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Jumat, 11 Juni 2010

Too long for twitter

Alex von Tunzelmann of The Guardian a bit annoyed that an Indian film maker is making a film about Hitler, lumpung the whole country together and declaring them as displaying a 'shocking ignorance of history'.

Uhm, how about the British and Hollywood media losing their ignorance about the rest of the world for once? From as long as I can remember the media and their tag along Hollywood friends have preferred to gloss over the forgetten victims of the second World War, or indeed any war.

Too long for twitter

Selasa, 11 Mei 2010

Unelected PM?

I swear I would kick the next 'journalist' who complains about 'unelected prime ministers'. There is no such thing. You do not vote for prime ministers, you vote for members of parliament to represent your constituency. Whether David Cameron (whose party did not win I might add), Nick Clegg or whoever runs Labour next becomes prime minister, they are still 'unelected'.

Fucking hell, you would think political editors would know such thing, but like everything else run by the mainstream (mainly Tory) media they are just ignorant dolts.

Unelected PM?

Selasa, 23 Februari 2010

TalkTalk still taking the piss

Well today is the 23rd of February, the day TalkTalk promised to get us online despite much delay. So how did it go?

If you are reading this, it meant that that they have fucked up yet again (you now, didn't bother to send us the router and login details). Yes, I wrote a preemptive rant about it and scheduled the post because I had a feeling that no parcel from TalkTalk will be waiting when I got home this evening.

This is hardly surprising when they are investing in a stupid infrastructure called "we'll call you" instead of actually taking care of their paying customers. This naff service aims "to provide older people who live alone with a guaranteed weekly natter, free of charge." No shit, now how about a service that aims to provide current paying customers with the minimum service you promised??

Anyway time to give TalkTalk a call and give their poor customer service a good kicking in their verbal ass (who I normally do not blame, but I do now since the previous person promised me that we would be fine today). In the meantime enjoy the new TalkTalkScums label/tag. I have a feeling that it will be used very often.

While we are at it, I am seriously considering just dropping the whole broadband bullshit and buy a prepay Three Mobile Broadband dongle instead. I wouldn't be able to download much (and certainly not PS3 demos, sigh), but we have a library nearby with free internet connection to misuse and abuse.

TalkTalk still taking the piss

Senin, 22 Februari 2010

Curling is shit and so is BBC's Winter Olympics coverage

Dear BBC,

Short rant: Your Winter Olympics coverage has been dreadful. Utter crap.

Long rant: Why bother with the freeview 'press the red button' 301 channel, when you are just going to broadcast curling on both BBC2 and that channel? I understand that there are people who have a hard-on for boring sports, but seriously, why broadcast the same fucking live event on two channels? It makes zero sense.

Why not use one of the other channel broadcast highlights from other events? Also, of all sports, why dedicate so much time and money on curling - easily the most boring 'sport' about people cleaning the floor? Why is curling taking precedence on the Beeb over other classic winter Olympic sports like ski jumping and figure skating?

Also, we do not need BBC presenters in expensive jackets to tell us how the snow is over there. We have eyes and we can see. Oh wait, we can't. Because all you show is bloody curling.

Much regards,

TV License Tax Payer

Curling is shit and so is BBC's Winter Olympics coverage

Jumat, 19 Februari 2010

Yes, TalkTalk still sucks

A couple of weeks ago we received a letter by TalkTalk stating that our broadband service would go live on 18 February. But the 18th came and went yesterday without them even bothering to send us the broadband router and login details.

Called the customer service and was passed around a couple of times. Finally a lady told me that the new live date would be on the 23rd of February. I demanded to know from her why didn't they send me a letter or text message and she could not answer me. I also asked her why have I been billed since 18 January when they have fulfilled their obligation.

And here's the kicker.

According to her, broadband is 'free' and therefore I have not been charged with it. I have only been billed for 'free inclusive' calls, and because broadband is a 'free add-on', I should not expect to complain about it.

What a lying bitch. When I called in December (yes that long ago), I asked to be signed up for TalkTalk Essentials (yes, I am a stinker, but I really do not need more than 40GB a month - at least not yet). Now according to TalkTalk's own website and promotions - TalkTalk essentials includes:

Fast broadband: up to 8Meg
40GB monthly download allowance
Evening & weekend calls to UK landlines
FREE wireless 'G' router

Don't believe me, here's a screengrab:

When I applied back in December, the salesperson told me that I would not be billed for January, until my broadband connection is active. So who's lying? I do not know, but it is clear that from the moment they delayed our phone line connection that TalkTalk is an incompetent company and that they have an active policy to misled future and current customers.

