Thank you very much indeed, Norfolk Constabulary. Thank you for costing my company a day’s lost fees. Thank you for wasting £60 of my money for the hotel room I’m in now. Thank you for doing absolutely sod-all to help the hundreds of motorists your incompetence incovenienced.
What am I talking about?
Today I had a dental [...]

Hmm. Well that’s interesting. I’ve just received a junk e-mail to an e-mail address set up specifically for use on the William Hill website some months back.
So does that mean someone’s hacked their customer database or is it just a bizarre coincidence that someone has managed to combine their site name with one of my [...]

According to the BBC News website, the Metropolitan Police says it has spent almost £8M monitoring the Tamil protest at Parliament Square – this was up to 19 May 2009. According to the TV news tonight, the cost is now £9M and this is being used as the basis for reviewing allowing peaceful protests.
ORLY?
So it [...]

I recently booked a seat on a train from London Euston to Birmingham New Street. It was for the Bank Holiday Monday yesterday. Now travelling by train and Bank Holidays usually mean engineering work, but there was not a hint of anything wrong when I ordered the ticket through the Virgin Strain website.
I wanted to [...]

Here are my numbers for 2008 (2007 stats. in square brackets) broken into two parts:
First half of 2008 (up to 30 June 2008):
227659 e-mails received (plus the GMail ones).
211699 spams filtered by MailWasher Pro.
93% spam.
Second half of 2008 (up to 30 December 2008):
62,319 e-mails received (plus the GMail ones).
41,672 spams filtered by MailWasher Pro.
66% spam.
Combined
289,978 e-mails received (plus the [...]

Well Claire lied: having been told again nearly three weeks ago by O2 that they would definitely call me back within five working days and that Be Broadband – part of O2 – would have removed their details from the line, their website still claimed that a service was already on that line, no-one called [...]

Well no surprise there: having been told on Friday by O2 that they would definitely call me back within 24 hours by when Be Broadband – part of O2 – had removed their details from the line, after 48 hours their website still claims that a service is already on that line and no-one has called me [...]

I have just moved into a flat in London and had thought I’d use my Vodafone mobile for voice calls and my Vodafone 3G USB stick for Internet access. The thinking behind this was that I am already paying monthly sums for both services, so why pay for a new line and new broadband access? This [...]

My bike is safely tucked up for winter (apart from the odd bit of fettling). So being a dutiful citizen, I declared SORN online when the tax disc expired in the Autumn.
So far, so good.
I have a couple of ride-outs coming up in a few weeks, so it’s time for me to apply for a [...]

Le plus ça change…
According to the Office for National Statistics, inflation is running at 2.2%. Clearly no-one told South Norfolk District Council about this as our new council tax demand is up 4.0% on last year.
Talking of last year, do you remember how last year Norfolk Police Authority couldn’t keep to any sort of budgeting [...]