I'll be cancelling it in the morning.  Whoever thought that £8/month could be a rip-off?

 

I was just enjoying watching an old movie on TCM, one of the few channels thats any good for my £8 a month, and it cut off 5 minutes before the end, because it was 1am and thats what they do.  More and more channels with narrower and narrower time slots for each.  UK Style, for instance, has stopped broadcasting in the evening, which is the only time i want to watch it.

 

 

An email advert arrived from Apple this week that promptly made me unsubscribe from their mailing list because it annoyed me so much.  I know it made at least one other person do the same.

 

Apple don't understand that many Window's users are actually quite happy - very happy in fact - and when told that they're stupid for choosing so, they take it as an insult.

 

I don't care about Window's security problems because i've never been affected by them.  i've got a firewall, i've got free anti-virus software, and if you've got an up to date version of XP, you should also have Windows Defender (also free) to look after the rest.  With that setup, I've never had a single problem.  So i simply don't care that there's 10 million viruses out there.  If me and my friends and family kept getting affected by them, I might get bothered, but none of them ever have been!

 

I'm currenty sitting on my couch with a coffee and my fab wee laptop on my knee.  Its playing music at me off the internet, i'm editing my website, working on my blog, remotely accessing my other PC to check email and stuff, im on yahoo and msn messenger, and i've got various websites open all at once.  Oh yeah and my laptop cost a fraction of an Apple one, isn't about to set my lap on fire and is very fast.

I'm completely addicted to it.

 

I use it like a sort of personal video recorder, particularly to watch American TV such as Craig Ferguson on the Late Late show, and clips from Jon Stewart's fab today show.  The TV companies should probably worry, because i'm not aware of watching any adverts.

 

It works well, the clips start instantly, even on my old PC, and I usually end up spotting something else in the 'Related' list that I want to see too.

 

None of the other video sites are as quick and easy to use.  Thats the key - the interface.  Google and MSN's efforts weren't a patch on it. 

 

Can you tell i've got too much time on my hands....?

Well last week, while travelling through the straits of Gibraltar, she made 32.4 knots.  This is seriously quick, by any standards, for a passenger ship of this size.  There is no other large liner that can travel this fast.  Not bad for a grand old lady, launched in 1967.

Your Driving Is is: 54% Male, 46% Female

According to studies, you drive both like a guy and a girl. This means you're a pretty average driver, with typical quirks. Occasionally you're frustrated and or a little reckless, but that's the exception - not the norm. Do You Drive Like a Guy or a Girl?

Today's date (in american format) - is 9/11/01 upside down...

Very sad story.

 

I have a laptop and a desktop PC connected to the same wireless router. This must be a setup that zillions of people have.

 

What I want is the router to have an internet cache inside it so that when i download a file on one PC, its in the cache already if i download it t the other PC.  I've used Microsoft's ISA package on a server before, and it does this, so something similar but inside my router please!

 

If someone already does such a thing, please let me know!

Watch the video too...

 

Have a look at these - some of them just make me laugh.

 

I've had my MINI for 2 years.  Its a fantastic car, no doubt about it.  Completely reliable, and brilliant to drive.

 

BUT

 

Now I want to sell it.  And I can't.

 

The motoring press tells me that the MINI is the lowest depreciating car on sale today - period.  But I don't think they're taking into account the options.  Options that EVERY MINI has.  Usually thousands of pounds worth of options that you're encouraged to get to make your car 'individual'.  There are tens of thousands of combinations available.  Each car is built to order for you, so you can get exactly what you wish on it.

BUT THEY DONT TELL YOU THAT YOU'LL GET NOTHING FOR THESE WHEN YOU COME TO SELL!!!

 

So, in a random example plucked from the air, you may have a MINI COOPER with £3k of extras on it which cost over £15k new.  List price £12k.  So if this car sells for £10,400, it looks like a good deal - compared to list price.  When actually the owner has taken a near £5,000 loss on it - making it one of the poorer performing cars with regards to resale values!!!

 

Its a huge CON.  And I think BMW pull it with the rest of the range too.  I'm a seriously disgruntled owner now, despite the product being good.

 

NEVER BUY A NEW MINI!!!  AND IF YOU DO, DON'T GET *ANY* OPTIONS!!!