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Stupid trains and national rail
So iPhone applications come and go but recently my favourite application
has been deactivated. Worse national rail have made an inferior product and want a fiver for it!
So now not only do trains run late but you have to pay to check if it’s late!
Plan to test mobile phones on the Underground
Transport for London (TfL) had appealed for telecommunications companies to come forward for a trial on the Waterloo & City line but have drawn a blank.
The aim of the test - originally scheduled for 2008 - was to find how out technically and commercially viable a scheme would be.
All I can say is thanks god [...]
the o2 ticket fiasco continues
after 20 minutes of the same message whilst waiting to buy Michael Jackson tickets on ticketmaster…
There was a problem processing your request.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
(0×100080) If you submitted an order, and are not sure if it went through, please check Order History or contact Customer Service.
Grrr
Anyway off to work now so it [...]
o2 and ticketmaster
So the o2 page for priority tickets to see Michael Jackson simply has a link to ticketmaster anyway! So that was kind of pointless. Now the ticketmaster website has a lovely message:
Your wait time is approximately 15 minutes or more
If you refresh this page or hit the back button, you will lose your place in [...]
The o2 is a success
Sadly though the website isn’t. Now don’t judge me about trying to buy Michael Jackson tickets - I’m not a fan but since Andrew isn’t a Take That fan and bought tickets I thought I should reciprocate.
The o2 blueroom website or o2priority website designed to allow o2 customers to purchase tickets before they go on [...]
more random spam
From: motali (lorie.perez@mac.com)
Sent: 13 February 2009 00:18:31
To:
Hello, My Late father is a wealthy cocoa merchant. Before his death he had a domicilary account with a bank in Cote d’Ivoire,up to the tune of 5.5M USD. Please I need your assistance getting this money tranferred to you for investment and to [...]
bad joke alert
Alfie Patten has joined Fathers4Justice. A spokesman
said, he may not understand politics yet, but he
already owns his own spiderman costume.
Hunt for murderer on the run from Tooting mental hospital
I’m not sure what’s more worrying the fact that I had no idea Tooting has a secure mental hospital or that I had no idea they keep losing patients who go on to murder people!
A convicted killer was on the loose today after breaking out of a secure psychiatric ward that has a history of [...]
