Rob Millar provides us with an excellent explanation of why the Royal Mail let the prosecution of so many postmasters happen when the organisation couldn’t believe1 that their new IT system was screwing up so badly: [Generally speaking,…], those at the bottom of an organisation have a fairly accurate view of what’s going on. They’re… Continue reading Thermocline of Truth
Month: July 2021
Missions season 2
Season 2 of BBC4’s French speculative fiction series Missions has popped up on iPlayer. I wish it hadn’t been so long since the first season aired (May 2018), because while I had a vague recollection of the show’s big plot points I’d almost entirely forgotten much about the characters and their relationships, which meant that… Continue reading Missions season 2
Rescue at sea
Part of me thinks it’s a shame that the RNLI didn’t increase the default preset donation figure on their web site’s donation page from £20 to £50, because they could have really cashed in after Nigel Farage’s comments this week as people reacted by rushing to the RNLI web site and looked for the quickest,… Continue reading Rescue at sea
Too much?
Optimist / Pessimist Glasses. Heh. [Via swissmiss]
In Pain
With hindsight, it’s so obvious… in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that was foreshadowing — soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) June 29, 2021 Nowadays they’re screaming just as hard (even louder, if anything), but by default we’ve muted that sound. Clever us. [Via RT by @BenHammersley]
The Road From Serfdom?
Steady on now, chaps… What has the world come to when the whims of noblemen no longer control the lives of the masses? We live in interesting times, to be sure. [Via MetaFilter]
So Wrong on so many levels
The article title says it all. How to Install Windows 3.1 on an iPad: Recently, we noticed FastCompany editor (and friend of How-To Geek) Harry McCracken on Twitter experimenting with running Windows 3.1 on an iPad. With his blessing, we’re about to explain how he pulled off this amazing feat. That poor, poor iPad. What… Continue reading So Wrong on so many levels