I can't quite express how much glee McCain vs. YouTube vs. DMCA causes me. Suffice to say it's a lot.

Dalkey, with a population somewhere short of 10,000, currently has at least four coffee shops and a half-dozen pubs where you can also purchase the brewed bean. That hasn't stopped Starbucks from renovating a premises in the middle of the town, due to open some time soon going by the "Staff Wanted" notices. Personally I'm hoping that their general ( Read more... )

When you're "rollin'" with your "homie" in the shitty little car that is all you can afford because of the cost of insurance for young male drivers in this country (which cost is strongly contributed to by your behaviour in said car) and you decide to demonstrate that, despite its decrepitude, it's still a penis extension by doing one of those ( Read more... )

What happens if you print your bank details in a national newspaper? Also, I am amused to note that last year's much-publicised loss of UK citizen data happened while said data was en route to The National Audit Office. As jwz said not too long ago, " The universe tends towards maximum irony. Don't push it."

"Waaah! Waaah! I brought my iPhone abroad and racked up a $3,000 bill!" But the bit that really makes me laugh with schaedenfreude is this statement: I'm a web developer as part of my career and I couldn't even tell you how many KB the average web page is... You know, if you design websites for a living, it's kinda important that you know how much ( Read more... )

Someone was refused drink at my local last night. A young-ish girl (I'm thinking early twenties at best) who was obviously intoxicated when she arrived at the bar at about ten thirty or so - talking in an annoyingly loud voice to friends standing next to her and enunciating with the excessive caution of the I'm-not-really-drunk-honest. She was with ( Read more... )

Well, it was great to see France actually play well for most of the game, and there's always a certain guilty pleasure to seeing anyone not just beat, but trounce the English rugby team, but it does mean we're probably out of the running for the Six Nations championship barring some sort of miracle next weekend. On the plus side, if the English ( Read more... )

You will recall from here where I mention how our Eurovision contenders think they have the best song. hahahaha. Note the protest that it was on account of "block voting" that they failed, not because, you know, the entry sucked or anything.

I am highly amused at the people who were heralding Google's IPO as a doomed enterprise for the last couple of weeks. In particular, c|net and Andrew "THERE IS A CABAL AND IT HATES ME" Orlowski at The Register. I hope they all followed their own advice and didn't invest a cent in Google.

It's a sad thing to see people lose their jobs, but in a previous employment these are the people who sent me unrequested and unwanted copies of manuals no matter how often I asked them not to. If they'd only paid attention to me and, no doubt, other customers, they might not have had to engage in such dramatic cost-cutting.