So, it’s not long now til I have to travel down to the parent’s place in Oxford. Lucky me.

Whether I’ll update after tomorrow for a few days is totally unknown – a lot depends on whether I can be bothered. But I’ve got four hours each way on a train to pplay with other stuff, so there’s likely to be new content (and possibly a fair amount of it) after the Bank Holiday.

Have fun…

Note to self:

When making chilli with jalapenos (for that little bit of extra kick) DO NOT then rub your eyes afterwards. (The onions were vicious too, made my eyes water, and I rubbed my eyes – I know, about as smart as a concrete block)

My eyeballs now glow in the dark. This is NOT cool.

Cunts. Absolute total fucking cunts.

“Who?” I hear you cry.

And lo, the answer bellowed forth “United Utilities” or “UU” as they like to be known. (I’m not the only one who thinks this stands for “Utterly Useless”)

I’ve just had a shitty solicitors letter from them saying “we’re suing you for the money which you haven’t paid us”. Pity that the entire amount got paid on the 1st July, and the useless fucking bastards have conveniently lost it. And when I ask them whether they “lose” the money of people who’ve complained about the utter shiteness of their so-called “service”, the phrase “Oh no sir, we’re not that petty” doesn’t exactly ring true.

And now I’ve got to wait til Tuesday to find out anything more about where my money has gone to in the wilds of UU’s bank account, because they’re useless fuckers. Obviously Friday isn’t a working day at UU. Come to that, I wonder if there is such a thing as a working day for them.

And yes, this should have gone into my own rants section, but fuck it, I couldn’t be bothered.

I’ll write more when I’ve calmed down a bit, and the keyboard isn’t bouncing across the desk with every keystroke.

Updated, 21.50 23/8/02
  What a surprise. Got a call – they’ve found the money I paid them, there’s now no need for a solicitor’s letter etc., and the rest of this year’s water rates has suddenly been knocked off my account by way of an apology. Amazing what can happen when you’re pissed off, isn’t it?

And another archive/set of changes to the home page of the site. God, you can tell I’m a techie, it’s forever changing, “improving”, and generally being tweaked. Still, it’s fun, and it’s better than sitting around watching effing soaps and the like.

Well, that’s not bad. Two permanent jobs applied for. Two interviews. One next week with UK space/rocket nuts for a Web techie, and one tomorrow with the people who do shitloads of psychometric testing. Who also need a Web Developer/Techie. How apt, the original psychometric test fucker-upper, interviewing with them. I wonder if they’ll make me take one of their tests?

Updated 23/08/02
They didn’t. And so far the supposed call-back hasn’t happened either. Hey Ho.

Maybe this is just my warped view on life, but during the ITV news, where they were saying about a man being arrested for murdering two children, (obviously it wasn’t on the BBC news, but that story was the first one I found the link to) was it really all that tactful to have a Birds Eye advert with Captain Birds-Eye surrounded by kiddies?

Isn’t it just a teeny-weeny bit dodgy to have an advert of a grown man surrounded by children? Or do I see too much into these things sometimes? But he seems like the paedophiles role model, living in a situation like that.

(Actually, it’s quite fun to use this Google search to look at all Captain Birds-Eyes different sites.)
Anyway, I’m sure it’s just me thinking into things too much. Hey Ho.

Ooops – thanks to H for pointing out I’d fucked up the link on the previous post – ’tis fixed now though.

And also for pointing out the CCS CSS fuckup when links highlighted in IE. My apologies, I hadn’t realised it looked that shit. It’s changed now.

That’ll teach me to check things in IE won’t it. I only use Nutscrape and Opera. Ah well.