Did I mention we’d been bought out by another company some time ago? I think I may have ranted over the issue a few times

Anyway, we used to sell two products that shared some same code and did much the same. One was named after X (because it runs on Linux using X Windows) the other after windows because it runs on Windows.

The marketing guys at the new company decided they ought to have a streamlined name like “blah for windows” and

Here’s an idea for a simple app - or a tweak to existing mail clients. Before sending, scan the text and if it includes the word “attached” and there isn’t an attachment pop up an “Are you sure?”

We could reduce the net traffic considerably!

Ages ago I bemoaned Music Match Jukebox no longer working properly http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/davef/2008/06/13/musicmatch-jukebox-cddb/

It appears the problem is yahoo bought it and scrapped the existing database to try and get people to upgrade. MMJB was one of the few bits of shareware I’ve actually paid for - because it was good. It also doesn’t work with ie 7 - but that was just another reason not to use ie7.

How many times do we see a great piece of software bought up by some huge bunch of bozos who *-*

Answers to http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/davef/2008/10/17/never-a-crossword-part-ii/

Not too hard I hope - not with the explantions anyway!

On

The current add on the IT Pro home page gives me an excuse to plug one of my hobbies - cryptic crosswords. I’ve been doing them for years but some time ago I thought “that’s a rubbish clue, I could do better than that” and after a while I gave it a go.