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September, 2008
28.09.2008 I Believe…
“I think everyone should believe in something.
I believe I’ll have another drink”
- anonymous
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26.09.2008 Stupid Banks
Ok, check this out… I got paid today, so decided while waiting for my lift to work to ring my banks automated phone system and check my balance. So I ring the number, listen to the introduction blurb (you can’t skip it). Then, press 1 for current account enquiries, listen to some more blurb, enter my account number, listen to some more blurb, then enter the requested digits from my password with a bit more blurb in between each digit.
Normally, at this point I get given my account balance, but today I was told by the system that they have changed the number for their automated banking system and that I would have to call a different number!
Firstly, I was on my mobile, with no pen or paper handy so I couldn’t write down the number and there was no transfer option. So I had to wait until I got to work to do it online.
Secondly – why the hell did I have to go through five minutes of time wasting bollocks only to be told the number had changed? Telephone calls cost money! Surely it would have been more sensible to make the announcement at the start of the call rather than dragging it out for so bloody long? FFS!
Thirdly – why would they need to change the number in the first place? It’s not like they’re a small establishment – surely they can afford to keep a number active with a redirect in place, or failing that not change it at all? I can’t see for the life of me why they can’t just keep the same number even if they’re changing the underlying phone system.
I’m sorry, but it just stinks of unprofessionalism! These people clearly aren’t putting their customers first or even applying some common sense to their actions. Alliance and Leicester – you fail. AGAIN!
25.09.2008 Copied by the Big Bang Theory?
I’ve never really been one to worry about plagiarism, I mean it’s not like most of my writing is up to much, so I was kind of surprised when I heard something from my blog apparently being repeated on one of my fave shows – The Big Bang Theory.
In the episode entitled ‘The Luminous Fish Effect‘ (first aired on October 15th 2007) Sheldon makes the following speech:
It occurs to me – if I ever did perfect a time machine I would just go into the past and give it to myself, thus eliminating the need for me to invent it in the first place.
Pretty funny huh? Well… it should be, cos it sounds just like this blog entry that I posted back in October 2006, nearly a year before that episode aired.
…If I invented time travel in the future I would go back to my past and teach myself how to do it, therefore if I were to invent time travel in my future, I would already know how to travel through time.
Admittedly, the Big Bang version is more eloquently written than my version, and if they did copy it from me then I’m more flattered than annoyed- it was just a bit of a shock to hear it on TV. It’s probably just a co-incidence I mean these scripts are normally in development for years before airing aren’t they?
21.09.2008 Apple, i beg of you…
… Please, for the love of god fix the stability of Mobile Safari on the iPhone!
There’s nothing more irritating than having four tabs spontaniously vanish while waiting for a page to load. None of my other apps crash under use, so why should Safari? Don’t get me wrong, I love mobile Safari – it’s the best mobile browser in the world (at least until mozilla get their finger out!).
