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Ripped off by the BBC ?

Saturday, 30 April 2005 ‡ 18:07

If like me, you can not justify subscribing to sky or cable, due to the time you have free to relax in front of the telly, including weekends, one thing you have to take into consideration is, as a TV license payer, you are actually paying for 30 extra channels, (about 1% of your fee is allocated for digital programming) that you are probably not receiving.

The very least you must do is purchase a digi box for around £50, allowing you to receive these free-to-air channels, unless you purchase a new TV with an integrated digital receiver.

What i find pathetic is that if you are registered blind, you only need to pay half the fee and it is free for over 75's, shouldn't that be free for those who actually live alone and are registered blind and maybe free for those over 60.

About 50% of the fee is split between BBC1 and BBC2, the other 50% is split between all the local and national radio stations, digital and other admin costs.

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Are you stupid?

Monday, 25 April 2005 ‡ 23:31

Using the motorways everyday can become an absolute nightmare. It is annoying when drivers panning down the outside lane at 80mph+ notice the Range Rover travelling at 60mph in the inside lane hit the brakes so hard, it must snap their heads forward. Blind as a bat the drivers do not notice the Range Rover is in fact the Highways Agency vehicle, which has HIGHWAYS AGENCY stamped on the back, instead of POLICE and actually has YELLOW lights bolted to its roof. To add to this, the car actually has Black/Yellow squares on the side, instead of Blue/Yellow. Understandably from a distance the car does look like a police Range Rover, but it does not take long to notice, having stared at it for a second or three... looking for the visual clues. Drivers will drive past at 65mph and continue at this speed until they feel they are safe to continue at 80mph+ once the Range Rover is some several hundred yards behind them.

The other most annoying thing is stupid idiots who drive in the 1st overtaking lane even when the inside lane is empty, usually oblivious to the amount of chaos they are causing behind them as drivers attempt to overtake/undertake trying to avoid the dumb idiot.

I drove nearly 100 miles on Saturday with several idiots sitting in the 1st overtaking lane, while i continued in the inside lane.

Another common idiot is the one who will only ever drive in the 1st overtaking lane. They will drive along at whatever speed it is they feel comfortable with, but never overtake anyone they catch, but brake heavily to slow down and travel behind them until the person in front moves over.

I had one such women catch me up, probably doing about 80mph in her Micra and hit the brakes and followed me for a few miles, then when i moved over into the empty inside lane, she began to accelerate, probably still in top gear, which she did not manage to do, since i pulled out to overtake a lorry. She then slowed and followed me for a few miles. This continued for a while until i got fed up. I even slowed to about 60mph and she never tried to use the outside lane, dumb cow.

Rubber necking! Damn these drivers are just so stupid, they are asking for trouble... there has been an incident somehwere around them and they have to hit the brakes and have a good look, why... i've seen a rubber necker watching the opposite carriageway because there were 3 or 4 cars wrecked on the hard shoulder and the idiot hit the guy in front of him... wow, how clever was that? Now we have complete chaos as rubber neckers are spoilt for choice.

Labels: bad driving, chaos, crash, motorway, rubber necking

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Google Maps

Friday, 22 April 2005 ‡ 09:12

I have been using Google since summer 1999 and it's appeal was back then, simple unclutered start page, as a search application all i wanted to see was a text box and a seach button - and even now, after nearly 6 years, even though others around them use vast amounts of banners for advertising which fills the start page and takes time to load, Google is amazingly simple and still perfect.

Over the years Google have added more and more services, such as groups, news, image search and froogle but the one i like is its map service. It is absolutely amazingly simple, quick and loads so fast, i cannot believe i am running it over the network using http. I can search for local shops, i can plan a route, zoom in and search streets, its great.

I have to say, if Google do not do anything to their start page, but continue to develop more applications and services, to the next generation, the word Google will mean "Search the Internet".

Google Maps

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