6/3/2008 by david.

As many of you know I work for a hosting company called Pipex, well we were called Pipex until Tiscally bought the DSL site, now are called GXN. Let me make it quite clear “I can not fix your broadband, I work for the webhosting site of the business!”. Well there are quite a few people out there who have had problems with the DSL site of the business. Last night I needed to get some shopping when I got home from work, so getting changed out of my work stuff I pull on the first thing I had to hand, this being a Pipex top. BIG MISTAKE.

So there I was at the check out and the guy staffing it notices the logo and cant help telling me all his dsl problems and how Pipex had never to his dsl to work blah blah blah. but while he is doing this I am trying to enter my pin number wrong number wrong number wrong number Card locked. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

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21/1/2008 by david.

Ok, well it is here again. The most depressing day of the year. Like the sound of an elephant dedicating the bill plop through the letter box, the weather is dull and miserable, and there is less light than the glove box of an Austin Allegro. To top all of this off my normal 30 minute commute took me almost 2 hours thanks to some idiot on the M40 panging his or her car.

Almost 4 hours into the work day, and not even the thought of being almost half way through cheers me up, so I think I will take the rest of the day off, go home and curl up in bed with a good book, something summery and pray for spring to arrive.

Of course what will probably happen is that when I get home I will turn on my computer and do some more work, I am kinda sad that way, but then it has to be done.

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11/11/2006 by david.

Ok this is a rant, complete and utter! I have not decided if the language will be coarse or restrained, at the moment I am still fuming. Last night I was driving down to Dorset for a weekends R&R away from the whole that is Slough (I’m sure if you live there then you may like it, but I like the countryside, trees & a at least half an hours between planes taking off) . It had been a good drive, no major holdups not even in the M3, I had taken little more than 3 hours to get to Blandford, after short break in the car park of a super market it was time to finish the long drive. The sun had completely gone down by now and it was starting to rain, now cars are well equipped for these conditions, even impractical ones like mine.

Now I should explain I am on a fairly major A road (2 lanes 1 each way), while it is twisty and hilly it is a road that is in good condition, this is the last 20 miles of my journey. I envoy driving in the dark so that it no problem. HOWEVER there are some inconsiderate people out there that can not be bothers to take their lights of Main beam (I yanks call them Hi Beams) off, when they encounter a car coming in the other direction, this happened to me. Now another of my pet hates when it comes to driving is lorries that are overloaded, especially when the stuff is just blowing or falling off the top.
So the scene is set, an inconsiderate Driver and some truck driver that could not be bothered to make sure that his load was secure. Dazzled by the headlights of the oncoming car, I did not see a big lump of rubble, in fact more like a small bolder until too late. With the lightening quick reactions I missed the bolder with the front wheels, but must have clipped it with the rear. Now at this time I was doing around 55mph, had my front tyre blown out I would probably a) be writhing this from a hospital bed, and b) looking for a new car.

So by this point I had a Flat Tyre and was pretty pissed off! There I am stuck in the middle of nowhere, sweat FA signal on the phone and almost a flat phone battery. Now normally changing a Tyre would normally be no problem, however remember these points:

It’s dark, pouring with rain and I a have a flat Tyre beside a fast road. There was no way I am changing this wheel. So there is just enough power to call the AA and tell them approximately where I was and then settle down to wait for the chappie in the big yellow van to arrive. All lights on so that he will not miss me.

Around 30 minutes later he turns up and changes the wheel. Now to crown off the whole bloody charade I went to start the car up and the batter was flat, luckily the man from the AA was still there and I was able to get my car started. All I have to do now is get down to the finishing the journey. I go to turn on the Radio nothing just the word “SAFE”. Bugger I now have to hope that the local dealer ship have got the security codes for the Radio and CD stack.

Now to stop all this off I had just 2 months ago I had all 4 Tyre’s replaced.

Thats another £150 down the drain!

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1/11/2006 by david.

I have been traveling to Slough now for 8 years, 3 for Uni and 5 for work, but only now have I had to sleep there. Back in October 2005 I bought an apartment in High Wycombe, being told that it “will be ready Early Summer 2006″. Well here we are November 2006 and I am still not in. I don’t want to turn this into a full on rant, but the Builders who will remain nameless have been woefulely incompetent, even though they will have made extra money out of penalty clauses refuse to pay out compensation.
In John Betjeman’s 1937 poem he says ” Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now.” Recently Slough was voted the least tranquil place to live. Times Online Oct 23 2006

Thankfully I can escape to the Country during the weekends even though it takes on average 4 hours to get down to Dorset. So Monday to Thursday I live in the Travelodge Slough, this has one advantage, it is right next door to my office.

To finish off this entry and rant I can just hope that I can move into my new apartment soon!

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