Tag: rant
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I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and configurable ways... and other times they just make me want to throw the keyboard out of the window.
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That's Not How Email Works, HSBC
A confusing letter from HSBC informed me that I've not been receiving their emails, and I have to change the email address they use to contact me. Except I've been receiving all of their emails just fine! The problem, it turns out, is that surveillance capitalism is now so-widespread that the bank cannot conceive that their own attempts to spy on their customers might not be 100% reliable...
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What's Wrong With Monopoly?
Monopoly enjoys cult status and a massive following the world over, yet it's one of the worst imaginable board games. In a long-promised blog post, Dan explains why he hates the world's most-popular game.
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Worst Weekend Of Cinema - Part 1
Dan goes to the cinema with Ruth and JTA, and they don't watch a film. However, they do have a good old complain.
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Hello, Facebook; Goodbye, Facebook
Inspired mostly by his experiences with Facebook over the last few weeks, Dan decides that it's time to hang up his Wall and quit. Goodbye, Facebook. There's also instructions in this post about how to keep in touch with him, if you've forgotten how to do that outside of repeatedly clicking "Poke" on his page.
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Facebook Annoyance Of The Day
(rambling, ranty; I saw something on Facebook that pissed me off, and ended up ranting about the whole social media scene - no offence meant, and I've deliberately picked no examples from anybody I know or care about)
It's not as bad as setting up a Facebook group to recover your friends' mobile numbers after losing … -
My New Pet Hate
I have a new pet hate.
A personal pet hate of mine for a long while has been that often, when I ask somebody for a screenshot to show me what's going wrong with some software they're using, they'll take a screenshot or two, then paste them into a Microsoft Word document, and then e-mail me … -
What Not To Do When You Lose Your Mobile
Maybe this is just a pet hate that is exclusively mine, but there's something that really gets on my nerves and it's happened under one of the two scenarios below at least three times within the last month. It's as if the very second you let people loose on social-networking site Facebook they immediately lose …