Posts Tagged ‘lameness’

Windows machine on fire?

Friday, July 23rd, 2004

Click to enlargeIn case you can’t quite make that out, it does say UNIX…
And yes, I’m sad. Instead of enjoying my holiday in Spain I was taking pictures of fire extinguishers. I’m very sorry.

But it does seem like the perfect solution to a “burning problem”…

Small things amuse small minds

Tuesday, April 20th, 2004


I’ve just reached the lowest of the low. My latest toy is “Gigi“, the (female) interactive help system for the National Lottery website. I’m afraid that saying that “You can talk to me as you would a real person” was just asking for trouble.

“Language like that is not appreciated. I’m here to answer questions about The National Lottery.”
“Hey, let’s try to keep it professional here.”
“Stop that!”

It’s amazing the words she’s been programmed to recognise…
She also claims that “I’m learning new things all the time from the questions you ask” so that should be interesting.

But then any company who locks me out of their website because I’ve got an “Incompatible Browser” deserves everything they get.

C[r]ash Machine

Monday, March 22nd, 2004


Who still runs Windows 95? Cash machines apparently.

I know the image is a bit hard to make out, but its the best my crap phone can do in crap light.
You’ll also notice that, quite appropriately I think, a bird has crapped on it :-)

This is a cash machine on Manchester’s Oxford Road this afternoon, although it has apparently been like that for a few months.

Oh the wonders of modern technology.