Dr Deviant

Disappointingly underwhelmed by the introduction of apples new dohicky. It’s a big iPhone without the phone, or an expensive iPod touch… They could have done so much… Obviously they couldn’t blow the macbook air out of the water completely so they have taken a slow left hook at e-book readers… but it’s hardly the death nail for them either… So, what are you left with? A big iPhone and a hollow feeling inside

I dunno, maybe it’s worth the sofa surfing porn raid… you still have one hand free to pull yer keks up when the missus walks in, and there is no more squinting at a tiny screen, so it’s probably good for perving without the cloud of macular degeneration and the cost of surgery.

Phanbouy nirvana??? hmm… I think even the hardcore among us will be a little sad inside. I think that really it’s just a Newton version 2.

http://www.wired.com/news/images/full/newton_f.jpg

Maybe the third version will be better – you know, like the iPhone was.

So I read this today, and it amused me.

…are actually weakly genetic freaks and shouldn’t be allowed to breed.

But that also defines most Americans, French and people from Essex, but they seem to be allowed to breed. Another double standard perhaps?

I have had the bug to get a mac for several months now, but the price seemed to be a natural antibiotic. The next best thing… a hackintosh, but again the hardware compatibility means special buys, and you are not really going to save a lot… And some of the processes to convert your machine are VERY involved. Enter the Dell Mini 9 that I have. Apparently it’s a perfect match hardware wise (although I can’t use a 16GB SD card in the slot and my Mic is not working).
Continue reading Proud new owner of a hackbook mini

I am really starting to get pissed off with this whole “Women are hard done by” attitude going round at the moment.

I work for a large company that prides itself on being a “diverse and inclusive” employer, and even has a “Code of Conduct” for all employees that means you can get the sack if you are in any way ‘negatively discriminant’… positive discrimination though – that’s finer than the finest fine thing on a fine day in Fineville!!

So the company I work for, somehow managed to get a ‘womans’ network. Why? Are we no longer supporting our “Code of Conduct”? Or are women still so inadequate that they need support?

They probably get round the ‘Diversity’ issue by supporting pretty women, ugly women, fat women, skinny women and lesbians – and get round any ‘inclusion’ issues by “inviting” men to come along.

Or, are women playing on the “Code of Conduct” has the acronym “COC” so does not apply to them?

Because of the economic situation, our company also has the slogan “Spend company money like you would your own”… If this hypocrisy is allowed to continue, I’m gonna start buying shares in Brantano cuz it looks like we may be taking them over soon.

In this article on the Guardian website Barack Obama mentions his “disappointment” over the Scottish decision to release the pan-am bomber.

Poor diddums. There are a few points though that have aggravated me slightly.
Continue reading Poor old Barack

Apparently, according to the BBC, the gender pay gap in the city is ’shocking’.

Oh no, not this again.

I thought we had dealt with the annoying and completely irrelevant point of the pay gap for women. And blacks, and the disabled, and well, I thought we had been though the lot and fair-ificated it all… seems we are slacking again… but why? Are we all just sexists? Did we just do it all in the first place to shut everyone up, hoping no-one would check in the future? Or, is there a reason why women get paid less.
Continue reading Are we still sexists?

Yes, all 150 of you… you know who you are… well unless you’re all wearing burkas.
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Am I the only one disgusted about the release of a mass murderer?
Continue reading Compassionate leave?… from Jail? WTF

Or maybe they are the ultimate logicians – but they are still idiots. Even logic is not universally applicable in black and white.
Continue reading Java programmers are idiots

Now I’m the first to start on the rally, but I’m thinking he has been getting rather a large amount of unnecessary bad press. no, I’m not on drugs
Continue reading Brown is a knob, but…