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Listed below are comments made by ablackadder between Tuesday, 24th March 2009 and Wednesday, 2nd December 2009.

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RBS board to quit if chancellor vetoes £1.5bn in bonuses 4:00pm on 02 Dec 2009 Bye now. Mind the door on your way out.
Reading the Kindle 11:29am on 19 Oct 2009 I have 30 year old books that still 'work fine'. I don't have to worry about DRM, copyright, format - it's not like suddenly all my books will stop working because they are in the wrong format now.
The only way to get me to try e-books would be to make them ludicrously cheap - say when I bought a new 6pound paperback I got an e-copy somehow for an extra 50p - once I had reached a 'critical mass' I may switch over... or not, I don't know. If I leave a 5pound pbk on a train - no biggy - if I leave my 200pound reader - that also contains 1000pounds worth of other e-books on it, how do I get them back? Creates more problems than it solves.
Spinvox, we stand by our story 3:21pm on 29 Jul 2009 I have just read the patent application for the original service that has just been posted on your tech news site. How can this patent possibly have been granted???

I get a voice message. I type it. I send it as a txt message. Doh.

How is this different from my soon to be applied for patent for toast (since apparently you can 'patent' any old fool nonsense)... I take bread. I heat it over a flame. It turns into toast. Patent please.
The Facebook fizzle 1:39pm on 29 Jul 2009 I hardly think that the richest man in the world who presumably has better things to do and a "domestic goddess" (who, I believe is also a convicted criminal and therefore now an ex-convict - just thought I'd drop that in there for effect...) leaving Facebook hardly counts as an "exodus".

2 people leave Facebook - wow, stop the presses!
Green shoots in the music industry? 10:03am on 16 Jul 2009 The days of the the £15 CD are only over if you are buying pop rubbish. If you are interested in classical (perhaps less so), jazz, folk, etc - i.e. what is seen as 'unpopular music - you are still paying through the nose. I paid £19 for a new CD from an obscure (to most people) Australian Jazz/Blues guy from HMV last week. Which I resent, but it's the only time I ever saw it for sale, it's so obscure the guy's not even listed on itunes!
Discuss our English quiz 2:48pm on 24 Jun 2009 6 out of 7. I agree with the comments about the Charge of the Light Brigade. It certainly made me think of the 'sound and fury' of a charge. Though I did also have a vision of Errol Flyn in there somewhere too so also anyone who has seen a film can get these right too. I have never read Much Ado or any Jane Eyre - movies rule apparently.
Broadband - fast enough for you? 12:18pm on 27 May 2009 And here's me thinking I knew my bits from me bytes. Then I thought I understood it better and then I was confused again!
Anyhoo, I'm still agrieved about the whole 1024 thing that means your hard drive is never as big as you think it is.
Mind you the last time I had a connection at home I had a 56k modem (I'll just leave k so I don't mix up my K with my k) so even if it's not as fast as it could be, it still seems pretty fast in comparison to that.
Broadband - fast enough for you? 11:26am on 26 May 2009 After a long while without, I recently signed up with BT for broadband in Aberdeen.

They advertise 'up to 8mb'

When I 'test' my line using BT's own online tester it says I can get 'up to 6mb'.

However in a couple of months of use the fstest I have ever actually had is 800kb with the average being about 400kb. Which is fine for the use I make - If I need faster I use it at work where we go through the JANET academic network and speeds of 50mb + really happen.

This is in the city centre of the third largest city in Scotland.

The quoted rates are simple fantasy and I think there is a long long way to go until speeds actualy get anywhere close to what providers pretend they are now, let along the make believe speeds I see quoted in the press.
Google: Power and privacy 12:52pm on 20 May 2009 I am very in favour of Street View and am dissapointed that my street isn't on it. I am frustrated by the luddites that keep trying to erase bits of it in fits of pique.
As far as post 2 goes I don't see why 'city folk' are considered to have less privacy right than 'country folk' - if it's good enough for us then it's good enough for them also - after all you always have the zoom in google map, or multi-map or several others if you want to plan your break in and getaway of a country pile, Steet View is not the deciding factor!
My Street View of shame... 12:36pm on 24 Mar 2009 I can't see what the fuss about the images is? Year old still photos! Big Deal.

Start getting wound up about all the thousands of real time snoopy CCTV cameras and dodgy DNA databases first - they are the real threat.

If anybody has been caught in a 'compromising position' or throwing up due to being so drunk outside a pub - by Street View one has to think - serves you right for getting in that state in the first place.

Presumably anyone walking past at the same time could have seen it and if they so wished snapped a quick piccy on their phone and who cares?

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