With several people now successfully using my Amazon Sidebar links (those I am reading/watching/listening… on the righthand side), I’m going to offer them to the wider public.
Click the link, follow the instructions.
Being crap at explaining anything, please leave feedback in the comments.
Tip: if you want to give referral sales to me use artesea-21 as your tag, theliberaldemocr for the LibDems or ldys-21 for LDYS.
Staying at the Hilton Newbury North for the week, David and I went for dinner last night in jeans and t-shirt.
We went to give our room numbers but we were just waived in.
When we sat down we suddenly realized. There must have been at least 20 chav’s all staying the night. Somebody must have been paying their bill, but the hotel staff must have believed that we were with them too!
Whilst the dinner ended up being free, I was going to claim it on expenses anyway.
Some how I feel dirty.
If you are reading the permalink version of this page, you will have noticed something new at the bottom.
Using the Blog Search XML files, built with the url of the title link, I can see who else has been blogging the same story as me.
With some fancy code I can place this information at the bottom of each post.
This one is a bit of a cheat, as I’ve linked to the Brown speech promotes Britishness off the BBC website just to demonstrate, but if you go back through the archives you’ll see other examples.
The lads at work have just started blogging, here are their efforts:
David Hayes, Paul Finney, Adam Beers and Daniel Ward.
It’s good to see that Tony has given Ruth Kelly his full backing, means she should be gone by the end of next week.
If there is only one thing you do this year, it has to be this.
One of the worst vulnerabilities in Microsoft has been found and it is really really easy to exploit and be caught.
Please download and install the temporary fix from this nice bloke’s blog
Hex blog: Windows WMF Metafile Vulnerability HotFix
More info here:
F-Secure, Microsoft and US Cert
Not the most exciting headline, or news story to be truthful. However the BBC have been telling me about it since 2am yesterday. Almost every hour via email.
My inbox has 51 messages (and still counting) from the BBC News Alert system, which clearly has a bug.
As a blackberry user this is bloody annoying as my phone keeps beeping to tell me exactly the same thing.
At least I’ve set it up to turn off during the night.
F-off: Whilst writing this post 2 more messages have arrived.
The following is the correspondence between myself and Sainsburys
From: Ryan Cullen
To:
Sent: 8 Dec 2005 20:40It was recently noted that 10-20 people have managed to get Jerry Springer the Opera banned from your stores.
As a regular shopper and a former staff member, could I therefor ask that you should remove the Daily Mail immediately as it offends my beliefs.
From:
To: Ryan Cullen
Sent: 9 Dec 2005 08:33Dear Mr Cullen,
Thank you for taking the time to contact us. I am very sorry that you are unhappy with our decision to stop selling Jerry Springer, The Opera on DVD.
Please let me assure you that we would never wish to cause offence to any of our customers. As a retailer, we feel we should offer our customers a choice of what to buy. We monitor all feedback about the products on sale in our stores and I can confirm that we are no longer selling Jerry Springer, The Opera.
Thank you again for letting us know how you feel. We are committed to getting things right for our customers and I do hope I have been able to offer you some assurance.
Kind regards,
Kelly Brookes
Sainsbury’s Customer Services
From: Ryan Cullen
To:
Sent: 9 Dec 2005 21:51Whilst I have no concerns over you selling Jerry Springer, The Opera, I do have concerns over the Daily Mail which is what my email was regarding.
Can you please inform me if you are planning to remove this publication as I’m sure there must be others who have contacted yourselves regarding the sale of it.I look forward to your reply.
Ryan Cullen
From:
To: Ryan Cullen
Sent: 12 Dec 2005 14:55Dear Ryan
Thank you for your further email. I am sorry that my colleague’?s response to your previous email was inappropriate. I can assure you it was intended in the best possible faith, and I know my colleague made every effort to reply to your question fairly and honestly.
I do appreciate that your original email was to ask that we remove the Daily Mail from sale in our stores. I have passed your comments on to our buyers for their consideration. They will carefully monitor all the feedback we receive from our customers and will make an informed decision in due course.
Thank you once again for your email and our support with this issue. We are always keen to have views and comments from customers, as it helps us to monitor our service and make improvements where necessary. Your views are therefore most welcome.
Kind regards
Graham Salmon
Customer Response Team
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd.
Maybe well see it being removed from the shelves.
A quick post whilst at work.
Last night I was joking with Heather that the front pages of all the newspapers would be covering Hemel except the Daily Express, which would of course be coving another Diana story.
Am I really suprised that I got it right?
First they have a large fire which the