It’s quite funny when you misread a title of a book or a headline. Just as I was about to log in I spotted one of those spam blogs “Holiday breaks in…” somewhere. I read it as “holiday break-ins”. How apt, I thought, at this time of year. Recently I misread a newspaper article about [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Misreading things/computer problems
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged breakdowns, christmas, computers on 14 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reading/Blogger/work
Posted in interests, tagged Blogger, reading, Twilight on 7 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Finally found a book I can’t put down. It’s been a while since I found one of those. I’m currently reading “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer. I only started reading it on Thursday and am already halfway through it, reading only during my lunch break and before sleeping.
I have a blog at blogger and wanted [...]
Getting a human on the phone
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged customer service on 1 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just found a wonderful site which lists ways of getting round the hated voicemail (press 1 for accounts, press 2 for enquiries, press 3 for bla bla bla and by the time you reach the last one you’ve forgotten which number you needed to press). For US customers only, unfortunately, go to
GetHuman
If [...]
I think I’m getting old
Posted in home, melancholy, tagged art, intolerance, Mr Pip, music, New Zealand, reading on 1 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
and less tolerant. I’m not sure but I’ve found more often these days that I come away from movies disappointed, I finish reading books and feel like throwing them against a wall and there’s a lot of music out there that I just can’t tolerate. Or perhaps I’m just getting set in my ways and [...]