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 →
Month: January 2014
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 →
Hotels 4u can go and ram it
I come from the Black Country, and this advert has to be the most annoying and crap attempt at pushing a catchphrase into your face that I’ve ever seen… AGGG!!!!!!!!!!! AGGHhhg!!!!!!!!!!! AGGG 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 →
The Oatmeal dishes up some advice
Great advice too. This internet thing is great, but you need to balance real life too… ish. I definitely recommend a visit to The Oatmeal. Proper good.. Read more →
Governments lie. They’ve done it before and they’ll do it again.
This week where we’ve found out how the Government lied about the amount of pits planned to close in the 80’s. Back in 1984 the miners’ strike began. At the time the government stated that only 20 pits were due to close. However, newly released documents show that there was actually an agreement to shut 75 pits by the following… Read more →