Ok, so sometimes I get bored. Like if nothing happens for about two minutes. And when Jon gets bored, his mind begins to wonder…
On one of my bored wanderings I wondered if I might be able to get my TomTom GO 910 to say something unexpected. OK, I admit it, I wanted to hear it swear. A lot. Look, inside I’m only ten, ok?
So this is how I did it… Read more…
£6 for a sandwich. No, this isn’t one of those posh sandwiches where you can hardly get your face around the thing which is held together with a cocktail stick with a chef’s hat on, where its gourmet credentials are incontrovertible and where the experience leaves you with a smile on your face for days. No, this is a £6 piece of crap. Where? Read more…
As Homer Simpson once said, “I know they’re all God’s creatures, but why did he have to make them all so tasty!?”.
I like eating dead animals. However they taste much better if they were happy animals during life. Read more…
I used to get most frustrated with people. People are, after all, apt to do things that prevent our own smooth motion through existence. Don’t get me wrong, they can be fabulous too; but by and large, frustrating.
These days it’s more and more the fault of technology. But since technology is created by people, doesn’t it ultimately amount to the same thing?
For example, right now I’m coping with: Read more…
So now the debt collectors are involved. Tiscali UK Ltd still stubbornly insists that it was supplying broadband to the same number at the same time as TalkTalk Business. This is, of course, impossible. Even so, Tiscali UK Limited has now passed the fictitious debt to their debt collectors Fredrickson International Limited. Read more…
My old freelance photographer’s insurance from E&L (Equine & Livestock – so which one am I?) wouldn’t cover the public liability and studio contents, so I decided to switch. I chose Morgan Richardson. I now wish I hadn’t.
Over 6 months since I cancelled our account with Tiscali Internet and fatefully went over to TalkTalk Business, and Tiscali is still trying to bill us!
I’m ignoring their ever more aggressive debt collection letters. I can’t wait to end up in court for this one.
A few months ago I switched my phone line at the studio to TalkTalk Business and at the same time the studio broadband internet was bundled over to TalkTalk as well. All was well… that is, until something went wrong. One day, first thing in the morning, the broadband internet supplied through TalkTalk Business ADSL went dead. Read more…
In my old IT company, I used to host our stuff with the UK hosting company Fasthosts. They were very expensive and didn’t keep up with new developments in web technology. When they belatedly adopted some of the technologies we wanted, like Microsoft’s .NET, they were too expensive. They didn’t really know what they were doing with it all either. So, for reasons of better technology hosted more competently, I moved all my web sites to the rather ambitiously named WebHost4Life , based in the good old USA. Read more…
Please beware of a web site called “sms.ac” ( www.sms.ac) – it’s someone’s bright idea of how to make money from YOU without you even realising until it’s too late. They lure you in to joining their “community”, and end up sending you SMS (text) messages on your phone for which they charge you £0.25 (yes, twenty five pence) each time.
It works like this:
PLEASE DON’T GET CAUGHT OUT – AVOID SMS.AC AND PLEASE PASS THIS WARNING ON
Update: since I first posted this, lawyers acting for SMS.AC have been issuing C&D (cease and desist) notices to anyone who dares to tell the truth about their client. Heavy-handed, bullying tactics cannot stop the truth getting out, not if we live in a fair-minded and democratic society. So go ahead, SMS.AC… try it on me if you really want a good fight.
Oh, and please please please NEVER, EVER give your Hotmail password to any other password to any web site anywhere except for the web site where it should be used. It’ll just result in your privacy being infringed and your friends and family spammed a lot.
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