Posts by sheep++;

Big wheels !

Where does the phrase "with wheels the size of a two-storey house." come in? Is it just sarcasm or something, Because you must have a very small two-storey house. They look like typically lorry sized wheels to me.

"i" prefix

Once again I'm grumpy about everything prefixed with "i". Gets on my tits.

iAm going to do something more useful than ranting, hardy ha.

Rubik cube solution

I remember seeing a video of a kid solving it very quickly. It was quicker than taking the coloured stickers off the cubes and put them in the right order..Bugger!

Collecting my personal info

which unencrypted, left on a laptop and said laptop left on a train. Yet again, another example of a screw-up involving personal details.

And what happened to Political Correctness...

Why isn't the baby's face mosaiced to indistintion !

Earbud earphones

My cheapish ones had rubber ends that were interchangable, but came off a bit too easily. I'd lost one and couldn't find it in my coat etc. Anyway after three days I started to get a pain below my ear. To cut a long story short, the rubber end had been lapsed in my ear canal, so I had to go to the A&E (ER for you American cousins).

So after some pain and a big pair of tweezers (more like pliers) they managed to get it out. So it's external headphones for me now - though they don't do a good job of keeping external sound out.

Not an Apple fanboi

I have no Apple products and can't see me buying one. They may be decent quality or better, but they are expensive and seem to lock you in to their evil empire (apologies to the late Mr. Jobs)

I went to buy a new MP3 player recently and the Sony one I got before was perfectly OK at around £40 or less. But the Apple ones were in the hundreds of £'s which is just ridiculous and then you (I think) are tied into ITunes and DRM issues.

Pah! I say PAH!

For the record my phone is a Samsung Galaxy S (the first one, not the new one) and I love it. If you've never tried it, you have to give the Swype system a try - creating a text or other document without (mostly) typing. Run your fingers around the screen keys and it usually gets it right. You don't even need to be that accurate. Much faster than typing on a screen keyboard. Wish I had something similar in my programming editor.

Oh well, that's my rant over.

Another "i"

Yet another company or product starting with the "i". Really gets on my tits. Yes i (hardy ha) am fed up with it.

Not entirely relevant but...

I was on a plane once, going on holiday, but there were some technical problems and they had to switch off the plane and restart it - re-boot obviously. As a techno geek, I immediately thought; is the plane running Windows? And then of course to labour the point, you have to close down the window blinds before take-off and landing. Shutting down Windows.

I apologise up front because I don't know this man or his work, but shirley you intelligent people should have come up with the fact that biscuit ends with I.T. Excuse the dots in the abbreviation but I started to do Morse Code but I failed the exam - dash it !

Cancelling leave/holidays?

Do the classic British thing and ring in sick. "Doctor says I need two weeks off".

I can get away with that because I'm "between jobs" anyway. Not that I'd buy anything that starts with "i".

Even kids say - I spy with my little eye (whoops, oh hang on a sec...)

Not affiliated with them, but I have used happyprinter.co.uk for a while and been impressed with the quick service, cheap cartridges and the fact they worked fine in my Canon printer, despite all the usual comments from manufacturers you should only use branded (or shall we say, bloody expensive) replacement ink.

Just my opinion. [Bored on a sunday morning - talking about ink cartridges, Jeez!]

Hey, let's sue Apple for once

The post said it has a white body. Oooooh. I don't think that is PC (Alright, double crap joke there, but I had to do it).

All well and good until...

... they have to reboot you. (I think they said that to Wellington too)

I don't really care...

Domain names are pretty rubbish anyway. The only benefit I can see is to protect the children.

I was thinking about registering ArseAboutFacebook but it may be already taken (Can't be arsed to look, ironically)

API !!

You had to define "API" on a developer's forum! Hopefully, you'll know what the Icon stands for without looking it up on Wankapedia..

Soon....

We won't be allowed to eat Apples without being sued. I might switch to Oranges (oh hang on a minute...)

Astro-names

I'm not an astro guy or physicist, but I don't get where they come up with names for newly discovered planetary bodies (Yes I've heard of Kepler) but please; "Kepler-16b" What happened to 16a. Was that the Beta version? And were/are there 15 others?

Slightly off topic but it seems to be the same for when they discover a new animal or insect - they name it after the "Latin" for ... whatever. Why not invent a new english word. Jellyfish comes to mind - a sensible description - but not floppytae subterae.

Twits...? Twats

Ironically, I couldn't be bothered to write anything else to fit in a small sentence.

Processor Cooling

I managed to cool my CPU to around -273 C but then all my applications stopped for some reason. Oh hang on, I was trying to run Windows... That explains it.

Fondleslab / Phone

Couldn't see me holding a fondleslab to my ear on the train to answer the phone.