Rants

No cover, no deal

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I recently tried to buy a personal PC / mobile phone so I could work on the go, and emailed Dell on their website to find out about WIFI access on one of their products.

No response from them, naturally.

I emailed again, still no response – so I bought one in PC World.

Now, I foolishly tried to order a laptop from them as well, so phoned them this time. They said I couldn’t get it before Christmas, so I said I wasn’t interested – at which point they changed their mind and said they could fast track it. The salesman (who had a limited grasp of the dialect) tried to sell me some extra cover, to which I refused.

He didn’t like this, he then put me on hold and promptly hung up – the twat.

Seems if you don’t buy cover from Dell, they don’t get much commission, so aren’t interested in speaking to you. Last time I’ll be using those arseholes.

Google, Internet

Google homepage improves RSS

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I just logged onto my Google hompage to check my feeds from the variety of crap websites I like to get my daily fix of junk from, and I noticed they’ve updated the way they get the feeds.

Notably, they’ve created a little + sign that allows you to view the description, which has a spanking effect on the feed from Yourcarisshit.com. I’ve been working on this feed for some time, wanting to get the car images fed through – and now it does! Check it out:

Your car is shit

The feed itself isn’t available from the website yet, as it’s undergoing a radical upgrade to make it 70% more offensive – but should be done by the weekend.

Shit cars direct to your homepage, how cool is that?

Rants

Tesco can’t be arsed again

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I don’t believe it, for the second time in as many weeks I get some oik in Tesco telling me to use the self service till.

Now, if I wanted to operate tills when I enter a shop I’d have slacked off in school to such a degree that working in a tesco express was the highest achievement I could hope for. However, I don’t and I didn’t.

When I go into a shop, that has staff, is it too much to ask that the lazy fuckwits actually do the job they’re paid minimum wage for? I am not using the chavmaster 2000 self shoplift till, I expect someone to actually serve me.

If Tesco think they’re going to phase out tills in their shops, they can do so without my cash injection. Tossholes.

Humour

Steven Seagal World Tour

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This is not a joke, at least not one by me. Steven Seagal is embarking on a world tour, taking in such places as Swansea, Liverpool, Tunbridge Wells and Cardiff.

You can see the full list of venues over at www.stevenseagal.com (obviously that’s your homepage anyway).

Seagal

He’ll be in my area on February 18th – now can I convince anyone to go? I would assume not, but of course, as Seagal himself taught us, Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.

Movies

Oscar nominations

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The Oscar nominations are out, and the pick of them can be seen here:

Best picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best director
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best actress
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Full list here…

Now, the thing that pisses me off is why Little Miss Sunshine is nominated for best film, but the director isn’t up for best director. How can something be gauged good enough for a best film award, if the guy who made it isn’t good enough for a best director award???

If I’d made a film that was up for best picture, and I wasn’t up for the director gong I’d be kicking off bigstyle – but I reckon the chances of Cop on the Edge winning best picture are slim.

Internet

1and1’s latest bullshit excuse

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For those following the progress of Internet hosting company 1and1’s email screw up this week, the story has taken a comedic yet not entirely unexpected turn.

Internet Geek news The Register has posted its third installment of the news, where some soon to be ex customers of 1and1 have vented their anger.

The real humour comes however from 1and1 themselves, who have passed off this monumental cock up as nothing more than planned server upgrading and maintenance.

Following an important update to our mail server software and the subsequent restart of the mail servers, there have unfortunately been delays in the delivery of inbound email to your mail boxes.

Now don’t bullshit me guys, I’ve used that excuse to clients before myself (any clients reading this, just kidding!).

Oh yes, honestly, your service has been down all week because we’re improving our service to make things better for you, instead of the truth, some pizza faced twat has spilled his coke in the server room and fucked up all of the hardware.

Morons.

So much anger, so little time