I’ve owned (and sold) just about every computer Apple has made since 2000. My current weapon of choice is the MacBook Pro. It’s the only solution when you need a bit of oomph but you also need to take it with you (I’ve tried but a Mac Pro won’t fit in my rucksack no matter [...]
Archive for the ‘Rant’ Category
February 15, 2011
2011 MacBook Pro update. Apple – please ditch the optical drive!
By benfrain in Rant, Tech-tipNovember 27, 2009
Windows 7 WASN’T my idea!
By benfrain in RantWarning: this post contains some profanity (sorry Mum). I’ll admit it, I initially thought Windows 7 was OK. In fact, fairly decent. However, the m0re I’ve used it, the more it has disappointed me. Windows it seems, regardless of the version number, will always be Windows… At first it was all zippy menus and I [...]
June 22, 2009
Proof: The Americans won World War 2!
By benfrain in RantIt’s a deliberately inflammatory post title but I can’t be the only person getting a little fed up with the dominance of Americans in any modern media relating to World War II. Take a look at this, a trailer for ‘The Pacific’, the latest HBO TV series from the Spielberg and Hanks stable (Saving Private [...]
April 15, 2009
Google Street View and the erosion of freedom
By benfrain in Personal, RantDoes it surprise anyone that a government quango (UK’s Information Comissioner) has declared the use of Google street view is not a problem? It’s not like our present government has any slant towards surveillance and privacy intrusion is it? David Davis was right; there is a slow but certain erosion of freedom in this country. [...]
March 12, 2009
RANT: Sometimes I just want to watch the earth burn…
By benfrain in RantHere was today’s blue touch paper: an email from my local multiplex telling me about ‘The Age Of Stupid’ – a new film, based around the premise of a man, one of earth’s surviving humans speaking to us in 2055 and asking why we didn’t do more to avoid the global catastrophe of climate change. [...]
November 24, 2008
POLITICS: A VAT decrease will cost us millions
By benfrain in Personal, RantIf the rumours are true, and our labour government goes ahead with the VAT reduction to 15% (they can’t go lower even if they wanted to thanks to our masters in Brussels) I feel convinced it will ultimately cost our country far, far more. Whilst the average UK consumer may save a few hundred pounds [...]
November 21, 2008
TV: I despair
By benfrain in Personal, RantHave males been completely eradicated from the thoughts of producers? Apart from Top Gear, which serves as the last bastion of political in-correctness and male programming, just what is there for us to watch? The obligatory sport of course, but there is literally nothing else in the way of dramatic programming for us. As the [...]
August 15, 2008
SPEED: Have we got it all wrong?
By benfrain in RantLike many motorists, I spend a great deal of time stuck behind other vehicles or simply slowing down for speed cameras and different speed zones. All the while the TV bombards us with messages: ‘Kill your speed, not a child’, ‘Think – stop!’ etc. Meanwhile congestion continues to grow and we all get frustrated as [...]
August 14, 2008
TECH: 96% of an Orange e-mail account is spam…
By benfrain in Rant, Tech-tipIf you have Orange as an ISP you will already know what an absolutely obscene amount of spam you get delivered to your inbox. I’ve moaned about it before here Well, a report mentioned here reveals that “…of the emails received by consumers who use Orange as their ISP, some 96 percent was spam” Orange [...]
August 4, 2008
GLOBAL WARMING: Nelson’s gas guzzling HMS Victory?
By benfrain in Personal, RantI stumbled across another thorn in the man made global warming theory today when I read this short piece in the Telegraph newspaper. Good old Nelson (a big hero of mine) and other seafarers of his day kept detailed meteorological logs including pressure, wind speed, air and sea temperature etc. The men in white coats, [...]
