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Humour that went astray
Talkback The humour, as it turned out, would have been ok if it really had been visible only in the IT department. So yes, humour is ok, just as long as it doesn't go astray. Five years ago I "inherrited" the administration of the webserver at my employer.
[October 29, 2009, 8:11]
The U.S should Grow Up & Get A Sense Of Humour
Talkback The U.S should Drop this case, grow up and get a sense of humour and start using Passwords & Firewalls. Excellent that Gary McKinnon is finally getting support and hopefully some long overdue Justice.
[November 3, 2008, 15:19]
Humour of Sufi - Laughing with Nasruddin
Downloads Nashruddin Hoja ( Nasruddin or Mulla Nasrudin ) was a famous scholar, clerics and philosopher in his time. Other than being a scholar and a clerical figure, he was also known as a person with unique and interesting characters that made him one of...
[June 10, 2009, 8:00]
Humour of Sufi - Laughing with Nasruddin
Downloads Nashruddin Hoja ( Nasruddin or Mulla Nasrudin ) was a famous scholar, clerics and philosopher in his time. Other than being a scholar and a clerical figure, he was also known as a person with unique and interesting characters that made him one of...
[June 10, 2009, 8:00]
Sense of humour failure
Talkback What he said .except that if it's a joke, then it's not a very funny one. I do try desperately hard to laugh every time Ms. Smith comes up with yet another paranoid, bigoted, illogical rant (with toning and matching regulations), I really do, but I...
[February 13, 2009, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Has 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]
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]
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]
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]
Google, pubs and magnetic cows
Blog Comment There's not enough good humour in this world. Lovely stuff! Keep it going, even if it isn't 1 April.
[August 28, 2008, 11:21]
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]
Yes
Talkback Ok play a pratical joke, you call this a sence of humour. Th victim may call it bullying. In my work we have to hot desk, Im sure mny other plces do so, also my organisation has strong rules and blocks many sites social media and google top of the...
[November 19, 2009, 16:56]
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]
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]
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]
You sure?
Talkback OK, so my office bans social networks and playing hooky might not be a great idea, but if you work in an office that forbids having a sense of humour and doing random acts of kindness then I suggest Tip 11: Get another job.
[October 24, 2009, 15:49]
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]
Don't Step in the Leadership
Blog A few years ago you couldn't endure a PowerPoint presentation without the obligatory fuzzy, unreadable Dilbert comic cropping up, either to badly illustrate a point, or to inject some irrelevant humor, sorry humour, into a dull pitch from the...
[September 15, 2009, 18:04]
