Darren’s Blog

I logged in on Tuesday night with the sole intention of doing the Cooking and Jewelcrafting dailies to find queries in guild chat for anyone interesting in joining a Naxx raid.  As I hadn’t planned to stay on long I decided to give it a miss but after several nudges via /w I thought “What the hell, let’s do this”, so I joined. Continue reading »

I’m definitely not the first to blog this and certainly won’t be that last, last week saw freelance web develop Jason Roe get into a row with staff from Ryanair when he blogged about a bug in their web site.

The thing is when I was reading this comment:

Ryanair Staff #1 Says: 
February 19th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

jason!
you?re an idiot and a liar!! fact is!
you?ve opened one session then another and requested a page meant for a different session, you are so stupid you dont even know how you did it! you dont get a free flight, there is no dynamic data to render which is prob why you got 0.00. what self respecting developer uses a crappy CMS such as word press anyway AND puts they?re mobile ph number online, i suppose even a prank call is better than nothing on a lonely sat evening!!

All I could hear in my head we the voice of Roy from The IT Crowd ranting away.

Anyway it’s a great article that really brightened up my day yesterday, thanks to @veloce for the article RT.

Well today was meant to be a day of cellebrations with Jo starting her new job and it being our 18th wedding aniversary, it’s amazing how the careless actions of others can change things… Continue reading »

Judge dismisses Google lawsuit via BBC NEWS | Technology.

I’ve gotta say this one made me smile, I’ve even created a new tag for it “only in America”…

A legal claim by a Pitsburg couple, The Borings, that a picture of their house on Google Street View caused them “mental suffering” blah, blah, blah!

I for one am happy to see this case thrown out of court.  The whole “sue you” culture that has evolved in the US and is now spreading into UK culture is wrong, in my opinion it lessens us as a people and trivialises true suffering .  

It would have been so easy for Google to pay the $25,000 to make this go away, they could have paid the money and essentially press the same button the Boring’s didn’t even bother to.  But to have done so would have lent credence to this idiotic claim, so Google stuck to their guns and won.

Got any other stories of ludicrous “sue you” cases being thrown out?  Leave a comment.

NOT!  Well not yet anyway, however I have this week been introduced to a web site that allows you to assess you IMBAness and recommends which pieces of gear, including enchants and gems, you need to look at upgrading. Continue reading »