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This one is absolutely priceless. I wish I had half the comic genius of this self-confessed prankster from Australia… Man tries to pay bill with spider drawing
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This one is absolutely priceless. I wish I had the comic genius of this self-confessed prankster from Australia… Man tries to pay bill with spider drawing
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I saw this spoof video referenced on a mailing list, I just love it. Some of the gags are a bit obvious, but the immortal Clippy makes a comeback appearance.
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This superficially amusing article about one customer’s experience with Lloyds Bank Plc actually raises a more interesting security issue. The BBC news article reports (emphasis mine): Lloyds TSB stressed there was no security lapse in this case. A spokesperson said: "On the majority of transactions...
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Reported by Roy, on the UPS Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system: “ Please say your telephone number, one digit at a time ”. I don’t know about you, but have you ever tried saying the digits all at once? I think we can see what they mean, but it wasn’t a very eloquent way of saying it.
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Move over Minesweeper! I received a link to this from my MVP lead and I'm hooked, despite the blatant advertising. The cleverly done retro-chic "plinky plonky" music, chunky graphics and office politics takes me straight back to the early 1980s, Sinclair Spectrum and BBC Micro (model "B"...
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Remember Clippy? Remember Office XP? It seems like the biggest selling point of Office XP is that Microsoft took away Clippy. Those office assistants were a pretty neat idea at the time, but are now regarded scornfully. How times change. I was cleaning up my hard drive today and stumbled across the story...
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I saw this on Sean Daniel's blog - classic. Have you ever wondered what Microsoft people get up to while they are waiting for their LiveMeeting to start?
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin. I've had fun migrating one particular company to a new server recently. It started out before Christmas as a simple redeployment swing migration, but what I didn't know when I started the job is that the old server had already been hastily recovered...
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There are three types of mathematicians. Those who can add up, and those who can't. To see which type you are, open Microsoft Excel 2007 and type this formula: =77.1*850 Now try the same thing on your pocket calculator or abacus. [ UPDATE 9 October ] Microsoft has issued a hotfix that resolves this...
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A funny thing happened today. I was installing AsteriskNow (a VOIP virtual PBX based on Linux) in a virtual machine within Virtual Server. I was viewing the virtual machine's console within the Virtual Server web application (using the VMRC component) from a remote machine. The Linux hardware detection...
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Susan B mentions Dean Calvert and his Vegemite Croissants and gives a link to where you can purchase the product, however I would like to propose that you try an alternative but similar product, Marmite . Don't think these products are equivalent - oh no, very different. Made from almost the same...
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Apple Safari for Windows: The world's slowest web browser - Joel on Software Joel Spolsky is someone whose writings I respect greatly, but I had to chuckle when I read Joel's latest blog post - it started well but then sort of got away from him. Despite the "blog first, think later"...
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There are only three types of people: those who can count and those who can't. According to LinkedIn. To be fair to LinkedIn, this condition only persisted for a few minutes. On a more serious note, I've been playing around with LinkedIn for a few months now and I'm finding it a lot more useful that...
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All is now revealed. This highly magnified interactive reveals what goes on beneath your mouse cursor. Don't forget to click!