Category: My blog

Compensation culture

The compensation culture has now resulted in some councils painting around obstacles on paths and even marking out where pedestrians should be walking. Where there’s blame, there’s a claim… Link – BBC News Read more →

Having a bad day ? Watch this..

When you’re having a bad day, just have a think about the pilot or pilots involved in this mistake. It was all captured on camera and is on the BBC website. “Whoops” doesn’t even come near to describing it. Link – BBC News Read more →

Have you been speeding ?

Speeding is bad, but now “most Police forces” have adopted a practice of just giving “speed awareness courses” to people doing less than 10% over the limit plus 9mph. This effecively means that if you’re caught doing 86mph on the motorway you won’t get any points – you have to pay for a course telling you that you should slow… Read more →

FTTC – Further info

There seems to have been some interest in my earlier post on FTTC / Fibre To The Cabinet / BT Infinity so here’s a bit more info and some more pics. These shots were all taken on the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc by the way… Here’s the new BT socket. The BT engineer actually left the front of the face-plate… Read more →

Walking for 16 hours a day, and filming it.

OK, I’ve had an email. Strangely it seems that there’s a few more people reading this blog than I initially thought. James tells me… My housemate is walking non-stop for 16hours a day for 7days just because another housemate said he couldn’t. Crazy.. some money should be changing hands, surely ? Anyhow, if you’re quick you can watch him here. Read more →

Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) Installation

Yesterday I had FTTC installed. Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) is a product sold by BT Retail as “BT Infinity”. This post will be a little geeky… FTTC promises “up to” 40Mbps but this depends on the quality of your copper and the distance to the green box. Up until now ADSL1 (“up to 8Mbps”) or ADSL2+ (“up to” around… Read more →

Car insurance madness

A few weeks back I was looking for car insurance and was shocked at the increase in premiums. In the news today this teenager received a quote for £33,000 from one insurer, which is a heck of a lot more than I got quoted. However… if I was to go back onto those price comparison websites and do another quote… Read more →

A week away, but that was no holiday..

Hello all. I’m back. It’s been a very strange few days. I won’t go into too much detail but my son was admitted to hospital with a very high temperature and we ended up living there for about a week while he went on to catch a chest infection and have IV fluids pumped into his little veins. I cannot… Read more →

Super fail

Do you run a company ? Do you run a company with lots of outlets in the UK ? You do ? How about you ruin all the hard work and money you’ve spent doing that by telling Brits that their women are ugly and the food tastes crap ? This dick did just that. No doubt he’ll pop up… Read more →