First of all there is the letter. My sister had a very unsatisfactory phone conversation with Virgin Media’s customer services when she was trying to get Dad’s telephone and cable TV cancelled after he died. In a fit of pique she wrote a 5-page explaining exactly what the circumstances were, why the customer couldn’t give […]
Entries from November 19th, 2007
Bloody Virgin
November 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bloody Virgin · Life, Technology
Tags: Doh!·Family·Radio·Virgin Media·WTF
A long evening
November 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on A long evening · Life
Last night was one of those evenings that seem to go on for ever, where you look at your watch to see how much time has passed and see that its only 5 minutes since you last looked. What happened was that we went to a 40th birthday party. The birthday girl was someone Jayne […]
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Good deeds
November 17th, 2007 · Comments Off on Good deeds · Work
My good deed for today was nothing more than persuading someone else to do a good deed, not that he took much persuading. The Broadfield Community Centre was recently given a decent network colour laser printer. Last week I wired it all up to their hub and then ran into a brick wall when I […]
Beyond Easy
November 17th, 2007 · Comments Off on Beyond Easy · Life
The ‘killer sudoku’ in today’s Guardian was hellishly hard. The ‘futoshiki’ puzzle was described as ‘easy’. I think that ‘far too easy’ would be a more accurate description. I bet they didn’t make much profit from their 60p/min helpline today!
Tags: Doh!·Newspapers·WTF
Bicycle sex
November 15th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Life
What to make of the story about the man who has been put on probation for attempting to have sex with his bicycle? Its easy enough to make jokes about it, and the headline seems to say it all, but I think the man in question has had a bit of a rough deal. Not […]
Tags: Bicycle Sex·Books·Cycling·Quotes·WTF
Ken Loach in Crawley
November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Ken Loach in Crawley · Life, Politics
I got an e-mail about this yesterday. The film director Ken Loach is coming to Crawley this month to show his new film It’s A Free World and discuss it afterwards. He will be joined in the discussion by a former detainee from Tinsley House and an activist from the No Borders group who held […]
Le Sudoku
November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Le Sudoku · Life
It sometimes feels like we are a bit obsessed with Sudoku, but I was surprised, I don’t nkow why,to see that the French share our interest. While visiting Calais at the weekend I could not believe how many sudoku books and magazines there were. I saw one bloke in the park doing a puzzle in […]
Tags: France·Newspapers
Mano Negra – disc two
November 14th, 2007 · Comments Off on Mano Negra – disc two · Music
I had a look at the second disc in the Mano Negra 'Out of Time' DVD set this evening, and its not quite as good as the first one. It has a lot of good stuff but unlike the first disc there is a lot which is not so great. There are two main features, […]
Socialism allowed here!
November 14th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
I was a little bit worried, reading a letter in the Guardian this week, that I may have set up WordPress to automatically nuke any comments containing the word “socialism”. I have a ‘blacklist’ of words and any comment containing them goes in the bin. The list is of words which crop up a lot […]
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All aboard the Tex Express!
November 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Politics
According to the Argus “A councillor has won a battle to secure better public transport links between West Sussex and the new Eurostar station in London.” Well done to him… except he hasn’t. We already had perfectly good ones and he has persuaded TfL to provide the option of a worse one for anyone foolish […]
