Asgrim

Here’s what I got up to today:

• James thinks PHP is really good at calculating sums. (2008-08-14 08:46:56)
• James - Bearforce 1! (2008-08-14 09:10:00)
• James is liking his Flake Cake! (2008-08-14 13:21:36)

With regards to this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7560887.stm

I disagree with the final paragraph of the story:
“Shilpa, meanwhile, became a household name in the UK after the series.”

I have never even heard of Shilpa Shetty before this story.

Surely a household name, by definition, is something or someone that EVERYONE knows? For example, Hoover, BT etc.. I mean - even iPod is only JUST becoming a household name, and even James May knows what an iPod is, despite pronouncing it incorrectly in an episode of Top Gear.

I protest the fact that Shilpa Shetty is a household name, and you should replace the sentance with:

“iPod, meanwhile, became a household name in the UK due to completely unconnect events.”

P.S. I’m really REALLY serious about this, it has REALLY offended me so much - I’m crying right now… no really, I am…..

P.P.S. If you think I’m being serious, you’re wrong, it’s just a little jibe and hopefully I might give someone at the BBC a smile.

Something that always niggles me a bit is that people really suck at parking - normally because they park forward. This small Ford Ka reverse parked, but even botched that one up! That makes parking fail.

Hannah’s definition of “Twattish”:

twattish /twætɪʃ/ :
- noun

1. the order of people associated with the religion of twat, who are all idiots and need to go back to their planet twat and learn how to un-twat themselves: My friend is a twat. He’s from planet twat. He is from the twat religion, and therefore twattish.

Here’s what I got up to today:

• James hates the FSA. (2008-08-13 10:55:47)
• James thinks you should sign: http://tinyurl.com/6ypppk (2008-08-13 13:52:39)
• James says to Carcass: MORE COWBELL! (2008-08-13 14:50:43)

A mars bar to the winner (except Sii who already knows the answer…) - click for bigness.

Bank charges are unfair, and the FSA waiver on reclaiming them is just as unfair in my opinion. And as of 21st July, they extended it for another f***ing six months.

What annoys me is the fact that the FSA waiver is in place to protect consumers. I don’t feel protected at all - I feel annoyed that I can’t get my bank charges back right now. I feel totally fobbed off by the bank - I feel like they’re laughing at me while they still charge me anywhere between £25-50 each time I do anything slightly out of step, and there’s absolutely nothing I can do about it, thanks to the FSA.

What’s more, if the OFT eventually decide that the charges are fair - I’m never going to get my money back! At the end of the day, I think pretty much every consumer will agree that it does not cost the back £25 each time you go over your overdraft to send out a letter or something. This is the breakdown of cost to send a really posh nice letter (which none of the banks do…):

• A4 100gsm Paper - £0.01398
• Black Laser Toner - £0.011598
• Nice envelope - £0.03498
• 1st Class Stamp - £0.36
• Labour (£6/hr at 10 minutes at most) - £0.60
• Total Cost of Sending a Letter: £1.020558

I’ve worked out the cost of supplies from Viking Direct / Royal Mail, and the labour was based on an absolute moron using a computer to fill out a template and put a letter in an envelope, stamp it, and put it in a mail chute. The banks don’t lose anything else by letting you go over your overdraft limit. In fact, they always gain because they get interest on it anyway.

So basically, I don’t mind £1 being taken from my account each time they have to send out a letter, but £25-50 is ridiculous. And thanks to the bloody FSA’s waiver to “protect” consumers, I’m losing out now, and banks are still making a shed load of money out of charging customers stupid amounts.

Thanks a bloody lot FSA.

Here’s what I got up to today:

• James will eventually get all the clothes washed! (2008-08-12 08:03:53)
• James @PaulGrahamRaven Word to that my man. (2008-08-12 10:55:18)
• James thinks it’s just Child’s Play! (2008-08-12 10:55:41)
• James says: keep on rotting in the free world! (2008-08-12 11:05:27)
• James just poked himself in the eye, argh! (2008-08-12 15:59:07)

Here’s what I got up to today:

• James hopes it stops raining at my Mums house so it is sunny for our holiday!!! (2008-08-11 08:11:09)
• James thinks you should buy stuff: http://tinyurl.com/6qlt7d and http://tinyurl.com/55oxzz !!! (2008-08-11 08:23:31)
• James just can’t get this report to be right! Argh. (2008-08-11 15:23:26)
• James is a little flatulent! Oh dear… (2008-08-11 19:33:27)

I searched a lot for this, but I could only find their Sweden Rock set list. It’s near enough, so here it is:

Inpropagation
Buried Dreams
Corporal Jigsore
Carnal Forge
Incarnate Solvent Abuse
No Love Lost
Edge Of Darkness
This Mortal Coil
Embodiment
Reek Of Putrefaction
Keep On Rotting
Genital Grinder
Rotten To The Gore
Death Certificate
Exhume To Consume
Ruptured (Intro)
Heartwork
Carneous (Outro)