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I like trucking

I read with amusement/disbelief this article on The Daily Mash today.
Satire - yes. Factual - possibly.
Still, £42k for driving a truck does seem rather high compared to other jobs requiring more skill, more responsibility and better education.
I think that at the rate these people get pay rises, I’ll be able to retire from capital markets [...]

Stupid XP

Something strange happened at work. I locked my screen (XP) whilst taking a trip to powder my nose and when I came back, tried to unlock.
Invalid password. Tried again. Invalid password. Third time, typing very carefully. Invalid password, and by this time, my account was locked.
It turns out that my input method had switched to [...]

Lock up your sons!

This year is a leap year and today, February 29, is the traditional day for women to propose marriage to men.
So if you’re a confirmed bachelor, maybe it’s best to stay at home today.

Printer Maintenance

Tomorrow, wife and I are going to Barcelona for the weekend, so like many people, I decided to print out my lastminute.com e-ticket and hotel vouchers. Nothing unusual there.
However, the printer started to make some very weird noises, screwed up the paper and eventually completely jammed. I could see bits of paper jammed in the [...]

Lottery

I was looking at the list of unclaimed prizes on the UK National Lottery web site and amazed that someone in Devon has failed to claim £6,989,367.40 !
The end date for claim is 26 March 2008. I wouldn’t want to be that person if I discovered it was my ticket on the 27th.

Numbers … but not many

Recently, Apple introduced iWork ‘08, an upgrade to the ‘office productivity’ suite they provide. The big news here is that they finally introduced a modern spreadsheet product, Numbers to replace the aging AppleWorks.
Now the first thing I did with Numbers is see if it bests Excel on one of its stupidest ‘features,’ namely, Excel can [...]

Jobs on Java on iPhone

At the Ultimate iPhone FAQs List, Part 2, Jobs apparently says:

Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.

I wonder if he was referring specifically to the iPhone or more generally… and if he’d stopped taking his dried frog pills?