It's funny that..
.. one day you're enjoying ice cream from an ice cream van hired by your employers and the next you're discovering that your job is...
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2025
Today I am mostly..
.. very angry with HP (Hewlett Packard) and their [bleeping] servers. And I am especially annoyed when they remove vital software (albeit discontinued) from their...
Tron: Ares - about as innovative as a spoon
When Tron opened in 1982 it sat squarely at the cutting edge of cinema technology. Its ground-breaking computer-generated imagery—created on mighty mainframes such as the...
My Sky "Complainty" is resolved!
(Well, hopefully. A solution has been proposed, I have accepted.) Good to see Sky stepping up (finally) and have acknowledged my complaint(y), and what's good...
Harry Potter and the Search for More Money
[ I'd like to preface this article by saying that all opinions, experiences and views are my own, and not that of any company or...
The new M&S ransomware.. meal deals?
Help! I feel I've just been held to ransom(ware) by M&S's pricing on their food items. Imagine my surprise when I popped into M&S Food...
Not BBQ, but Barbican..
I’m having a bit of a trip down memory lane. Principally, I think I was trying to recall the street where my maternal grandmother used...
Wasabi by name, wasabi by nature?
I recently made a somewhat expensive mistake (which I am now trying to rectify or appeal), and it has highlighted just how important it is...
My Sky "Complainty"
I've never encountered a company like Sky that uses more email domains and subdomains than I've had hot dinners, especially when trying to maintain a...