Posts by Ben Boyle

Club 18-30 anyone?

Almost like Club 18-30's brilliant yet short lived advertising from some years ago... "Wake up at the crack of Dawn..."

"Thought to be outside the USA"??

And perhaps this information would be provided by the same people that "thought" that WMD were in Iraq next to all that lovely oil?

Data charges

Yes, but are they getting raped for data charges in the same way that we are? I just took a quick look at T-Mobile and their "unlimited" web and walk package in the US is $5.99.

Admittedly it's a small sample, but I'm lazy and don't want to upset myself by finding out how little the Yanks are getting charged,

Nice - more bloatware

Considering the impact the ads have in Live Messenger, I for one am not willing to accept them in anything other software.

For instance, after I "upgraded" to live messenger due to the constant nagging, I noticed a jump in memory utilization... with Live Mess open on screen it consumes some 80Mb (for an IM client?!), minimise it and it drops to six (6).

More of the same in M$' already bloated and resource hungry applications? I don't think so. Maybe it's time I started looking seriously at other packages - maybe other OSes while I'm at it. That MacBook Pro is looking exceedingly attractive...

Touchscreen?

Innovative??

*cough*HP Jornada*cough*

*cough*Sony Ericsson Pxxx*cough*

No eBay ads on Google?

Does that mean that the first three pages of my search results when hunting for consumer items won't be links to eBay any more? if so then it's the best thing that Google have ever done.

Vote rigging

Perhaps we could integrate it into the National ID scheme so that we know that the signatory actually is who s/he purports to be!

</sarcasm>

Car Tax online

"Both services are already available on Directgov – with the latter having migrated from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's website – suggesting that work is still needed to communicate the availability of such services to the public."

They already print it on the reminders that get sent out, what do people want? TV adverts so they don't actually have to go to the effort of reading?

Falling production costs?

So we should be expecting to see a reduction in the price of the PS3 any time now then!

No?

Data charges next?

Well hopefully now the EU have "fixed" the roaming rates for calls, they can do the same thing for data. I'm still feeling the pain of a £10/Mb bill from Orange.

Ha!

And obviously the IPS will be paying for additional time and expense incurred by those employers who routinely employ immigrant workers?

Quite aside from the whole telephone check only actually validating that the *documents* are valid, rather than that the documents are valid and in the possession of the proper owner.

But wait! The new voluntary ID cards will give employers the means to check that Boris is actually who he says he is. Trust me, I'm a politician.

Pffffffffffffffffffthtp!

Purple?

So they've finally admitted it and combined Labour red with Conservative blue, eh?

They've been stealing policies for years so they might as well have some of the colour too.