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.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

No Guarantee

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About 18 months ago I bought a refurbished Dell from Gasteiner Technologies which came with their standard one year warranty . Last Friday ...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

The Mess That Is The Mobile Web

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I wanted to check an ebay auction on my mobile the other day. I typed in m.ebay.co.uk as the m subdomain seems to be the common mobile web ...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Technology Bites

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I received what looked like a piece of spam from one of my contacts today. I called him to check and sure enough he hadn't sent it. It s...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Fourth Time Lucky

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My HTC Touch HD is back at the repair shop. For the fourth time. Since HTC fixed the scratches, after much persuading, that were picked up f...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Flashing The HTC Touch HD

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Because I keep forgetting: Start Win7 in "allow unsigned drivers" mode. Turn off USB connectivity in ActiveSync. Start the phon...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

More Service From HTC

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Finally getting to the bottom of my HTC service woes. Actually spoke to the repair centre today, who claim that there is no way that my pho...
Monday, June 15, 2009

HTC Service: No Longer Funny

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So I sent my HTC Touch HD back for the third time a week ago. Usually by this point I have had about three emails giving me some useless, ...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Recommended Listening

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This year's ever excellent Reith Lectures began this morning on Radio 4. The first lecture, Markets and Morals is especially relevant ...
Friday, June 05, 2009

Scratches Without The Service

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I spoke too soon. Once I'd received my phone back for the second time, still scratched, I wasn't so happy with HTC's service. I...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Something That Sucks About news.bbc.co.uk

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I really like the BBC News site, but there is one aspect that completely sucks: search. First you type in your search terms, so far so good....
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