You can record it to watch it later though. See the BBC's Internet Blog.

Hey now, some media players are hooked on their timelines. I recall RealPlayer back in the day insisted on a timeline and scrubber for live playback (it may still do, but I haven't used it for many, many years) and IIRC Windows Media Player still does.

Lets be honest here, the OSS guys can barely agree on which letter should appear if you press the "A" key, never mind before you introduce shift, ctrl, alt, option, meta, super or chording.

Weren't CompuServe email addresses numerical?

There are only so many lastname.tld kicking around, and if you have a common name you're screwed. I need to get to some quite obscure variations on my first name, last name and middle initials before I find a domain which is still available and can fit in a sensible amount of space.

Given the choice of the free mail providers out there who provide webmail and a reasonable approximation of reliability and longevity who would you choose?

Once upon a time AOL was a nice, neutral email provider.

Things like @aol.com and @hotmail.com don't bother me, what bothers me is before the @ symbol. joe_middlename_bloggs@ is fine, even from things like Hotmail, but xXxXx_BuBbLe_PrInCeSs_1987_xXxXx@ is going to find its way to my trash folder very, very quickly.

To an extent. If my manager suddenly told me to turn off the print servers (printing for over 10,000 users) I wouldn't blindly log in and shut them down. It's an action which affects the vast majority of the business operations, and therefore needs more than my manager coming to me and saying "kill the servers" before it'll actually happen.

The trouble with lanyards is they get caught, especially annoying if you're crawling under desks. Plus once you start adding the paraphernalia of all but the most state-of-the-art centrally controlled door locking systems you end up with a wide variety of swipe cards and keys which mean it's equivalent to carting a good pocket full of crud around your neck. I don't want to walk around with my ID badge, two USB sticks, a SecurID fob, two RFID fobs and twelve keys bouncing off my chest.

How about the tried and tested solution - name badges. Your name on one line, "IT Services" on the second line, and the corporate logo on the left hand side. Make them the fancy magnetic clip type so they don't ruin clothes and can be pulled off if they snag. Simples.

If you don't have enough time in the day to read bits of /. during office hours, you don't have enough staff. There should always be a bit of idle time in an IT department's day so that when the shit does hit the fan you've got enough slack time to deal with it without sacrificing other things.

Yep. It's called Active Directory and Group Policy. Plus Windows Installer is amazing for managed applications.

We were once like that, with every room having a printer. Now it's all centralised and it's a 5 minute trek to your nearest printer to collect anything.

American cars manage straight lines perfectly well, but fail miserably around a small feature of most road networks - corners with a radius of under 300 yards.

Come to Europe and we'll explain concepts such as handling, fuel efficiency and build quality.

I knew American cars always had a blind spot for manual transmissions, but popping out of gear at high temperatures? Is your friend revving the nuts off it or what?