Month: November 2013

Lovely, lovely npower

I’ve recently left npower, who were providing our gas and electric. To be honest most providers seem to be robbing us blind at the minute, but npower have made £390 million profit last year and the “big six” have seen their profits rise by 75% last year too. Just this monrh npower whacked up their prices by 9%. Now they’re… Read more →

Panorama on Amazon

I watched the investigation into working conditions within the huge Amazon warehouses that are dotted around the UK. As expected, the “pickers” who go and grab your order from the miles of shelving have to work hard and walk quite a bit in the process. The undercover reporter was given a trolley and a hand-held scanner told him what to… Read more →

Stafford Hospital

I really can’t get away from Stafford Hospital. It’s only a few miles away from me and is one of our local hospitals. It’s also in the news day after day. I don’t just mean one day, I mean every single blinkin’ day. Some of you may remember that my father was at Stafford Hospital in 2007. I really didn’t… Read more →

Blank spaces in your WordPress RSS feed?

If you use WordPress and find that strange blank lines are creeping into your RSS feed, you can try inserting this wejnswpwhitespacefix.php file or, if that doesn’t work, try disabling GZIP compression on your site (check your performance plugins such as W3 Total Cache etc. If all that doesn’t work, try making yourself a script that runs via cron. It… Read more →

Dear Sky TV

If I select channel 101, give me the HD version of BBC 1 with the local programming (OK, the BBC need to sort that bit out. If I choose 102, I want BBC2 HD. If I choose ITV, I want ITV HD. If I choose 104, I want Channel 4 HD. If I choose 105, I want Channel 5 HD.… Read more →

Parents. Read this. Read this right bloody now.

I’ve been using the internet for a while now. I like to think that I know my stuff. I’ve spoken to many parents who’ve bought an iPad, laptop or iPhone for their child, then let them use it however they see fit. Ask yourself a question before you buy a gadget for your son or daughter this Christmas… 1 –… Read more →

Hit and run…

Now, I’ve got no real idea what’s going on here but this looks to be a couple of drivers in Chicago, USA who really aren’t getting on all that well. The driver in the black car doesn’t seem to have a fantastic grip on the whole “driving” business, but somehow – after getting provoked and indeed attacked by the taxi… Read more →