From a set of photos taken at Paul’s leaving do: friends and neighbours moving to Singapore - we’ll be sorry to see them go.
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
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I was most amused by this story on the BBC news web site: a woman won second prize in a cake-baking contest despite being the only contestant. Judges decided that indentations from the cooling wire rack meant it should be marked-down. But how could they make it second? Second to whom? Typical sort of Middle-England mentality going on there, all full of their own importance, whereas the proper course should have been to forget about judging and just award the first prize!
Still, second prize is an improvement for her:
“About 11 years ago I entered a show with some fruit scones. I was the only entrant but I came third.”
If you’ve ever read this, you’ll know that one of the main issues I had with ezboard, Inc. was that despite us paying for a Gold Community that promised that “weekly backups and free restores protect your board” they never did protect our board, so that all the money in our Community Chest had been effectively paying just to have the adverts removed. Of course, given that many of us had paid for ezSupporter to keep the Gold renewal costs down, this was a moot point.
At the time when ezboard, Inc. lost a year’s data from our ezboard, we had around $566 in our Community Chest. If I recall correctly, one member of our board managed to have their small donation credited to a different board after we made the decision that ezboard losing our data was the final straw in terms of staying there, so we launched our own self-hosted vBulletin board in June 2005.
Despite ezboard having failed to live up to their side of the bargain, they refused to refund the unspent Community Chest balance to us, so we decided that we would just close all the discussion threads and simply renew its Gold Community status every October until all the Community Chest balance had been spent, rather than letting it lapse and have them display adverts that might gain them new revenue. With the ezboard discussion threads closed and with our self-hosted board going from strength to strength, the number of page views fell to the extent that our annual renewals have been the minimum $54 and we renewed in October 2005 and October 2006.
Now, you do the maths: I reckon that c.$566 - (2x $54) = ~$450, so that’s what we should have left in our Community Chest balance.
According to ezboard, Inc., however, the remaining balance we have is zero!
So not only does ezboard, Inc. refuse to refund us the money, but they now tell us there’s no money to spend anyway!
The ‘owner’ or “ezOp” of the board has opened a support ticket with ezboard two days ago as ezboard prefer keeping their activities and mistakes out of public view, saying:
“Where is my ezboard money?
I had over $500 after the last renewal was done, the balance now shows £0
Has someone stolen the money?
Please reply as soon as possible!”
We’ll see…
So last night, I am channel surfing and decide to catch a bit of Die Hard 2 on ITV1.
For any of you who may not have seen this, the plot outline (from IMDB) is:
“John McClane is forced to battle mercenaries who seize control of an airport's communications and threaten to cause plane crashes if their demands are not met.”
Oh noes! Airport! Explosions! {wring hands} Think of the children! OMG!1!1111!1!1!!1
So those stupid, politically-correct, touchy-feely fecktards at ITV pulled it, replacing it with Cliffhanger instead. But wait! Doesn't that film end with the baddie dying when his helicopter crashes? And don't various characters die whilst in the mountains? How could ITV be so insensitive?
No doubt ITV will now pull tonight's episode of its drama series Blue Murder tonight because in tonight's episode:
“a young and well-respected Mullah dies when an arsonist firebombs his home”
Oh noes! Muslims! Fire! {wring hands} Think of the children! OMG!1!1111!1!1!!1
Oh and I'd like to thank ITV in advance for pulling all episodes of any shows featuring doctors as well just in case, given that some of the latest bombers appear to be doctors or have links to hospitals.
Or alternatively, they might just simply come to the conclusion that we're adults and know the difference between real life and make believe…
Run on 10 April 2012 9:36 am
2.08 mi in 00:20:41 (09:58 min/mi)
HR 167 bpm - Burned 274 C
