note to self

I thought I’d go for a tabloid style headline today in the style of Milo Yiannopoulos from the Telegraph. On August 5th Milo feels that social networking is all good. “Social networking? A lot of fun.” he says. This all changes once Milo encounters Grindr an iPhone application aimed at Gay and Bi-sexual men and [...]

Well actually eBay the worlds largest tat bazzar is actually no good for sellers either but for buyers the saying buyer beware has never been more accurate. Take for example the regular scams that appear. Okay some of them are not exactly scams but they are dubious. It would be easy for eBay to stamp [...]

Recently a lot of people have been talking about passwords and how they are too simple. What the researchers failed to mention is that it doesn’t matter how secure your password is it will not help. There was a bit of a buzz on Twitter yesterday about an application called Twifficiency. It allegedly calculates “your [...]

Grindr became successful in London and the UK mainly because of some fantastic word of mouth advertising from Stephen Fry. Also because people ‘advertised’ their app on other networks and websites. Now however Grindr is successful and they forbid ‘advertising’ any other apps or services within your profile. Their now frankly ludicrously long list of [...]

Attempting to install an Epson printer and EpsonNet network adapter this morning and it’s amazingly complex. Over 9,000 yes that’s right over nine thousand items to be installed in the first tranche before anything else. About 15 applications so far and I haven’t even got to the EpsonNet part yet. Really people in this day [...]

Seren have just purchased an iPF6300 A1 printer. Great :-) Driver installation on Mac not so great :-( First the installer closed all my open applications without warning. Thanks. It’s installed icons in my dock without asking me. Cheers. It’s set itself as the default printer. Fabulous. It’s ignoring the System Preference for default printer. [...]

According to Apple – Use only this server Indicate whether to use only the specified outgoing mail server to send messages, or use any available server. When the checkbox is not selected, Mail tries to find another available server to send messages if your specified, trusted server is unavailable. Sadly this is not the case… [...]

So iPhone applications come and go but recently my favourite application has been deactivated. Worse national rail have made an inferior product and want a fiver for it! So now not only do trains run late but you have to pay to check if it’s late!

after 20 minutes of the same message whilst waiting to buy Michael Jackson tickets on ticketmaster… There was a problem processing your request. We apologise for any inconvenience. (0×100080) If you submitted an order, and are not sure if it went through, please check Order History or contact Customer Service. Grrr Anyway off to work [...]

Sadly though the website isn’t. Now don’t judge me about trying to buy Michael Jackson tickets – I’m not a fan but since Andrew isn’t a Take That fan and bought tickets I thought I should reciprocate. The o2 blueroom website or o2priority website designed to allow o2 customers to purchase tickets before they go [...]