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I first heard of this particular Kiss tribute band when I saw a programme about the “Just for Laughs” comedy festival in Montreal. I can’t help smiling when I see pictures of them - I’d love to see them play.

You may have noticed yesterday’s post about my dead 120GB hard disk. That left me very stuck for disk space. Fortunately, Aldi here in Carlow still had one of the 250GB Western Digital Caviars left over from last week, so I picked one up for €130 (a fair price, in my opinion).

Nice

Now I get to spend several hours reinstalling all my stuff.

I just had a 120GB hard disk die on me.
It was out of warranty.
I am not happy.

Uncanny, really.

Create your own!

Eurogamer has a full rundown of the specs of the new Playstation 3, along with photos, as revealed at E3 yesterday. Looks like its blowing the Xbox360 out of the water from a hardware standpoint, but as usual it will come down to the games in the end.

I like the black version.

I got the email below this evening. I replied to them (it was in my general purpose website-signup spam account). My responses to each of their points are outside the quoted sections.

Dear smoker or friend of smoker!

Dear Cockface!

We have been penalised, long enough, it is time to fight back!, while surfing the net, I found a great web page for you to look at, and to pass on to your family and friends.

We? I’m not a smoker. In fact, I despise smoking and cigarettes. I’ll be sure to not pass your website on to my family and friends. In fact, how about you shove it right up your hairy hole instead?

If you are fed up of being ripped off by a British government, who continually raise taxes on tobacco, take away your rights of freedom by banning smoking in public places, then it is time to take a look at either of this website:

http:// [ URL removed, wouldn't want to be giving these pricks any extra traffic ]

I wasn’t aware that the British government was ripping me off, given the fact that I am not a British citizen and do not live in the United Kingdom. Its good to hear that they are continually raising taxes on tobacco, it must put a serious strain on your National Health Service.
You know, here in Ireland we have enacted a smoking ban in workplaces (including pubs) and it has been quite a success. Perhaps a similar ban could be put in place in the UK just to piss off cocks like yourself.

they can send you FREE info on where to join the british Smokers Club (free to join), and details of online shops, where you can buy cigarettes from 2 pounds a packet!

Regards
The Angry Smoker

I don’t want to join any smoker’s club or purchase dodgy cigarettes from the Internet. So I guess that was the whole purpose of your stupid, unsolicited spam - to flog some dodgy cigarettes that probably don’t have duty paid, and will most likely be seized by customs anyway. Fuck you, buddy.

Webworld S.L. · Edificio Jupiter, Avendida El Gamonal 12 · Benalmadena Costa, Malaga 29630 Spain
This e-mail message is an advertisement and/or solicitation.

Really? No Shit!

Regards,
Someone who really doesn’t like you and wishes for you to go and fuck yourself.

I took my Fiesta in to the local Ford dealer today to have a “checkstrap” replaced in the passenger door, as it was shagged and preventing it from opening past half way. The door was creaking suspiciously for some time before it finally gave. I’d be gutted, except for the fact that it was free warranty work that cost me nothing but time

Fair play to them though, this is the second time in a month I’ve had the car in for minor work like this (last time was a knackered speaker in the driver’s door). Both times the service was booked, parts ordered and the work done within a couple of days with no questions asked.

This is very cool indeed.

Oh, and on a totally unrelated tangent, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade is on BBC1 tonight at 8.

Check out this site. Its full of modified cars, except that they’re not real - they’ve all been photoshopped. Some of them look incredibly real.

First off, I’m not going to italicise every mention of Eircom in their preferred corporate and gramattically incorrect (given the lower case ‘e’) style, as seeing that crap in everything they publish (including their manky contracts) just pisses me the hell off.
Here’s my story on Eircom’s ongoing incompetence. For more see yesterday’s Indo.

On April 22nd, an Eircom rep called to our house and eventually talked the parents into switching back to them for voice calls and broadband (against my advice, but they just want a single bill and all that). Guy rings up whoever’s in charge of him and says oh yes that’s fine. By the way, they’ve been ringing us about once a month for the last year, continually trying to “win us back”.

We have DSL service with UTV at the moment, but the contract period has expired (so its now on a monthly rolling contract).

Anyway, a few days later a letter arrives in the post, informing us that our line is not suitable for broadband, despite having broadband running at 1Mbps for the last month, and at 512k for 12 months before that. Off I go to ring 1901 and enquire as to what kind of monkeys they employ. After holding for about 20 minutes I eventually get through to one of the aforementioned monkeys. He attempts to fob me off, then after being asked to test the line again claims that it would take six to eight weeks.

Fast forward to this evening: I ring 1901 again, and sit on hold for a further 20 minutes. I explain to today’s phone monkey that the contract was signed under the condition that we would only take the service with broadband. Eircom seem to want our voice traffic too much for their own good, as this guy claimed that once the form was signed there was nothing he could do to cancel it. It was explained to him several times that this was unacceptable, and his only solution was this: Wait for Eircom to take over CPS on the line, thus disconnecting UTV. Endure several weeks, possibly months of DSL downtime whilst waiting for another broadband provider to connect us. I told him this was unacceptable, and listened to several minutes of excuses and bullshit before giving up on this guy.

A few minutes later we called again, and sat on hold for the requisite 20 minutes. This time a different customer service rep was on the far end of the line. Requests to speak to a supervisor were ignored until the whole situation was again explained. This person then put us on hold for another few minutes, and after some angry ranting on my end eventually - at the click of a button - canceled the CPS order that the previous gimp claimed that he “couldn’t do anything about it”.

Well done Eircom, you’ve now successfully alienated both my parents, people who never understood my animosity towards yourselves in the past. They have both decided to never give you any business in the future. Once Smart Telecom becomes available to us, you’re going to lose our line rental cash too.

Good riddance.

I’m off now to push that vein that’s sticking out of my forehead back into place before it explodes.