Category Archives: Technology

Etrawler Ltd owner of Car Trawler and Argus Carhire.com could learn a lot from Easycar!

The letter wants me to remove a comment by a user calling himself Timmythedog on my post about issues I had with car rental company Easycar. The comment says: You need to pick and choose – we’ve never had a … Continue reading

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Testing QuickPress

You can now post quick blog posts from within the Dashboard of your WordPress 2.7 blog – (un)fortunately not restricted to 140 characters!

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Worldwide Telescope launches half-baked!

Microsoft launched their much-hyped WorldWide Telescope this morning. The application has a lot of promise as an educational tool, in that it can make astronomy fun and engaging. First off, there is no Mac version. Boo! For this reason alone, … Continue reading

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Circuit City needs to stop insulting customers

I’m in Las Vegas for the EnergyCamp conference. I had a couple of hours today so I decided to check out the local Electronics stores. When I went into the Circuit City store I was approached by a member of … Continue reading

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Friendfeed now on Twhirl

Friendfeed is a very cool site which aggregates all your rss feeds onto one page. This is cool because I contribute to 6 blogs and numerous other sites (Ma.gnolia, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) often automatically without ever visiting the sites … Continue reading

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PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 14): 550 Email blocked by ORDB

My incoming email was unusually quiet yesterday morning. Great, I thought, I’ll get some work done! However, later in the morning I realised that anyone tryint to send me email was receiving the following error: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 14): … Continue reading

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