Posts by Chris Young

I switched ...

... from a BB Storm to an Android Galaxy about a year ago, and I still miss BBM. It just 'works',* I can put it no better than that.

* occasional outage excepted, of course - before some smartarse feels compelled to point this out.

Their customer website ...

... truly is a pile of pants. Sorry, I can think of no better description for it.

It is so bad, in my experience, as to be virtually unusable.

Excellent

Cracking article, well done. I'd love to see the face of a senior RBS manager while reading this. Horrified, annoyed, furious ... all thw while knowing there is more than an element of truth to it.

This is possibly the one and only time that I'll say I'm glad I bank with HSBC ...

Rather sad ...

... that you choose to mention how much oil was spilt, but no mention of the number of men that died on that horrendous night.

A rather typical fate for those that die in the maritime or offshore industry, unfortunately.

The only bit that surprises me ...

... is that anyone still buys the News of The World.

Lots of people will claim to be shocked, outraged even. But they'll keep buying the rag.

I personally wouldn't even use a copy as a substitute for toilet paper, no matter how desperate I was ...

I probably shouldn't ...

... rise to the bait, but ...

These Lulz kids really are a bunch of F*cking Retards. What the f*ck do they teach in schools these days? Anything?

( ... and yes, I know that once you use the 'F' word you lose the argument, but what the hell. It made me feel better, momentarily)

What the ...

Good God, I'll admit I've listened to some shite n my time, but that is truly f**king awful. I'd heard of it, but never actually listened to it.

I won't be making that mistake again ...

Finally ...

... the reason I've been looking for to persuade SWMBO of the need for a console.

I shall end the week a happy man ...

Can't think of one

Sounds like a basket of sour grapefruits to me ...

Wikileaks

I'm with those that think Wikileaks have crossed a line over recent months, and especially now. From all the 'downvoting' this clearly isn't a popular position, but I suspect there are a lot of Daily Mail readers in here today.

While we may not like everything our governments do, at least in this part of the World we have the opportunity to say so, publicly. That is democracy, and we should all be thankful for it.

What Wikileaks is doing nowadays is not helping this process at all, it's merely self-serving publicity for a site that used to do good work, but is now short of cash.

If I was Assange, I'd be avoiding dark alleyways, and rightly so. He is playing dangerous games with the very same democratic process that he will no doubt hope will protect him from harm.

IMHO.

@ James Hughes 1

Just because you haven't got much money doesn't mean you need to behave (and look) like a retard, so he has a valid point.

I've seen the same kind of thing as Andrew, and it's not pleasant. The EasyJet queue is often much the same ( I know, because I'm frequently standing in it), but not quite like the RyanAir rabble.

Personally, I subscribe to the "if you don't like 'em, don't use 'em" school of thought. I will NEVER fly Ryan Air, a bit like I never buy fuel in a supermarket. Principles.

It's why I haven't seen my brother who lives in Sweden for years - I can't afford to pay what BA charge, and I won't use RyanAir. SqueezyJet are about to start flying the route though :-)

"Most people have only ever used webmail..."

Really?

I propose ...

... A prize to the commentard that can come up with the title of the film in question. I intend to 'research', but not from my office PC.

Mine's the one with the sticky tissues in the pocket.

Tilly Newman

Am I the only one to have spotted that Tilly Newman is really quite cute - apart from the fact that she reads The Mail, thus rendering her out-of-bounds for me?

I'll get my coat ...

Serves them right

Any British person that goes to live in Israel deserves all they get - having their identity stolen should be the least of the troubles visited upon them. Especially if they then choose to adopt dual-nationality in a country that shouldn't even exist.

They are probably lucky that Mossad didn't just bump them off to stop them whingeing.

Friends ...

"The fact that it was done by a friend ..."

Perhaps this might show the UK government that they should perhaps pick their "friends" a little more carefully.

To think that the country of which I am a tax-paying citizen regards Israel as a "friend" is more than a little galling.

Surely ...

If you're that worried about it becoming public, don't put it on Facebook. I really don't understand the issue here.

CrapBerry

Let's hope it's an improvement on the CrapBerry MKI. I've been lumbered with one of these for nearly a year now, and only in the last month or so have the software updates made the thing anymore use than a paperweight - albeit a paperweight with a battery that goes flat alarmingly quickly.

I'm not tempted, and my MKI effort will be going in the bin when my contract is up ...

P.S. On Vodafones contract, you can't even watch any educational Internet smut without paying Vodafone another £1, "to prove you're 18". Bloody cheek. Or so I've read ...

@ "the superior product"

WHAT? I used (or tried to use) Sage for my self-employed accounts, and it was a complete pig for a non bean-counter type like myself ... then I read an article on El Reg about Microsoft Accounting, installed it, and very soon uninstalled Sage and never looked back.

