Posts by Alasdair S

what?

Over 50 comments so far and not one "I wish my wife/girlfriend was as dirty as these PCs"!

Do Reg readers not have girlfriends or don't they have a puerile sense of humour?

And there was me ready with the obligatory reply "she is mate!"

Standards are slipping. Or rising.

Not so inexplicable

"somewhat inexplicably express his telephonic preference"

Presumably Santa has tried canceling a contract with this company and is thoroughly fed up being hassled by them. Pissing on their logo is the only rational response although personally I just avoid dealing with any company with "4U" in its name.

This can't be right

I saw Mr O'leary on telly the other night and he said the baggage charge was intended to discourage customers from taking extra luggage making turnarounds quicker. Why would they then opt-in customers? If they want to discourage people from taking extra luggage surely the default should be an opt-out.

Unless of course Mr O'leary was talking pish.

Nothing new here

A similar thing happened to me when Visual Cafe went to the wall - my email address (a unique one only issued to VC when registering a trial version) ended up in the hands of spammers.

I can only assume VC's contacts list was sold as an asset to the highest bidder. Opting out from email campaigns when providing my email address made no difference. Be very careful of what data you pass on to private companies, especially ones not bound by the UK's data protection laws.

clatty pat's

Anyone who thinks wild beaver was extinct in Scotland obviously hasn't been to Clatty Pat's!

@Richard

perhaps he had to do more than "siphon the python"

ok, ok I'm going!

Google used to be a good search engine

This is another change that adversely affects the accuracy of google's results (in the broad sense, including adverts). Google used to be a really good search engine but its results are becoming less and less relevant.

Room is opening up for a new lean, mean search engine that focuses on giving accurate results (a bit like google itself used to do).

Eh?

Page 3 is probably the least offensive thing in that bloody rag!

Double dare you...

... to do a Playmobil reconstruction of Lord Xenu's Tellurian vacation

classic quote

"meltdown in the US housing market is reaching the boiling point"

Just sublime!

minibars cunningly housed in speaker stacks

...and how many Bang & Olufsen sound systems are going to be trashed by guests franticly trying to open the mini-bar?

Music royalties group poo

This headline was truncated to "Music royalties group poo" by my news ticker, which I quite liked.

However my favourite truncated headline has to be from the BBC: "Mills-McCartney hires royal leg [al team]".