AK's view from the boundary

After waiting 17 years for new stuff, I’ve had the misfortune to hear Chinese Democracy today. Let’s say it isn’t very good, actually it’s crap. AK junior reckons it’s just plain shite!

It is now 9 months since i left BT and they are still sending me a letter every month trying to tempt me back. Offering to give me free calls etc but at the expense of a 12 months contract. I used to pay 5p/hour for evening and weekend calls with BT until the outrageous [...]

Compare Manuelgate to Baby P.
Where is the public outrage now?
I’m saddened by the fact that the society that i live in appears to be so celebrity obsessed to the detriment of the nations moral spine. The two ‘events’ are far from related but the discrepancy between the public’s responses to both stories beggars belief.
Celebrity. The [...]

Since upgrading to Gnome 2.24,  gedit has been hanging on launch and taking around 30 seconds to become responsive. A work around, while waiting for the bug fix, is to disable the ‘File Browser Plugin’ under Edit > Preferences > Plugins.