Month: February 2011

Twitter becomes a powerful customer service tool.

Twitter surprises me at times. Just the other day I mentioned that I’d eaten loads of food and “felt a bit fat”. I then got loads of tweets tring to sell diet pills and crap. Today I posted this tweet which pointed to a BBC News story on the huge British Gas profits. Their profits are pretty shocking because they’ve… Read more →

An iPad offer for my followers

If you are interested in getting an iPad I can get hold of them through a contact. The numbers are limited and he has 10 iPads going for less than half price – it’s first come first served. He has already sold one (pic is attached so you can see what you are getting – they are from a cancelled… Read more →

Pizza advert boy..

We live in a small village so it was pretty hilarious to see some teenage lad wearing a rather large cardboard pizza box advertising the local pizza place. I took a snap, ‘cus I’m evil, but he was struggling somewhat because of the wind.. Look what happened as he walked up the hill.. Read more →

Walking pizza advert

I saw this kid walking through our village. He was wearing a rather large cardboard pizza box which advertised some local pizza place. It was very windy today. Look what happened as he struggled up the road… Read more →

Cars are ruddy expensive.

What the hell is happening to car insurance ? I’ve just had my renewal quote from Direct Line and it’s a massive £773.80. It’s gone up by more than £100 in a year. Sure, I had an accident some years back, but even if I remove that and do a quote on one of those irritating comparison websites I’ve only… Read more →

So, that didn’t go well then…

When was the old server due to be turned off? The middle of February. No problems, that gives me loads of time then. What ? You’re turning it off TODAY ? Crap. That means my poor cupofcoffee blog has gone, and all I’m left with is a very old backup from the middle of 2010. Oh well. It’s no great… Read more →