Meanwhile, on QVC
Wait a minute, they’re selling PIES? And they’re HOW MUCH?! QVC is already a strange thing, but..
View ArticleBlimey. Twitter killed my blog!
Back in the old days I used to post stuff here quite a bit. Now I put tiny thoughts onto Twitter instead. Now it’s Christmas 2016 and .. woah.. where did that year go eh? Anyways.. here’s a strange man...
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Listen to live radio all over the world by navigating an interactive globe. Good huh? Strangely addictive!
View ArticleDonald Trump gets sassy
America has gone truly insane. There’s nothing else you can say. Bat shit fucking crazy. They’ve voted a guy in who encouraged fake news about his opponent and now he doesn’t like supposedly fake news...
View ArticleSo today…
I took my son swimming. The pool has very limited viewing facilities and all the parents have is a bus-stop-style area which isn’t exactly roomy. Normally this isn’t too bad, as people will somehow...
View ArticleTrainspotting 2 – It’s here
I’ve not seen it yet but this track, which is actually three years old already, is really rather good. It’s a bit unsafe for work in places but delightfully random…
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Confessions of the Paparazzi
Basically, never believe those tabloid celebrity stories. They’re either made up by the celebs themselves (controlled shots on the beach), made up by the photographers to get more cash or made up by...
View ArticleFake News!
To a very, very, very minor extent, Trump does have a point (but I won’t for a minute stop pointing out that he’s a massive bellend). Fake news does exist, and it’s designed to sell magazines and...
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Hello Virgin Media..
I’ve recently switched to Virgin Media. I wrote a large and rather geeky feature about it. The broadband speed is good. Very good. In fact, if you get your WiFi setup right then you can easily get more...
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Day 2 of our Virgin Media outage
I’m a brand new customer. So far I’ve had really good speeds but a botched install and I’ve never been able to use the “On Demand” system because it was broken on my first attempt. Yesterday they said...
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Situation report – Virgin Media, a month in
Bloody hell. The speed is great, the TV service is OK.. but… oh dear, everything else has just been terrible. The On Demand wasn’t working for days on end, so I complained. They eventually fixed it....
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Virgin Media – At last, the On Demand is due to be fixed today!
In my earlier post I showed a screenshot of the Virgin Media status screen. For our area it showed a fault with the On Demand facility. However, it was being fixed. Sure, it was going to take three...
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Virgin Media and the constantly drifting fix times
So, you know the deal by now. I’ve been checking the fix time for our On Demand service. In previous posts here you’ll see that it was originally April 21st, then it moved to April 24th. I thought I’d...
View ArticleAhh ! My blog! I remember this
Twitter seems to have killed my blog-writing of late, and I’m doing quite a few pieces over at Coolsmartphone too. A couple of big tunes are in order, and it’s thanks to the fantastic Annie Mac coming...
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