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Next day means next week?

Friday, August 11, 2006

The Dell saga goes into second stage. Despite me having a priority XPS next day on-site warranty it took three days, one click-trough of on-line wizard, two emails and three phone calls to get the collection of my broken laptop going. And now it will only be collected on Monday. Doh! I wonder how much [...]

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British rural public transport

Friday, August 11, 2006

I am writing a collective article about all thing I hate (and a few I like) in UK, but this is too important to let it slide until then – I hate British public transport. Background information: I live in Cranfield village (ZIP code MK43 0JN, look it up) right in the middle between Milton [...]

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Laptop down

Thursday, August 10, 2006

A half an hour ago my brand new Dell XPS M1710 laptop stopped working. It just turned off and would not turn on again. I got my old HP lappie out and went to Dell site for debugging. After several quite nice debugging steps the fault fell into a generic “no idea what it is, [...]

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F-word on BBC and shot Muslims

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Pre-story: In Forestgate in London police stormed inside a house, shot one man and arrested him and his brother. After 10 days it turned out that no evidence of any gilt to them was found in the raid and the raid is only based on some secret intelligence. During the day when I was watching [...]

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