Author Archives: theObserver
Online Poker Frustrations
Since the dawn of high speed internet sometime in the late 1990s, it’s become a pleasure to log on to the online casino of your choice, deposit some money and play your favourite game. No longer did you have to … Continue reading
TV Producers Prefer Twits Than Scripts
I’m not even sure this is pissing me off, since there’s almost nothing good on TV lately. So I guess they had to be creative, the network people, and look for the next hot stuff on Twitter and other social … Continue reading
Online Scams: Buying a Stolen Credit Card and the Power of Big Companies
The world wide web is a wonderful place. Really, they should have make it a 4-w instead of 3. The internet wipes off limitations of time and space, identity and morals. If there is freedom, it lies in the gentle … Continue reading
Needed: a Viagra Gadget
One of the worst things in life is to share a taxi with someone you don’t know. It immediately turns your relaxed taxi ride into a stressing bus-like feeling. But earlier this week I had to get into town and … Continue reading
Has Facebook become the platform for bad behaviour?
Come on stalkers, you don’t need to hide anymore – it appears that the modern world, or at least as it is reflected in the eyes of Facebook, accepts stalkers of all kinds. According to Mashable, Facebook put a spy-button … Continue reading
A Program Like Tor (watching the BBC iPlayer from outside the UK)
The world is complex, very complex. People like owning things, and enjoy the fact that something is theirs. They invented something for the world to use – but only if the world acknowledge that it was their idea first. People … Continue reading
Electronic Readers and downloadable eBooks
Problem: I have quite a lot of eBooks, which are all stored on my home laptop. I want to be able to read them outside, on the sofa, or in the toilet. For that my laptop is way too bulky. … Continue reading
Television Sports Commentary
Perhaps television sports commentary is not something that one should get wound up by; I reckon that here in the U.K. we have some of the best commentators in the world, especially for the big three sports – football, television … Continue reading →