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Humour Inspired By 3 UK
Forum Financial Peril The following question appeared in the 2005 Industrial Economics examination paper at the London School of Economics: Question 14a The population of these unfortunate creatures is decimated around Thanksgiving every year.
[January 30, 2006, 0:36]
Humour Inspired By 3
Forum Hullo Hullo Hullo UK's CFO was in the CEO's office discussing the corporate accounts. The Chief Financial Officer says "Yes, it looks very bad. What do you think we should do? The CEO says "I think we should commit suicide".
[January 30, 2006, 0:40]
Humour Inspired By 3
Forum H3G UK Christmas Party The following message was emailed by 3UK's CEO to all staff . Due to the company's deteriorating finances I regret to inform you that there will be no fireworks at this year's Christmas party.
[January 30, 2006, 0:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 19/01/2004Has anyone seen a sense of humour lying around? You could excuse a sense of humour failure here, and would possibly even expect one among airport security staff -- people who rarely pursue a second career in stand-up comedy.
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
Foolish Stories Aren't Just For April
Leader Some say it was the move from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in the sixteenth century, when the beginning of the year changed from 1 April to 1 January - those who were slow to cotton on became the butt of coarse humour.
[April 1, 2005, 14:20]
30 Years Of The Homebrew Computer Club
News We had a lot of humour in the club," Wozniak said. Any time you did technical work, you had to have humour or it just wasn't enjoyable. Amid tales of building some of the world's first personal computers, the adoring audience of Silicon Valley...
[November 7, 2005, 17:30]
Google Boss Thinks Paris Is Hot!
Blog Eric Schmidt may have suffered a sense of humour failure last year when a reporter from ZDNet UK’s sister site CNET News.com Google’d some supposedly personal information about him and published the results- but he was on fine form today - almost...
[June 19, 2007, 15:20]
Gremlins In Your IT System - Literally!
Blog Comment We need a sense of humour in this game. Lovely stuff! And I'm inclined to believe that gremlins actually do exist .sorry, they cut me off in mid sentence again)
[May 22, 2008, 10:38]
Rupert Goodwin's Diary Is The Best Thing About ZDNet.
Talkback I hope his wisdom, intellect and humour aren't going to be stifled in this new format - whatever that may be.
[November 1, 2006, 14:53]
Excuses
Talkback Yellowcave - your humour amuses me. But you've hit the nail on the head. The response from Adobe when questioned by our reporter on these inflated prices is weak, to be frank. There's clearly no language translations to be applied to software sold...
[June 7, 2007, 15:56]
HMRC Data Breach Fiasco Disks Appear On EBay
Blog At least somebody has a sense of humour about the absolute farce of the UK Government losing discs holding the personal details of 25 million UK citizens. Including their bank account details. The discs briefly appeared on eBay listed as "Two CD-R...
[November 21, 2007, 13:21]
Microsoft Lauds IE As 'the Most Secure Browser'
Talkback At least these MS guys have a sense of humour. This is obviously satire.
[February 10, 2005, 8:56]
One Last Chance For ID Card Sanity
Talkback I have so many reasons to be against ID cards, but this article puts a good bunch of them together and spices it with humour. Very nicely put. Sadly I'm not sure why anyone thinks they are a *good idea, so can't do a very good job of this debate...
[December 23, 2004, 14:52]
Hardware Download Satire Backfires
News The problem was that some people didn't see the humour. Last month, Gil Bates, a PC World columnist, wrote a column about a brand-new system called Shardware (shared hardware). This revolutionary system was said to enable users to download the...
[June 4, 1997, 13:26]
Apple Updates ITunes To Plug Security Hole
Talkback Is this an attempt at humour? Yah. They are not "hackers"- they "crack" systems and opne up (reverse engineer) protocols and closed standards. But they aren't "hackers". Apple are generating interest from said "hackers" you say?
[January 13, 2005, 9:02]
EU Body Slams Biometric ID Cards
Blog Comment The imagery this evokes is quite funny - or horrific, depending on your sense of humour. I liked the report's point that once biometric details have been stolen they can't exactly be changed, as you could with a stolen password.
[November 13, 2006, 15:23]
Tech Life Tips From David Brent
Talkback No real sense of humour there then! It would appear the wrath of Microsoft has forced you tube to delete the videos with a rather contrite message. Which is not really what you tube is about so the persuasion must have been very convincing!
[August 25, 2006, 11:04]
Dr. Lutz And The Time Travel Machine
Downloads The story will take place in different spaces and times and will grab a laugh from you here and then (well, that is what I hope) given that the Doctor has a penchant for a cynical humour. Join Dr. Abraham Lutz in his attempt to reach that long...
[April 16, 2008, 17:36]
Techie Comedy Draws Flak And Some Fans
News The whole thing is utterly and completely bereft of any smidgen of wit, humour or comic insight, and is possibly the least comedic comedy of the century. Writing on Bloomberg, Anna Picard complained: "The IT Crowd' is short on invention, plot and...
[February 6, 2006, 17:15]
