Category Archives: General

Interesting article in the Observer today which finally manages to pin down what I’ve been noticing but couldn’t quite bring together into a clear idea. Many companies are so bad at customer service that people are going around discouraging their … Continue reading →

We contacted online retailers asking why they don’t respond to queries, but they didn’t respond to our queries. [The Register Article]

This is a bit late, but I see that the mobile phone shops are starting to merge. O2 has bought The Link. I suspect very strongly that this will lead to substantial closures of stores. There seem to be any … Continue reading →

When I first read this I genuinely thought it was a joke, but as far as I can tell it’s absolutely genuine, the companies involved really did change their names. Some of them had to have new names; obviously if … Continue reading →

As it stands, the only value the Titan TTC-K8ATB/825/SC holds is as scrap metal waiting to be recycled. There’s nothing quite like paid shills for writing reviews, but that obviously didn’t happen here 🙂 I often find really critical reviews … Continue reading →

I was just looking today at Disney DVDs when I made a curious discovery and an odd realization. You CANNOT currently buy most of the main animated feature films AT ALL on dvd. They are simply not available. In some … Continue reading →

It’s taken me a while to write about it, but last week, Natwest in Edinburgh held a really great session for business banking customers. A breakfast and two seminars. Starting at 8am they gave an excellent breakfast and then went … Continue reading →

I came across this site the other day when I was looking for information about radioactive fiestaware. The author collects radioactive artifacts [Link]

I’ve finally upgraded to wp 1.5, plus the image authentication thing in the comments works again. 🙂 I’ve also decided that the theme must be changed, so it may change in the next few days. (default for the moment though).

The Lucky Despot Hotel and Casino was the name of an establishment in a story that I was reading recently. 🙂

Since I live in a small house as opposed to a flat I have a small amount of garden. Most of this is grass. I haven’t gone bald, so I also have some hair on my head. As I was … Continue reading →

Recently I haven’t been managing time very well, with the company business and the new release of SQLEditor things seem to have been building up and not getting done fast enough. The grass and my hair are growing too long … Continue reading →

Gameplay code will get slower and harder to write on the next generation of consoles. This rather alarmist statement came out of a panel discussion at the Game Developers Conference. One of the panelists, Chris Hecker, suggested that the next … Continue reading →

I was reading a review on Amazon.com for a book (more on Amazon failings in some later post), when I came across two lines that perfectly describe a large number of the second rate novels being published: “Recent Plot Chunk … Continue reading →

The trailer for Howl’s Moving Castle has appeared on the Apple trailers site. It looks, as ever for Studio Ghibli, most remarkable.