20100602 I deleted my Facebook account

I just read that past Monday was “Quit Facebook Day“. Bad timing guys, it was Bank Holiday here in the UK, and I’m pretty sure people spend more time browsing Facebook while they are in the office that when they are holidaying. So come the first of June, and no one remembers about promises for [...]

20090528 Seven: not Apple’s lucky number

My laptop is running Mac OS X 10.5.7 –i.e., the seventh revision of their overhyped operating system– and Apple still doesn’t know how to deal with network issues properly. If it’s not the dreaded “Your wireless network has been compromised” error, it will be this new and absurd behaviour: you close your laptop’s lid, leave [...]

20090222 WGA notification tool… why?

Much to my dislike, there’s still some software which doesn’t work yet with Linux, either natively or using the fabulous Wine, so for those cases where I still need to use win32 software, I use VirtualBox and a virtual machine running Windows XP. My copy of XP is registered; I payed for it simply to [...]

20090211 From Pipex to Be (via BT)

2004: Bulldog When we moved to our first flat, we signed up for a DSL connection with Bulldog. It was really good: reliable connection, the corporate image was quite decent, and the online clients area (the lounge, as they called it) was usable. Since then, several disastrous things happened with Bulldog. It was first sold [...]

20080122 Truly irritating: “Your Wireless network has been compromised”

Believe it or not, here’s yet another stupid feature of Leopard! Whenever it decides it’s a good moment to stop your workflow, a little window will pop up and tell you that because your wireless network has been compromised, it will be disabled for a minute. What it doesn’t tell is that it won’t connect [...]