Yesterday, as mentioned in my previous post, I (eventually) sent BT a message via their web site asking them to stop making marketing calls to me.
Today, rather than just replying by email to say they would stop, they decided to phone me up. Not once. Not twice. No, they phoned me THREE times. Twice to [...]
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BT really are clinically insane
Contacting British Telecom…
So I get an annoying telesales call from some (for once reasonably comprehensible) guy in India on behalf of our dearly beloved national telco trying, somewhat bizarrely, to offer me a Visa card. After explaining that I prefer to obtain financial services from financial institutions and to stick to purchasing telephone service from a telco [...]
Out of the BlockBuster frying pan…
So for about the last eighteen months I’ve been using BlockBuster’s DVD by post service and, aside from them never paying my QuidCo cashback, things have generally been working fine.
Lately however they have started to annoy me – things at the top of my list for months on end with no sign of them being [...]
MONOPOLY City Streets EPIC FAIL
It seems Hasbro had a brilliant idea – launch a free online version of Monopoly™. So they got Tribal DDB to build it for them and engaged on a media blitz promoting MONOPOLY City Streets everywhere they could. Then they went live… I suspect they fairly quickly wished they had done things in a slightly [...]
Bletchley Park Password Fail
In order to register for the ACCU Autumn Conference (Security; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) which is being held at Bletchley Park on 7th November I needed to create an account on the Bletchley Park web site.
Given the association of Bletchley Park with the history of both computers and security issues, and the subject of the [...]
Tyan AST2050 Mac Address Fail
Apparently all Tyan AST2050 remote management cards have the same ethernet address (00:10:20:3d:40:5f). Certainly the ones supplied in OpenStreetMap’s two new servers, yevaud and errol, had the same address. Which means trying to talk to both from the same machine led to constant fights in the ARP table over which IP address should be mapped [...]
Ordnance Survey Pricing Fail
Ed Parsons provides an interesting example of just how crazy the world UK of geodata can be – when a digital copy (with essentially zero marginal cost) of an Ordnance Survey map costs more than twice the equivalent paper map, with all it’s associated costs of production and distribution, something is very, very wrong somewhere.
They [...]
OnStream Fail
Apparently my gas meter needs to be replaced, and OnStream have been contracted to do the work.
Needing to arrange a time to do the work they wrote to me, in a letter dated 14th July, proposing to do the work on 23rd July and asking me to confirm the appointment. Allowing for the time for [...]
