Paprika Pringles are life! to paraphrase Big Tony from "Mystery Men". Yep Kidderminster Morrisons have them in at a 2 for £3 offer - fly my winged monkeys; fly!
As a bonus if you fancy either "The Losers" or "Fanboys" on DVD/Blu-ray they're also doing a free T-shirt offer for both while stocks last.
Paprika Pringles and two free T-shirts? I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop
Hello there how are you? Me? Oh I'm fine I've just been working up a sweat over the last hour moving your fly-tipped crap from outside one of our properties to the empty skip less than 50 yards away.
How's your daughter Chloe? Or is at a granddaughter or niece? I'm sure she wasn't happy to lose that nice pink chair with her name on it, or that pink watch, or that pull along buggy that made such a charming noise as I dropped it into our skip.
Oh well never mind I'm sure she enjoyed the potatoes, but obviously couldn't eat them all what with you having to leave half a bag behind. Perhaps she didn't want a full stomach - did she help in pulling out that gate, trellis and fence posts? I hope you gave her some sturdy gloves what with all those rusty nails sticking out at odd angles - ouchy :-)
Never mind eh I'm sure she loved ripping up all that rough felt - mmm sandpapery; what little girl wouldn't love that?
Well I just thought I'd let you know it's all clear now so if you want to come back to add some more please do - it's always a delight to see your happy smiling face on the CCTV cameras we have set-up around the place; well the police at least seemed happy to watch it.
Toodles!
World transfixed by miners rescue was a headline in a major paper. Well let's see - yesterday morning I turned to BBC news and saw the live feed from Chile; I then turned to ITV and saw the live feed from Chile; I then turned to... well you get the point. This morning it seems every national newspaper has this as their top story and every news channel keeps returning to it.
Out of curiosity is it possible to tell the difference between the world being transfixed and the media being transfixed?
Shows you how long it's been since I've had to burn a data CD in Vista. DaBoss needed some photos burned using his laptop; I popped in a blank CD, left the title as the date and showed him how to drag the files from Gallery onto the disc (Hey Microsoft a "Send to CD" would be handy here).
He happily got on with that, and then started complaining it was taking too long. Hmm it's burning as it's going why is it doing that. Oh shit it's Microsoft Vista's wonderful Live File System. I forgot about that.
Yep by default throwing any burnable disc at Vista defaults to using LFS which tries to treat the disc as a hard drive, being able to just add and delete without the 'hassle' of having to remember to burn it at the end. This is great except a) it can be very slow when burning b) it takes an age for the disc to be read again once you insert it, c) that's assuming whatever you're trying to read it with can actually read it.
Now I won't begrudge the system in that for beginners it makes sense and allows them to treat it as they do everything else. Except for those of us who understand how these discs work the option to switch the format is the nondescript "More info" tab on the pop-up. Forget to do it and you're stuffed. Oh at least you can set the universal "Mastered" format as the default - oh wait no you can't it always defaults to LFS and you have to change it every single time.
Given that the chances are people burning CDs in this way are to give to other people; what's the reasoning behind making the default burn option one that only works with a select range of products rather than the one that works with everything. At least ask rather than hide the option.
Neil's kindly sent me through the results of the FOI he sent to WFDC regarding the car-parking situation. I'll try to summarise the points.
"In these economic times" is becoming a ubiquitous phrase normally used in conjunction with "rationalisation". With this debt hanging over the country the answer, according to our Coalition Overlords is to cut spending. This makes sense - increase efficiency, stop spending money we don't have and reduce this £772 billion money mountain.
Okay so that's public debt, the money the country owes, what about private debt? This stands at around £1.4 trillion so the same arguments should be applied even more so; shouldn't they? Well no rather than advising its citizens to cut down on luxuries, pick up the economy versions of food, and downsize their homes etc. instead we're told we should spend as normal if not more.
The difference is that private debt generates more money - the interest you owe goes to businesses as profit, which in turn means more tax the government can grab, means more money paid to employees which in turn means more money in circulation which flows around the country more. Public debt generates nothing for us and is whisked straight out of the country. Well that's the theory.
In practice, the flow has seized up. To pay back a debt you need to charge more for goods/services, in order to afford those goods/services you need more money; so you need to charge more for goods/services. With debts being reneged on the banks are less likely to take risks and loan out money; better to just invest in the stock or currencies markets which does nothing to aid the circulation of money.
So is there still an argument to cut public spending - not really. Make it more efficient yes, but that doesn't necessarily equate to spending less. Here's an example from Wyre Forest's latest statement of accounts on page 25 we learn that the amount of income from Local Tax Collection was £8,993k, but it cost £9,691k to collect. In other words we could have saved £698k by simply not collecting taxes?
On the same page we see that Housing benefit made a profit £27,233k out with £27,319k in except the next line is Housing benefit administration £592k out £420k in. So it cost £86k to hand out benefits?
It spent £107k in Tourism, but only received £5k back. So we should stop spending on these things? No because the money is spread around - only £5k came directly back, but the boost in tourism meant shops staying open, making more money hiring more staff and paying more back to the government who passes it down to the area.
So spending cuts hurt everyone, but getting more for your money's worth helps everyone.
So hopefully the penultimate update - Total Console Repair declared my PS3 totally phut on Tuesday 5th; or at least declared such to my insurers Allianz. No-one seemed interested in telling me.
I gave them until today to say something and then contacted them. Apparently they've notified Game (where I originally bought my console) and I'll be getting a gift card for the full amount from their head office as I'd already passed on my receipt details to them (heck they didn't even ask for a fax copy of it) . Now if they have them in stock the PS3-320Gb with Move is less than £300 - I paid more than £300 for my PS3 :-)
Better yet with my 320Gb hard drive back I might be able to buy the cheaper 160Gb and just switch disks and spend the money towards something else; such as Fallout: Las Vegas or Force Unleashed II or even this Move thing as part of a bundle ;-)
Ya know I hope they're still doing the extended warranty; £50 layout for a £300+ return ain't shabby.
