Mobile Data Use
Posted: Wed 7 January, 2009 Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, Geeky Leave a comment »It being a month (give or take) since I got the new phone and unlimited mobile data, I got the bill today from O2.
Just in that first month, I’ve used something like 8Mb of online data all told, which would’ve cost me some £3 per Mb or so. (It’s hard to tell for sure, as they’ve changed the tariff to be ‘Up to £1 per day’ instead of ‘£x per Mb’, but I remember it being about £3 per Mb last time I looked)
Either way though, the ‘unlimited’ browsing bolt-on looks like it will be a good plan all round.
The film wishlist
Posted: Tue 6 January, 2009 Filed under: Geeky Leave a comment »Currently, 2009 is looking like it’ll have a fair number of films that I want to see. At the moment, the list looks like this (in no particular order, except how I remember them) with links to the trailer sites:
- The Wrestler
- Terminator:Salvation
- Transformers 2:Revenge of the Fallen (no trailer as yet)
- Nine (or 9, if you prefer)
- Knowing
- Watchmen
- X-Men Origins : Wolverine
- The International (and wouldn’t Clive Owen make for an interesting Doctor Who at some point?)
- Let The Right One In (although I’m a bit dubious on this one, the book’s good but weird, so I’m not convinced on the film yet)
Yes, there’s some right rubbish in there (Transformers 2 and Wolverine, as examples) but well, I’m not proud, I know I’ve got ropy taste in films sometimes. Sometimes though I just want brainless entertainment rather than high-brow intellectual matter.
There are countless numbers I don’t want to see as well (Angels and Demons, I’m looking at you here), but I can’t be arsed to list those.
Mind you, it’s also interesting to compare it with the list of the films Hollywood hope you’ll be watching to make them a profit…
Badly Written
Posted: Mon 29 December, 2008 Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky, News, Weirdness 1 Comment »I guess someone at the BBC is trying to see what they can get past people on a slow week.
In this story about new British stamps for 2009, there’s the following paragraph…
Later sets will feature mythical creatures such as mermaids, post boxes, eminent Britons, Royal Naval uniforms and the fire service.
Hmmm, eminent Britons are mythical creatures?
Social-Engineering Spam
Posted: Wed 17 December, 2008 Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky 1 Comment »
Over the last few days, I’ve noticed a resurgence of spam email – but this time the email subjects are quite clever.
Bearing in mind the closeness of the Festering Season, it strikes me as an intelligent move to have email subjects such as “Order details” (and various mis-spellings thereof) and “Your account was blocked!”. At this time of year, it’s subject lines like this that will make people click on the emails, and then (possibly) on the links in those emails.
Of course, it’s still dead easy to spot spam mails – not least because they come from sites you’ve never ever visited – and even easier to type the address yourself into the web browser, rather than following any link from an email, but that’s something that requires awareness. (And as we all know, that lack of awareness is exactly why some people do fall victim to these emails, spams, and scams)
But all the same, I can be slightly more understanding if someone were to click on an email saying “Order details” and then click through links than if the email subject were, for example, something like “Its workss!” (another one I’ve had a lot of recently)
In The Cloud(s)
Posted: Wed 29 October, 2008 Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky 2 Comments »Is it just me, or does all the guff about “Cloud Computing” just sound like all the old thin-client and server stuff, updated for t’internet?
Maybe I’m a Luddite of sorts, but I have to say, I prefer my data to be somewhere I can control – not in the hands of Google, Microsoft, Amazon et al. If I want my data available “whenever, wherever”, I’ll put it on a USB stick/drive, and use it that way, thanks.
That’s all.