Feltham Airparcs leisure centre has for the last 2 weeks — and ongoing — closed at 4pm, instead of 10pm, because the emergency lighting doesn’t work.
The actual lighting works fine, it’s just that if the lighting did fail then there’d be no emergency lights directing the shallow end of the gene pool to safety.
So the [...]
I saw a link to this article about Dubai on Twitter today. Like zts, I found it an extremely disturbing read, stopping at many points to read out loud to anyone who would listen. I recommend that you read it too.
After having read through it, I suppose my first thought is to wonder [...]
Last year Abbey screwed up and caused me significant problems in my day to day BitFolk business. They were unable to convince me that they would improve in future, so I voted with my wallet and BitFolk sought another bank for business purposes. I had to keep the abbey accounts open though because [...]
I don’t think I’m addicted to these things, but I do use social networking a fair bit.
On the microblogging front I use Twitter (mostly posting via Identi.ca).
For the classic social networking stuff I’m on Facebook and LinkedIn.
I’m scrobbling my audio to last.fm, there is of course this blog receiving occasional posts and I’ve been on [...]
Private number calling…
Don’t you hate that?
I really dislike picking up calls that have the number withheld. Most of the time it’s cold calling or other junk calls. Maybe I am just getting old but I don’t remember so many legitimate companies withholding their number when contacting existing customers or people they have an [...]
More annoying that companies who don’t believe ‘+’ in an email address is valid, are ones that did until their site got redesigned, leaving you unable to log in and having to explain the problem to people that can only read scripts. I’m looking at you, MBNA.
Update:
CustomerService@MBNA.co.uk
SMTP error from [...]
This is a really long rant about Abbey business banking. If you have no interest in such a thing or are already convinced of the incompetence of Abbey / Santander Group then there is probably no point in reading further.
Bitfolk’s business account is and has always been with Abbey business banking. The initial [...]
In the last year I have bought an Eee PC 900 and a Thinkpad R61 from laptopsdirect.co.uk. The purchase of the Eee PC went smoothly although I did get a call a few weeks later from someone who wanted to sell me an expensive additional warranty.
When I ordered the Thinkpad, I got a call [...]
From: Overclockers UK <mailinglist@overclockers.co.uk>
To: “andy@strugglers.net” <andy@strugglers.net>
Subject: Overclockers would like to hear from you!
X-Mailer: JMail 4.3.0 Free Version by Dimac
This mail cannot be read in a text only client.
They did include a text/html part though. Maybe that has what they want to hear from me about?
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Martin, yes it is legal:
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Re-iYiInpP4J:www.marriottharrison.com/media/file/up/mh16-70.doc
I consider myself a non-smoker but this sort of policy would actually put me off working there. If they banned smoking breaks on work time, that would be okay. If they encouraged people to quit smoking, that would be okay. But this seems like an unwarranted intrusion into [...]
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