"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." Category Archives for Technology
Test-driving my Nokia N95
I recently switched from KPN to Vodafone to get a good deal on the Nokia N95. I’m terribly brand-loyal, but KPN aren’t the most happening provider around and they couldn’t offer me anything better than 370 euro. I picked up … Continue reading
Flickr wish
I wish there was a way on Flickr to upload a batch of photos temporarily, without them appearing in your photostream. So you can look at them, rotate them, whatever, and then tick off the ones you want to add … Continue reading
Vox, not the Bono way
Would love to have a go at VOX, now that I’ve learnt it allows for friends/family only blogging, as well as looking pretty. I’ve no idea what else it does, but there’s stuff I want to write about all the … Continue reading
Pixies stole my gmail
This morning when I tried to go to gmail at mail.google.com/mail, I got a 404 not found page. When I shortened the URL and tried mail.google.com, I got this pixyblog.com homepage. Some kind of freaky DNS problem? Where’s mah mail, … Continue reading
D.I.Y.
My Sony Ericsson k750i mobile phone started sucking its battery dry every eight hours or so. I only got it in December so I brought it back to KPN’s Primafoon shop where a woman asked me to hand it over. … Continue reading
When is a blog not a blog
Well, in any case, not when Joss Whedon decides it isn’t, dammit. Whedonesque.com was named ‘Blog of the week’ at The Times today and in the comments on the post announcing it, a number of our users ask why Whedonesque … Continue reading
Technorati bug
There should be some kind of filter when you are searching Technorati to weed out all the OMG!! WTF!! livejournal posts from your results. When I want to read people’s thoughts on Brokeback Mountain I’d like to find more articles … Continue reading
With my track record…
I ordered a laptop from Dell yesterday. Two hours after I ordered, I was reading the specs again and realised I’d foolishly got the Dutch version of XP. It annoys me no end that these sellers assume that since you’re … Continue reading
Features, dammit
Like, wow, you can record voice on your iPod and use it for interviews. If you buy an iTalk voice recorder, that is. Big fucking deal. I can just picture Jobs’ faithful audience clapping like seals for this ‘amazing’ new … Continue reading
