Category Archives: annoyances

I’m Pirating the Next Version of Windows

Justin Cunningham writes what I think a lot of people experience: It takes less time than to buy it, I don’t have to deal with the broken Live login system, and the BitTorrent downloads are faster. I only know this because I had to download an ISO after one of my discs became unreadable, and [...]

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The delivery notice part 2

Some good news with this saga! TNT admitted the package was “Lost In Transport” to Apple. So Apple are seeing to it that I get a new Apple TV shipped out to me again. Now I hope that they manage to find the building this time. There are some lessons to take out of this [...]

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Being invasive

Today I installed Skype. It has been a long time since I’ve last used it, but I needed it for work. All I can say now is what a bad experience. Firstly the sign up page was not compatible with Chrome. It’s a major browser now so I would think they’d test it! The unfortunate [...]

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jQuery – Getting two clicks for one

In my time with jQuery I’ve run across occasions where an event gets called twice instead of once. This is really annoying if you’re doing a click event which toggles two states. The reason this happens is the event appears to bind twice. Hence you’ll get the double execution. There’s a simple way to resolve [...]

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(warning, man leg) Astroturf vs my shin

OWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Pain in beautiful straight astroturf lines. And then to rub it in we lost indoor as well! :(

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Not sleeping early tonight…

Have you ever been so tired but forced yourself to stay awake? I’ve done it tonight. Another fantastic decision, clasping the vapours of awesome. You get to a point where you’re so tired. But you persevere. It’s an achievement to break through that barrier. Yet it has bonus round as result. Crossing this finish line [...]

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There’s something about Wednesday’s

I swear there seems to be way more people out on the roads on a Wednesday. I don’t know why. I’m not even sure it’s true. Maybe they’re playing games with me. Today I finished work around my usual time. So we have a casual stroll out to the car park. Outside looks fine. There’s [...]

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