Posts by ukgnome

How long before someone hacks this shiny IP camera to shout expletives

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16919664

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23693460

I'm taking a leaf out of Jay Blahnik's Book

If you spout enough shit to end users they will believe you #thisstopsmekillingpeople

Fetch me my Troll hat!

This is just a smear campaign, America is land of the free.......etc

Yorkshire tea for hard water

Is a product that I send my American friends. They claim it's a superior brew that is suitable for all areas.

Please order me 4 large tanks of black market Halon and some breathing apparatus.

Just for the record, Sky's GO is a rebranded Roku which includes Roku apps access......I don't work for Sky, but c'mon that's awesome!

Bravo

This actually show a keen level of detail, I remember the band printer like it was yesterday. The only pedantic thing that I will pull you up on is a million pages.....That seems quite low, when I worked at a popular frozen food and biscuit manufacturer the printers there were on several million before I left.

The whole threading the inky ribbon when you had forgotten gloves, the watching your team leader almost slice cleanly through his thumb in a moment of stupidity. The blood spurts over the 4 banks of printers, the ruined statements. Ahh it's all coming back to me, the smell of a freshly opened ribbon spool. The misaligning of cheques, the fire as paper dust from rapid printing ignited in a beautiful plume akin to a fire in a flour factory. And 4 way carbon paper, not something you see today. Did you know that the spindles that you thread the carbon paper onto when you want to separate the sheets of carbon from the printout seemingly revolve at a million RPM, and can snap a wrist and throw a man across a room. And did you know if one of these spindles comes loose they can go with such velocity that they can break double glazing and smash into a leaving visitor.

Happy memories - thanks BOFH

I use a lenovo dual sim phone. If mobile buyers were smart they would also but chinese phones.

It might not appeal to everyone, but there is something enthralling about the Pikmin. Maybe it's because they call me master. I can't wait for my copy.

Do people care?

Well with a tiny bit of research the answer is YES (sort of)

http://www.fairphone.com/

However the Android fairphone is never going to set the sky on fire with it's specification (probably a good thing, sky fire is bad m'kay)

In the UK it is free, and I have just signed up.

As for letting someone watch the procedure, well it is a well respected training hospital that I use. So ALL procedures I say yes to spectators. That way you get a top surgeon that is so well respected he allowed to train, and you also get the very very best in pre and post care. As well as a top notch job.

As long as he gets a small whisky asteroid for company.

Seriously though, what a fantastic way for his name to live forever, aside from his awesome books that is.

I too look like James Bond

Unfortunately I look like James Bond the evil wizard that eats baby penguins and not James Bond the spy.

Now if we could just get those boffins to explain how Shane Warne was able to bowl a finger slip flipper we would all be even wiser.

It seems that China is rapidly becoming the masters of space. There mission control would make a bond villain drool. My money is them having the first moon-base and also the first Mars-base.

Hard to get excited

This is just a PR stunt, as they have already said that they will now have to close or move stores in areas that make little or no money. So they are going to close stores and claim that it's the governments fault as they had to pay tax.

"A spokeswoman said the company was now "undertaking measures to make Starbucks profitable in the UK".

She added unprofitable stores would be closed or relocated and there would be a "greater reliance on franchised and licensed stores". (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23019514)