Tag Archives: fail

My frustration with Android apps (especially Google)

So I’ve had my smartphone for sometime now, and like most I find it invaluable.  I quickly ran up against the problem of having limited space (145mb) to install apps on.  Bear in mind this also held most of the … Continue reading

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Why I will avoid buying HP again

So Julie‘s desktop hard drive went South.  While Windows kept giving us these “imminent failure” messages, I backed-up her data and called HP. Now we’d bought the HP Pavillion a little after Christmas so I knew it was past its … Continue reading

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Spam, spam, spam…

I’m being spammed, and they’re lousy at it. Continue reading

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I expect my natural disaster in HD…

On Saturday @jules23 & I were sitting down after digging out the drive when she said about a lot people on Twitter talking about the expected tsunami hitting Hawaii.  This was a result from the recent quake in Chile. We … Continue reading

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Nokia, T-mobile, Google, and a password security problem

So I’ve been happily been using my Nokia XpressMusic 5310 for some time now.  Though I didn’t take a data plan with T-mobile I can still check my Gmail using the phone. That was until I changed my Google password. … Continue reading

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Help! I’ve lost my blog…

So A couple of weeks ago, when preparing to move RefreshCleveland across, I inadvertanly wiped my WordPress db clean! Bugger!  Add to that problems I had with RefreshCleveland, it wasn’t a great week. I’ve managed to get both installed now … Continue reading

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Google videochat denied…

I was looking forward to trying the latest whizzbang from Google.  Videochat.  But after clicking on the “get started” button in both Flock and Chrome, all I got was this 404 error. Maybe it’ll be up tomorrow. Another case of … Continue reading

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