Wogan to quit over eurovision voting?
Posted on May 25, 2008 by Chris @ 12:51 pm

Is Wogan going to quit after the political voting appeared to break his ethical bone?

Whilst talking about Kevin Bishop his producer quitting, Sir Terry said:

“He and I have to decide whether we want to do this again. Indeed, western european participants have to decide whether they want to take part from here on in.”

The situation has obviously struck a bad ethical note with him…
“I have to decide whether I want to do this again”

Eurovision hasn’t been quite the spectacle it once was for many years and to be honest Wogan has been making the best of a bad situation for many years now.
It won’t be the same without him!


12 points… do me a favor…

With our party’s scoring Finland won ;)

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cottages4you (aka VRG) suck
Posted on January 2, 2008 by Chris @ 11:27 am

I hope you all had a better festive season than me. -4 degrees on Christmas morning with a broken boiler in the heart of northern France wasn’t much fun. We perceivered for a couple of nights with the loan of some crappy electric heaters and a temperamental example of French home wiring. We had to give up when the elder family decided it was way too cold and enough was enough.

I’m going to cause a lot of pain for somebody at cottages4you today – their emergency numbers were off-line for the duration of our troubles.

Update: c4u customer care are now in the office and have been very responsive. If only they could have been like this out of normal hours.

Update #2: Situation resolved. c4u do not deny our situation and their errors and have resolved matters accordingly.
The out of hours services need to improve. It still sucks that cottages4you’s emergency numbers were offline (not even voicemail based callback) on bank holidays. They really need to step it up a gear and make sure that phone is covered 24h 365.25days a year for big issues. Being an agent for a contracted landlord is no excuse and does not prevent them being liable for issues since thats who the customer has a contract with at the end of the day.

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Stop Motion Haircut
Posted on September 30, 2007 by Chris @ 10:20 am

One of the most creative videos I’ve seen in ages. Enjoy!

You can see more of Tony & Pauls work at freeposterfilms.com.

Got to stop lurking around online entertainment and get on with my laundry & packing, I’ve got two very full weeks on the road ahead at APWG and MAAWG.

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Congratulations Daddy Mason!
Posted on August 30, 2007 by Chris @ 10:11 am

...and mummy Mason too.

Congratulations on your last good nights sleep in a couple of years!

Family

As you can see from the close-up she inhereted her good looks from mum :)

Baby

News leaked from J’s flickr ;)

Very best withes to all three of you! You’re all looking very well so now on with the serious business of wetting the baby’s head!

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Terrorists & Subversion
Posted on July 3, 2007 by Chris @ 9:33 am

Developer Humor:

“Subversion is not terrorist speak”
:-D

Use OpenDNSIn other news OpenDNS are starting very early for sysadmin appreciation day. They are currently seeking your “protocol errors” ;)

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mini-itx’s baby sister pico-itx
Posted on June 29, 2007 by Chris @ 12:14 pm

Pico-ITX is really tiny [Review]
At just over half the depth of an mini-itx it’d hide perfectly almost anywhere if they could only sort the need for the huge 240v->12v brick and power adapter.

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“Obvious” the patents worst nightmare
Posted on May 15, 2007 by Chris @ 1:05 pm

I see Amazon have fallen foul of trying to patent the obvious. I mentioned over a year ago that the word obvious was hampering eBay’s patent efforts and I stand by my claim that simple obviousness going to grow into a much bigger issue for the USPTO.
News coverage c/o ./

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PricelessPedia
Posted on April 27, 2007 by Chris @ 9:05 pm

The wikipedia entry for “List of collective nouns for reptiles and amphibians” contains this priceless entry:

Lawyers – A vulture of lawyers

Naughty…Tee Hee (I’m writing another quiz)

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Glastonbury 2007 304:Too busy, 404: Sold Out
Posted on April 1, 2007 by Chris @ 10:57 am

I missed the boat on tickets again due to the ticket site being unable to cope with the load.

If you are looking to purchase ADULT (aged 16+) / CHILD (aged 13 – 15) festival tickets with COACH TRAVEL click here – SOLD OUT




For Non-UK Residents:

If you are looking to purchase ADULT (aged 16+) / CHILD (aged 13 – 15) festival tickets click here – SOLD OUT

If you are looking to purchase ADULT (aged 16+) / CHILD (aged 13 – 15) festival tickets with COACH TRAVEL click here – SOLD OUT

Oh and the eBay touts selling links to the page above at £3.50 a time deserve being reported to their payment providers too.

UBDATE: eBayers are also offering to fill the form for you, since that gives them access to redirect the tickets to their registration address it could be a scam.
(edited to remove the wonky html that was screwing up my layout)

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Oh the irony
Posted on March 13, 2007 by Chris @ 8:20 pm

Adrian Fawcett(COO) is leaving Punch Taverns (9300 pubs) to work for General Healthcare, the people who own the BMI chain of private hospitals. Brief story.

Fixed price laser surgery for people with beer-goggles issues will be next on the menu ;-)

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