Someone forwarded me a list of the twenty-five worst tech products of all time from the US magazine, PC World. AOL, RealPlayer and Windows ME are all there. They publish various other (quite amusing) lists. OK, it’s pretty geeky, but they raised a smile.
Top Ten…
…Worst Web Sites1…Most Annoying Windows Features…Worst Viruses…Most Annoying Tech Products…Worst PCs [...]

I talked here about my dislike for the word ‘chickenhawk’ following on from posts from Matthew Sinclair and Tiberius Gracchus. It is an ad hominem attack and fails to engage with the arguments, cheapening debate on all sides.
Beyond that, it opens up people opposed to (a given) military intervention to an obvious counter-charge. If ‘we’ [...]

Luke Akehurst has a great post with a selection of, ahem, interesting quotes from Boris Johnson. Do take a read. If Boris can make Luke like Ken, the Hon. Member for Henley must be dire indeed.
xD.

The Smashing Pumpkins have a special place in my heart - the first CD I ever bought was Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Just goes to show that I was both cool and pretentious at a tender age. I’m listening to the new album, Zeitgeist, and it’s OK, but not up to Mellon Collie [...]

My work computer came with MS Office 2007 pre-installed. I have decided to go back to using OpenOffice.org for two reasons - the ribbon and the ‘docx‘ OOXML file implementation. That and the fact that it reeks of EEE.
Firstly, the ribbon. Nice idea, but it doesn’t work. It’s not intuitive and adds an extra click [...]

Vodafone have pulled their adverts from Facebook after their skyscrapers appeared on the BNP group profile. I don’t know which one, as there are three BNP groups on Facebook. The full story is on Media Guardian.
xD.

I’d like to recommend this article in today’s Daily Telegraph on Charlie Gillett by Peter Culshaw. Mr Culshaw sings the praises of Charlie Gillett, the hugely influential host of World of Music on the BBC World Service and, until his illness last year, of the Sound of the World on BBC Radio Four. I started [...]

Responding to a video entry on the Huffington Post by one Max Blumenthal, Tiberius Gracchus and Matt Sinclair have been discussing the word ‘chickenhawk’. Unfortunately, they are both barking up unfortunately chosen arboreal plants.
Tiberius makes a mistake which, to be frank, is unworthy of him. The video he bases his opinions on is biased (not [...]