Posted in Life, tagged British Telecom, BT, Customer Service on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Most people who know me, know just how much I despise British Telecom, our premier (!) communication company. Over the years I have had numerous squabbles with them, mostly over utterly crap customer service. In fact not that long ago, I was phoned by a sales man from BT asking if I would [...]
Posted in IT, Life, tagged fix, Orange Box, Portal, Shaderapidx9, Shaderapidx9.dll, Shaderapidx9.dll error, solution, Steam, Team Fortress 2, Valve, xp on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Pretty much as the title says; recently bought the Steam Orange Box thingymajig and been pretty narked that the 2 games we bought it for wouldn’t load due to Shaderapidx9.dll error crashing back to the desktop. Having rummaged around the tinterwebs, tried all sorts of different things to resolve the error when trying [...]
Posted in Life, tagged Bottle, Coke, Explosion, knife, Noise on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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It had a deep resonant quality to it, the sound sought breath, inhaling before exhaling with considerable gusto. There was a sharp crack, wrapped up in the shuddering depths of the main explosion which rattled crockery across the house. What was more intriguing was that I couldn’t figure out what it [...]
Posted in Life, tagged supermarket queue on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Imagine a scene, a scene if you will, unfolding in supermarkets across the nation on a wet Sunday afternoon. We’d popped in for a few essentials and found the place to be heaving, a whole sea of damp, grumpy people getting in each others’ way. Jostling our way to the checkout we found [...]
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