…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 [...]

So Apple’s new iPhone 4 was announced yesterday and no doubt all the Apple fanbois will soon be getting their sweaty mitts on them. I mustard mitt that I watched the video late last night and started to give getting one some serious thought. Looking at the tech specs, it’s lighter, thinner and shorter than [...]

I suppose I’ve been spoiled by online merchants like Amazon and even Dell. I expect to place an order online, fill in my debit or credit card details, specify a delivery address and then expect my goods within a few days. Sadly, not all big names are like this. HP are, without doubt, the most [...]

…is that that composite word is a contradiction in terms. My Nokia N97 is becoming the most annoying thing in my life at the moment. Why? the touchscreen is slow and unresponsive sometimes, which means that it takes twice as long to enter a text message or input data due to errors the touchscreen is [...]

I have been pondering the present economic crisis and looking at what is behind the latest financial scare, Greece’s debt reclassification as junk. The company behind this latest panic is S&P and their word is gospel to governments and financial markets. And they were, of course, the ones who gave AAA ratings to the “collateralised [...]

Google is currently throwing lots of money at Sky to show big banner ads on Sky’s website for Google’s excellent Chrome browser. Does Google not know that Sky’s interactive listings guide doesn’t work with Chrome? “We have detected that you are using Chrome. You need Internet Explorer, Safari 3 or Firefox to view the latest [...]

Never again! I will never again buy any shoes from Fredericks of Hollywood. For non-US orders, they use iShopUSA to ship them and they are utter fecktards: 2 March, order paid by credit card: “Credit Card Payments Your credit card will not be charged until we have been able to verify the details of your [...]

The Lincoln office of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Office have apparently built up a backlog of registrations, etc. Which means that due to their incompetence and inability to cope with what should be planned demand, I cannot get a tax disc or get the personalised registration number for my new car. And that means [...]