Category: My blog

Nice one Mr Putin, you bloody idiot

Yes, he really did say this on TV about homosexual visitors to the Winter Olympics .. We are not banning anything and we won’t arrest anyone. You can feel free in your relationships but leave children in peace. That’ll go down well Mr Putin. Oh yes, that won’t cause any problems at all saying that. You donut. Read more →

EE – Your FTTC router is easily hacked

I’ve had fibre broadband through EE and have been quite happy about it. Trouble is, it can be easily accessed using simple URLs. It reveals your ISP username and further details so easily it’s embarrassing. If you’ve got a Brightbox router, read this, because your router is open to the world. Pretty terrible stuff EE. Read more →

Logging into my lottery account

You can buy lottery tickets online. It’s really easy. You login, choose some numbers and then you’re done. Most of the people in the UK don’t seem to realise this, and choose stand in a stupidly long queue in your local Tesco. Today I logged into national-lottery.co.uk and .. I’ve got a message !! I knew it. At long last,… Read more →

The adventures of an unhappy npower customer

Last year we decided to change our electricity and gas supplier. npower, our supplier at the time, had put our prices up and, after checking on a comparison site, I decided to go with someone else. The competitor was offering a fixed plan and it was cheaper deal so we changed. We moved across on November 26th and, to be… Read more →

I can hear a cuckoo.. Am I going mad?

Here is the new Breach tune that’s getting played heavily all over the place right now. However, I have a problem with it.. ..it contains a cuckoo… Perhaps it’s just me, but the second part of the song, where it goes, “Yeah, woo! Yeah, woo!” has a weird noise which I’ve heard four many months now after listening to it… Read more →

Another school shooting in the USA

I’m being harsh, but this is what’ll happen now.. 1 – Lots of people / children will be hurt or will be dead. 2 – We’ll probably find out that it’s a lone gunman with a gripe of some sort. 3 – Americans will be united in their grief. 4 – Nothing serious will be done about the easy availability… Read more →

eBay. You’re still a bit crap

Apart from the stupidity of questions that’ll meet most eBay listings, this is another annoyance – the fact that any old postage price can get added to listings. Even ones like this, which are just designed to mislead buyers. Sort it out eBay, because this is crap.. Read more →

RBS. Your infrastructure is key. Rebuild it now.

I’ve worked and known others that have worked for many companies which are heavily reliant on IT. The servers, the networks, the infrastructure – it’s generally not the only reason for failure. What I’ve found, for the majority of the time, is that management fail to respond or invest in IT when it’s so critical to the business. Last night… Read more →

Lovely, lovely npower

I’ve recently left npower, who were providing our gas and electric. To be honest most providers seem to be robbing us blind at the minute, but npower have made £390 million profit last year and the “big six” have seen their profits rise by 75% last year too. Just this monrh npower whacked up their prices by 9%. Now they’re… Read more →

Panorama on Amazon

I watched the investigation into working conditions within the huge Amazon warehouses that are dotted around the UK. As expected, the “pickers” who go and grab your order from the miles of shelving have to work hard and walk quite a bit in the process. The undercover reporter was given a trolley and a hand-held scanner told him what to… Read more →

Stafford Hospital

I really can’t get away from Stafford Hospital. It’s only a few miles away from me and is one of our local hospitals. It’s also in the news day after day. I don’t just mean one day, I mean every single blinkin’ day. Some of you may remember that my father was at Stafford Hospital in 2007. I really didn’t… Read more →

Blank spaces in your WordPress RSS feed?

If you use WordPress and find that strange blank lines are creeping into your RSS feed, you can try inserting this wejnswpwhitespacefix.php file or, if that doesn’t work, try disabling GZIP compression on your site (check your performance plugins such as W3 Total Cache etc. If all that doesn’t work, try making yourself a script that runs via cron. It… Read more →

Dear Sky TV

If I select channel 101, give me the HD version of BBC 1 with the local programming (OK, the BBC need to sort that bit out. If I choose 102, I want BBC2 HD. If I choose ITV, I want ITV HD. If I choose 104, I want Channel 4 HD. If I choose 105, I want Channel 5 HD.… Read more →

Parents. Read this. Read this right bloody now.

I’ve been using the internet for a while now. I like to think that I know my stuff. I’ve spoken to many parents who’ve bought an iPad, laptop or iPhone for their child, then let them use it however they see fit. Ask yourself a question before you buy a gadget for your son or daughter this Christmas… 1 –… Read more →