Devotion to Duty

February 22, 2010 · Posted in foundFings . . . · 1 Comment 

Devotion to Duty:

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yep, I know people like this 😉

The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it's nice to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog's servers.

Glastonbury gets six-year licence

February 12, 2010 · Posted in foundFings . . . · Comment 

Glastonbury gets six-year licence:

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cracking news … I’ll be back there next year 🙂

Glastonbury Festival is given the go-ahead to continue for the next six years.

Whisky toothpaste

February 12, 2010 · Posted in foundFings . . . · Comment 

Whisky toothpaste:

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Awesome, WANT!


(via Sociological Images)


White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs openly mocks Sarah Palin by addressing the media with a grocery list conspicuously written on his left palm.

February 11, 2010 · Posted in foundFings . . . · 1 Comment 

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs openly mocks Sarah Palin by addressing the media with a grocery list conspicuously written on his left palm.:

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it’s kinda like shooting fish in a barrel though isn’t it? Still funny though 🙂

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Is it Live or is it Memorex Crappy CS?

February 6, 2010 · Posted in Rants . . . · Comment 

oh dear, another day, another poor online customer service experience . . .

A few days ago (see previous post) I had a poor experience using a companies Live online chat service. The problem there was caused by a lack of information on the part of the operator and, it would seem, their supervisor.

Today I had another question to a different company called Heatmiser Read more

Am I going mad?

February 3, 2010 · Posted in Rants . . . · 2 Comments 

I’ve just finished what should have been the answer to a simple question directed at thetrainline.com website

I have their free iPhone application installed which allows you to download a 7 day timetable for a specific journey so that you can access it when you’re out of coverage (say underground?). The problem I have is that I can find no way of updating the timetable, despite the app continually reminding me that it was downloaded on November the 19th.

After several minutes of frustrated clicking around their website I hit the ‘Contact Us’ link Read more