AK's view from the boundary

It is now 9 months since i left BT and they are still sending me a letter every month trying to tempt me back. Offering to give me free calls etc but at the expense of a 12 months contract. I used to pay 5p/hour for evening and weekend calls with BT until the outrageous price rise of 1.5p/minute plus 6p connection charge. To keep the same level of charges they wanted to move me to another option that would cost me over £17/quarter more than i was currently paying. Yeah right, do i look stupid? (don’t answer that.) So I moved to the Post Office.

Can they mail me in person even though I’m no longer a customer of theirs ? I’m wondering if it’s worth contacting them and quoting the data protection act just to prove a point and piss them off. After all i have no business with them so why do they still have my details on record. Talking of which, their latest trick is to write to the previous occupant of where i live trying to tempt them back. Only problem is they moved out 12 years ago when i moved in. Fucking clueless aren’t they?

Before i go. Call charges on my most recent Post Office phone bill, 87p! All the other calls were free.

Compare Manuelgate to Baby P.

Where is the public outrage now?

I’m saddened by the fact that the society that i live in appears to be so celebrity obsessed to the detriment of the nations moral spine. The two ‘events’ are far from related but the discrepancy between the public’s responses to both stories beggars belief.

Celebrity. The pursuit of the talentless by the mindless.

Since upgrading to Gnome 2.24,  gedit has been hanging on launch and taking around 30 seconds to become responsive. A work around, while waiting for the bug fix, is to disable the ‘File Browser Plugin’ under Edit > Preferences > Plugins.

The Bank Of England are expected to reduce interest rates today by 0.5% although some are calling for a much bigger cut of 1%.

Whatever the cut maybe will it be passed on to the banks customers? I doubt it very much. The last rate cut of 0.5% was handed down to me in the shape of a 0.15% mortgage interest rate cut.

It’s all well and good Mr Bean uttering….

“We want the banks and building societies to pass on the interest rate cuts to their mortgage holders,”

do something about it!