Archive for July, 2005

Earth to bloggers, Earth calling bloggers

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

One thing that does piss me off a bit abot the whole blogosphere thing, is how many bloggers seem to think EVERYONE knows about blogs and reads them. When in reality it’s got a LONG way to go before blogging becomes as well known as email or the Internet as a whole.

Wine + Marketing + Blogs

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

OK, so I got one of Hugh’s Stormhoek wine samples as part of his blogger’s wine freebie. What can I say, I’m a sucker for free booze
I want to say something about the marketing exercise generally, but I guess I should mention the wine first if I’m going to talk about it [...]

Write a virus, get a slap on the wrists…..

Monday, July 11th, 2005

Well, that’s about all that happened to Sven Jaschan, the guy behind the Sasser and Netsky viruses.
Despite the proliferance of the worms, and amount of time and money it cost a lot of people, he’s been given an 21 month suspended jail sentence and 30hrs of community service.
Wow, I bet he regrets doing that [...]

Just what friends are for…

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

A friend, who’s the same age as me (well, about 6 months younger, not EXACTLY the same age) has just informed me that when the Olympics come to London (well done London by the way), I’ll be 30, and not far off 31.
What a wonderful thought Suddenly I’m not looking forward to them [...]

Cricket subs

Monday, July 4th, 2005

Time for one of my occasional cricketing posts, though this time not about my own playing (though I will mention the weekends games at the end ;)). In their infinite wisdom, the powers that be have decided to introduce football style subs into one day cricket.
The idea being, that you declare your starting XI, [...]

I agree…

Monday, July 4th, 2005

…Dell Sucks
I had so many problems with them over a server I bought last year, that I truely never want to deal with them again, and I always advise people not to buy from them. The response I got was along the lines of “screw you”, but obviously in much more polite terms. [...]

Dilbert rocks

Monday, July 4th, 2005

This is brilliant, really.