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CISAS survey fail.
I received an envelope with a yellow form to fill in. Along with the following letter: CISAS Customer Satisfaction Survey 2009 As part of our promise to constantly review and improve the CISAS service, we undertake regular surveys of customers. We … Continue reading
TV Chef James Martin delights in endangering cyclists
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8258247.stm TV chef James Martin has apologised for causing a group of cyclists “sheer terror” as he test drove a sports car. Martin, presenter of BBC One’s Saturday Kitchen, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that he had intentionally forced … Continue reading
Red Nose day – meet the recession. Good luck!
I’ll be interested to see how Red Nose Day does today. What made me think was the following tweet from nunocasters Red Nose Day, meet the Recession; Recession, meet Red Nose Day. Good luck with that. I’ve always been a little … Continue reading
How They Squander Our Billions
For anyone in any doubt about the grotesque squandering of our money, have a watch of ”How They Squander Our Billions” on 4OD (if you’re in the UK) More links – and you might want to read the Taxpayers Alliance … Continue reading
Asus EEE PC – how to update via USB memory stick
I had this Asus EEE 701 for about a year, and although the XEPC project was OK, it was quite fiddly and slow. Since I last looked, a whole load of netbook-compatible Linux distributions have been launched. I chose a … Continue reading
Skittles + twitter + youtube + wikipedia + flickr + facebook = clever!
In the last couple of days, I’ve seen one the of best and worst adverts for a long while (excluding Cillit Bang/toilet tissue/stool firming stuff, which goes without saying). In the worst category lives the Peugeot Drivesexy campaign, which is … Continue reading
phpbb.com down or hacked?
I noticed my phpbb forum dashboard has being saying “connection refused” (when checking updates) for 24 hours now, and phpbb.com has been unreachable. Google’s most recent cache at 1 Feb 2009 04:43:49 GMT says: SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Table ‘phpbb.community_users’ … Continue reading
Scottish Power legal threats 3 days after first reminder
Here’s how ScottishPower does things: I closed my account when I moved. They sent me my final bill – which hadn’t arrived (this is genuinely true – only this morning (9th Jan) I received a properly addressed, printed 1st class … Continue reading
