If Banks have the capacity to check your account balance for sufficient funds prior to letting you withdraw money from an ATM, why don’t they use the same technology to check your account balance for sufficient funds prior to accepting an automated debit request? Technically speaking, it wouldn’t be that difficult — it just requires […]
Duncan Riley has been doing a good job of trying to help the online newspapers stop naughty Google from stealing their precious content. As Duncan and others have pointed out regularly, preventing Google from profiting from their news is quite simple, it’s called Robots.txt and it’ll stop Google and other search engines dead in their […]
Well, yeah. They did. But the Aussies can’t blame the draw on that — and more than likely, they’ve used the same tactic themselves at some stage. They had plenty of opportunities to win the match and didn’t take them. They’re just looking for some else to blame…
Windows XP is the new DOS. A piece of legacy software which hangs around forever and elicits a “I had no idea companies still used XP” reaction from the new IT guy, twenty years after it was supposed to be replaced by something better.
Despite all the odds Australia has managed to lose the 1st Test. They didn’t technically lose of course, no, it was a draw, but they will feel like they’ve lost, and England, as they sit in their dressing rooms patting themselves on the back, will feel like they’ve won. Such is Cricket. When you’re on-top […]
The only thing that will save England from a great walloping in the 1st Test is if the heavens open and large buckets of water descend onto the ground in an disorderly fashion for a decent part of the 5th day. Not the prettiest way to save a Test match, but England has clearly decided it’s […]