Drobo - WTF?

More than 2TBs of storage and 3 hard disks, and it cannot even "protect" 50Gigs of data??? And they hope to break into the storage big leagues with this nonsense?

National Lottery Website Crashing Under Load Of The £112M Jackpot Draw

An unemployed mum of 13 kids who splurged £1,700 of her benefits on a 60in plasma TV claimed that plans to cap payments to the workshy would leave her family "on the breadline"

An unemployed mum of 13 kids who splurged £1,700 of her benefits on a 60in plasma TV claimed that plans to cap payments to the workshy would leave her family "on the breadline".

As millions of decent families face benefits cuts, one woman who's never worked in her life is investing hers... in a £4,500 boob job

This is the monster that 3 successive Labour governments have created. I hope you are proud of yourselves, Tony and Gordon.

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Sony Xperia X1

Nice looking phone in general but let down by poorly thought out UI and ergonormics.

1. First, it is impossible to use the phone without the stylus. That rules out one-handed use.
2. Slow. Slow, slow slow. And it ignores the first touch on the screen. So you always get your password PIN wrong!.
3. The "Xpanel" UI, the "killer" feature that the phone came with is slow to update and very buggy. Crashing at least once a day. It is also extremely fiddly to customise the layouts.
4. Bits of the UI uses swipe-scrolling, others just laughs at you.
5. The "optical joystick" - another "killer" feature, conspires to drain the battery when you keep the phone in your pocket (like most people do) as it picks up the movements of the inside of your pocket and keeps the phone awake for as long as you have it in your pocket. The senario: You put the phone to sleep. An email comes in, the phone wakes up in your pocket. You don't hear the beep and leaves it. The "optical joystick" now goes to work, scrolling all over the screen and keeping the phone awake, for as long as you are moving. It will occasionally make calls on its own as well, if you move around long enough. What a stupid feature!
6. The "optical joystick". Yeah, it's that bad. It is sensitive (see above). It is overly sensitive. You open up your emails. you use it to scroll to message that you want. You press down on the optical joystick (what a stupid idea!) to open the email to read it. It then decides that you have moved your thumb again and scrolls down (or up) one message and opens that one instead. ARGH!!!!

England - what a bunch of overgrown prats...

4-1. Should be more like 8-1 from the way they were playing. Someone buy the goalkeeper a pint though: He did okay.

England played like a bunch of school boys tonight...

Sack Green. That's a first rate fumble if there ever was one. The passing was rubbish, unworthy of school boy football, let alone million-pound players. God help English football if this was the cream of the crop.

British coalition government

Well, just what I voted for: A Conservative government muzzled by the Liberal Democrats. Yay! :-)

David better be careful: Nick is a better orator on camera than he is.

Rubbish YoGen Mobile Charger

Complete waste of money. Stopped charging after a couple of weeks and the string also stopped retracting. Bloody con.

http://www.yogenstore.com/

Definitely not an iPhone eater

In one word, mediocre. Good hardware. Badly let down by the software implementation. Particularly the really rubbish virtual keyboard. It is inaccurate, over-sensitive and limited.

The camera has strange colour biases. The SMS is hit and miss. the battery life is rubbish if WiFi and Bluetooth are on. The protrait and landscape rotation don't always work.

The Windows Mobile operating system is also expectedly unstable: hanging and crashing with alacrity. They should have gone with Android with this one.