A New Beginning
Time to Start Again After a while I had to stop posting to the Hampshire Bus Changes blog. I had to stop because there was just too much time being used and very little income from it – I was not...
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O2 Suffers Outage – Your Rights on a Consumer Contract
This article was originally published in July 2012 when O2 suffered a horrendous service outage and affect most of it’s UK customers. The information is still valid as far as we know. Service Update...
View ArticleWeek 2.5: I think the scales are broken
I have not forgotten you; I have been hard at work and continuing to take daily exercise on the Confidence Vibration Power Plus. I weighed myself mid-week as I wanted to depress myself at putting on...
View ArticleDependence | Veri-Failed By Visa
With all the dependence on electronic banking, you can forgive those that have an almost reliant dependence on the use of their debit or credit card. E-Banking is gaining in popularity but people are...
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Bad Customer Service | Santander
FINAL UPDATE (Thursday): After making the complaints and actually having a permanent contact within Santander who was called Parvin, the money is finally back in my account and I have been offered...
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Everything Everywhere – Except Data
Everything Everywhere, formerly known as T-Mobile and Orange, have release their new super-fast 4G tariffs for both mobile phones and mobile broadband. 4G is coming to the UK but the costs are going to...
View ArticleTesco Delivery | Every Little Helps a Contingency
As one of my now rare gripes on the Golden Block, we have to turn our attention to a company that has a shop every few miles whichever direction you turn; Tesco. Following a break away, which meant...
View ArticleA New Website is Not New Unless It Has Problems
Finally I can say that my latest website development project is now live. Well I say it is my development but the truth is of course that when someone said “a Drupal and CiviCRM based website sounds...
View ArticleDon’t Play with Pictures
For those that do not know (that means almost no-one) I am currently working with a new website using the non-profit focused CiviCRM and open-source CMS Drupal. I am new to Civi and so I am still...
View ArticleTime To Start Again
You’ll see, if you have ever been to the Golden Block blog, that all the posts have disappeared. I do this every year after 6 months of procrastination over what to do, what to say and ultimately; what...
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My New Toy : Fitbit Blaze
It’s rare that I get the chance to indulge in some tech spending, but I have just gone and bought myself a fitness tracker-come-smat watch to try and sort out my distinct lack of exercise. Yes I know I...
View ArticleNew Politics, New Commentary, Same Old Me
The last few months have really ground on me from a political point of view. I am very careful, I only discuss my political views with the view; the wife, my teammate at work and occasionally my...
View ArticleThe mouse saw a nut…
… and it was good. You have not raised a child until you have read The Gruffalo a few hundred times and watched the – admittedly excellent – BBC commissioned short film. If you look to far into it...
View ArticleDisconnecting from the World – Travelling by Train
We are now arriving at Birmingham New Street. I rarely travel by train now, but for a change I am heading to Derby (of all places) for a meeting of like minded volunteers working for a communications...
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