Eckrall.co.uk

OK, this is really starting to piss me off. I have found a bug in Outlook/IE7/Vista, when you try to add a RSS feed from a website, it pops up in outlook with the feed address, except, it adds ‘http://’ to the beginning of the feed, for example my feed becomes ‘http:// http://www.eckrall.co.uk/?feed=rss2’

This breaks every feed I have tried to add to it so far by clicking a link. This isn’t the end of the world, but what makes it really fucking crazy is that the box is un-editable! What you end up having to do is copy the feed address and manually add it. So anyway I tried to be a nice, helpful little geek and report a bug to Microsoft about this, but as far as I can tell they have no production bug reporting methods available to end users. First I tried looking in the help menus of Outlook, that linked me to an Office support page where I can check for updates or browse the knowledge base, but no bug reporting option. Next stop, Google, this took me on a merry wander around Microsoft’s site, sections that no longer exist (MSDN Product Feedback Center), IE7 and Office support sites, finally I ended up at Microsoft Connect which boasts 240,525 bugs submitted!

This is where I started thinking things are not looking good. So finally im in the right place to submit a bug report, but they still wont let me do it, I have to be registered on the right ‘Connection’ to do this, and of course there is no Outlook, IE7 or fucking Vista Connection to do this in, so I have given up. In the Open Source world I would have finished this about half and hour ago and go back on with work, but in a Microsoft world, things are never that easy…

K

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Have just come back from a stag weekend, fucking awesome time with one of my oldest friends, I have known this guy for longer than anyone (other than family of course) and even though we don’t see each other that often, its always exactly the same as ever, and I think that’s a great sign of a great friendship.
Anyway, back to the point, so Friday, we meet up at like midday, head for the pub and grab everyone who is on the way down in the minibus. So the beer starts early, carries on in the minibus on the way down and basically, doesn’t stop until sometime much later in the evening. While all this drinking is going on, my phone is going off in my pocket and like the great tit that I am, decided to try and talk to these people while drunk*, which means I either sounded like a twat or repeated myself 2 or 3 times (I know, impressive over a text medium!) So my advice kids…. alcohol and email lead to bad things, alcohol and root lead to downtime, neither are good.

* Quote from mail recived at the time, “Drunken emailing is the cow tipping of the future”

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Just read this classic on popbitch…

Nicholas Lyndhurst has a bed shaped like
a racing car. A carpenter in Surrey last
year won the brief to design a Red Ferrari
bed fashioned in Mahogany.

love it

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My God, this story has more DIGGS that anything I have ever seen before. The community has gone nuts for this, though I completey understand why


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