It just keeps getting worse.
Australian customs officers have been given new powers to search incoming travellers’ laptops and mobile phones for pornography, a spokeswoman for the Australian sex industry says.
Thursday 20th May 2010
Saturday 01st May 2010
In what could be characterised as classic duopoly abuse, Woolworths supermarkets here in Australia have announced they will no longer honour Visa debit card requests. Ugh.
Thursday 22nd April 2010
Ladies and gentlemen, this evening it has come to my attention that I grievously forgot an event so epic in size and importance that I may be feeling the repercussions for many millennia to come, assuming my plan to live forever pans out. I forgot @Zombie_Plan’s Birthday.
Thursday 04th February 2010
Dear CNET Member: Get ready for this year’s big game by creating a new list on CNET, and enter to win a new LED TV in the Samsung Super Bowl Wish List Sweepstakes! [...]
SWEEPSTAKES OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AT LEAST 18 YEARS OR AGE OF MAJORITY IN STATE OF RESIDENCE AND OLDER ON DATE OF ENTRY. [...]
Dear CNET, I provided my location in my account profile with you, please don’t send me spam that doesn’t even relate to me. Sincerely, Ruben in Singapore and Australia.
This sort of thing happens to me all the time, and not just from CNET. How hard would it be to check a user’s provided country before sending them offers and competitions they’re not eligible for? One or two extra lines of code?
Sunday 20th December 2009
Wednesday 16th December 2009
It seems that fix for the Huawei USB SingTel Mobile modem I painstakingly detailed last week has stopped… fixing. Stopped working. Like a Monty Python parrot, it has ceased to exist. What’s worse is the error message is informing me I have to contact myself. Don’t they know talking to yourself is the first sign of madness? I mean, I talk to myself enough as it is.
Friday 04th December 2009
Damn straight Chanandler Bing, I didn’t want that page I wanted Google! Wonder if any data got Sidekicked?
To be fair Gmail was out again a few months ago too, so it’s just further proof that all this reliance on cloud computing whatnot is a problem.
Friday 20th November 2009
Dell’s profits are way down, and Microsoft makes a move that could scare beige box makers even more.
Thursday 05th November 2009
Another quick Optus fail to talk about this morning, this time to do with being disconnected after not paying a bill. Problem is, I did pay it! Budda-boom!
Tuesday 03rd November 2009
Presumably the agency Kaspersky Labs hired to plaster their advertising everywhere didn’t bother to do a user agent lookup when they presented me with this graphic. Unless they have a FreeBSD anti virus solution of which I’m not presently nor currently aware that I’d want to "Say G’Day to". I guess one could release such a product for users of Wine and Mono ;-).
I need to install AdBlock Plus in Firefox in this VM, or set up some Opera filters!
