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My foam-mouthed ranting could go either way this morning, as I am waiting for a customer support helpline to open. Why so? Yesterday I bought some parts from EBuyer.co.uk (No, they do not get a link from me, they don’t deserve one yet.)
In true UK E-Retailler fashion they have dispatched, as always, the wrong parts. The item in question this time is a Chieftec BX02-B-B-Sl Case. A quick shufty at the Chieftec website indicates that said case is all black, save for the center panel. What I received was a BX02-B-Sl-B, which not only looks thoroughly homosexual but is also THE WRONG CASE.

Why does this always happen to me? I am being tested.

The EBuyer support lines open at 9am, so I will be venting my spleen at them shortly. The results of said venting will doubtless be aired here soon.

*UPDATE*

I called their support line and spoke to the lovely Karen, who said she’d do all she could to arrange for free courier collection of the case today. Just a few moments ago, a Citylink van turned up and whisked it away. So, the case will be with them tomorrow, and hopefully when I pester them around 1100hrs, they’ll dispatch a replacement same-day to get to me by Thursday.
I live in hope.
All is not lost, my DVD writer (NEC2500a) arrived earlier also, so I’ll be bunging that in soon and backing up all my work, finally! I bet as soon as I publish this, my main HDD explodes in a puff of smo…

What is it with Wall Street and business directors? All they want is profit, profit profit. Profit has become the sole measure of success for a business these days and if you’re not making any, you’re obviously failling.
But hang on a moment.
If you’re providing a top-rate service, you pay all your workers a healthy salary, you have provided for business expansion, refurbished your offices and on top of that paid yourself a big fat salary then, well, why measure the business success by the money you haven’t spent and have left over?
My case in point is British Airways, once again the BBC starting my rant juices flowing.
They were “suffering” from falling profits. Lets see, this year their profits are up around 100 million on last year. “Gee wow” go the shareholders and economists. Ain’t that dandy? Well, to be honest, no. They’ve sacked countless employees, scrapped flight routes, stuffed planes in the hangar and I’m betting the workers canteen has either closed or is at least no longer subsidised.
In my eyes, British Airways is stumbling down the well-advertised path to false economic glory and humanitarian faliure.

When will these pig ignorant brokers and directors get the message? How does the huge profit help the company? It doesn’t. Sure, money in the bank could buy more planes, lead to pay rises or a new canteen, etc, but if you scrapped that to get the damn profit in the first place you’re just eating your own tail. Money-mad greedy investors and people who control the ephemeral “values” represented on the stock market will destroy the place. I guarantee it. Not only that, but whilst the average UK worker is sat at home, wondering how he’ll pay his rent, the damn bastards at the top will be contemplating whether spend this years profit excess on having their yachts refurbished in beige or charcoal.

For anyone who couldn’t get to my site Friday/Saturday, it was because my host United Hosting were doing some server shuffling and under their new system you cannot make database connections to “Localhost” anymore, only to 127.0.0.1
Thanks to the excellent mods in their support forums as soon as I was tipped off about the problem by Zimmerframe I had it fixed within a few minutes.
Doesn’t mean you get any new photos, though.

Last night (13th May) I went to see Derren Brown live at DeMontfort Hall.
What can I say except damn.
He makes no secret of the fact that his whole act is based around well known human psychologies, but the way he handles people on stage like puppets on strings is nothing short of the work of a Jedi Master. Even though you can pretend to understand the psychology behind it when you try and explain each demonstration you inevitably hit a brick wall every time leaving you thinking “How the…”

There are only 2 more dates on the tour at Cardiff and Belfast and they’re more than likely sellouts like DMH was. As soon as I get wind of another live tour I’ll be pestering people to go and see it.

Witty, superbly entertaining, well presented, informative, funny and frighteningly intelligent. For the price of 28.5 king sized Marsbars, a night’s entertainment that comes highly recommended from me.

I have been quiet for a week.
Can’t tell you why, but the time just seemed to flap past without me logging into my website. Happens a lot. I keep promising myself to take more photo’s but it’s not happening.

Ok, now the post.

This BBC article about a wallaby being kicked to death made me bloody angry this morning.
The 3 shits who did this, the 3 arrogant, insolent and downright evil wastes of carbon and air that did this need to be disposed of, humanely if possible, but if they have to be flayed of their skin and drowned in hot tar then so be it.

These murderers will not receive any punishment because the UK legal system is powerless to dispense it. My girlfriend works with young criminals, so I have a fairly good perspective on how utterly incapable the UK’s system is for dealing with under-16 white trash. Was this the fault of the parents? Who knows, fact is there are 3 twisted, brainless murdering brats out there who will just laugh this off and go their own way.

You have to have a licence to own a dog. Any cretin can have a kid.

Really, really angry.

Forget this, the all new version is out. I blogged about it here but you can just go grab all the goodies from the Amazon Media Manager homepage. Thankyou.

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Recently the rapping chap Eminem won a case against a UK company who were using the domain eminemmobile.com to run their business. Now they have to hand it back to him within 10 days.
As much sympathy as I have for the multi-million-dollar music star discovering to his horror he can’t register what is obviously his number1 choice for a domain, I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if he was no more than a regular Joe on the street without the ability to summon more lawers than Harvard to his cause ?
I want someone to register www.denyerecshop.com or something, so that I may win a similar case and prove to the world that money doesn’t really buy justice.

Watch out Eminem. If Bill Gates decides that ‘Eminem’ would be a nice release name for the next build of windows, you might find yourself evicted from your cyber homes…

For the evidence suggesting that money buys you justice these days, skip to the BBC article.

Nothing much for today. I feel like crap (Cold) and am having another “Wouldn’t it be so much easier to be hit my a truck” moment. The only thing that tickled me on the BBC today was an article about junkfood, the irony was truly painful and the last bit really tickled me.

As though to emphasise the size of the task, a documentary (“Super Size Me”) is about to be broadcast in America featuring a person who eats nothing but McDonald’s meals for a month – and who gains 25 pounds in weight.

For the British, that translates into nearly 2 stones.

If McDonalds can make the reverse come true, then they deserve some serious praise. I wonder if everyone will forget their involvement with deforestation if they fix obesity? Probably.