Archive for July, 2004

UK Government prove they’re biased towards London once again.

Tuesday, 20th July, 2004

Plans to expand Manchester Metrolink have today been scrapped by the Government in favour of London’s Crosslink.
Yet more evidence of the north/south divide attitude of the Government.
Londoners don’t know they’re born with the Underground. London has a perfectly good mass transport system that every other city in the UK would gladly accept, yet the government […]

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Very advance Warning of Motorway Accident

Monday, 12th July, 2004

Today, the Variable Message Signs (VMS) at M62 J8 were showing:
“A1(M) J48, Accident”
Considering that this is 69 miles away (as the crow flies) this has got to be applauded, except that they were unable to warn that the sliproads from the M602 to M60 were closed on Friday night, causing a 14 mile diversion, which […]

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Intuit’s Lack of a UK Quicken for Mac

Sunday, 4th July, 2004

I think it’s crap that Intuit can’t come up with a UK version of Quicken for Mac.
I am forced to keep an old PC running just for this software, yet once again, the US customers are catered for. It’s not exactly difficult to change a dollar sign to a pound sign. I’m not interested in […]

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