3.4.10

Try Doing Business Online at Holiday Time

This is a simulcast with Duncan's Diacritical Discussion

Have you ever had a problem and tried to solve it online over a bank holiday weekend? For the last few bank holidays I have had something to try to resolve that surfaced just as the holiday had started or was about to start. Something different each time.

In all faith and with confidence you write to the support line, help line ... and explain everything. Then sudden death. Nothing happens. Nothing.

So this has happened again: I got an email on Thursday to tell me that the latest upgrade to some software that I want to upgrade has arrived. Yesterday, Good Friday, I tried to upgrade but for some reason it won't accept any of my email addresses as my registered address even though my copy is fully registered.

So I wrote yesterday morning to ask how to resolve this and pay for the upgrade. Death by silence.

If I complain about this or make a suggestion when they do reply, which effectively will be Wednesday because it's American software and I am more than a working day ahead of them, they will ignore it as a whinging Limey's rant!!

End of rant!

DW

1.4.10

The Addled Mind of a Warbler who thinks he knows Something

I see that primary school teacher turned vest wearer turned warbler turned "campaigner" has blurted something else to prove how addled he is. Gordon Sumner, in other words.

Sumner is a NIMBY person: no one should do what's bad and wrong ... oh! apart from me.

So neither you nor I can fly in an aeroplane because of the environmental damage that causes. He can.

Neither you nor I should have more than one house because that means you've got to travel between them and that's bad for the environment. He can.

HIs latest oafish comment, although I have only read the headline, is that he thinks smoking cannabis is fine cos, like, you know, whatever. No one has been damaged by smoking cannabis apparently, so, man, Roxaaaaaaaanne, like, smoke on yeah!

Where's Wally? Found him: he's living under the pseudonym of Sting the Vest Wearing Hypocrite and Know Nothing Warbler.

Clown!

DW