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Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.
Recent Posts
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Siu in court
16 Nov 2022 -
Get Luckey
10 Nov 2022 -
Naughty Twitter fingers
10 Nov 2022
Cristiano Ronaldo has chased his pearl-clutching condemnation of Manchester United’s unbridled marketing drive with the announcement of his own NFT collection. The preening Ozymandias of football ...
The creator of a VR company bought by Facebook in 2014 has come up with the idea of a headset that can enhance the experience of dying in a game by also killing you in real life. “Only the threat ...
The BBC’s recent three-part show on Elon Musk, tirelessly narrated in the sultry style of an M&S advert for a facetious, cannabis-seasoned gammon joint, veers into puff-piece territory way too ...
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Yeezy bought me
19 Oct 2022 -
Spot the idiot
12 Oct 2022 -
God save the sysadmin
- Security Editor 22 Sep 2022 -
If you smell what the DCMS is cooking
07 Sep 2022 -
Netflix sawed us coming
21 Jul 2022 -
The silence of the Lamda
16 Jun 2022 -
Ringo’s token gesture
31 May 2022
The artist formerly known as Kanye West has tied a ribbon round his recent package of white supremacist slogans, George Floyd family agitation and anti-Semitic tropes with an agreement to purchase ...
In what at first glance looked like the inventor of affordable rolled gift wrap finally having enough, Damien Hirst last week began the process of burning those of the 10,000 individual A4 ...
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Welcome Charlie and Camilla Dear all, Hope you all had a great weekend and as I always like to say, are ready to get back at IT! LOL ...
The Liz Truss era is upon us, and while you might expect us to indulge in the kind of trite banter you’ve seen elsewhere online – an observation that real-life politics is very much imitating that ...
As the cost of living crisis continues to see families struggle to afford food and essential utilities, please also spare a thought for multinational media streaming company Netflix, which has lost ...
For as long as embarrassingly crude iterations of the AI chatbot have existed, we’ve yearned for someone to come along and get it right. We should have known that as soon as that happened, the ...
Liam Payne. John Terry. Melania Trump. Just three of high society’s most cherished names to have monetised their devoted fans with NFT investment opportunities so far. But to any celebs reading ...
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Send Mark to Coventry
20 May 2022 -
Vorsprung durch Netflix
21 Apr 2022 -
You’ve just crossed over into the Dyson Zone
31 Mar 2022 -
The diarrhoea of a CEO
02 Mar 2022 -
You say aroma, I say agora
21 Feb 2022
An exhibition at the UK City of Culture festival in Coventry has this month been offering attendees the chance to see the city through the eyes of one of its late-1980s clubbers, via the ...
Proposed Highway Code updates have paved the way for it being legal to watch TV while using self-driving cars. “The Highway Code has been updated a number of times in recent years to reflect the ...
Dyson has ventured into the headphones market the only way that feels right: with a chunky, magnetic, air-purifying face mask upgrade that’s arrived two years too late. “The Dyson Zone purifies the ...
We wanted to extend our apologies to Diary of a CEO podcast host Steven Bartlett for our recent criticism of his role in the increasingly exploitative NFT industry, due to him soon after pledging ...
Whether you’re an early adopter, a latecomer to the party, or a no-comer, you’ll surely be familiar with the grid of green, yellow and black squares popping up all over social media associated with ...