Posts where I’m ranting about someone or something

Thanks a bunch EE

Their FB page says: We’re EE – the UK’s biggest and fastest overall network, offering 4G in over 100 towns and cities, as well as Fibre Broadband. This is the coverage map for where I live…. … pretty crap really… my phone “Should” work outside most of the time. Interesting contract – I promise to […]

Moronic Comment spammers

What a stupid comment spam: If you are going to post spam comments (which automatically get trapped by my spam filters) the least you could do is post stuff that is slightly amusing and makes sense rather than this complete bullshit The offending IP ( 84.232.199.214 ) is Canadian – which makes a change from […]

Semalt – the SEO company who lie to you.

On January 24th Andrew Timchenko from Semalt sent me a Private message on Facebook: Dear Stephen From now on your websites: tty.org.uk Canalplan.org.UK Canalplan.EU Canalplan.co.UK Pubnight.org.uk won’t be visited by our robots. I would like to bring apology on the behalf of our company if our service caused you some troubles. I’d told him that […]

Samsung UK – Fail!

These are screenshots from the GooglePlay store for my UK Samsung S3. Both these apps are "System" apps which were installed by Samsung and cannot be deleted. AllShare Play is, as you can see, not compatible with the phone which is pretty impressively crap. Galaxy Choice, however, is compatible with my phone but its in […]

Oh, look, a long lost blog…..

After all this time, having brushed away the cobwebs and caught up with a lot of software updates, I find that my old blog still works. A lot has changed, but apparently not the complete shite that spammers use to try to make you think that their crap is a real comment. Take this pile […]

The case of the stranded contacts

I quite like my G1, and now I’ve got TasKiller it’s battery life is almost reasonable. One of the big features of the G1 is that when you set it up you have to tie it to a Google Account. This gives you access to email and also synchronises your contacts and your calendar on […]

This Hoover Sucks

Back in 2002 Kathy and I bought a Hoover AAA 140 washing machine. Hoover, a good name, so its going to be a good washing machine. Might last as long as my parents Hoover washing machine (aeons) or their Zanussi (not quite as long but still pretty good). How wrong we were. Within a couple […]