Everyone seems to be sending me money at the moment. Google very kindly deposited money into my bank. MessageSpace emailed me a few hours ago to tell me similar news, and checking up on YouGov I’ve finally reached the magical £50 mark (only took almost 3 years). However I believe that it may be a lot longer before that cheque appears through my door.
Yearly Archives: 2007
Snowed-in in Lincoln
Not too sure if I can get away with saying that I can’t make it to work today.
Snow seems to have appeared around 8.30 and whilst it’s still going, at worse we seem to have 1cm of the white stuff.
Fingers crossed that the snow does disappear by next week, I need to fly out of East Midland for my birthday.
Life on Mars
Because of Alex’s reviews and this trailer,
I thought that I really should watch Season 1 of Life on Mars. Having gone and got the box set, I’ve spent the last three days (well most of Sunday) catching up, and I’ve got to say that it’s brilliant. Can’t wait for Season 2 to start. Ohh, it’s starts on my birthday, 13th Feb, and I’m out of the country! Will have to get someone to tape it for me.
Charlie Brooker on Macs
On the Guardian website Charlie Brooker has some really good commentary and shares most of my views about Macs and their users.
This quote is brilliant
Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults
and those Mitchell and Webb ads are already pissing me off. Mostly because my PC hasn’t rebooted since, well I can’t remember it’s been years, whilst the Mac at my mums house should be doing it’s half-hour crash any second now.
But best of all about the article, the ads on the page 🙂
ING are crap
We’ve now had two Bank of England rates rises, and I’ve now had two emails from ING telling me that they aren’t following. So that’s 0.5% that they are currently keeping from me.
If I can manage to get Heather on to my current Egg account I’m moving as Egg are offering 5.25% for exactly the same type of account we have with ING.
No, I’m not that mad
Those taking a quick glance at the list of the blogs on the right of LibDemBlogs might be suprised to see Iain Dale listed. However it’s not the blue one, but the yellow one
BBC on your PC
Levy arrested again
BBC breaking that Lord Levy has been arrested for “conspiracy to pervert the course of justice”.
Oooh
Campaigner
We’ve just received the new Campaigner from ALDC. I’ve got to say that it’s a massive improvement over Grassroots and for the first time I actually read it. It’s a lot more reader friendly and the colours make a massive improvement.
Voicemail tapping – that’s so 1999
Yesterday we saw Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire go to jail for voicemail tapping. When the story first came out I remembered something that I did 7 years ago. A hall mate Lisa was on BT Cellnet, the same network as me. Taking a guess that she wouldn’t have changed her default pin I called her whilst she was on the phone, got through to the voicemail message, pressed the correct button, entered the default pin and then went around the options. I chose record new message. For two days people calling Lisa and getting through to her voicemail couldn’t workout why they had been diverted through to Dominios Pizza.
Back then it was easy, and it seems that it is still easy for journalists to do the same trick.