I've had my new sky hd box since around Christmas time last year. While the engineer was installing it he updated the software on it from:     = to:   = Now I've never had any problems with basic functions such as changing channels, rewinding etc up till now.  The new software is appauling. Don't get me wrong the functionality that the new software brings is a huge improvement over the previous version but usability is a nightmare. ...

Ok maybe the title is a little harsh? I hate spammers with a passion. If it’s not online drugs, it’s casinos or fake banking site phishing for details. I don’t usually write about the random junk I get but this email stuck out. Did you know Microsoft had a consumer award of which you can win a cool half mill? I don’t believe for one minute that anyone would take such a thing seriously? This reminds me of the 419 eater site which tempts me to setup a temp email address and fire something back to this...

My previous rant do you donate?, Seemed to get some people thinking.  I received several emails speculating that it's not  always obvious just how much we do actually take for granted. This is until someone, or something opens our eyes. Rant 1 : After a productive day at work and listening to a variety of different tunes for my upcoming Summer Mini Mix series and my next  funky house podcast I come home to find that my boiler has decided to pack in.  Lucky enough for me I have home care 400 which is a maintenance contract from Scottish Gas.  Upon...

Ever downloaded a podcast, thought hey that's good, think I'll subscribe? Every couple of weeks or so a new podcast is released and you enjoy the listening. It might not even be a podcast, could be a good cause, a blog article or even an opensource application your using. The above could be classed as products. Products take time, effort and dedication.  Think of all the blogs out there running on wordpress.  Out of all these blogs at what percent do you think they have donated back to wordpress?  A guess would be that it's a very low percentage....

Up until about 2 months ago my "free" BT Vault was running fine to the point that I started to do a little spring clean.  I was deleting zip files that were out dated or duplicated and noticing the amount of space I was using didn't go down. How odd. I sent an email to support, the "bot" replied with please state username, windows version blah blah blah.  I replied and to this day still have had nothing back. I decided to empty my vault, which you would of thought "hey it'll reset". How I was wrong....  No Files in my...

Why is it our government likes to spend a shed load of money on something and then less that 2 years later they pull the plug? Today it was confirmed that the Forth road bridge will be scrapping it's tolls in less that two weeks. However, only two years ago 4 million pounds was spent in putting in a new toll system to help with traffic flow. A whole £1 is the cost of the toll, which, when the toll has be banished where will they get the money for ongoing repairs etc?  Yeap you've guessed it, us. SNP...