Humans are made not born

Stig

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:56:14 GMT

(http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2786.html)

Dear LiveJournal

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:37:31 GMT

Bring back the old mobile website or I'll stop reading altogether as the new one is shit.

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Hockey Final

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:22:49 GMT

Well, as I predicted, that was an awesome game!

Real edge of the seat nail biting stuff!!

Crosby with the finishing touch during sudden death overtime. I'm waiting for him to start getting called the new Gretsky any second now :)

GO CANADA!

And for the first time in forever I've actually set my mood on this entry and discoverd I'm using the Penguins, which is very appropriate given Crosby plays for the Pens :)

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:06:14 GMT

This poll has sprung out of a conversation at lunchtime... so I'm interested in the popular opinion...

View Poll: Girls Aloud

For reference:
Cheryle Cole GIS Chickipedia
Nadine Coyle GIS Chickipedia
Nicole Roberts GIS Chickipedia
Kimberley Walsh GIS Chickipedia
Sarah Harding GIS Chickipedia

Customer Service

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:44:28 GMT

Winner of my awesome award for customer service doesn't go to Scottish Hydro Electric this month.

A short while ago, they silently swapped us from quarterly to six monthly billing. This resulted in a mahoosive bill dropping onto our mat instead of just a massive bill.

So, I called them up, spoke to a nice young lady (in my mind she was smokin hot) had a general whine, was swapped back to quarterly billing and said I was happy to pay half, but the other half would have to wait a month. This was all very easy to sort out, notes were put on my account etc. and I ended the call a satisfied customer.

A few weeks later, we received not one but TWO nasty demanding letters for the unpaid balance.

*sigh* another phone call to customer services where I spoke to some guy who will for the sake of this entry be played by Frostie. Wasn't as helpful as the smokin hot lass and was fairly short and to the point. I can tell he's not getting any. He did say that yes there were notes on the account and was fairly direct in his "so when will you pay the balance?" line of questioning. I repeated my end of next month (aka - just after payday!) line and he confirmed he made another note on the account etc. All was as well as could be expected with the world but I was a little pissed I had to call them again.

Fast forward to yesterday.

I was round at a friends after work for a cuppa, and I get a phone call from The Wife. We had a nasty letter through the door from the Scottish Hydro Warrant Officer who had turned up collect the funds or fit a prepay meter. For some reas onwe weren't in when he turned up (see my further rant on this below) and, oh yeah, they were charging us £30 for his visit. Very threatening letter basically stating they would be getting a warrant to break in and fit said meter (and maybe break your legs) if you don't pay immediately.

So... I called the number on the Threatening Letter and spoke to the guy who was fairly useless as he "didn't have access to the computer to check any notes" but said he made notes against his work order of basically everything I've just related above, and advised us to contact the customer services again....

So The Wife did so. And according to the drone she spoke to, the reason that this was all happeneing is that neither smokin hot girl nor Frostie noted a date when we would pay by in their notes. Really? You could have like at least called us and asked - I get enough phone calls from your sales people trying to get us to take up your various home care agreements in case my kettle breaks down...

So anyway, The Wife paid the outstanding balance on the credit card to make them fuck off *grr* and hinted at how unimpressed we were at this £30 charge for some guy turning up on our doorste and luckily they waived that fee.

Still, in the very very near future we'll be looking for a new electrickery supplier as we've been fairly sure we're not getting the absolute best deal staying with them, but haven't seen the need to take the time to go through uSwitch to save a nominal amount every year.

Oh, and once I dig out the paperwork for the cover on my boiler if its with them, that'll be getting changed too.

Fuckers.

Anyway, I'll give the award to the nice lass that I spoke to yesterday while renewing my car insurance... I was very urprised to note that its been 5 years since vodkafrenzy managed to shoulder us with the Panda/Icon of Coil mobile :)

History lesson

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:25:51 GMT

After a comment made in the depths of Facebook the other week, I went and dug out an old backup of www.elizium.net - specifically the galleries...

So, a fuck of a lot of pics (700+) are now up on Facebook for all to see...

I've added them to the Elizium Facebook Group for easy reference. If you're on Facebook, GO TAG! If you're not on Facebook, you can view them here:

Elizium presents Sulpher
Elizium presents Covenant

Elizium @ Glow 303
Elizium Dec 2000
Elizium 20/04/2002
Elizium 18/05/2002
Elizium 07/07/2002
Elizium 15/03/2003
Drake New Years 2002/03
Elizium 19/03/2003
Elizium 03/05/2003
Elizium 03/08/2003
Elizium 17/08/2003

Jasons Pics
Jims Pics

Avatars
Emma's BBQ
Lashed
Burnination 03/08/2003
TNAC 2002
Whitby IX.V
Random stuff

Totally Vacant.

