We’ve just had a bill through from them, with a meter reading that they took on the 28th August, billing us £82 for three months usage. That figure is utter crap, it’s way too high. Not to mention, there was no meter attached to our supply on the 28th August! That’s a day or two after I noticed that the meter had been removed.
They’ve put the bill on hold (just as well, because I was going to instruct my bank not to pay the Direct Debit) while they send an engineer out to see what’s happened, then when they get the report back they’ll “adjust the bill”. I can suggest a suitable adjustment – stick the thing up your fucking arse!
I placed an order with Amazon today, and applied a gift voucher to it. When I added the voucher, I was quite amazed by the saving it offered:
I had no idea I’d received a 9 billion pound voucher! Unfortunately, it subsequently changed to the correct figure of £20, otherwise I’d have added all of Amazon to my shopping basket :)
I’m setting up a PC for my future father-in-law right now. I’m avoiding installing Windows as I hate dealing with it. I’m happy to help him to get to grips with using the machine and doing whatever he wants with it, but not so happy with having to provide Windows support (after all, I don’t use Windows, so I can hardly call myself an expert at it).
So, I needed a Linux distro that’s clean and simple that he should be able to just get on with. My friend Tony recommended PCLinuxOS as a suitable distro, so I thought I’d give it a spin. It boots as a live CD incredibly easily, auto-detecting everything. Once at a KDE desktop, it’s a usable system already. If you want to actually install to the HDD, just double-click the install icon on the desktop (yes, it has KDE set to require double-click for icons; no doubt useful to save confusing people moving over from Windows, but left me wondering why the hell it wasn’t doing anything). The process is simple, and the ability to sit here with a working system and a copy of Firefox to keep me amused whilst the installation progresses is actually quite cute :)
When we moved in to our new house back in April, I contacted Three Valleys Water and gave them the reading on our water meter, and had the billing sorted out etc. One of our neighbours told me that TVW had buggered up and were reading *our* meter and billing them for it – I’ve now found out that they’ve made another mistake.
Just tried to make a post on WebHostingTalk, and was met with the error "You need five posts before being able to use any of this board’s vB code features. Including smilies and linking to URLs."
Gee, great idea. So I can’t help somebody by providing URLs to useful documentation, until I’ve spammed the forum with 5 worthless posts? That strikes me as really sensible – not.
Ditlev from UK2 is trying to put together a list of the most popular scripts & web apps and asks for feedback on your favourites – whether it’s WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, phpMyAdmin, SquirrelMail or any of the thousands of scripts out there, go and cast your vote :)
Updated my DNS propagation tracker, so that you can specify a set of nameservers to query rather than using a random set, or enter a domain to query the nameservers listed for that domain (useful if you want to check that all nameservers for your domain are giving the same answer).
Okay, I’ve moved my blog to a new server, and upgraded too – I’m now running WordPress checked out from WP’s Subversion trunk, so I’ll be staying up to date with the bleeding edge of WP. Hopefully there won’t be too much breakage each time I update :)
If you notice anything not working right, please let me know in the comments, or mail me direct (davidp AT preshweb DOT co DOT uk).
This lion was raised by humans and then released into the African wild. See how both the “parents” and the lion react when they see each other for the first time after being separated for an entire year…
