Category Archives: rants

Advanced Driving Techniques

Posted on Monday, 23rd Oct 2006 by Caz

I had to take a drive down to the main sorting office earlier on, to collect a parcel. It had a customs charge of £3.68 – fair enough – and a £4.00 “Royal Mail Administration Fee” on top. <rant> HOW … Continue reading →

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Gender Is Irrelevent

Posted on Monday, 31st Jul 2006 by Caz

I’m a regular reader of Roger Kondrat‘s blog, Technological Winter. Today, he posted about a recent conference called BlogHer ’06, organised by the BlogHer community – their website’s byeline is apprently “Where the women bloggers are”. I was very interested … Continue reading →

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Not So Plug-And-Play

Posted on Monday, 17th Jul 2006 by Caz

I’ve taken photos at a couple of events with my new Motorola L6, which I thought would be great to put on the blog. Once was at the recent Geeks Dinner the second was at the WSG London meeting. But … Continue reading →

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Man Versus Machine

Posted on Tuesday, 11th Jul 2006 by Caz

I hope I didn’t come across as arrogant in yesterday’s post about how much difference a good piece of equipment can make. That wasn’t my intention. But further reflection set me thinking that, in these days where consumers expect instant … Continue reading →

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Thick Squared

Posted on Friday, 7th Jul 2006 by Caz

Following on from my post on RugbyMad about how thick can you get (travel agents’ feedback from customers), I see The Register is running a poll for readers to decide who handled the most stupid help-desk call. There are some … Continue reading →

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