So there, I am actually paying TalkTalk for not providing me the service they promised. Liars? You bet there are. Unfortunately for us, we can't do much about it as broadband in the UK are pretty much still in the stone ages.

Moral of the story? I wish we had cable in our home and we were still with Virgin Media. From my 2 1/2 years experience with them I know that Virgin pretty much sucked, but my problem with them has always been their incompetency rather than any policy of attempting to lie to their customers, and I rather be with an incompetent company than one trying to steal from me. It would be great if there was a broadband provider that is neither, but this is the UK. You can't expect much.

In a couple of years time traditional phone lines and fixed broadband would be dead thanks to LTE, and so will companies like TalkTalk. I can't wait.

Yes, TalkTalk still sucks

Selasa, 16 Februari 2010

Nokia E55 gets v31 firmware update (allegedly)

If various online reports are to be believed, both the Nokia E55 and E52 has received firmware updates thus putting the software version at 031.012 - up from the previous v21. The 7MB update, which is said to contain bug fixes rather than new features, is allegedly be live via OTA (over the air).

Not surprisingly Nokia Care UK, and their unnamed outsourced UK-based third party support and service partner, has yet to make available the update for UK destined unbranded sim-free E55. I have tried updating this morning but to no luck. I made a mistake last month of applying the v22 update which caused my then super stable E55 to something that is a bit less stable, so I am quite anxious to try out v31.

Nokia E55 gets v31 firmware update (allegedly)

Kamis, 28 Januari 2010

TalkTalk

As you may know, we've moved to a new home sometimes in mid-December. It is a new build, so while there was already a phone line installed by BT - it hasn't been activated. Naturally we wanted to get online as soon as possible. You would think that this being a developed country, getting connected wouldn't be an issue. It has been almost a month since I called and our home is still not connected.

December 2009 - called TalkTalk, requested to have an engineer active our telephone line (new build and all). Customer service tried to sell me Virgin instead(!), but after 20 minutes the application failed because our address isn't recognised (new build and all). Transferred me to a TalkTalk sales person (!) who took 40 minutes jotting down my details and trying to sell me upgrades. Sales person booked 6 January as the date when they will send an engineer. Backup dates includes the following two days.

5 January 2010 - received a text by TalkTalk that our engineer would only visit on 15 January!

15 January - phone line activated by BT engineer with no issues.

19 January - received text by TalkTalk confirming our phone line is now active (duh) and we can start making calls.

23 January - received two letters by TalkTalk, one which confirms that our broadband activation date would be on 18 February - 1 1/2 month after I first contacted them and one month after the line was activated by BT.

TalkTalk

Selasa, 22 Desember 2009

Nokia E55 v22 firmware update

Is finally available for UK sim-free E55 - more than a month after it was released in Australia and whatever new Eastern Europe country that emerged over the past couple of years. Nice knowing how Nokia Care UK and its outsourced third party support treats its customers in the UK. On the upside at least the update is available via OTA.

Update: Well, the firmware update could not have gone smoother. Took about 3 minutes to download via OTA, apply the firmware update and for the phone to reboot. All my data and applications (including Java) has been preserved so no restore was required. So top marks to the software engineers at Espoo, but still a big boo to Nokia UK for making us wait.

Nokia E55 v22 firmware update

Kamis, 03 Desember 2009

RBS bankers can fuck off

So the fat cats arseholes that runs RBS are threatening to resign if they can't throw away £2 billion worth of taxpayers money onto their overpaid staff? This is a simple none-issue. If the government has any balls they will sack the bunch of ungrateful bankers with no severance pay (just cite incompetence and theft as reasons for dismissal). Throw out their pension pot as well I say. The taxpayers can have it back instead.

Fucking wankers.

RBS bankers can fuck off

Jumat, 13 November 2009

Nokia E55 receives v22 update (apparently)

According to online reports, both the Nokia E55 and E52 has received firmware updates thus putting the software version at v22 - up from the previous v21. The update, which is said to contain bug fixes rather than new features, is allegedly live via the Nokia Software Updater (NSU) client though not yet available via OTA.

OTA: great in theory, poor in its execution

Not surprisingly Nokia Care UK, and their unnamed outsourced UK-based third party support and service partner, has yet to issue the update for UK destined unbranded sim-free E55. I have tried updating last night and this evening but NSU and Ovi Suite reported that my v21 firmware was the latest and greatest. To be honest I actually have no reason to apply the update as I have yet to encounter a single issue or bug with the phone. Still, it would be nice if all customers were treated equally, particularly those who paid more for an unbranded phone.

Update (19 Nov): Still nothing. Nokia Care UK really do hate us over here...

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