Posts by Code Monkey
1468 posts • joined Thursday 16th October 2008 09:53 GMT
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Harsh
Seems harsh that he should lose his job. He's no hardened criminal. A complete tool no doubt, but a well-intentioned tool.
Nice try Hague
"Look at the other countries, the foreigners. Aren't they bad, censoring the net?"
We're not fooled you bald shite.
Books
Is the selection of books as rubbish as in bricks and mortar WH Smiths? I don't want to buy this thing if all I can read is James Corden's autobioghraphy.
Posted in Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’
Prior art
I saw two Android-toting friends use unlock gestures this weekend. I was even thinking I should get one of those for mine.
Small screen (well small phone)
That's exactly what I'll be looking for when my contract ends. This Desire is great but just too big
$6m
Sounds generous IMO
He's taking the piss
No way do wheelbarrows cost that much!
Posted in Collapsing cranes and cantankerous cars
NT News
The NT News could well overtake the Irish Daily Star as my favourite newspaper. Top stuff!
Posted in World+Dog goes bonkers for iPhone 4S
People are idiots
This is not an anti-Apple rant. If you queue on the street for a new Android phone, the last Harry Potter book or whatever: you're an idiot.
WH Smith?
Presumably it's only compatible with ghostwritten celebutard autobiographies.
Posted in An ode to rent-a-nerds and cable monkeys
...and not even the right one
Commentard and proud
Posted in Seattle superhero arrested for assault
"what a complete and utter prat."
In a nutshell, Mr Coward.
"They use statistics like a drunk uses lampposts – more for support than illumination."
+1 beer for that simile!
Posted in Google shoots Dart at JavaScript
Also
It's another thing for IE to implement atrociously, another load of client-side code to fork.
I'll not contradict anyone saying JS sucks but it sucks a lot less than it did 10 years ago.
Noms
Really?
I've got an account but I really don't know what to do with it. I'm already in touch with all my contacts and just don't need another network. I guess it'll be handy for whenever Facebook really shit the bed over privacy (and I'm I'll enjoy the irony of fleeing to Google for privacy).
"no evidence whatsoever"
That's proof enough for a lot of the church's beliefs...
I don't have one and have worked in the industry for 15 years. I'm now studying an IT degree solely becuase I think it'll be necessary (or at least very helpful) to get a job abroad.
Most Infectious Earworm
The most infectious earworm is Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert. It also has the advantage of not getting on my tits, so is great as brainwash (as is the A-Team theme and Monkey Man by Toots and the Maytals) for shite like We Are the Champions (a rare rubbish Queen song, I'll grant you).
Pescitarian
Aka fishocrites
Posted in Tosh puts 1TB in the palm of your hand
It's (just) over 1000x the storage on my first PC and I was far from an early adopter.
Posted in Amazon to kindle Fire tablet tomorrow
If this prompts a drop in price of the current Kindle I'll be right in there!
Posted in Lewd voicemail hack on MP prompts probe
Grudge
Someone who harbours a grudge against a Tory MP. I'd guess at ~60m suspects then.
“most of the cookies you highlight have benign names and values”.
So no "all" then.
Posted in Play.com swallowed by Rakuten
I thought that, but considering its main competitor is Amazon and it's about to lose its tax breaks, maybe it's about right.
I used to use Play a lot until Amazon started doing free delivery.
Posted in Designer pitches game arcade laundry
Soooo....
...the more you play games the cleaner your unmentionables are? An interesting twist on the life of the hardcore gamer.
In my day
We used to get boundary commision maps in books, with nice tracing paper overlays to show the boundary changes. Bloody nice they were, too.
Can Luton use it, too. After all their airport is London Luton (I'm also expecting the rebranding of London Birmingham and London Bristol airports before long).
I believe the Welsh are already llobbying for .herebedragons
What's that in elephants?
The sooner the better.
beerstooexpenivein.london
lotsofobnoxiouswankersin.london
The list goes on
Posted in Verity's secret shame revealed
In a past life as a cold caller (put your negs away, it was for charidee) I always tried to use silent letters when cofirming post codes: "so that's 2 g-for-gome x-for-xylophone" and whatnot.
I know, little things, little minds...
Actually there will be a lot of Labour-supporting civil servants left. The "neutral" civil service was killed off by Thatcher in the 80s.
"Hope to make the RIM job trivially easy for devs"
Ah Friday, how I've missed you. Nice one Bill!
Posted in A Farewell to Oates: Adios, El Reg
Re: The 1337 leaving with the aliens?
Yup. Commentards get the "B" Ark
Posted in A Farewell to Oates: Adios, El Reg
Best of British, John
[tearfully raises a glass icon*]
* real glass to follow
Posted in Paintball round pops Bulgarian airbag
Re: "extra padding"
Extra padding for your extra padding.
I liked "enhanced boobs". A pint to whoever left that in.
"what am I missing?"
A sense of humour?
Thanks for the warning
In other news, I read FB will now ask you to confirm your being tagged in photos. Which is nice.
London to NYC
The replacement bus service wouldn't be so cool.
Posted in Hundreds of Brit pubs to offer free WiFi
www.wefindyourlaptopyoulostwhenyougotpissed.com
Dear Sir/Madam
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Yours
HM Govt Dept of Big-assed Seektrits
Re: Anyone want mine?
I've had your ration. And that of any other teetotal commentards knocking around. Cheers!
Re: picking up my slack
Similarly I'll trade my cider ration for more pints of lovely ale.
Good stuff
Having just renewed my passport, this is way overdue. The form's badly written and the process is slow.
Get whoever did the car tax renewal to do it. They did a great job.
Hulture Secretary
What's a Hulture Secretary?
Posted in Just 0.2% of Facebook flogged for $133m
Well done them
Possibly the best bit of business it's possible to do. Cash in now and hang on to some in case by some mirable FB doesn't go the way of MySpace.
