Xorton's Rant

Ok, so it didn't happen. At the risk of sounding a wee bit cheeky, there, there. Having been born south of the border, but having a good deal of Scottish heritage, I'm personally relieved the 307 year old union has remained intact. I think if independence had gone through, it would have felt a little as though someone had gouged out part of my chest (and that's as sentimental as I'm likely to ever be on this blog!) Of course, the fact that the "ringleaders" of this experiment weren't rounded up after the defeat and publicly executed is a good sign of how progressive we've become since 1746 ! Let's look at some reasons why this may be a blessing in disguise for those that were banking on independence: 1) Don't trust politicians, particularly when they are smiling, and especially when they're telling you that if you vote their way, everything will get a lot better. This is the equivalent of Wiley Coyote with a pile of bird seed wi...

I wouldn't have thought I would need to explain this to people, but recently I had to deploy a fourth mobile phone to an individual; his fourth replacement in the space of a year. In each case, he felt that it was only just a little liquid he'd spilled on his phone. By little, I'm assuming it was a large coffee. I wish these incidents with electronics vs. the large coffee were more isolated, but it occurs with alarming frequency with far too many people I've worked with over the years. Given the amount I've witnessed in my tour of duty in IT, I can only imagine how many valuable electronic devices have been sacrificed to the java gods on an annual basis worldwide. Now, normally I give a five minute spiel on why liquid is bad for electronics... but clearly this hasn't been taking much traction. I imagine what they hear is: "Blah, blah, blah coffee. Blah, blah, blah phone."  So in an attempt to be more concise and hopefully drive the point home, I...