Jamie's Rants

rant verb (ranted, ranting) 1 intrans to talk in a loud, angry, pompous way. 2 tr & intr to declaim in a loud, pompous, self-important way. noun 1 loud, pompous, empty speech. 2 an angry tirade. ranter noun someone, especially a preacher, who rants. ranting noun, adj. rantingly adverb. ETYMOLOGY: 16c: from Dutch ranten to rave.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

www.supportonclick.com Scam Update

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Happened to find this brief, interesting description of what I believe to be the same computer support phone scam that was attempted on my ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Iris Browser / The Reason I Sold My iPhone

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When I first started this post, nearly a month ago, I wrote that Iris browser from Torch Mobile still feels a bit like a beta product. But...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

rssfwd Is Dead, Long Live rss2email

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I really like having the few RSS feeds that I follow forwarded to my inbox. For a long time I relied on the ever increasingly flaky rssfwd ....
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Mixing It Up

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Apologies for the long and tedious post, believe it or not it was requested. So back in August the company I work for was purchased by ano...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

A Literal Apology

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For literally years I have been internally mocking people who use "literally" with sayings that aren't literally true, eg, ...
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www.supportonclick.com Scam

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My mum had a call the other day from someone claiming to know that her computer was slow and/or had a virus. By unfortunate coincidence when...
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You Learn Something New Every Day

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I think I must have been off school the day we did the beginner's Unix class. I noticed some weirdness in my apache error logs today, ev...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Arsus

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As previously mentioned I bought my sister an eeePC last September, and within a couple of months the keyboard and trackpad started to fail...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Sweet SA

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My first impressions of South Africa might make me sound like a bit of an idiot, but so be it. For some reason I really wasn't expecti...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Oh FFS

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For a long time now I have been wondering why I can't login to my Nationwide account in linux. There's no error message, I am just r...
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