Monthly Archives: March 2010

trust google!

March 31, 2010 – 9:17 am

Now I’m confused. I’ve decided to switch to Chrome as my primary browser – I’ll still use Firefox as my main development browser but all the diagnostic tools I use do slow it down a bit, so I’m after something a bit snappier for general browsing. But today when I tried to load Gmail, I [...]

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the inefficiency filter

March 25, 2010 – 4:47 pm

It’s like there’s some sort of inefficiency filter built into microsoft products! Here I am frittering away my afternoon with html display differences between Outlook 2004 and Outlook 2007. I can’t reproduce the problems so I ask my client to send a screengrab… it arrives: 9.7Mb! a screengrab!! Just out of curiosity, I took a [...]

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microsoft larfs

March 10, 2010 – 1:01 pm

Having kicked off a mac vs. pc flame war on work’s IT mailing list this morning, I was delighted to see the following irony play out on screen. As the good folk debated the weight of downloads and updates, Microsoft AutoUpdate launched and proceeded to tell me I needed 150Mb. of sealing wax to plug [...]

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taking back the tubes

March 8, 2010 – 3:02 pm

A short while ago, I posted about my frustration with imrworldwide.com, a site that seemed to be slowing my browsing experience. After a little investigation, I realised that this was no more than a market research company’s “spyware”, javascripts that serve no purpose other than to track and report on my movements. They certainly don’t [...]

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