Absoblogginlutely!

tmobile can’t read.

By Andy on Wednesday, February 25, 2004

T-Mobile sent me the following email after I complained that I had been hung up on after querying my final phone bill after cancelling the contract due to them increasing the costs…….

>Thank you for your email about your pay as you go package.
Pay as you go? I was on a contract
>As a connection action was not made within 180 days, your mobile number >was suspended and entered a 90 day hibernation period. Examples of a >connection action are:
>1. Crediting your account
>2. Sending a text message
>3. Making a chargeable call
It wasn’t suspended as I was making and receiving calls and you’ve billed me for them which is why I am complaining!
>During the hibernation period you were unable to make and receive calls or >access voicemail.However, you could still call Customer Services on 150.
You can’t call customer services when tmobile cancel the sim card!
>Your mobile number could have been reconnected within the 90 days for a >charge of £10.00. As the 90 days has now passed and the line has not been >reconnected, it has been permanently cancelled meaning any credit remaining >on the account will be lost.
I hope they haven’t cancelled my £150 owing on my contract!

My reply is in the extended entry…will be interesting to see if I get a reply.

Uncategorized

One reason why I should never be sick or leave the office.

By Andy on Tuesday, February 24, 2004

W32.Mydoom.F@mm has got at least one of our (remote) users who decided to open the email with an attachment with a zip file which then has an attachment called “joke.txt insert50spaceshere .exe”
The reason they opened the file was “because it might have been a registration email for a conference” despite these normally containing no .zip attachments
Their av was not uptodate for some reason – the definitions dated 22/2 didn’t pick the worm up (and the 23rd’s dats have not been downloaded for some reason). Now I have to go through and check every machine to make sure someone else hasn’t run it.
Aarghhhhhhhhh!

Other Blogs

Postcard Times

By Andy on Tuesday, February 24, 2004

A very good and artistic blog with Picture Postcard’s of an American’s study year in Leeds. It was amusing to read his thoughts on english life and interesting to see the normal, everyday things that stuck out to an american visitor, but which we brits take for granted. The photos are really well done and it makes good reading – highly recommended.

GPS

Geocaching and Tommy Guns.

By Andy on Monday, February 23, 2004

I really didn’t think I’d see those four words in one sentence, but there is a Livejournal user, kitiara who blogged about Geocaching and firing a machine gun in the same post!
Sounds like double the fun!

Cold

Cold.

By Andy on Monday, February 23, 2004

I’ve had a really annoying cold since Friday after I spent the best part of 2.5 days in a client’s air conditioned computer room. I was either wearing a jumper or coat and didn’t feel that cold but my nose obviously thinks otherwise. I was suprised to find that it wasn’t too bad when we were geocaching on top of the Roaches on Saturday when the wind was howling, but it was pretty bad and giving me a really congested head on Sunday so I took today off as I didn’t want to spread the germs around much more (than I had on Friday!) Hopefully tomorrow at work won’t be too bad – we’ll see.

Work

Debt collection

By Andy on Monday, February 23, 2004

Found a good site with some tips on freelance working and ensuring that you get paid on time. This page, although primarily aimed at journalists has some good links on ensuring you get paid with a very handy interest and penalty calculator to determine how much you are currently owed. So far my bad debt that I am chasing owes £18 in interest, plus a £40 debt collection charge!

Real Life

Nice mexican

By Andy on Monday, February 23, 2004

We had a nice meal out on Saturday night at El Rio’s Mexican and Cajun Restaurant in Macclesfield. I had been there for a meal with work some time ago and the food was really good. I’m not convinced the food was as nice as the last time and I was disappointed that we didnt get to see the live jazz as we were tucked away in a (cramped) corner but I think we all had a good time. Afterwards we went to Andy’s Father’s brother, nephew’s cousin’s dad’s pub which reminded me of a local back in Portsmouth and reminded me that there aren’t any nice locals in Congleton (that I’ve discovered). Although I don’t drink it was nice to go out for a pint to relax occasionally.

Apache

Replacement htpasswd.exe

By Andy on Monday, February 23, 2004

Tried to create a htpasswd file for my Foxserv installation but it complains htpasswd: -c and -n options conflict. Turns out this is a known problem and by downloading a replacement htpasswd.exe from Echo Online Technical Support I was able to create the required password file.

Hacking

Spywareinfo under attack

By Andy on Saturday, February 21, 2004

I know a lot of you will have read this already, but the reason I couldn’t get to spywareinfo.com the other day wasn’t because of kazaa having a blocker in it, but because they are under a extreme DOS attack with all the servers that they try to use being attacked. Sounds pretty scary.

Real Life

Cheesy Bread

By Andy on Friday, February 20, 2004

I wrote the next bit whilst in a restaurant in London earlier this week. Hope you find it as amusing as I did.

A party or 9 people sat opposite me in the restaurant. “Cheesy bread” said one man. Two seconds later he asks it anyone has seen the cheesy bread. “Cheesy bread”. “Oooh- they have cheesy bread! I know what I’m having” came a second later. At this point I think the whole restaurant knew what he was having……
SALAD
… after all that fuss, he had salad.

The other good thing is they upgraded my pizza from small to medium. So the entertainment and free pizza made a good evening out. Unfortunately I’m having to spend it in London and work although this does give good opportunities for people watching.