Topic: Rants

There's a rather misleading article on TGDaily about Apple's growth in hardware sales. Now I do not usually 'bash' a company, or stick blindly to them either, as I use Windows XP and Ubuntu at home, but I do not like the misrepresentation of facts.

Yesterday I found my eBay account was hacked, well done to the perpetrator, sadly he (or even she) did not manage to mess anything up. They tried to sell a couple of DVDs, but I managed to cancel them before any bids were made. So naturally, I thought I better sort out my accounts security.

When this site was first set up I allowed for unregistered users to comment on the site, and well you can guess what happened next... if you haven't got it by now, then I can spoil it for you: SPAM! I then decided to counter this with only allowing registered posts and the spam died down alongside actual comments. User activity is a problem that all sites have to deal with, as the administrator is faced with a problem: enable unregistered comments or posts and face a spam problem that makes global warming look like a minor inconvenience? Or just get no activity at all, because no one wants to register for anything.

Some people are just deluded I guess; whilst you will not find me giving Vista glowing praise, I just can not believe the rubbish other blogs and sites are coming out with. Take thisNews Blog post, on CNET.

There are a lot of sites on the internet about Tescopoly or generally are anti-Tesco or attack supermarkets in general. Now I personally do believe that a balance needs to be made and that local governments need to ask the populous on these issues, but some of these sites push people with a one sided story. One that, perhaps, intends makes people against the building of supermarkets in general. In addition, I believe some of these sites are incorrect, as they do not show the full story due to the vested interests of their supporters. Now, I feel some counter arguments need to set down.

Bah! This is a really annoying occurrence! Trust the mail service to go on strike just when you have a bunch of important letters to send and happen to have a few parcels on their way.

The html tag rel=”nofollow” is the subject to todays little rant. This has to be one of the most pointless aspects of HTML and something all search engines should ignore. The rel=”nofollow” HTML tag basically tells a search engine bot to ignore the link, so apart from a small about of traffic the link is pointless.

Ahh... the iPhone, can you even say something about it which has not already been said? The hype train keeps on streaming along, powered by a media that seems to love Apple more than themselves. A media which has basically split mp3 players into two types: an ipod or simply a mp3 player.

As you may or may not know, ESPN are covering the final table of the World Series of Poker right now. I paid my $20 to watch this event online, as I am a poker nut. Now there is no other live coverage of this event in England, so I have no choice but to watch the ESPN stream online.

I ranted earlier about Sony Ericsson being rather slow on their uptake of Windows Vista. Well it seems they have pulled their fingers out (nicely after I have dumped Vista.) Still their support is baffling...

If you ever want to know who the worst ISP in the UK is, then your answer is Tiscali. Just take a look at some of their reviews. Ok, I might have been exaggerating, but the fact is they are one of the worst ISPs in Britain -- and I am so glad to leave them!

According to an article from DailyTech, Intel like AMD, it also plans to open up its chipset platform technology. This move is a surprising one from Intel, whom have been guarding their platform for a long time. Intel will make moves toward integrating memory controllers directly onto processors, similar to the Athlon 64 and Opterons current setup; and, more interestingly, Intel plans on developing an alternative to AMD's HyperTransport which fuels Torrenza.