16 Aug 2006 Sony Batteries It looks like at least 4 million Dell notebook batteries are being recalled , all of which appear to be made by Sony. Worse news … →
23 Jul 2006 Customer Service in reverse? Interesting article in the Observer today which finally manages to pin down what I’ve been noticing but couldn’t quite … →
05 Jul 2006 Online Shopping customer service We contacted online retailers asking why they don’t respond to queries, but they didn’t respond to our queries. [The … →
29 Jun 2006 SF publisher Jim Baen passed away I read today that Jim Baen of Baen books fame has passed away. I think I have more Baen SF books on my shelf than any other single … →
27 Jun 2006 O2 buys the Link? This is a bit late, but I see that the mobile phone shops are starting to merge. O2 has bought The Link. I suspect very strongly … →
10 May 2006 Running Oracle - The Solution This follows on from my previous posting. Searching for an Oracle This is kind of old news now, because it’s been in use … →
02 May 2006 Change console keyboard layout in debian I’ve been using Parallels Workstation virtualization a lot recently for testing databases and it works amazingly well. … →
16 Mar 2006 Finding and fixing StackOverFlowError in java I was having a problem with some java one day, I’d made a change to some code and I kept getting a StackOverflowError. … →
22 Feb 2006 The Name Game When I first read this I genuinely thought it was a joke, but as far as I can tell it’s absolutely genuine, the companies … →