Posted in Rambles on Jan 22nd, 2012 2 Comments »
About a month ago I took delivery of the 8GB version of the new MotoActv device. First impressions were that it’s very slick. It comes with almost everything you need to get started. For the money it could do with a HRM strap, but at £250 it’s in the right ball-park of a GPS watch [...]
Posted in Rambles on Aug 31st, 2011 No Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I received some spam. I get a lot of spam – some of it’s well-produced, some of it’s garbage. This spam was garbage. The email content was poor and the layout uninspiring. It also linked to a PDF (archived).
Posted in Angry, Rambles on Jan 4th, 2011 No Comments »
I just want to hit this guy with a spade. It’s from some droid at Monarch Recruitment. Good day to you. It is a real honour to approach you following on from what was a somewhat memorable Christmas upon which we, the humble people of this small Isle experienced the falling of a few droplets [...]
Posted in Rambles on Jul 21st, 2010 No Comments »
What’s wrong with just letting them be bored?
Posted in Rambles on Jun 1st, 2010 No Comments »
This post is a response to this post from Scam Detectives. Frankly, they shouldn’t. As long is it does all that it can to secure the data and privacy of the information its users choose to hold there, they’ve done their bit. Anything beyond that is a bonus. Comparing security on Facebook to the content [...]
Posted in Rambles on May 7th, 2010 2 Comments »
I’ve long been a fan of on-line back-up services as a better-than-separate-hard-drive option, but this week I’ve started to have a niggling doubt about how useful they can be in a catastrophic event, such as house fire or burglary.
Posted in Rambles on Jan 28th, 2010 2 Comments »
I just don’t get it. To me it looks like nothing more than an enormous iPod Touch with a relatively low resolution screen. It’s of no viable use in the real world. It’s just a media player, like the various flavours if iPod and iPhone*.
Posted in Rambles on Jan 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
Well, I’ve given it a week, but it’s going back. Synchronisation between the handset and the various Google services that I use is truly awful, particularly with email. I was pretty unimpressed with the way it arbitrarily remove contact information from my GoogleMail account, too. A two-minute conversation later and a returns package is on [...]
Posted in Rambles on Jan 19th, 2010 No Comments »
This is ITV’s latest tat-TV. Once again they’ve managed to roll out a cheap production aimed at people who think that opera starts with the Old Spice advert and ends at the 1990 World Cup.
Posted in Rambles on Jan 18th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve been using one of these for a few days now, and absolutely think Blackberry’s are shit. My previous phone, a Nokia N95, had started to feel its age, and given that I now keep a lot of my information (email, calendar, etc) “in the cloud” (I know – that’s a term for wankers) I [...]