All Points North

Har Har

At least when the English lose a penalty shoot out they just sit down and cry rather than start a fight with the opposition. Sore losers.

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World Cup, Germany 2006, Argentina, Germany

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England, World Cup, Germany 2006, Michael Owen, Cruciate Knee Ligament

The BBC has this wonderful quote from the one knee wonder on how he wants to get back to Germany for his winners medal. The only way this will happen is if he applies for Argentinian nationality.*

From The BBC

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*God I hope I wrong and this comes back to haunt me.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (should I go on?)

‘When we launched mycokemusic, it was because our consumers told us that this was something they were really interested in,’ the statement reads. ‘In 2004, the digital music scene was just developing and the only way for Coke to offer access to music downloads was to open our own store. That’s not true today and there is no need for Coke to continue to run a store.’

From MacUser

This has to be the best PR spin I’ve ever read. For the good of our customers we’re jacking it in. I wonder if they’d been making money they’d have caved because there was competition. Why didn’t they just say we trialed music downloads when nobody else was but we’re a fizzy drinks company so didn’t have the desire or infrastructure to carry it through. Now that iTunes owns 80% of the market we’re not earning any money so we’re going to can the service.

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Some pupils got scammed and their teacher complained to the press that ‘it wasn’t fair’ well it turns out that this is enough to get you free tickets to to see the World Cup. Perhaps I’m being harsh, they are children after all but surely it would be more productive a lesson to tell the kids that if you’re dumb and don’t check, double check, and triple check that ‘too good to be true World Cup for the kids trip’ you don’t then get your own way. Apparently British Airways are flying most of the pupils back to Germany and the head of FIFA has said they can have tickets to a quarter final match.

Perhaps I should call the BBC and tell them someone tried to open an account with Argos and a credit card with Mint in my name in order to by a ticket to the final. The trauma of opening new bank accounts and joining CIFAS, which will cause me inconvenience in the future when I try to obtain legitimate credit, can only be offset by someone bailing me out of my misery with free tickets to the World Cup.

The eagerness of companies to jump on the ‘giving’ band wagon is sickening especially when it’s not my bandwagon. I’m adamant that a better lesson would have been ‘tough shit kids your teacher didn’t check properly and you wasted your weekends for nothing, life shit sometimes deal with it.’

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England, World Cup, Germany 2006, Identity theft, Ticket Scam, BBC

My identity has been stolen. Someone has hold of my previous address and the sundry details required to open in-store credit accounts. This is a pain more than anything else as I have to cancel everything and let everyone know that the Chris Brennan who applied for an Argos, Next, House of Fraser, John Lewis credit card that it wasn’t actually me.

The interesting thing is how simple it is to solve the problem. I wrote a piece about identity theft a few years ago and quoted some hefty research about how it can take years to get your identity back. In reality all you have to do is enroll with CIFAS and every time someone applies for credit in your name, including you, they run extra identity checks. One the thieves know this they’ll stop according to CIFAS.

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No Journalists no coverage outside the circle of blog. Simple.

Chris Pirillo locks journalists out of Gnomedex

Chris Pirillo and Ponzi told me last night that journalists are begging to be let into Gnomedex now that Senator John Edwards is doing the keynote. They told us that every ticket is a press pass and that they don’t give away free tickets and that journalists are welcome to buy a ticket, but one problem, Gnomedex is sold out. So any other journalists who want to come are gonna be forced to sit in the cove. “What about if Steve Ballmer dropped by?” I asked. He said he wouldn’t get in either unless he found a ticket on eBay somewhere. He did say that some journalists, like Todd Bishop of the Seattle PI, had the good forsight to buy a ticket before they were sold out.

I’m glad Chris is sticking by his guns and treating everyone equally. I know it’s really tough to turn away “big name” journalists.

From Scobleizer

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There are some great Easter eggs out there but his one is plain funny. I don’t think there’s any way this can be a random problem. From Zoomba

Here’s a really funny way to break Notepad that a coworker showed me this morning. I bet this is one of those jokes that’s been around for ages, but this was the first I ever heard of it, so it’s new to me.

This actually works. It will not crash your computer, it just breaks Notepad in that it causes it to display very oddly. No perm damage comes of the following steps.

Here’s how to do it:
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor)
2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): “this app can break”
3. Save the file to your hard drive.
4. Close Notepad
5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.

Instead of seeing your sentence, you should see a series of squares. For whatever reason, Notepad can’t figure out what to do with that series of characters and breaks

Again, it doesn’t crash the app or anything, it’s just a funny little twise of fate/unintended feature

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Windows, Notepad, Easter egg

I like Brad he’s an intelligent guy who’s enthusiastic about technology and Apple but this entry on his blog is beyond me.

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It’s not JUST the 3 points that England got it’s the 3 points that Paraguay DIDN’T get. A win is all that mattered. Complain when they are shit in the second half of the knock-out stages.

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England, World Cup, Germany 2006, Wibble, John Motson, Football commentators