Tag Archives: technology

What did we do before t’internet?

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Carps

In your face, Garage Man Following last weeks’ hilarious car crash, I found myself the owner a car with a great big fucking hole in it. Now I’m interested in doing almost anything I can to avoid paying the insurance … Continue reading →

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Broadband Tax. A predictable “no!” from me.

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Carps

My boss blogged approvingly about the proposed broadband tax. Predictably (for those who know me) I think the idea sucks. Continue reading →

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Whose Information?

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Carps

Me and Dave were talking the other about how ‘privacy’ is an almost laughable conceit these days. Continue reading →

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5 reasons that newspapers will die

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Carps

I was reading a post over on Daggle about newspapers bleating about their dying business model. It reminded me of some special-interest pleading from the hateful ideologue Polly Toynbee in the Guardian. Continue reading →

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When is a standard not a standard? When it’s XHTML.

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Carps

You’ll hear a lot of chest-beating from some quarters about how they develop ‘standards-compliant’ HTML or CSS code. The really clever ones up the ante by saying that what they produce is XHTML, on the basis that HTML is a subset of XML and the HTML is structured that it will allow an XML parser to read it without error and that means you can stick an X in front Continue reading →

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