I hate this night on the BBC. All of it.
Do the decent thing all the time and not when your strings are jerked.
And celebs needing a career kick – that’s half the bloody cast.
Wogan.
That F****** bear.
We were sat in a pub a few years ago. A quiet pub. Really quiet. Someone came round with a C-i-N bucket – “Put some money in the bucket and have some fun!” What?
Looks like film time then :)
Filezilla. On the left of the toolbar is the site manager. Just next to that is a small arrow which when you click it a drop-down of all your sites appears. Now maybe I have a wrong setting but WTF is it in random order? I cannot – and believe me I have tried – get it to display in alpha order but it won’t. I’ve searched with google, I’ve searched sourceforge, I’ve searched google groups and it is not even mentioned. It’s this sort of detail which drives me nuts – and if it wasn’t for the fact that I cannot find an automated way to turn Fz’s exported .xml file into something another ftp program will swallow then I’d have a “free” copy of something else running. If I cannot get this sorted then I will indeed wear the eyepatch. Anyone got a clue?
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And it’s not arrived. What a surprise. This NEVER happens on Invision boards, it NEVER happens on miniBB or bbPress or any other flavour. Only on phpBB. This includes shiny happy forums run by big companies to the slightly grimy parts of the net. Every damn phpBB board waits and waits and waits and waits… “has been sent” – crap. “will be sent at some random time in the future. This is to lower the load of newbie questions so give up and get lost”. That must be it. Maybe that’s why people keep hacking it – because they get fed up of waiting for that registration email. Stupid.
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Sometimes it becomes utterly impossible to get an idea across. Sometimes it just pays massively to walk away and wait for the mess. Still, the frustration helped throw a couple of kg on the weights today. I had no intention of going. None. Monday’s can be busy days but today it was needed.
Painful back from trampolining didn’t help. Neither did traipsing around numerous shops to buy some boots which was fruitless as they were all too narrow (“No thanks I do not want trainers…” for the nth time. I don’t care if it’s summer and I have a pair of trainer things. I want some Caterpillar boots. Big clunky proper ‘step on someone’s foot and they know it’ boots). Walking behind people who are within the regular width of a human but the way they are walking they become 10 feet wide. Why don’t they ban walking and using a mobile phone? Why don’t they ban those Bluetoothing idiots who think it’s cool to talk into that chunk of plastic while walking but they don’t realise they are tilting their head toward the busy ear – makes them look even more stupid.
I should relax a bit. Think of nice things like my shiny new computer :)
That post below about Misco. It’s about them not doing what they say.
Winston has had a lot of treatment from the vet over the last couple of months and it cost on exces of £400 which we didn’t just have lying around. The vet sent off the insurance (PetPlan) and assured us we would get a cheque fairly soon. After a week J rang and they said it was in the post. 3 days later – they would put it in the post that day. 3 days after that – it was being processed. J pointed our their policy terms and what PetPlan said they would do in their literature. She had to tell them where to look – their staff did not even know their own company policy. In the end, J got the cheque. Winston’s insurance has been moved to another company and PetPlan have had a furious letter written to them. And all because someone didn’t say the truth.
Had the system at Misco said “It’s Friday. We can’t get it to you until Monday at the earliest which will cost £9 or you could rely on the normal post, which would you prefer” then I – the customer – could have made an informed choice. Fact is their website does not say that clearly – it is there for my benefit I assume – and neither do their staff as I had cause to speak to them yesterday too. It comes down to this – do I want to buy from them again? No. They did not do as they said. I should not be forced into reading the small print when competitors do a better job.
Virtually all the battles we have had with companies are because people were not honest.
Be honest. I can cope with that. Tell me how it is, apologise if that is appropriate and then deliver to your word. Do that and I’ll be back. I’ll be happy, I’ll trust you. Do it often enough and I’ll forgive the odd slip. But screw around the first time and you’ve blown it. Why should I believe anything the second time?
Misco. £3 for regular delivery where they will drop it in the post that evening. £9 for Next Day delivery where they drop it in a truck that evening. Did their system throw a note at me saying “Hey, it’s Friday – you can’t have it til Monday” ? Did it bollocks. They may not work Saturdays but City Link do. It’s been in their warehouse since 4:47 this morning. Can I have it? Not a chance. For most of City Link it’s just a regular day and their staff will be on shifts – so why in hell can’t Misco say “Hey, we are complete scammers and are out to rip you for a few quid because we can”. This ‘working day’ IS a piece of crap. We probably only keep it because if the Govt tried to drop that label the TUC would throw a pink fit, the GWB would threaten to pull their funds and Len Murray would spin in his grave. Saturday IS a working day – that’s why shops are open, why call centres are open and why pretty much everywhere is open – except banks but they deserve a special thrashing in another post.
It seems to me that Misco are either using a system so basic it can’t do a Day of the Week note for customers or that they really are scamming.
Misco – we deliver. Eventually.
Idiots.
For YEARS people have scrunched up crisp packets, biscuit wrappers, sweet wrappers and they have NEVER YET SUCCEEDED IN MAKING IT SMALLER. It ALWAYS springs back to size, and they ALWAYS try again. and again. and again. (Except those idiots who squash crisp packets into little lumps and they are just as bad.)
FFS people – engage brain. LEARN.
STOP it.
Remove wrapper.
LEAVE IT ALONE.
Scrunching it up achieves NOTHING but raising my blood pressure and my anger at you.
Noticed the following?
“What you need to do is uninstall the program, reinstall it and then the program will work”
or
“Uninstall it, remove every single trace from your machine, reboot, reinstall”
or
“Use a greasemonkey script”
And ALL the above apply to some programs when their coders / devotees / screaming fanboys are asked things like “Why does it keep crashing” or “I can’t uninstall a faulty extension”. The top 2 to Firefox and Thunderbird commonly. And some people whinge at rebooting Windows.
The top two above are assuming some sort of installation error aren’t they? Yet don’t people tend to use installers? The second one actually involves editing the registry! Do they say how to remove all traces? Do they offer suggestions? Do they warn? Do they care?
The top two are laziness. “Hey, I’ve a problem with WordPress. It says ‘Headers already sent’ – what do I do?” That’s easy – tell your host to get a new server, format it properly and then install the OS properly this time. That’s what the top two answers are doing – lumphammer approach. I could understand it if I saw this sort of thing at the end of an exhaustive thread, but a couple of posts? laziness.
And greasemonkey is useful. And abused. Some scripts are there because basic functionality has been left out, or ‘features’ left in.
Thing is, if you are telling someone to remove/uninstall then they should also be told about data loss – you cannot assume they will know. “Ah!” they say “their information is actually in %/appdata” – but what if it’s their data that is the problem? Their uninstall/reinstall will be for nought. And didn’t people used to castigate the likes of Microsoft for using ‘hidden’ data folders when now we have Open Source programs doing precisely the same? (And as I blogged before, Ubuntu is equally guilty).
When you have your data fully backed up it’s very very easy to say “Nuke it all and start over”. If you have that attitude then the only reason you hang around in forums and newsgroups is to boost your ego without giving a damn about the person on the other end. People like that are almost as annoying as those that say “Search” in a bid to up their post count.
I bought another DC08 because the one we had previously worked flawlessly for years. This one is the obvious result of all the outsourcing and costcutting that Dyson have done. It is a backward step. Why on a machine that will be used in a variety of positions around a home can they not design a hose that does not kink so fantastically easily is either because they do not possess the knowledge – but they do – or because they have taken a deliberate decision to produce a very poor alternative. Avoid this cleaner completely.