Monthly Archives: June 2006

Time to fight the Demon

According to a letter in .net magazine this month, for the past three years a Demon customer has been charged £235 per annum for email forwarding. I thought that kind of robbery had died with Dick Turpin. It seems that … Continue reading

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Bad Mood Arising

My main workstation crashed after allowing a software update. I wouldn’t have minded but the beast couldn’t be booted even from CD. After recovering from a hidden (factory installed) partition, I restored from a Norton Ghost image. All looked well … Continue reading

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Brave New World

I had paused reading Brave New World about four months ago and eventually took the book back to the library. At a market recently I found a copy for the princely sum of 20p. I knew I had read to … Continue reading

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I’m working in the wrong market place

NHS IT cost doubled to 12.4bn ‘But it’s not over budget’ The 6.2bn National Programme for IT will henceforward be known as the 12.4bn National Programme for IT, after a long-awaited National Audit Office report into the ambitious NHS IT … Continue reading

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One of those odd moments

I reached under the desk and pressed the CD eject button (not having used it for a few days). Reaching blindly for the CD I caught it on the edge of the tray and it fell to the floor. I … Continue reading

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Skype – shoddy practice

Having taken my balance of £6.52 without my realising it, I see Skype have now added the following information (I don’t recall it being there when I added credit originally). “Credit balance expires after 180 days of inactivity”. The slightly … Continue reading

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Rural transport not what it used to be

my new car Originally uploaded by mylesleecrampton. I’m thinking of putting it up on ebay as a work of modern art by some hitherto unknown Brit Artist.

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Petrol Flags

The Times from 2004 stated that “The price of patriotism for Euro 2004 was put at £16,740,000 or 4.5 million gallons of fuel yesterday. A study has found that driving a vehicle at 60mph, with a flag fluttering, costs the … Continue reading

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What I was doing on 06/06/06 at 06:06:06

Same as I was at 01:02:03 04/05/06 – Sleeping, what else…

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No! Really?

“The Carphone Warehouse has been blown away by the response to its “free broadband forever” promotion with demand for the bundled product exceeding its own forecasts.”

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