Playing the Mobile Phone Tariff Game
As a low volume mobile phone user I have, for the last ten years, been on an Orange tariff known as OVP Virgin which price matches the original Virgin Mobile tariff. This is essentially a pay as you go...
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I think Quidco have a bug
I think Quidco have a bit of a mail merge bug. I just received the following email: Somehow I don't think that's what they meant to say... I wonder how many of those they’ve just sent out…
View ArticleGoodbye Orange, Hello Three
Last month I wrote about mobile phone tariffs and finished by saying that my next step was to call Orange and get a PAC so I could port my number. When I called Orange they, as expected, put me through...
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The Mystery of John Unwin’s Diary
Two weeks ago I travelled to Saltaire with my uncle to hand over a number of items of historical interest from my grandfather’s papers to the Saltaire Archive. The most significant item in the...
View ArticleCity Labels in OpenStreetMap
In the second part of his critique of OpenStreetMap Justin O’Beirne discusses various issues surrounding labelling of cities in OpenStreetMap’s cartography, specifically in our default mapnik rendering...
View ArticleRails Warning Fail
Recent versions of rails 3 have started spitting out a new deprecation warning: String-based interpolation of association conditions is deprecated. Please use a proc instead. So, for example, has_many...
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Important Information
Apparently my bank had some important information to share with me. I know this because they put an extra page in with my statement headed “Important Information for you” which I reproduce here: Lloyds...
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Yes, I Would Like a Refund
So I recently cancelled one of my credit cards – it was an AMEX card with an annual fee that I had only ever intended to hold for one year to get the signup bonuses, and once the fee for the second...
View ArticleLOVEFiLM and SMS Spam
One thing that consistently annoys me is when seemingly reputable companies decide for some reason that the rules on unsolicited marketing communications, that is to say, in the United Kingdom, the...
View ArticleAre Movie Studios now Restricting when Films can be Reserved?
It has been well documented in the US that one thing movie studios have been demanding in new rental contracts is a time delay between films being released for sale and being made available for...
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Economics, Amazon Style
I’m sure there’s some logic somewhere in the offer that Amazon just presented to me, it’s just not entirely clear to me what sort of logic… All I need now then is an option to have them hold the CD...
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British Gas? or Central Recoveries?
In light of the recent stories about first Wonga, and now the Student Loans Company, pretending to be other people when collecting debts I thought I would point our that British Gas certainly used to...
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The Mystery of John Unwin’s Diary
Two weeks ago I travelled to Saltaire with my uncle to hand over a number of items of historical interest from my grandfather’s papers to the Saltaire Archive.The most significant item in the...
View ArticleCity Labels in OpenStreetMap
In the second part of his critique of OpenStreetMap Justin O’Beirne discusses various issues surrounding labelling of cities in OpenStreetMap’s cartography, specifically in our default mapnik rendering...
View ArticleRails Warning Fail
Recent versions of rails 3 have started spitting out a new deprecation warning:String-based interpolation of association conditions is deprecated. Please use a proc instead. So, for example, has_many...
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Important Information
Apparently my bank had some important information to share with me. I know this because they put an extra page in with my statement headed “Important Information for you” which I reproduce here:Lloyds...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yes, I Would Like a Refund
So I recently cancelled one of my credit cards - it was an American Express card with an annual fee that I had only ever intended to hold for one year to get the signup bonuses, and once the fee for...
View ArticleLOVEFiLM and SMS Spam
One thing that consistently annoys me is when seemingly reputable companies decide for some reason that the rules on unsolicited marketing communications, that is to say, in the United Kingdom, the...
View ArticleAre Movie Studios now Restricting when Films can be Reserved?
It has been well documented in the US that one thing movie studios have been demanding in new rental contracts is a time delay between films being released for sale and being made available for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Economics, Amazon Style
I’m sure there’s some logic somewhere in the offer that Amazon just presented to me, it’s just not entirely clear to me what sort of logic…All I need now then is an option to have them hold the CD...
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