Category Archives: Rants

Posts where I’m ranting about someone or something

Thanks a bunch EE

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Steve

Their FB page says: We’re EE – the UK’s biggest and fastest overall network, offering 4G in over 100 towns and cities, as well as Fibre Broadband. This is the coverage map for where I live…. … pretty crap really… … Continue reading →

Posted in Rants | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Moronic Comment spammers

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Steve

What a stupid comment spam: If you are going to post spam comments (which automatically get trapped by my spam filters) the least you could do is post stuff that is slightly amusing and makes sense rather than this complete … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing, Rants, Sad Spammers | Leave a comment

Semalt – the SEO company who lie to you.

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Steve

On January 24th Andrew Timchenko from Semalt sent me a Private message on Facebook: Dear Stephen From now on your websites: tty.org.uk Canalplan.org.UK Canalplan.EU Canalplan.co.UK Pubnight.org.uk won’t be visited by our robots. I would like to bring apology on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing, Rants, Sad Spammers | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Semalt.com – Rogue element? Or just scum?

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Steve

So Google is full of sites posting about the above company … they would seem to be trying to do some sort of SE ranking or are they just complete arses? This is an example from one of my site … Continue reading →

Posted in Computing, Rants, Sad Spammers | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

I hope the sad little Indian who connects from 125.63.89.66 and spends his time…

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Steve

I hope the sad little Indian who connects from 125.63.89.66 and spends his time trying to break into Yahoo email accounts to send spam gets screwed over by who ever is paying people to spam people with links to a page … Continue reading →

Posted in google+, Rants, Sad Spammers | Leave a comment

Samsung UK – Fail!

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Steve

These are screenshots from the GooglePlay store for my UK Samsung S3. Both these apps are "System" apps which were installed by Samsung and cannot be deleted. AllShare Play is, as you can see, not compatible with the phone which … Continue reading →

Posted in google+, Rants | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Oh, look, a long lost blog…..

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Steve

After all this time, having brushed away the cobwebs and caught up with a lot of software updates, I find that my old blog still works. A lot has changed, but apparently not the complete shite that spammers use to … Continue reading →

Posted in Rants, Sad Spammers, Witterings | Leave a comment

So much for Mobile broadband

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Steve

In which Steve mutters about the O2 broadband dongle and its broken DNS handling. Continue reading →

Posted in Computing, Rants | 2 Comments

The case of the stranded contacts

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Steve

I quite like my G1, and now I’ve got TasKiller it’s battery life is almost reasonable. One of the big features of the G1 is that when you set it up you have to tie it to a Google Account. … Continue reading →

Posted in Rants | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

This Hoover Sucks

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Steve

Back in 2002 Kathy and I bought a Hoover AAA 140 washing machine. Hoover, a good name, so its going to be a good washing machine. Might last as long as my parents Hoover washing machine (aeons) or their Zanussi … Continue reading →

Posted in Rants | Tagged , | Comments Off on This Hoover Sucks