Archive For February 17th, 2004
So, TodayFM have a competition to name as many “things” as possible in 15 seconds. Most people don’t get more than 10, some are lucky with 12 or 14. What happens when you ask an Irish woman to name as many alcoholic drinks as possible in 15 seconds? She gets 30..
It looks like Microsoft went after Linux kernel downloaders. Unintentionally perhaps, but there was a lot of users looking for the Windows source code, so perhaps Microsoft were desperate. Like the original author, I also wonder why nobody figured out how to break open a partially downloaded tar.bz2 file within 3 to 4 days..
On the advice of a friend last December (Thanks Wendy!) I signed up to VarTec, a company offering cheaper phone calls from land lines. I got the first bill yesterday morning and I’m very impressed. A 28 minute call to Madrid only cost me €1.85! A 47 minute call to a mobile cost me just [...]
