Based on “We didn’t start the fire” by Billy Joel, here’s what almost an entire weekend’s solid work yields! As always, lyrics and vocals by me. Hope you like it. Please share if you do! It’s topical at the moment, so there is a slight chance of it going “viral”.
Read More →(Update at end 16:32 and 23:08) I had a message passed to me, to call someone back; a Michael Kennedy from “PSI Group”. The name of the company they said they were from seemed familiar, so I did call them back. In retrospect I think I assumed they were something to do with the (now…
Read More →Part Five – The best stuff always happens after I leave the party 🙁 Part Four ended with me being given a refund and effectively ending my relationship with the project. Despite no longer having a chance of getting the hardware, I was still interested to see what happened to the project. Would it ever…
Read More →Part Four…The purchase of my silence (spoiler alert) We left the story at part three on September 6th 2015, at which point I’d lost my shit for the first time, pointed out a whole lot of oddities and concerns and pretty much decided I didn’t want to be a part of the project any longer….
Read More →This is part three! In Part 1, we looked at the campaign, its press coverage, what the project promised, and why it interested me.. In part 2 we moved onto the first seeds of doubt… Then a silence descended on the project. … Twenty two days later … And fifteen pissed off messages from people…
Read More →This is part two! In Part 1, we looked at the campaign, its press coverage, what the project promised, and why it interested me.. Now we move onto the first seeds of doubt… HOT PRODUCT OR HOT AIR? The first comment on the Comments section is dated 3rd December 2014. For quite some time, the…
Read More →Kickstarter has had some wonderful successes and some terrible failures. Perhaps the most famous example of the latter is that of “Zano“, the drone that raised millions and only delivered a handful of units, which didn’t work well. On the 7th December 2014, I backed a project called “CamsFormer“. The concept, in pieces, was not…
Read More →A few foundations for the benefit of anybody who isn’t intimately acquainted with this aspect of the telecoms industry… TalkTalk has a “retail” division, and also a “wholesale division” called “TalkTalk Business”. I will refer to them as TTR and TTB. TTR sells to home users; broadband, phone services etc. TTB sells to other ISPs,…
Read More →Updated Sun 20th July (see red update at end) We needed some new bedroom furniture. We had an oak bed custom made by a carpenter, and we are pleased with that, but needed some other pieces to match. So we looked on Oak Furniture Land’s website, and found a range called “Windsor” which looked perfect….
Read More →For somewhere between 1 and 2 years we have had the same BT account manager, Martin. This length of tenure is rare for us. We seem to wear them out or break them far faster usually. Prior to Martin, we had had two in just six months. Prior to that, we’d had none for ages…
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