Tag Archives: rant

iPhone 2.0 — nightmare

I tried to upgrade to the new iPhone, I was up at 8am trying on the O2 store last week — it crashed, it was slow, and when I finally got to order there was absolutely no confirmation. Turns out I got a text yesterday saying that my order was received after stock ran out, […]

Yeast based cultural (ha pun!) assessments

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! I’m completely indifferent to marmite, or vegemite, although I quite like twiglets (which are nought but stale marmitey wotsits). I don’t love it or hate it. I do hate people who say “I’m like marmite me, you either love me or you hate me”, mainly because the sort of people who […]

Dial – a – rant

Mark Steadman, of the New Media Junkie podcast has had a great idea – and has just gone out and “f–ing done it” (his phrase). It’s Dial-a-rant – a free-by-skype (or normal call charge) answering machine. You phone up, vent your spleen, then go online to claim your bile. You’ve then got a direct link […]

It really is a lottery, that life business

You may have read about four parts of the UK being up for £50M of National Lottery funding – the catch being that they have to compete again on a ITV televised debate. Doesn’t that just seem wrong? We pay, or give the contact to, a large corporation in order for them to hire experts […]