Ian Morris
Ian Morris loves televisions so much he's been banned from wedding chapels in Las Vegas for trying to marry them. When he's not romancing technology, he can be found watching American TV. Ian likes roast potatoes, but he doesn't like digital rights management.
Thursday 25 October 2007, 11:48am
The Yahoo Messenger of doom
Here at CNET.co.uk, we use Yahoo Messenger a lot. Because we're all gigantic geeks we very rarely actually talk to each other, instead preferring to type our messages using l33t speak via IM. YIM wasn't my choice -- I much prefer MSN -- but everyone else was on Yahoo when I got here and while the two clients can talk to each other these days, you do lose some functionality going between the two.
So Yahoo it is. But there is a fatal flaw in the version I'm using. When I open the main messenger window to IM someone, I've noticed that sometimes the person I double click isn't the person who actually gets the message.
The consequences of this range from the mildly irritating -- sending an amusing link to someone who doesn't care for amusing links, say, the MD of the company -- to the utterly dire, which I'll illustrate below:
It goes without saying: I'm very careful to check the name on the window when it opens now.
Articles by Ian Morris
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LG DP391B
Review LG's demurely named DP391B deserves a more conspicuous moniker -- it's easily one of the best portable DVD players we've ever seen. With a glorious screen, handy kickstand and tonnes of features, including DivX playback and photo display, it's just the thing for dull journeys
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