Archive for July, 2007
Congestion charge – not just for London
What London does today the rest of the country does tomorrow. So it is with London’s congestion charge. Latest town wanting to get on the congestion charge wagon is Cambridge — yes, you read that correctly, Cambridge ‘bicycle city’ itself!
Do the good citizens of the famed University town want a congestion charge? Well maybe they do, [...]
Coe again – demolishing stuff
Lord Coe has just been interviewed on TV. His Lordship was standing in front of a building being demolished (don’t worry kids he was wearing a yellow safety helmet). He talked a lot about “vision” and “these shores” and the rest of the usual blah.
He dropped out the info that the land to be used for [...]
Move Wimbledon campaign
I am considering starting a campaign to get the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament committee to move the dates for the ‘fortnight.’ I am hoping that it can be rescheduled for September. Why? Two reasons. Firstly, as it always rains during ‘Wimbledon’ it would be a patriotic gesture on behalf of the organisers to move the tournament [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Microsoft X360 return: the carrier
As promised in my last blog on the subject, here is an update of my experiences in returning my X360 under the new warranty deal.
Having received my returns label and receipt from Microsoft’s support desk department (very prompt by email) I rang UPS (the carrier) to arrange collection. As today is Saturday and I rang [...]
Microsoft finally owns its own sh*t
So, not long after Microsoft claimed that the growing number of people who were complaining about it’s X360 games console’s frequent failures were only a vocal minority, have said, ‘We have been following this issue closely, and with on-going testing have identified several factors that can cause a general hardware failure indicated by three flashing [...]
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If anyone has any information about the Civil War service of Light Company A, Second U.S. Artillery, please contact me via this site. I am particularly interested in individual members of the battery - officers, non-commissioned officers or privates.
SPECIAL NOTICE: Over the next few weeks I will be migrating all the existing information about Battery A from this site to one decated to the subject. See Battery A 2nd US Artillery link in Blogroll below.