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:41:26 GMT

Bored.

There is nothing on telly that grabs me... and hasn't been for a while. All the channels seem to be in the mid-season breaks between series.

Does anyone have any recommendations that I can add to my Sky+ ?

Funk to funky

Thu, 07 May 2009 18:11:41 GMT

Have decided I really really like Ashes To Ashes.

I've also decided it would be a fuck load better if they just left out the flash-forward stuff with Alex as its getting embarassing.

With Props to Adam for linking this...

Wed, 06 May 2009 21:19:54 GMT

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:44:58 GMT

Ok, who left it?

Photo-0044

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:26:52 GMT

Photo-0044

Let me know when you see it......

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:50:22 GMT

Hexmas playlist

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:46:30 GMT

View of our garden 02/12/2008

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:14:21 GMT

View of our garden 02/12/2008

Took a few minutes to grab some pics before leaving the house and used Autostitcher to link them all together to show off the awesome :D

Sorta abridged update...

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:10:49 GMT

Wow, so much good/bad/meh stuff has happened over the last while that I should really put it in a massive long entry. I've not had the time to put it all down until now. However, I'm now feeling laaaaazy so you're just getting bullets in the order I remember stuff in.

MY PHONE HAS STOPPED ALERTING ME TO TEXT MESSAGES. Am out of contract 1st of January... trying to decide on a new handset.... sad to say that I'm actually considering an iPhone.. (Moved to the top so make sure folk read it)

Ended up in work for a couple of hours today... the aircon in the computer room seems to have died about 11pm last night. Servers started dropping at about 3am this morning when the ambient temp in the room hit the 45°C mark.... Temp A/C units in place and everything back and running ok (Thank Fuck!) currently considering building our own container computer room...
Dinged one of my rear wheels on the kerb on Monday. Flat tyre shortly after on North Anderson Drive during rush hour. Thankfully the lady whose house we'd parked in front of told us to move forward onto the drive in front of her Winnebago which never moves so we wouldn't block anybodys house and also turn on its headlights for us :) Got the wheel hammered out on Tuesday and needed a new tyre... the black smoke was a bit of a giveaway when I pulled over... £50ish. Bah. At least I didn't need a new wheel as well...
Got Hexmas all sorted out now. All of the event stuff we'd been hoping to pull off fell through (Balls) . Luckily thoroughly nice bloke asw909was available for some hawt guest DJ action! We were introduced to him at Infest this year and seem to have quite a number of friends in common. You can check out some of his playlists here and here. Promises to be an awesome night :D
Been on a poker winning streak :D
Night out last night - leaving do for someone at work. Was a good laugh, though I'm about 90% sure that two of the bars we went to were gay bars... The first one seemed to be a covert lesbian meeting spot, but the second was a bit more overt and was having a Rocky Horror night... a clever cover?? ;-) Ended up in Espionage, where I kept loosing everyone I was with and as I hate the place I bailed to Moshulu... where I bumped into Jim, Dave, Tequila Mike and random American guy.

One of my uncles has been diagnosed with Leukemia. About a month after my aunt died of cancer.

Got a nasty computer virus so ended up rebuilding stuff *sigh* Luckily I'd just got myself a 1TB usb drive to back all my stuff up onto. Going to rebuild my home server as more of a media server and stream stuff direct to my PS3/360 over the network. To that end I'm seriously considering running cabling through the house as wifi is a bit gish for streaming massive media files over.

Finally managed to start getting some time to listen to my the new CDs I've bought in the last few months. As expected some dross and some gems. Sadly most of it isn't really clubby.

See, told you it would be a fairly random order.

HEXMAS 2008

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:43:18 GMT

View from our bedroom yesterday

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:47:05 GMT

There were a different paid furtling about on saturday, but they were next to some bushes so the pics of them are a bit crap.

21112008757

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:18:25 GMT

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75 Comincs being made into films...

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:06:43 GMT

http://denofgeek.com/movies/147293/75_comics_being_made_into_films.html

Dragon Riding...

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:39:35 GMT

Yesterday I indulged in my sense of purile nonsense :)

Rugger

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:30:59 GMT

Anybody fancy some Rugby?

Scotland V Canada at Pittodrie on Saturday (22nd)? About £20/head...? (£30 for better seats)

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:19:13 GMT

Woo hoo... feel those extra xmas savings....

http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/acci/web/site/CouncilNews/pr/pr_abfirstfarecuts_121108.asp

"Cheaper than ever" !!!

But still not cheaper than it was a few years ago, thus thats a lie.

Play pre-orders

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:29:10 GMT

I'd completely forgotten about this until a conversation in the pub last night...

Is it just me...

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:53:00 GMT

Or is the new profile page even worse than the old one???

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:35:55 GMT