tenthofjune

What’s worse than the constant stream of spam into your mailbox?

**** French Spam that’s what!

Looks like someone wants to get outside.

Unfortunately, Tilly is only 4 months old, and can’t go outside until she’s spayed at 6 months.

Here’s a question: Why do all insurance adverts have the small print at the bottom of the screen “Excludes Northern Ireland”?

What do people in Northern Ireland do for insurance?

This is my daughter Emily. She was born today.

Isn’t she gorgeous!

Here’s a excellent instruction on setting up the Unix CUPS printing service in Mac OS X to allow Windows PC to print to a USB printer attached to a Mac.

Works a treat!

Saw an advert by the Conservative Party yesterday. Simple white background with the text “How hard can it be to keep a hospital clean?”

I guess they think they can do without the votes of every hospital worker in the country. Someone obviously didn’t screen that advert.

And before anyone asks, I have no political leaning – I think they’re all as bad as each other.

Tried accessing the Argos website today, and it was so slow that it seems they’ve gone over the top in trying to replicate the in-store experience (long queues) online.

Look who arrived today:

She’s 9 weeks old and her name is Tilly.

Here’s a crazy thought: Since most cooking times on microwaves are in whole minutes, wouldn’t it be a great idea to make the rotation of the table tie in with whole minutes, so that at the end of the cooking time, the jug (or whatever container) is still facing the same way as when you put it in, instead of having to reach around the back of the oven to get to the handle.

Here’s a tale of good service for a change…

Last week, I dropped my Digital Camera while it was in its case, and damaged the screen.

On Tuesday this week, I rang Halifax Insurance to claim for accidental damage. They said Empire Commercial (part of Empire Direct as it turns out) would contact me shortly, which they did. Empire asked me to send the camera to them.

I sent the camera on Wednesday. Early on Thursday morning, Empire called to say that they had inspected the camera and it was beyond economical repair, and they would be replacing it with a new one.

I received the camera today.

Well done Halifax and Empire!