Free stuff

Update: As at Friday March 4th, still no sign of free headset. Doubt creeping in.

Granted dissemination with gracious permission from essbee80:

[SNIP]

"A no nonsense mono headset with single earpiece and built in boom microphone. Ideal as a basic PC telephony headset. Simply plugs into the ear and mic sockets on your PC sound card. Metallic Blue"

Go to: http://www.shop.bt.com/bin/venda?ex=co_disp-shopc&page=communicator&bu

Click [Buy Now] on the £5 Budget Headset

Look up and click the red link: "View basket: You have 1 item Total: £5.00"

click [Checkout]

Input your address details, click [Continue]

Fill out your name and address properly, and read the Terms of Use, (debate the Terms of Use on the List for a month until the offer has been stopped and wonder why we're all laughing at you on Skype), then tick the box to confirm you have read and accept the Terms of Use. Choose whether you want emails from BT. Click [Continue]

Click [use promotional code] use CHBH

Don't bother entering any credit or debit card details just press [Place Order] as your order has no charge for P&P and no cost!

[PASTE]

As no-one involved has yet received their order (since all orders have only been placed today), it's unknown whether anything will actually arrive but, since no great personal info is required to place the order, no harm can come of trying.

Finally, my apologies if, by the time you read this, the entry has been duplicated, but publish-by-mail is just insanely slow. I won't be using it in future.

Orientation101W

Anyone interested in registering can meet me here. Oh, you don't recognise the location? You want a point of reference and directions? Don't be ludicrous. If the DLR management think passengers don't need 'em, then neither should you.

Seriously, how can anyone provide a map of a destination without also showing your current position and relevant directions, and still expect the recipient to decipher it? It's not enough that the DLR was closed for (poorly) planned engineering work, but they have to pour the contempt on by making it impossible to find the purported replacement bus service. I'm guessing it was cheaper to print poor directions than to actually provide a replacement service.

Spoilt for(mat) choice

I think I've settled on a standard look for Tripping Too for the moment. It's close enough to Tripping in schema to show an obvious link without the nuisance of having to make it identical by playing with tedious Colour Pickers. This is as good as it gets at 00.01 in the morning.

Ctrl-alt-LJ

There is also a LiveJournal (original, unchallenged, unexpurgated) edition, for those so minded.

Thanks a wunch!

Every time I have to deal with our bankers, I’m inevitably reminded of the collective spoonerism for their breed. Today was a particularly stellar example of the type. The whole affair has left me in an irrevocably foul mood, which has resisted even the tender ministrations of a concerned spouse and the fevered consumption of large quantities of Ernst & Julio Gallo’s finest Grenache Rosé.

In short (because the full version will either send you hatchet-wielding through your nearest bank teller or bore you to the same brain-numbing degree as 3 large glasses of the above fine wine), an instruction that reached the Sheffield office of our fine moneychangers at 8.26am yesterday morning was only forwarded to their London office at 4.56pm yesterday afternoon, rendering the entire transaction pointless, and causing our company's salary payments to clear on the 1st of March instead of the 28th of February, no small matter when you consider the number of direct debitors, mortgage lenders and the like that will be baying for their 0.454kg of flesh on the last day of the calendar month.

The truly spit-ragingly, marrow-leachingly, embolism-inducing factor in this travesty of financial eptitude is not the nonchalance with which our bank manager treated the affair, nor the 3 hour dance that they required to furnish us with a modicum of information; it was the fact that, as at 5.30pm this afternoon, they still didn't know how the mistake had been made or who was to blame, and they cannot give a reliable timescale as to how long it will take to determine these minor issues.

Where do they make socks large enough to stash a few million in bullion?

Citizen of many formats

Livejournal is good. Livejournal is clever. Livejournal is not the only blogspace out there.