Perhaps the most interesting development for the new iPhone 3G is the ability to purchase it on a Pay As You Go contract from O2 (UK only). However, how much does O2 intend to charge for the device? Given the original iPhone started out at £269 with a hefty 18 month contract and ultimately failed [...]
Archive for the ‘Rant’ Category
June 17, 2008
POLITICS: Petition against the Lisbon Treaty
By benfrain in Personal, RantThe EU is forging relentlessly ahead with the ratification of the Lisbon treaty. This despite the recent ‘NO’ vote from EIRE which should have seen it dead and buried. If you have even the slightest belief in the concept of democracy let our deceitful government know your feelings by signing the following petition at No. [...]
June 9, 2008
Politics: EIRE – our final hope…
By benfrain in Personal, RantAfter the, frankly despicable failure of our government to provide the referendum on the EU treaty/constitution (only an imbecile would argue any real difference between the two?) it promised us, our fate (saving the unlikelihood this court action pays off) is left in the hands of our friends just over the water. What a travesty [...]
April 10, 2008
RANT: Ebay – the greediest company in the world?
By benfrain in Personal, RantWhat an absolute shower of bastards Ebay and Paypal are. I’m all for capitalism but their greed almost beggars belief ($7 billion in profits for 2007). When you look at their sellers fees it’s not hard to see how they are pocketing so much… For starters, take a look at their listing fees: If your [...]
March 28, 2008
POLITICS: The global warming con
By benfrain in Personal, RantAs the ‘consensus’ of ‘experts’ in the field are reported to have conclusive proof of man-made global warming I cast my mind back to middle school when we taught that the world was cooling and that the next ice age was coming. When I mention this factor, few seem to recollect this fact, especially the [...]
March 28, 2008
RANT: Plastic Bloody Bags
By benfrain in RantWhy is the BBC so intent on spending every single news bulletin of late telling us how many plastic bags are on the planet? And how much it’s harming the planet and how we are all going to burn in hell unless we take our plastic bags with us to the supermarket. What the hell [...]
December 10, 2007
RANT: Get off the phone when you are being served!
By benfrain in RantI don’t know if this is a predominantly female thing or this has merely been my experience of the phenomenon. Every time I’m doing the weekly shop I’m stunned by the amount of women who do their entire shopping trip with a mobile phone seemingly glued to their ear. I suppose if people having long [...]
October 4, 2007
WEB: Stupid sodding pop-up windows!
By benfrain in Rant, Website DesignI’m sure there must be plenty of other people who find these things INCREDIBLY annoying? I’m talking about the sort of pop-up that whenever there is a relevant word on a web page it appears double underlined. Then, if you are ‘lucky’ enough to move your mouse over said word a stupid sodding Java box [...]
September 27, 2007
POLITICS: EU Referendum – Vote here!
By benfrain in Personal, RantIt doesn’t matter whether you want to be in the EU or not. The important factor is that democracy should decide. Gordon Brown thinks he knows better than asking the British people – unforgivable. One more EU referendum petition for you to sign, it’s the Sun newspapers’. Hardly the most arresting piece of literature but [...]
May 22, 2007
POLITICS: The thin end of the wedge?
By benfrain in Personal, RantMy elder brother mailed me the following link British Army may turn to foreign bullets I find such a development extremely worrying. We are in the UK, after all, an island nation. Is it not bad enough that we source a vast percentage of our food from abroad (thanks to the shambolic way the current [...]
