Posts by Dan Herd

Apparently...

...these guys get $25/hour tops for doing this.

Insane.

All I want to know is...

...will a coyote speaking in Johnny Cash's voice tell me to try and find my soul mate if I eat this?

Be Broadband

are trialling landline packages, so I can get rid of BT forever:

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/other-phones/be-broadband-trialling-landlines-700557

From The Day Today

in the episode where the scientist Travis Daveley has reanimated a corpse to execute the guy who killed him is being interviewed by Barbara Wintergreen.

Travis Daveley: I have this little dream whereby there's this whole village of reanimated corpses, and if you like, a kind of control tower at the centre of that village with a bank of monitors, and I control all the corpses.

Barbara Wintergreen: Why use corpses? Why not normal people? Why don't you just leave things the way they are?

Daveley: Because, because normal people... because I wouldn't have my tower. I want a tower.

Jobs is Daveley isn't he?

25yearsof.com - Verisign double fail

"Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in C:\website\class\init.php on line 7"

Fail 1) They're using a Windows server

Fail 2) They didn't install the PHP MySQL connector

Still, the site has been registered and I suppose with Verisign, that's all that matters...

No Multipay

As long as if I buy an add-on for my home computer, I don't have to pay again to get it on my work computer.

Not the problem

I don't think page clutter is the issue - my Dell Inspiron mini 9 is pretty good at cluttered HTML, but anything involving flash hangs like a monkey in Hartlepool.

Intel and Adobe really need to sort this out because the Atom should be better than it is at playing flash. My ARM-based mobile phone is better and the chip in that is teeny compared to the netbook...

The answer is in this page

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean35

"On July 13, 2010, Extended Support for Windows 2000 Professional will end."

In other words, they have zero excuses except incompetent software developers for not switching to IE7 after that date.

NHS

The NHS still use IE6 as well. Probably because the 'developers' who built their shiny 'new' IT system hard-wired everything to it.

Makes my job as a developer of web apps that are sold to the NHS a big fat PITA.

Quicktime

It appears the United States Patent and Trademark Office website requires 'Quicktime' to view images.

I'm sure their rapid and trouble-free granting of many, many patents to Jobs & Co. is entirely unrelated to this fact.

@David Edwards

You could offer everyone who calls you 4p/min rebate cheques.

Microsoft v Adobe

Can't they both lose?