This is a long article -and I had already posted it in a couple of other places, but I feel it is an important discussion for those of us who live part of our lives in these spaces ( Read more... )

Well, at last and after two weeks from the date it should have happened and over a month since the original (mangled) order, it would seem like I have a land-line telephone.

A five-minute job, the engineer said...

.. and on how if we want all that cheap shiny stuff, well, that's the price . Or is it.

How very convenient. This means you could be a terrorist suspect -or whatever- until further notice, if you try to film a police officer infringing your liberties, say ( Read more... )

The council presented me with a bill for unpaid council tax for £38.20 for 2007. So I phone to enquire about this -final notice with no previous notices, two years on? And they tell me that there is an outstanding amount of o£350-something for that period, for ‘recalculation of benefit’. I never claimed benefit (two of my flatmates at the time did ( Read more... )

( Another one from the Joy of Tech: The Copyright Task Force... )

My MacBook refused to start up this morning, with clicking sounds coming from where the hard disk is. This is a generally not very good sign. Iand it is not a very convenient moment to have to go spend eighty or ninety quid on a hard disk drive at this point ( Read more... )

It had to happen. Serve us mac-users right, for being so smug about these machines not getting viruses.

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