Robert Peston on why Vista is evil
Give me back my weekend. I bought a new Windows Vista laptop – and that’s when the trouble began.
My dislike of your new user interface you can put down to the conservatism that comes with advancing years. However having loyally stuck by the galumphing, unaesthetic functionality of your operating systems over the past 15 years, while faced with ridicule from pretentious Mac-loving types, I resent your attempt at an elegance transplant.
But what really grates is that your system is incompatible with two of the vital tools of my trade. Vista refuses to load the software for my newish Olympus digital recorder. And here’s what takes the biscuit. Vista rejects my HP IPAQ handheld device – even though the software for that was created by Microsoft!
So in order to put Vista at the centre of what I do, I would have to buy hundreds of pounds of new hardware. Which may be great news for your industry, but makes me regret never having defected to Steve Jobs. Perhaps now’s the time.
Charlie Brooker on why he hates Macs:
“I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui….repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it”
More here including a ‘review’ of the latest ad campaign…
Spidey
Was just checking out Mark’s blog and same he is the Iron Man. So hey it’s a meme and it’s the new year. Turns out I am spidey.
Your results:
You are Spider-Man
| You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. |
Free iPod from carphonewarehouse
I think someone made a mistake. Free iPods for all at carphonewarehouse.
I never realised…
You can do a vanity search on your flickr image use. “originally uploaded by 8lettersuk“
AOL Pictures
Techcrunch is bemoaning AOL Pictures relaunch. I think they are missing something though.
Flickr, photobucket, bubbleshare and others may well look slicker and have more intuitive UI but they simply do not have the userbase potential AOL has from the start.
You simply wouldn’t get the gems shown here on bubbleshare et al.
Not to mention the people who simply don’t get the point of tags.
love u mum we always miss ya is not a tag!
26 Countries (11%)
create your own visited countries map
So it looks like I’ve added a couple since last time.
wee mee spreads like wildfire
My buddy list has been over run recently with wee mee’s from http://aim.weeworld.com and it’s amazing how similar some people look. Not sure you can see here but three of the girls (fuzzed for privacy) look identical in their wee mee’s!
friday humour NSFW
Well it might be safe for work – depends where you work really anyway here it is.
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