I was interested by the evolving story of how a policeman from Greater Manchester Police managed to spectacularly wreck a new VW Golf R in the wee small hours of the morning recently. It started with a report on the BBC News website that told us that: “The Greater Manchester Police officer crashed the £33,000 [...]

Another year ordering some expensive chocolates from Thorntons and specifying a delivery date. Another year when they fail to deliver, due to their using that complete shower, Parcelnet/Hermes/Home Delivery Network/Yodel/Any Other Name We Can Think Of for so-called Premium Delivery. Last year, they “lost” the packages of chocolates I was having delivered to my London [...]

To be honest, I’m feeling a little let down: when IOS5 was released for the iPhone and iPad, Apple introduced iCloud and a new feature, called iTunes Match: iTunes Match If you want the benefits of iTunes in the Cloud for music you haven’t purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution. It’s built right [...]

So my shiny newish HP ProBook 5320m has the facility to take a SIM card which means no worries about a dongle being lost or losing a USB port. HP’s Connection Manager software allows you to chose the connection speed: 2G or 3G or Auto for either. All this is fine. The trouble is when [...]

Oh dear! It seems that the bigwigs at Premier Inn aren’t aware of the philosophy that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Some dabbling seems to be spreading around their hotels when it comes to the Premier Inn “eat as much as you like” breakfast: whereas before it was all freshly cooked to order [...]

Ah well.  It looks like the time for me to close my HSBC account will soon be here. They’ve announced that within a few weeks I won’t be able to log in to my online banking unless I use my Secure Key. Now, at the moment if I want to log in to my online [...]

From March until mid-June 2011, Jamaica Road in Bermondsey is partially dug up whilst Thames Water replace some of the main water mains along there: you’ll see this if you watch the London Marathon this weekend. This has been causing lots of congestion for a while with traffic usually backed up onto and around the [...]

…but you can never leave (or at least you can expect to be repeatedly billed for services they don’t provide). Yes, they’re at it yet again and it’s getting really tiresome. And what’s worse is that these fecktards can’t even operate their phone system properly, constantly hanging up or dropping calls. “1&1 Accounts: The Home [...]

So much for “Digital Britain” and advertised speeds of “up to 20Mb”. I live in London, so not exactly rural or out of the way, and my telephone line is a BT line. BT suggest – via their website – that I can get up to 2Mb download speeds but nothing greater than that. And [...]

Jeez! These people are really, really hard work. I received a letter from Santander at the weekend telling me that my loan account is in arrears. That was news to me, given that as far as I am aware I only have two savings accounts with them (brought over from Bradford & Bingley). So I [...]