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I realize this is a bit of a rant post, but I feel that when a large community does something very wrong, it should be brought to the public attention. I'm going to explain to you some recent events that happened to me and my friends in the bukkit community.

A little while ago I woke up to this email. 
 

I bought one of these for my mom from amazon for £99, brand new. You can get it from Orange too for the same price, but they make you purchase a £10 top up so the total price comes to £109. She can't use it until next month when her contract expires, so I've had an opportunity to play around with it and put it through it's paces.

In my last post I had a lot of problems with T-Mobile, so I switched. My new provider allows VOIP so this opened the gateway for some fun. I now have around 300 telephone numbers, all over the world. I'm a local call from most places.

A couple of days ago I woke up to this article on slashdot explaining that T-Mobile was cutting my mobile broadband allowance from 3GB to 500MB, or 83% Less. T-Mobile justify this saying that 'If you want to download, stream and watch video clips, save that stuff for your home broadband,'. I find this rather funny, as on the same basis we should all just not bother with phones at all, we can always talk next time we see them, right?

Recently I've had to give this lecture a lot. So I figured it was about time I wrote a blog post about it.
 
I keep seeing a lot of people talking about how they get 200FPS in games, and how it is so much better than those with 60FPS, blah blah. These people are quite simply wrong. Allow me to explain...
 

I went on Ebay and purchased a 16GB USB Pen drive for £10, when it arrived, it turned out to be 8MB, dmesg reports "[321252.688535] sd 20:0:0:0: [sde] 16384 512-byte logical blocks: (8.38 MB/8.00 MiB)"

Recently I purchased 2 Jogglers from O2 for £50 each in their recent promotion, the specs are really good for the price, featuring a touch screen and a 1.3ghz atom processor. Naturally once it arrived, first thing to do was Ubuntu running on it. I downloaded Ubuntu netbook remix and put it on my 8GB USB drive. Unfortunately, the joggler didn't boot.

Was just going to play some 2fort on TF2, when I noticed an amusing message. I hit refresh and got a few different messages. Whoever did this, I salute you. That said I do realize the irony of spoofing player counts to tell people not to spoof player counts.