Microsoft ACcounting had a definite place for some people, and was/is much more reliable and easier to maintain. I shall miss it.

The one thing about all this that I think is a little unfair is the short notice that Microsoft have given to users of the product.

@ Andy Morrell

Smartarse ....

The guys name is (sorry, was) Sun.

You owe El Reg an apology :-)

@ David W

I couldn't have put it better myself

other peoples children ...

speaking as someone who earns some of my living from selling photographs, if he took pictures of someone elses child, without seeking at the very least a nod of consent, it's hardly surprising that he got into trouble.

He's either impossibly naive, or stupid.

... award-winning customer service

"It's good news for our customers who will increasingly benefit from a group that has consistently championed best value and award-winning customer service."

Has Mary Turner been drinking?

I think we should be told.

Lucky b**tards ..

at least they bother to lube the rails in London. On the trains around the MiseryRail network up here, they can't be arsed, so we all get to go deaf as we trundle through the tunnel loop, stuck to our chewing-gum covered seats.

Mind you, they frequently can't be arsed running the trains either, especially on the Wirral Line, so that tends to keep the noise down a bit.

Her Ladyship, because even she could run a rail service better than MerseyRail, and she certainly wouldn't be tight with the lube ...

anti mS

Will there ever come a day when the anti-MS fucktards will shut up? Fuck me, you lot are boring. Tha same drivel in the comments to any article that dares use the word Microsoft.

news or advert ...

how much did DiskLabs pay for this "article" then?

I work for Headland Media, maybe I coukd think up something interesting about our maritime news services that could qualify as a "news story".

I'll get my coat ...

F**king iPods

The iPod truly is the audio tool of the devil. If I could ban one item of modern life, it would be the f**king iPod.

As a poor sap that has to travel into work every day on Liverpools MiseryRail network, I can atest that there is very little of the 'personal' about the stereo from one of these devices. Why the fuck can't they design a pair of earplugs that keep the sound in the ear, rather than annoying the crap out of anyone within 20 feet?

I truly, truly hate the iPod.

{Rant over}

@ Martin H

I would alter that slightly to ...

"Anyone who uses Facebook deserves to have their PC taken away."

Moorcroft ..

You don't want to get on the wrong end of them. I had a 'run-in' with BT, who passed the debt to Moorcroft, despite having told me that they had cancelled the debt. Not pleasant.

It makes you wonder who would would want to work in a place like that, and if the rest of the staff are there on sufferance because it's all they can get, no wonder the business is so crap. They reduced an ex of mine to tears once, over a debt that had already been paid.

One of my small pleasures in life is knowing that I once got a debt collector (not from Moorcrofts, sadly) fired, because he phoned my house one afternoon and discussed the full details of my apparent inabilities to pay my bills with our cleaning lady!

B**tards, the lot of 'em.

*Mines the one with the CCJ's tucked in the pocket.

Never mind carpetbombing ...

... try visiting a page on MSDN. If it renders many pages as badly as it does the MSDN site, most people will never use it enough to suffer an attack.

Paris, because at least her misrenderings are kinda cute.

@ dervheid

"But the sad git still hates diesel!"

... and he's right.

Diesel sportscars - the bastard offspring of Jeremy Beadle& Noel Edmonds. I'll take my Vrs without the shower of black-soot, thank you :-)

Paris, because she prefers a decent ride.

@ GettinSadda

and of course every small business has its own web server these days

Develop a rival ...

Time to develop a rival UK service, I think.

I might call it "Twatter", and have people put a little "Twat Me" button on the bottom of their blog posts.

Paris, for obvious reasons ...

Vista SP1 Blue Screen of Death

the chap sat opposite me was fed a breakfast of Vista SP1 first thing on Monday morning ... by elevenses time he was sat looking at a Blue Screen of Death ... first one I've seen in a good while.

His PC is now healthy again, but only because he was able to remove the SP1 update.

Think I'll stay with XP, for now anyway.

@bluesxman

reading your comment makes me think that perhaps Nike should call the trainnees (as they apparently call them around here) the "Nike ShitStabbers".

As this probably won't make it past the El Reg censors, I'll just get my coat and leave quietly ...

Thats rich ...

" .... video or software pirates ... "

For Ryanair to accuse anyone else of being a "pirate" is frankly unbelievable.

Paris, because even she couldn't afford a ride with Michael O'Leary

Oh No ....

... and there I was planning to start a Facebook group for plods that had managed to arrest/harass/embarrass an innocent snapper.

Still for sale?

Business.com appears to still be for sale ... or for sale again perhaps.

And to think I was chuffed at getting $900 for a speculatively registered domain name.

(Note to self: Must Try Harder)