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Rhymes with Hell

Dell!

At work, I bought a Dell Latitude X1 laptop for one of the managers in the London office. It lasted less than two weeks. It refuses to power up. Having completed the report fault on Dell’s website this is the message which appeared.

Looks like it’s not just their laptops that are pony.

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Do you want fries with that?

Anyone with a hint of IT knowledge would probably know that a MAC address has nothing to do with Apple’s Macintosh computers but stands for the Media Access Control address. They would definitely know that it is the unique serial number assigned at manufacture to wired and wireless network cards. No two network cards in [...]

Gater

I may have a penchant for the fantastic sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 but I hope to escape the obvious ravages of excessive fandom as evidenced in this photograph. Welcome to the organisers of “An Evening with Amanda Tapping.”

Scary!

Financial Abuse

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Mr. Clean

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Grays of Westminster

“The kind of service of which legends are made – Grays of Westminster.”

So their website proudly claims. SERVICE – MY ARSE!

Hello, I want to buy a digital SLR from you! I know it’s only £750 and that’s nothing to you but when you tell me you’ll ring back and let me know when [...]

Handle this baggage

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Blogs are good

This blogging stuff is good! It gets you in touch with people.

About a week after setting MovableType up on my server, I was e-mailed by a long lost fellow escapee from the Crown Prosecution Service, the inestimable, incomparable, witty and beautifully formed Ray Wagner.

The phrase “Great minds think alike” springs to mind, as [...]