely...

an Air Stab is much safer than a Knife Stab?

The one with the kevlar lining please.

Maybe...

I'd have understood if it had been cheap as chips...

The greasy white one with the batter stains, please.

Presumably...

He can only do it with the light on?

@Yet another...

Also the extra energy used by an incandescent bulb isn't 'wasted' it's given off as heat, so switching to CFL bulbs increases the amount of energy you use to run your space heating.

Add in the more complex manufacture and recycling and it's doubtful if there's any real saving at all.

Re:What's so special...

By contrast to the earlier comment, I've never been able to get 4oD to work properly, but the iPlayer beta is absolutely fine.