Archives: February 2012

Dear Cold-Callers. Please STOP……….It’s Hammer Time!

Feb28
Published on: February 28, 2012
Categories: Misc
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Thanks to a push on PPI miss-sales, and attempts to get you to switch service providers (Phone, Internet, Electric, Gas, Water, Etc) plus the usual ones trying to sell Mobile Phone contracts, con you into insuring Sky etc, My incoming phone calls are 90% Cold Callers. This really annoys me because they keep interrupting me and I have added my phone number to the Governments “No cold callers list”, So I’ve now given up all pretense of being a nice polite person who politely turns down their sales pitch.

No my current method of dealing with these drones, (Which I started after the same person phoned me four times in one evening supposedly from two different companies) is to let them start their sales pitch, wait a minute then play a sound clip of

Stop Hammer time

Every time you see me that Hammer’s just so hype
I’m dope on the floor and I’m magic on the mic
Now why would I ever stop doing this
With others makin’ records that just don’t hit
I toured around the world from London to the BAY
It’s Hammer go Hammer
mc hammer yo hammer and the rest can go and play
U can’t touch this (oh-oh oh oh oh-oh-oh)
U can’t touch this (oh-oh oh oh oh-oh-oh)
U can’t touch this (oh-oh oh-oh-oh)
Yeah u can’t touch this

Then after all that’s played, I return to the phone with a polite “Sorry about that, it was Hammer time”

So far only one cold-caller has remained on the line to hear my response, and she was pissing herself laughing, and i heard her speak in the background “Best call EVER!!“.

I’m hoping MC Hammer can help me cut down on the callers.

 


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The 6 Nations 2012 – Update The Triple Crown

Feb26
Published on: February 26, 2012
Categories: Sport
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YES! Wales has won the Triple Crown. Now for the Championship!

 

RBS 6 Nations 2012 Standings

Pos Team P W D L F A PD TF Pts
Wales 1 Wales 3 3 0 0 69 46 23 7 6
France 2 France 2 2 0 0 53 29 24 6 4
England 3 England 3 2 0 1 44 40 4 2 4
Ireland 4 Ireland 2 1 0 1 63 33 30 7 2
Scotland 5 Scotland 3 0 0 3 36 63 -27 3 0
Italy 6 Italy 3 0 0 3 37 91 -54 3 0

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I do not think it means what you think it means.

Feb21
Published on: February 21, 2012
Categories: Media
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So the press is reporting on “Frankenburger” The worlds first test-tube burger. And how it could revolutionise the food industry, bring an end to world famines (Although how many third world citizens can afford the $200,000 per burger cost I don’t know) and even be eatable by animal lovers. Others are saying that no one would want to eat a bit of flesh created in a lab, Personally my views are “If it looks like Bacon, and tastes like Bacon.. I’m eating it!“.  But in all fairness I am a meat eater, and happily admit that I would be the first to eat the dead in an emergency (You have to eat them fast before they go off, so eat the dead first, then emergency rations which last longer)

Hang on, I went off topic there. Oh Animal Lovers.

Its the fact they are claiming Animal lovers will eat it, and that “so called” Animal Lovers interviewed on the news stated it would be better for animals. “Err really?” I think these “Animal lovers” must love animals as much as Vegetarians (Especially the preachy ones). Lets look at the facts.

Fact. Meat for food would be grown in a lab. So Farmers would not make money selling animals for food, so they would not pay for feeding them, or vets bills. Also since the farmer is now not making money they will need to use their land to grow crops or something. So what will happen to all those animals? killed? made extinct?

What use is a pig if you cant eat it? None dairy cattle? and so on. If we stop eating them, then they loose all value. Yes its not nice eating a poor animal, but we eat it after its had a nice lazy life. SO if the preachy Vegetarians had their way and we all stopped eating meat, think of the mass slaughter of animals that would take place. I’m telling you, vegetarians are anti-animals. They are pure evil!!!

+10 Geek Points for getting the Title reference.


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MEME: Tech Support

Feb17
Published on: February 17, 2012
Categories: MEME, Work
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The 6 Nations 2012 – Update

Feb13
Published on: February 13, 2012
Categories: Sport
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Yes. WALES is top of the 6 Nations table!!!!

OK. OK. Yes I know the table in its current layout is due to Frances second game being called off, and that they have only played one game so far. But! Wales are currently top of the table and that all that matters in my opinion!

RBS 6 Nations 2012 Standings

Pos Team P W D L F A PD TF Pts
1 Up (3) Wales 2 2 0 0 50 34 16 6 4
2 No change (2) England 2 2 0 0 32 21 11 2 4
3 Down (1) France 1 1 0 0 30 12 18 4 2
4 No change (4) Ireland 1 0 0 1 21 23 -2 2 0
5 No change (5) Scotland 2 0 0 2 19 40 -21 1 0
6 No change (6) Italy 2 0 0 2 27 49 -22 2 0

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People are Stupid.

Feb09
Published on: February 9, 2012
Categories: Customers
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Well technically I guess that should be “Customers are Stupid“. You do not believe me? Well here are two examples that happened this week.

Example 1:

I was being nice and answered the phone to help out the support guys, and the conversation went a bit like this :-

CN:Good afternoon How may I help you?

Customer: “Hi, Yes. I can’t send or receive any emails. its broke!

CN: “OK. What error are you actually getting?

Customer:can not connect to server

CN:Ok, are you actually on the Internet?

