OJ’s rants

Don’t believe the hype.
Mike G and Dare are dead right.

Get yourself a copy of Firefox 3 on the day it’s released from this site and you’ll be doing your bit to get Firefox downloads in the world record books.
Yup, you’ll also be falling for a huge marketing gag designed to get Firefox installed on as many machines as possible, but it’s a damned good [...]

Here’s another reason why I find Google Reader a excellent choice for reading your RSS feeds.
Most of us have a collection of feeds that contain similar subject matter. As a geek, most of my feeds are geek-related. As a geek who likes to stay up to speed, I also like to know what other blogs [...]

Regular readers of Dilbert are currently kicking and screaming about the site’s new Flash-based design. Personally I don’t mind it, but at the end of the day it matters not.
Why?

Google Labs has a history of releasing some pretty amazing bits of software. Google Earth, Google Mail, Google Reader, Google Analytics, Google Maps and Google Docs are just a few of the graduates! It’s an impressive list to say the least. All of those applications do a fantastic job. I’m a huge fan of all [...]

I’d love to know what on earth got into Adobe’s head when they decided to turn their PDF reader into a stinking pile of sluggish bloatware? Who here remembers the old days when the Adobe Reader download was less than 10MB?
Take a look at the details on their current download page (which I was recently [...]

I have a few questions for you:

How would you feel if TV channels changed automatically because you weren’t paying attention to the ads?
Would you like it if your newspaper closed by itself because you were reading the articles but skipping over the classifieds?
How happy would you be if you were kicked out of a cinema [...]

Microsoft’s Automatic Update feature has always been annoying. I don’t care who you are, none of you can possibly say that it’s not annoying I thought that it wasn’t possible for it to become any more annoying than it already is, but today I was proved wrong.
My main gripe was that almost regardless of [...]

As you all know, I recently moved the Blackapache site to a new server. We had some teething issues, as ya do when making the move, but all is now well. One of the things that I hadn’t got round to fixing was my SpamAssassin installation.
I’d already gone through the fun times of setting up [...]

Over the last day or so, stacks of people have been hammering digg as a revolt against their recent actions. For those of you who don’t know, HD-DVD encryption was cracked recently and the master key which allows all movies to be ripped has been released across the web. Digg, in their infinite wisdom, [...]