Month: January 2014

I’m your private dancer, wanna buy a Mini?

Blimey. How things change eh? She’s a brilliant singer and has had a right load of grief off that Ike fella. However, now she seems to be trying to sell me a Mini. Now, Tina. We’ve got a Mini already darling. However, I’d perhaps think about buying another one if you could do me a quick blast of Nutbush City… Read more →

npower – An utter failure

Right, just to bring you up to speed in case you’re following my npower tale of woe. Firstly this happened, then it got worse. Last week I called npower. I called their official complaints line that they’d told me to call in their online apology. It was 5.15PM. I was in a queue for exactly 15 minutes, then I got… Read more →

Fun signs on the Tube

You’ve probably seen this before but it’s still going on and the signs are getting better and better. I don’t know who’s responsible for detecting and removing these but they must be a nightmare to spot as they’re so well done. Get more pictures here. Read more →

The internet is broken and nobody will fix it

We live in a world where our internet feeds are fast becoming moderated and filtered. No illegal downloading, age-restrictions and data caps. However, the big websites continue to ignore most of the basic rules and do little to protect their users. YouTube has many thousands of videos that are offensive or violent. Some people report them, but most don’t because… Read more →

Piers Morgan tries to be all high and mighty. Fails.

Piers Morgan is getting all upset on Twitter. Not because of anything that’s happened to him, but because others are getting grief on Twitter (like Stan Collymore, who’s getting a lot of racist tweets at the moment). Anyway, Piers has elbowed his way into the discussion, even though he wasn’t part of it (classic attention-seeking media tactic). It’s fair to… Read more →

HP returns to offering Windows 7

There was a big fuss yesterday about the fact that HP USA have “brought back” Windows 7 as an OS on their machines. Let’s all be honest. If people want a touch-screen GUI they’ll get a tablet and it probably won’t be a Windows device. If they want something with any real keyboard and work-style desktop PC then they’ll want… Read more →

npower – Can it get any worse? Yes, yes it can

Four days ago I wrote about npower. I’ll give you the short version. Basically, npower chose to whack up their prices so we decided to leave and switch to another provider. We successfully moved in November and switched across to Scottish Power. Days later npower made nearly 1,500 people redundant. Time went by. npower told me that my final bill… Read more →

Nice one Mr Putin, you bloody idiot

Yes, he really did say this on TV about homosexual visitors to the Winter Olympics .. We are not banning anything and we won’t arrest anyone. You can feel free in your relationships but leave children in peace. That’ll go down well Mr Putin. Oh yes, that won’t cause any problems at all saying that. You donut. Read more →

EE – Your FTTC router is easily hacked

I’ve had fibre broadband through EE and have been quite happy about it. Trouble is, it can be easily accessed using simple URLs. It reveals your ISP username and further details so easily it’s embarrassing. If you’ve got a Brightbox router, read this, because your router is open to the world. Pretty terrible stuff EE. Read more →

Logging into my lottery account

You can buy lottery tickets online. It’s really easy. You login, choose some numbers and then you’re done. Most of the people in the UK don’t seem to realise this, and choose stand in a stupidly long queue in your local Tesco. Today I logged into national-lottery.co.uk and .. I’ve got a message !! I knew it. At long last,… Read more →

The adventures of an unhappy npower customer

Last year we decided to change our electricity and gas supplier. npower, our supplier at the time, had put our prices up and, after checking on a comparison site, I decided to go with someone else. The competitor was offering a fixed plan and it was cheaper deal so we changed. We moved across on November 26th and, to be… Read more →