Posts Tagged as ‘computers’

September 6, 2008

I am NOT a Luddite (Honest)

Reading through my past few posts I can see that I come over as being one of those boring old people who like to say “things were so much better in the old days”.  Which old days were these exactly?  The time of the Black Death or the Dark Ages, perhaps?
This is definitely not the case [...]

September 3, 2008

Islamic IT Irony

Well, literally 15 minutes after making that last post (and I do mean literally – there’s nothing that irritates me more than people who use the word literally when they don’t mean literally as in “that curry was literally hotter than the sun”.  Of course it wasn’t, you pillock. [Actually there is one thing that [...]

September 3, 2008

A Bad Workman Blaming His Tools

You may have noticed that in my first posting, the formatting was all screwed up at the bottom.  This is not my fault.  It is my computer’s.  Actually that’s not true.  It’s Egypt’s fault.
My computer is Latvian by birth.  And a difficult birth it had too, and it’s all my fault.
I had a bit of [...]