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Frustration

tikitu@tikitu-laptop:~/work/buzzcapture/dev$ sudo pip install django-model-utils Unknown or unsupported command ‘install’ tikitu@tikitu-laptop:~/work/buzzcapture/dev$ pip Did not provide a command tikitu@tikitu-laptop:~/work/buzzcapture/dev$ pip help Unknown or unsupported command ‘help’ tikitu@tikitu-laptop:~/work/buzzcapture/dev$ pip –help Unknown option: help Did not provide a command tikitu@tikitu-laptop:~/work/buzzcapture/dev$ sudo apt-get remove pip

Another reason I hate Facebook

So someone asked to be Facebook friends with a message saying they read and enjoy this blog. Great!1 Only, I pretty much hate Facebook and wish I didn’t have to be there (to keep up with a few family and friends who aren’t online anywhere else). All my Bookface “friends” I’ve met face-to-face, and there [...]

Tagging, and missing the point

Blowing off a bit of steam here… Both Amarok and Thunderbird support adding custom “tags” to the collection items (mail and music, contra-respectively).1 Which is lovely: tags let you apply non-hierarchical non-exclusive categories to your collection, which is a wonderfully flexible way of organising it. But neither application lets you search/filter on tags.2 Of course [...]

Doubletalk

Them: Please accept my apologies for the difficulties encountered when attempting to resolve your issue. I assure you that your situation is not indicative of the quality service [company name redacted] is capable of providing. Me: you’re quite right. That’s why I’m complaining.

Dell’s broken webshop

Colour me unimpressed. This is a rant about Dell’s incredibly poorly-functioning webstore (the part that deals with orders that go wrong).