I have to admit to the occasional pint of London Pride beer. I have been very close to many pints. Just never this close [MetaFilter pointed me here].
2005: A Few Moments Of Reflection
2005: 12:46
2005: Preliminary Vote
2005: What Have You Done Today?
2005: The G8 Summitt
2004: The Day F1 Came To London
2004: Formula One Comes To Regent Street
It happens to me every day: A cow ended up in a garden swimming pool after bolting while being taken to new pastures [Ananova].
Go on, you know you want to. Google It!
And if that wasn’t enough, you’ve got to beware. Casual dress, apparently, means a causal slapdash attitude to work. Even worse, they say, casual dress will bring down major international corporations and and the collapse of civilisation as we know it. Honest. [Washington Post]
2005: The Final Push
2005: Silverstone Circuit Weather
I swear some news is made up: A pair of Canadian otters brought to Britain a year ago are under 24-hour guard at the National Sea-life Sanctuary, near Oban in Scotland, because of fears they will be attacked by indigenous cousins unable to understand their “foreign accents”. [Independent]
2005: God Is Bored Of You
2005: Fleet Street editors Back the Bid
2005: Countdown is Progressing
2005: Powered By Rotting Fruit
2002: It’s All Queens on 4th July!
2002: Amazon A-Go-Go
2002: Finally – CSS
The Foreign Office, strait-laced guardian of a global empire in Victorian times, has embraced the 21st century by offering special advice to gay and lesbian travellers.
Only in America on Independence Day: A group demanding voting rights for Washington DC is to mark America’s Independence Day by asking Queen Elizabeth to place the US capital under British rule [BBC]
2005: God Is Bored Of You
2005: Fleet Street editors Back the Bid
2005: Countdown is Progressing
2005: Powered By Rotting Fruit
2002: Did They Make It Up?
2002: Amazon A-Go-Go
2002: Finally – CSS
I love Amazon. They’re the way the world should do the online shopping experience.
Then again, I hate Amazon. They keep recommending stuff I want so I buy it.
But just now, I love them. I got my first two reviews published:
Start Up – Jerry Kaplan
Piloting Palm – Andrea Butter and David Pogue
2005: God Is Bored Of You
2005: Fleet Street editors Back the Bid
2005: Countdown is Progressing
2005: Powered By Rotting Fruit
2002: Did They Make It Up?
2002: It’s All Queens on 4th July!
2002: Finally – CSS
Well, at last. I think I have an idea about CSS. I have now realised that IE and Mozilla won’t quite look at things in the same way.
“Remember, IE5/Win gets the box model wrong by absorbing padding and margins without adjusting the overall width. 67% is approximately what 52% looks like after you add padding and margins.”
It didn’t quite take me 14 hours but I am getting there ;-(
2005: God Is Bored Of You
2005: Fleet Street editors Back the Bid
2005: Countdown is Progressing
2005: Powered By Rotting Fruit
2002: Did They Make It Up?
2002: It’s All Queens on 4th July!
2002: Amazon A-Go-Go
Looking back, I do have to say Scooby Doo was a great film. If one of the goals of cinema is to entertain then this was a successful film. If another of the goals of cinema is to provide escapism then, again, this was a successful film. I believe I am the only person I know who thinks this. That, of course, makes me right and everybody else wrong (kind of).
My grandad was born on 1 July so it would have been his birthday yesterday. He died several years ago and I have to say that I miss him. I lit a candle at St Paul’s Cathedral on Sunday. I just had the urge. I wonder why I did that? I am not the most spiritual person in the world nor am I the greatest believer. St Paul’s was so peaceful and relaxing I think I will go again. And it’s really beautiful inside – which is something I had never noticed before.
No other posts on this day.
Blog the weekend. Well, what a weekend it was – nothing exciting or deep to say but a few things that surprised me.
Surprise One: saw Hugh Grant in About A Boy on Friday night and it was great. It was touching without being too sappy and Hugh himself wasnÂ’’t the wet blanket he often plays. And I only went because the tickets were free. How sad is that?
Saturday was a fantastic trip to melt some credit card plastic at Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth. Spend, spend, spend – why do I continue to spend while I am running out of money? Still, the weather was nice and it was a day out.
Now Gunwharf Quays has a Gap Outlet store. And the survey tells me I am a gap man:
What kind of clothes should I be wearing? by Evelyn / Survey no longer available
But why is the content of Gap Outlets always very poor indeed? I am always disappointed.
Then, Sunday morning, saw a preview of Scooby Doo. Now, some people donÂ’’t like it. I thought it was great. A harmless, mildly-amusing, childish kids flick. And for that, it was good.
So, I try and buy a new power supply from a computer supplier (let’s say they are called Tell Computers).
Buy online and pay by credit card. They will only ship to credit card billing address. No problem I say, somebody will be there to pick it up and sign for it. Takes so long to arrive that nobody is there anymore. So, I think, I’ll have the courier redeliver to work. They can’t change delivery address without Tell’s permission. OK, I say, somebody will be in on Thursday, please deliver it then. They try and deliver Friday.
No problem, thinks I. I will have them deliver one evening. “We don’t do evening deliveries,” they say. So I say, “I’m in Saturday”. We don’t work weekends”. Huum.
“What about if I collect from your depot?”
“It a delivery centre with no collection point. Try calling Tell to have the address changed.”
“Hello Tell. Here’s my problem”
“Sorry, I’m in billing. Here’s customer service.”
“Hello Customer Service. Here’s my problem.”
“We can change the address. Oh, you bought online. You’ll need to speak to our Internet team”.
“Hello Internet Team. I have a problem and I’ve spoken to many people. I am assured you can help me.”
“No. We can’t change the address because you paid by credit card.”
“But here’s the problem. I am not at home during the day anymore. You don’t deliver evenings, weekend and you don’t have a collection point.”
“Can’t help you. Sorry.”
So I say, “I will have to send it back and have a refund”.
“Certainly Sir, no problem.”
“So, you would rather give me my money back than work with me to arrange delivery. Isn’t that rather short-sighted. Why would I ever shop with you again?”
“Sorry, that’s our policy. Somebody will call within the hour to confirm the refund”.
That was Thursday morning. Nobody has called.
Agggggggggghhhhh
2005: links for 2005-06-22
2005: You Make Me Sweat
2004: Online Customer Service Ratings