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'World's Worst Banker' joins Lads from Lagos
Spare if you will this morning a thought for Sir Frederick Anderson Goodwin, aka "Fred the Shred", and former big swinging dick down at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Since Fred's fall from grace, precipitated by the collapse of RBS, the UK media has expended billions of column inches insisting he be stripped of his knighthood and …
Vive la France!
The Rotting Dog Blog: Utopian distemper and other musings Vive la France! January 19, 2006 - 09:13 am Here are three words I never thought I'd say: Vive la France! (Long Live France! - in French! - thanks Babelflush!). Seems like just last year there was cheese, the monkeys were eating it and there was a whole heap of …
Reader demands fluorescent dog
Today is Friday 13th, so what better day* to conclude our correspondence on WW2 british bombers, and specifically, the Google Earth Lancaster as featured in Tuesday's letters: Regarding comments made by Tom and Mike Henderson in the letters page about the Lanc in Google earth... 1/ A Lancaster's wingspan is 102 ft (31+ M) and …
Umbongo, Umbongo - they code it in the Congo
The Rotting Dog Blog: Utopian distemper and other musings Umbongo, Umbongo - they code it in the Congo December 12, 2005 - 10:01 am Great news from the Umbongo Linux collective this morning. I have been officially voted by a panel of my peers as an "opinion former", which means that when I say something, other people think …
Kick the Dog: a Reg flame special
Poor old Rotting Dog: seems the lad has got his Koreas a bit mixed up - a fact not lost on our well-educated readership who can tell their Pyongyangs from their elbows. So, young man, here are a few choice cuts to set you on the road to cartographical redemption, arranged for readers' reading pleasure in ascending order of ire …
Hey, Korea - unbundle this!
The Rotting Dog Blog: Utopian distemper and other musings Korea December 5, 2005 - 07:17 am This Korea versus Microsoft punch-up has got the blogosphere all a-buzz this morning. Seems the Reds have slapped a $32m fine on Bill Gates for not pulling messaging and Media Player from its OS in breach of local antitrust laws. …
Celine Dion fights mutant rats on Xbox 360
Ah, the Xbox 360: what on earth did we have to discuss before the recent release of MS's long-awaited games console? Damned if we can remember... I cannot believe such a blatant sales leaflet as the Microsoft Xbox 360 review can make it to your front page. Biased is not the word; everything glowed. Brick sized power pack: …
MS anti-virus beta. Hmmm...
First up in this Friday's trawl of the Vulture Central mailbag are a few comments on Microsoft's launch of anti-virus public beta. Take it away, beloved readers: I just tried following your link to the Microsoft anti-virus beta and got the following error: "Wow, we must have really messed up and are currently down. Please come …
Umbongo Linux Firestorm browser 1.56/2 - like wow!
The Rotting Dog Blog: Utopian distemper and other musings Damn Limeys November 27, 2005 - 20:11 pm Jesus. Looks like the Limeys and the Spanish are kicking off about this CIA terror flight business. According to ListenToMe.me.me.uk the US has been transporting terrorists to camps in Poland or somesuch former Soviet republic …
French smoke fags? Wtf?
The Rotting Dog Blog: Utopian distemper and other musings Goddam French November 20, 2005 - 11.41 am Woke up this am to something really shocking through the Blogfelch RSS Hyperfeed. According to Pink Andrew's Wtf? blog, some French chick tried to smoke a fag on a flight from Brisbane (Australia, right?) to Hong Kong. Jesus …
Welcome to the Rotting Dog Blog
The Rotting Dog Blog: Utopian distemper and other musings Welcome to the Rotting Dog Blog November 13, 2005 - 12:15 pm Welcome indeed. I don't know about you, but I've found that the blogosphere has really opened my mind to a whole new world of personal freedom. Before Linus Torvalds invented the blog, I had pretty much …
What is Web 2.0? You redefine the paradigm
Three weeks ago we asked you - what does "Web 2.0" mean? What is it, really? No one who promotes the buzzword seems to be able to explain it. Even after a few mystical incantations of "collective intelligence" - we were none the wiser. Warning: Badgers So we opened the floor to Register readers - the people who keep the …
