Twitter – not really sure I get it. Signed up made a few posts, joined a twibe, and came to the conclusion it seems to have become another form of instant messaging. Or perhaps I don’t feel the need to tell everyone when I stand, sit, walk, fart.
New iPhone 3GS looks awesome, so plan to upgrade on release on 19th June. I have the original 2G so am out of contract – making the upgrade easy.
Many are moaning it’s really expensive because they have to get out of their current contract. Maybe they need to understand better what ‘contract’ actually means. Or are the moaners just a bunch of me, me, me, want it now for nothing kids that society seems to produce these days.
Discuss…
Well, I solved my Orange problem.
Got an iPhone which involved switching to O2. So far so good, O2 support is much better than Orange and I’m getting better data throughput on the O2 EDGE (2.5G) network than I even got on Orange’s so called 3G network.
Plus the iPhone is an awesome piece of kit.
Interestingly once I told Orange I was leaving I got a couple of calls from their sales people trying to encourage me to stay. A fairly frank conversation with one woman revealed that she had over £400 to spend on getting me to stay – in the shape of discount, hardware upgrades etc. Pity they don’t spend the money on more support staff and fixing the frigging masts. Oh yes, I forgot to mention, reception is also better on o2.
Why is Orange support so totally shit?
A 59 minute wait to get through to support to find out why I’m only getting a throughput of 2-3 kilobytes per second on a 3G connections, to be then told it because “we have a mast down”.
We’ll they obviously don’t pick them back up very quickly because the problem has persisted for weeks.
After a couple of chase emails and then a phone call I got the following response. Lets hope they deliver.
I’ll bet a pound to a penny that they are only refunding people’s money if they complain, even though they should be able to tell from their log files which browser/operating system people are using and could batch refund all of those users.
Hi Merl
Thank you for contacting us.
Following the rapid growth of a range of video sharing websites over recent months, a significant volume of content which is provided on an exclusive basis to subscribers was being made freely available on the Internet. We have to have a solution that will satisfactorily safeguard the content for paying subscribers.
This has required us to DRM the content and due to changes made recently we are no longer able to support Apple / Mac products. Specifically Windows Media Player is longer supported on this platform and likewise IE6.0.
With regret therefore we have cancelled your subscription to Wolves World. We have now initiated a refund of £39.99 for the unused term of your subscription, the refund may take up to 7 days to complete and you should receive confirmation from our payment partner Netbanx shortly.
Best Regards,
Wolves World Customer Support
I’ve subscribed to the Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club Premium TV service for a while and it has worked fine on the Macintosh.
On 7th October they made a charge to my credit card of £39.95 for the next years subscription, however when I log in I find they have changed how the site works and I can no longer view the videos on anything other than Windows and Internet Explorer.
With Apple’s market share on the increase and Firefox browser usage also on the up and up this seems a particularly stupid move.
I’ve asked for a refund of my hard earned, but no reply yet. I’ll let you know how it goes.
White and Nerdy
Currently listening to: Mardy Bum by Arctic Monkeys
A few Apple related tidbits today.
Apple store to open in Birmingham Bullring.
Apple today said it would open its second Apple Store in the UK later this month. The grand opening of its Birmingham store will coincide with the launch of Mac OS X Tiger: the Apple Store Bullring will open on April 29th at 6 pm to help celebrate the launch of its next-generation operating system. The store will be open until midnight, allowing users to get a hands-on introduction to Tiger.
Microsoft ‘Made with a Mac’
Microsoft’s $200 million campaign to sell its three-year old Windows XP OS would never have got off the ground without a Mac, it appears.
In an attempt to “showcase” how users can “explore, enhance and pursue their passions” with the OS, Microsoft made one of the new ‘Start Something’ ads available for download.
Users downloading the ad and using the Get Info command to check the EXIF information about the ad image quickly uncovered Microsoft’s Achilles’ heel: that information shows the image was made using Adobe CS – on a Mac.
The inventer of the internet Tim Berners-Lee did it on a Mac
Linus Torvald, on of the driving forces behinf Linux uses a Mac
Currently listening to: Givin’ Up by The Darkness
I’ve just realised I haven’t blogged for ages, been busy with work and being a grumpy bastard because I live in a city full of halfwit chavs and its been cold and dark. Maybe I am suffering from SAD.
It’s now getting lighter in the evening and so I feel motivated to blog a little.
My attempt to increase traffic to my blog had little effect overall, although there was an initial peak I guess this was caused by the blogger ping effect as I uploaded my new story.
This morning the DEC, who I originally made my donation to the Tsunami appeal through, finally took my donation from by bank account. I sure hope someone wasn’t hanging around hoping to buy some food or medicine with the money that I originally pledged a day or so after the initial earthquake.
Currently listening to: You know you were loved by Lou Reed