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Nice products, but when I arrive at the collection counter and get ticket 160 I thought ‘great’ since they had just brought out number 157.
30 Minutes later I got the 36×40 cm piece of wood I needed to collect. It could of quite easily been in the self-service part, like the other 8 pieces of the small cabinet I was buying.
Needless to say I did not buy anything at the food counter which is ‘conveniently’ nearby.
Well, you transparent and crap prats, there are lots of nice furniture shops and I’ll go elsewhere next time.

This is war. And wars for the customers’ hearts and minds are won by ridicule, bad manners and SHOUTING!!! And, above all else, never give in to reality.
- The Register.

Cingular tries to patent selecting emoticons (:-O) on a mobile phone.
The worlds patent systems are really, really broken.

It’s Scary on the Tube..

Another interesting quote about recent events.

“I actually don’t blame the cop, this is what happens when the so-called leaders of societies see tragedy as opportunity to increase their control. They have hyped up their cops, put weapons in their hands and taken off the leashes, of course this is what happens.

We have spent generations teaching ourselves that a police state is not a safe, secure or free place. A police state is a terrorist organisation. The totally unjustifiable killing of Jean Charles de Menezes is either a warning to us all, or just the first name in what will be a long roll.”
- A Networked World.

“Consider the usenet as a kind of asynchronous network. Consider the participants as nodes that connect and disconnect at random. Now consider the result. The value has *NOT* increased along with the number of nodes. Instead, the SNR became very small, and my belief is that the current SNR is negative, at least on average. There is still some good information to be found in pockets, but there is plenty of misinformation, too, and *LOTS* of noise.
I think the decisive factor is that the fanatical propagators of misinformation must be aware (at some level) that they are fighting against reality–but their response is to shout louder and more frequently, simply repeating their misinformation. Are they hoping that lies repeated enough times will somehow become true? Or they just hope to bury the truth they hate?”
Very interesting.. From Slashdot, a post by ‘Shanen’

so now I know the name for all the emails I get because some scum spammers use my domain name as a source of forged reply addresses in their pathetic schemes. As this site puts it:
“Backscatter is a message you receive informing you that email you did not send was not delivered to someone you do not know.”
Perfect.. couldn´t have put it better myself.

And it looks like Prince Harry is no different, so what. Why do we let the press set the agenda this way? Who causes the offence? Harry with a dumb fancy-dress, or the Newspaper that puts a photo of it on the front cover? Why can’t the newspapers grow up?

Bill Gates thinks all people who think differently from him on Copyright are communists. Bill, you’re a prat.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Darn..

It will only make things worse...
Is it just me? Or is Blunkett really a bigger prat over privacy and the right to protest than the sycophantic tories?

But not on Microsoft´s terms, thanks.
I guess the marketing wonks had to corrupt fair trade eventually.