Archive for October 2007

McFail

McDonalds just doesn’t seem to get it. In the UK, specifically London (and possibly elsewhere) they’ve just given all their "restaurants" a facelift, changing the colour and material from tacky red and yellow to what looks like green wood. Yes, they do look nicer – they don’t give you quite the cornea pain they used [...]

Posted at 22:20 on October 29th 2007, filed under Life, with 6 comments

MacUpdate

Sorry to steal the name of a fantastic Mac software site, but that’s what this post has to be. There’s been so much Apple stuff happening over the last few days that I haven’t written about.
Leopard was released last Friday, the 26th. People really seem to love it, with the exception of a few install [...]

Posted at 17:35 on October 28th 2007, filed under Mac, with one comment

Funny Twitter #639

It’s getting harder and harder to find stuff online that actually makes me smile to myself. This just showed up in a quick look at the public timeline on Twitter:
J’ai froid aux pieds… C’est où, le plugin “chaussettes chaudes” pour Firefox?
And yes, fine, I guess I am easily amused. Whatever…

Posted at 12:38 on October 28th 2007, filed under Random, with no comments yet

OiNK.cd Shut Down

More to come on this, but TorrentFreak and the BBC both have articles up already. Developing since about 8am UK time today.
A 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough was arrested on Tuesday morning.
The IT worker was led from his home in the town’s Grange Road and is being questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and infringement [...]

Posted at 12:17 on October 23rd 2007, filed under Life, Technology, with one comment

Screwed Up Sleep

A quick post on how ridiculous my daily sleeping schedule has become:

Wake up at 6:30 to get to school
Get home in the afternoon and sleep from about 6 until 11
Spend from eleven in the evening until about 2 or 3am doing all the stuff I should’ve been doing the rest of the time
Sleep from 3 [...]

Posted at 14:03 on October 15th 2007, filed under Life, with 2 comments