Did I ever mention that BT are a bunch of timewasting fucknuts? They've now wasted a day and a half of my time and have still failed to turn up to flick a switch, for which I have paid 125 quid. I'm considering invoicing them, just to prove a point. That, or writing to Ofcom on the offchance that they'll get a bollocking ( Read more... )

Right, please forgive me for being a walking advert here but I've just noticed that Be *utterly* own Virgin Media (death be upon them) in almost every single respect. I mean, there's just nothing to weigh up. They dominate completely. I'm pointing this out mostly because I'm still on a crusade to cost them more money than they ever got out of me ( Read more... )

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Further to my rant yesterday, they've managed to deliver one more amusingly-timed blow via marketing guff which, unlike my bills, they're quite effective at sending to me.


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I appear to have accidentally bought a Macbook. It is made of shiny and awesome.

Just a quick post to mention Diaspora by Greg Egan. I just finished reading it, and it's probably the best book I've read all year. It's one of those books which simultaneously makes me want to write one of my own, and also makes me feel like whatever I could possibly come up with would be woefully inadequate. If you can find a copy, read it.

Well, I finally got that PSP I won a few months ago. It's a slim (woo!), and of course it's all but useless until I go and spend £80 quid on games and memory cards and the like. Unless, of course, I stick a homebrew firmware on it like God intended ( Read more... )

Well, as if facebook applications weren't evil enough as it is, I've just noticed that some of the ones on a friend's page are trying to catch my attention *by name*. What the hell?


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Today I nipped into shelter on my way home from work and found a copy of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up on tape, which I obviously had to buy. They were selling two for 50p so I had a root around until I hit paydirt with a Nina Simone album. Excellent. Until I got home and found that the wrong tape was in the box. What did I get instead ( Read more... )