Customer:YES. I am on the Internet doing things, the Internet is fine, it’s just my emails that is broken

Customer: *noise of many people talking in background*Yes. I’m on the phone to them now. Yes I have email issues. Ok I’ll pass them over to you when my mails sorted

CN: “You got other issues there?

Customer:Yes, they say we have lost the Internet. So Whats the issue with my emails?

She honestly thought the fact they were not connected to the Internet had no connection with her problems in sending and receiving emails.

Example 2:

Now this was a ticket the Systems department had. A Customer had not been receiving any email conformation from their website for the last 3 months. And they knew from the orders that they should have had a fair few.

We had been looking into it on and off for a while since a grep of the site showed that it was not set up to actually send emails to the address they insisted received them.

So after many attempts I finally got them to check the header of an old email and give me the actual email address that the emails go to before being forwarded or downloaded to the end account.

So I have the real email address and decide to test it simply to start with. So I log into the account, and there sat in the INBOX are 50+ unread emails from the website.

Turns out they had forgotten to actually download the emails for the last few months.

Seriously, people get an IQ=IQ-100 as soon as they decide to contact our support department.

 

CN

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The 6 Nations 2012

Feb04
Published on: February 4, 2012
Categories: Sport
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Well its that time of the year again when the six nations rugby kicks off, with the time honoured grudge match between the old enemies “Wales & England”

For those who have not heard of it, The Six Nations is an international Rugby Championship between Wales, England, Scotland, Ireland, France & Italy.

We here at the Ninja Towers are supporting Wales (For Obvious Reasons) and have decided that should Wales win, then we will either give away a prize to someone who comments on any of the 6nations posts on the three-ninjas, or be donating a gift or money to a charity.

So Come on Wales.


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The Chair of DOOM!

Feb03
Published on: February 3, 2012
Categories: Freemasonary
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CR:Chair of DOOM?

GN: “OK, maybe “Chair of DOOM!” is a bit of an over-exaggeration, but it does have a much better ring than “Chair of Nerves“. Oh, Now i think of it “Chair of Terror” would be a much better title.”

CR:Then Why dont you change it?

GN:Couldn’t be buggered, So just had this imaginary conversation with you to explain how the title could be better!

CR:So you just wrote NINTY ONE words to save replacing ONE word in the Title?

GN:Yes…. Yes I did!

Last night was my first meeting as master of a Freemasons Lodge, and we decided to start off with the biggest ceremony we could (A Third for those that know), Nothing like starting big  to settle into our new roles easy. In fact a large number of people actually asked me last night “Why did you not start with an easier night? We’d never do a third in our first meeting” And I had no reasonable answer for them, Insanity is not really a reasonable answer or so I am told.

Now I am a naturally shy person (No matter what PlanetPete says) so I find it uncomfortable being the center of attention, so was uneasy in the run up to last night thinking about being in the spotlight, but as we were lining up to walk into the room I was surprised at just how nervous I was. I’m telling you “Chair of Terror” is a good name for it, I’m sure I’ll get used to it, probably just as soon as its my turn to step down and hand the care of it to my successor.

But even with the nerves, the most predominant thought in my head was “When are these guys going to realise I don’t have a clue what I’m doing!“. In my years as a member I’ve always assumed the Master knows whats going on, has the answers, and so on. But me? I am sat there looking around at people asking me questions, wanting my opinion, all the while as the voices in my head scream “Why are you looking at me?” or “SHIT!!!! they are going to suss me out soon“. I have to say its a very odd feeling sitting there on the big chair.

I should end by saying it all worked out and it was a good night, and no one seemed to suspect I was clueless. So By Bingo I have survived for another time.


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12 in 12 – Month1

Feb01
Published on: February 1, 2012
Categories: Blog, Resolutions
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This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series 12 in 12

Greetings. Well I guess if I intend to stick to this 12 in 12 challenge I really should keep track of how I am doing. Or I will just wait until the end of December and just go “I did stuff!! go me!!!” So I will try and keep a running check on what and how I am doing.

So here is the update for January.

1: Blog Post’s: Write at least one post a week for the whole year.

There was four weeks in January, and I posted four times, SO I am on track with this challenge.
4: Published: Get myself Published.

Not really done much work on this one, except to install and try out some new writing software that is designed to make it easier to write & format ebooks.

7: Weight Loss: Lose some weight.

Well Since Jan 1st I have lost a couple of pounds, and as such I am counting them as work towards this one. The plan to actually loose weight starts this month.

12: New Things: Do/Try at least one new thing every month.

New things. What did I do in January that I have never done before.

I responded on behalf of the Visitors for the first time ever (Thanks P&C)

I also attended a Burns night for the first time, with the piper and the haggis and the works. So thats technically two new things, lets see if I can keep it up.


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CELEBRATION: Happy * (Insert Name Here)

Feb01
Published on: February 1, 2012
Categories: Holiday, Pagan
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~: Imbolc, Imbolig, Imbolic, Candlemas, Oimealg, Briganatia, Lupercus, Disting, Lupercalia

Whatever your Path/Religion/Non-Religion views are, I wish you well at this time of year.

Thig an nathair as an toll
Là donn Brìde,
Ged robh trì troighean dhen t-sneachd
Air leac an làir.
“The serpent will come from the hole
On the brown Day of Bride,
Though there should be three feet of snow
On the flat surface of the ground.”

 


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