Posts by Code Monkey

Jobs

You're in a hole. Stop digging.

Vuvuzela

IMO Bellend was right to allow it. It's a part of South African footie culture and its World Cup should reflect that.

That said, anyone blowing one near me next season will be down A&E getting it removed from their jacksy.

I agree with Apple

Blimey. First Arjen Robben keeps his feet after being tackled now this. What is going on?

Depressingly familiar

Not shooting the messenger here, Reg. You're right to report it but this kind of story is becoming depressingly familiar. I fear the planned public sector spending cuts will mean that data-handling training is only going to get worse.

Paper ain't broke - don't fix it

For £250 you could buy 40-50 paperbacks and just read, y'know, them.

Now it can't make calls in daylight?

Or is this because of another software cock-up in the previous iPhone.

So glad I don't own one of these!

Nice

Maybe it would give the lamb a nice flavour as well - a pre-mortem marinade?

Radio on iPlayer

"Listeners are discovering radio on iPlayer in spite of the BBC's help, not because of it."

They're not exactly hiding it. On the default BBC home page there are "Listen Live" (iPlayer) links to all national BBC stations.

Facebook Movie

"Frank just had a dump, lol" spun out to feature-length.

One to avoid methinks.

Auntie doesn't get much right...

...but this is fantastic news.

There isn't anything else like it broadcasting in the UK. I love the feeling of being able to switch it on at any hour of the day, confident that there's quality music (especially music that I'd not heard of) to be had.

Save 6music!

Larks

Lots of tales about stringing them along for larks - which is exactly what I'd do. Bless you Reg readers, bless you all!

Sounds like

Authentic frontier gibberish

BBC changes photo on website

Slow news day?

This stopped being funny 2 stories ago.

The Chartered Institute for IT - Enabling Waffle Waffle Waffle

The British Computer Society is a fantastic name. A great example of plain English. The proposed rebranding sounds like it was dreamt up by a committee of MBA waving recent graduates who couldn't accomplish any IT task more difficult than opening an email attachment.

Wonderfully pointless

Add to that a little rapturous applause from an overheating IT office in the Midlands, too. Well done Finnish nutter!

Hmm

Apple really are a bit bobbins aren't they?

Simple solution

Just make your child put some damned clothes on!

How to get an Applephobe to change his mind...

...send in the lawyers. So in the spirit of my enemy's enemy is my friend: go Steve!

Wow

Who the hell are these chimps that can't handle an 86-year-old without resorting to a Taser?

Stop the world, I want to get off.

Backdoor probe

May I be the 1057th person to congratulate you on your use of the phrase "backdoor probe"?

Superb

Where's the standing ovation icon?

Like the puck mouse no doubt:

Pretty but painful for the larger handed gentleman (or gentlewoman) to use for any length of time.

Trstrank: 8.3?

Any company still making their software components conform to 8.3 is not to be trsted.

Top nostalgia - thanks Reg

Ah happy days indeed. Hours of typing line after line of BASIC from C&VG (hoping not to forget to save before my Spectrum overheated) then still hours more debugging their shoddy code*. By the time I'd done this 3 or 4 times I could more or less write simple games for myself.

OK iPlayer, YouTube and whathaveyou are all good but IT (sorry, computing) was never as exciting as back in the 80s!

* I never did work out whether this was the Meccano way - put a few mistakes in so people learn; or just cos the fellas who wrote these games weren't very good.

Freeing up valuable cop time

A few people in this country need guns, others want to have them. I reckon more time spent checking both groups are people who should have them is far from wasted.