Gareth Halfacree
"Work hard, have fun, enjoy."
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I came home tonight to find that my Internet connection had crapped out, but that’s not what this post is about.  This post is about how Billion – that is, the company rather than the oft-misused numerical value – software engineers are perhaps not the sharpest tools in the box. After restarting my router, the [...]

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Apostrophe's in the wild 6

It’s not often that a mere sign – even one displaying a frankly staggering ineptitude with the English language – leaves me speechless, but this particular example of apostrophe abuse came close. Note the shotgun-like approach to grammar involved in this image, where every single S is preceded by an errant apostrophe – with the  [...]

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Roku SoundBridge develops a poor short-term memory

Ever since switching to WPA2-AES security on my wireless network I’ve been having some problems with my Pinnacle-branded Roku SoundBridge wireless MP3 player. Problems like “strange, this used to be connected to the network.” It seems that after a few days of working perfectly happily the device drops off the network.  Well, not quite ‘off’ [...]