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I need help

April 18, 2007 – 4:51 am

I need help. Okay, okay. I hear ya. Regular readers have been thinking that for ages.But I do need some help from you guys. Nothing too serious or difficult.
I’ve been lumped with doing a paper on the usability of Web 2.0 applications. In this context, Web 2.0 means Blogger, WordPress, Flikr, Feedburner etc. Get the [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Also posted in Blogs, Internet | Comments (19)

Pinned down and passed out

April 16, 2007 – 5:23 am

Everything has a password or a PIN* these days. I have PINs for bank cards, my house alarm (and three neighbours’ alarms), one to reset the car radio, a PIN and a PUK for my phone. I’ve go a PPN (which used to be a PRSI number), a student ID number and one for online [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Also posted in Banks, Commentary, Internet, Pet Hates | Comments (6)

The State of State eMail

March 23, 2007 – 7:03 am

Just read this reply to one of my last mails to a State/Semi-State body:
Dear Mr. ******

Thank you for contacting the Road Safety Authority. Your e-mail will be forwarded to the

appropriate person dealing with this matter and a response will be issued in due course.

Regards
*******
—–Original Message—–

From: *******

Sent: 22 March 2007 07:56

To: Info

Subject: Enquiry_from_Website

Hi there

Why is there [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Also posted in Commentary, Plonkers | Comments (3)

Cool new Add-on for Firefox

March 22, 2007 – 1:27 pm

This is goin’ to be great, lads! A new Add-on for Firefox users: A spell checker which runs while you are filling in forms. A must for all bloggers and blog-commenters. See the image below. It underlines incorrect spellings and with a right-click you get suggestions for corrections.
Eh, it doesn’t recognise Firefox, blog, and [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Also posted in Blogs | Comments (1)

Another Thick Support Call

March 22, 2007 – 9:13 am

I was sitting in the kitchen day dreaming of my up coming trip to Spud World when the phone rang. Ferdie. A neighbour not unlike the Pádraigh lad from a few weeks ago. At least Pádraigh has broadband. Ferdie reckons it’s too dear so the last time a crucial update was [...]

By Primal Sneeze | Also posted in Fun, Internet, Plonkers | Comments (0)

Thick support call

February 27, 2007 – 8:40 am

- Howya, Primal. Listen, that Internet ya put on the computer for me is useless.
- How so, Pádraigh?
- There’s nothing on it. You’ll have to come over here again and put a different Internet on it.
- There’s only one Internet, Pa. Settle for a minute. Tell me more. You were using Google [...]