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Easter meanies

Tommorow is Good Friday, and strangely enough, its not a public holiday in Ireland.

Its what they call a Discretionary day, so businesses can “declare” it a day off for their staff, or not (like my employers). The Mrs works for a company that likes their employees, so she has tommorow off. I don’t. Which is rather rubbish, but not nearly as rubbish as being home in bed sick on a free day! Heh

So in the spirit of being mean for Easter, here’s some instructions on how to make an Easter Egg that no-one can retrieve

An ad campaign with no product?

Okay, wtf Microsoft?
Too much money, or are you just out to say that Apple is too expensive?

Their latest set of adverts (Here’s the one from last week), are pretty pointless.

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Order please

Hi,

My owners say you can order things on the internet. This is the internet right?

They’ve gone out to go do something called work. I don’t know what work is, I find sleeping in my basket too exhausting to do it away from home.
I’ve snuck onto the internet to place an order. 

I’d like a new tennis ball, some more squeeky toys (I like the ones that look like squirrels) and some more of those cow flavoured chew sticks.

Thanks,
Rooney 

PS. Please deliver them directly to the back yard.

Too good to be true – Damn you MS

A few days back,  I posted an advert from Microsoft where they sent a cute redhead out to go buy a laptop for less than $1000.

Just to make a point, the first store she visited was an Apple store. We didn’t see the inside of the store, and we didn’t see the prices, but it was made quite clear that it was very expensive.

CrunchGear dug up the truth about the participant, who turned out to be an actor (Lauren De Long).

Unfortunate Google Ad placement

Chrome vs Firefox

Oops. So is the way to speed up Firefox, by installing Google Chrome?

Macs are for Elitist people

Or, thats what Microsoft wants you to believe.

Check out this ad from Microsoft, which basically states that only rich, cool people can own a Mac. And only if you’re willing to lower your standards too.

Now I’m not saying that MS is right. Its like comparing apples and oranges.

MS write software, Apple write software AND make the hardware that its designed to run on.

Setting up a SixXS Tunnel in Mikrotik

I haven’t seen any working examples of configuration for setting up a SixXS tunnel on a Mikrotik, so here’s on that I’ve put together.
I’ve just done this, and had to figure alot of it out for myself.

There are a few assumptions:
1) You have a static IP Address
2) You already have a SixXS account, which has been validated, etc.
3) You have a device running Mikrotik RouterOS.
4) You have the ipv6 package installed and enabled

So, onto the nitty gritty…

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Well Hello, and a happy new year to you too!

Back. Still alive, barely.

Its been a crazy few months…
To sum it all up, we got married! Yeah, that sounds dramatic, but it did take 4 months. And then I was forced to spend a week on the beach in Mauritius. I can think of worse punishments

Anyways, thats the state of things, and I’m sure there’s more to come.
We’re looking for a new place to move into. This apartment is starting to feel a little small, so we spent the last few days searching for houses.
(And then we’ll finally ship over all the stuff that we left in South Africa)

Stay tuned! Who knows… I might even post an update this year!

Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

Whats is the point of having this at the end of your email signature?

If you have these sage words of advice, you probably have a stupid 10 line disclaimer about “if you’re not the intended recipient, please don’t read this email” nonsense too. At the end of the email. After you’ve read it.

Do people even realise that your little “legal” disclaimer has absolutely no power at all?
It means nothing. Email is not a legally binding medium, therefore, your email disclaimer means nothing, legally.

Hows this for a suggestion.
Don’t have the stupid legal disclaimer. Don’t have the stupid save the environment nonsense either. That way, when someone does need to print the email, your signature doesn’t take up another page of paper all for itself.

So, lets save a tree or two. Get rid of your excessively long and pointless Email signature.

Zombies, or something…

I’m not quite sure what to think of this one, so I’ll let you decide for yourself.
One of the stranger music videos I’ve seen in a while…

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