There is nothing like getting home after a long day at the office and being greeted by the following mess all over thelounge and  dining room floor.

If only the guilty cat would choose one location to puke it’s dinner up, it would make our lives so much easier, but alas, there was a total of 9 puke sites scattered around the lounge and dining room (mmmm). Question is who is the guilty cat? (Is it big cute eyes Tamsin or Mr innocent looking on pretending to be half asleep)?

Nothing like buying something and following the installation instructions to the letter, only to discover that the diagram showing the wiring is totally wrong. Yes in this day and age we still have companies supplying instructions that are completely wrong or they have not taken into account the multiple wiring options on offer, not that British Telecom (BT) have many wiring standards.

Here is the diagram Philex offer in the instructions and on the back of the box for their DIY Telephone Extension Kit:

The correct wiring is below (the diagram in the middle):

One thing to note:

The Philex kit has a Black, Red, Yellow and Green Cable combination, and I didn’t need to use the Green cable in position 4. It worked fine without it!

Pin 1 = blank

Pin 2 = black

Pin 3 = red

Pin 4 = green or blank

Pin 5 = yellow

Pin 6 = blank

I found the above diagram and wiring information on WPP Ltd. They have got some very useful information on their website regarding UK Telephone Extension Wiring.

I had the unpleasant pleasure of standing in a very long queue for at least 40 minutes today at a makeshift post office  in central London. To make the experience worse, the staff managing the 6 desks were totally incompetant and unfriendly, probably because they have been told this make shift hell hole (East Cheap post office) will be closing like all the other post offices in London.

I work in Cannon street in London and I kid you not when I say this, that there are no post offices. You have to walk for miles in all directions and when you do find one it will definitely have a queue.

Royal Mail has sounded the death knell for London’s post office network. A total of 169 branches face the axe under a fast-track closure programme.

MPs said it is a ‘kick in the teeth’ for Londoners and for high streets across the city. The capital has already lost more than 300 post offices in four years, with the numbers cut from 1,175 to 849. But Royal Mail says more branches must go to stem £3m-a-week losses.

That was a year ago, and I can only imagine hundreds more have closed since then. So much for living in a first world country.

How often do you unsubscribe from email newsletters? It seems I am constantly doing it and weeks or months later the buggers send more junk. So I don’t believe for a minute that these companies are unsubscribing me. As a test, I am going to monitor Best of the best, because I have unsubscribed a few times now, and they keep coming back like a fly to a turd.

Best of the Best plc are a listed company on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. We have been trading for over 6 years and have given away over £8 million of cars to over 200 winners….

Who cares who you are, stop sending me bloody emails. I don’t want a super car or whatever you are giving away as a prize. If I remember correctly I was suckered into taking a ticket or 3 at Gatwick airport over 2 years ago. Whenever I fill in a form where it asks “do you want to be contacted in the future for promos or new competitions”, I always say “NO”. But I don’t think anyone ever takes any notice of that.

Thomsons Holiday is another company bombarding me with junk email. So I have unsubscribed from them as well.

This is the 3rd time a disk has crashed on Volume 1 of my Synology CS-407 NAS Server. I am wondering if it’s the Synology or just a faulty disk. This is the 2nd brand new disk to have gone into the NAS in many weeks. Just this last weekend I prepared the disks in the NAS, which took hours. By preparing the disk I mean running some software called DISKWIPE that writes #’s to the disk to clear it.

So far in all the disk setups (RAID0, RAID1, RAID5 and BASIC) it’s has always been Volume 1 – Disk 1 that has failed. Typically this is the disk that contains all my video, music and photos. Thanks goodness for backups

Three days running now our £161 per month train operator (South Eastern) has been running dire services in the morning. On Monday, Jo and I stood on the platform at the usual time of 7:30am waiting for the Cannon Street / Charing Cross train to arrive. By the number of disgruntled people on the platform, it was obvious a few trains had already been delayed or cancelled.

By 8am, 6 possible train times had been delayed, but not once was there an announcement explaining why the train was delayed or cancelled. Finally at 8:13am, we are told there was a problem in Swanscombe with a broken down train, and that there was no estimate as to when the train would arrive. (lovely innit?)

Today, we caught our trains on time, but it took 15 minutes to get to Dartford, a 2 mile trip that normally takes 5 minutes. Did the idiot driver come on air and explain to the passengers what was up? (Do bears fart in the forest)?

The journey time into Charing Cross is normally 40 minutes, and today it took an hour and a half. We must have stopped about 15 times along the way and not once did the driver come on air and explain the reason for the delay or all the stoppages. The very least I was expecting was some sort of an apology (as lame as that sounds) from the driver when we arrived at the station. (Not a peep from the bastard), and even more disturbing was the lack of apology from the Charing Cross station master. Normally they say something as well. Not today.

I bet if I didn’t pay for my ticket I would be quickly fined, yet South Eastern Trains can get away with such poor service.

Last week Friday we noticed our wheelie bin was missing. This is not unusual because the dustmen fetch the rubbish on Thursdays or Fridays and they tend to leave the bins along the pavement. But on closer inspection we discovered it had truly walked off and was no where to be seen. So we thought it must be those bloody neighbourhood kids at it again. Probably using it for whatever activities they get up too. But alas! How wrong we were?

I had a look at our CCTV and who would have thought the person below was the guilty party. We captured her on CCTV on Friday morning 00:09 walking up to the bin, grabbing hold of it and walking off. I plan to print this photo and leave it on the wall of out local supermarkets. That should get some attention I am sure.

Have you seen this fat, blonde, wheelie bin thief?

I bought a new PC a month ago from a well known online PC shop here is great britain (not so great at the moment). The demand for this particular PC was so massive, that they sold out in little under a week, and of course I was told I would have to wait until they got more PC’s in stock. So I waited, and waited and waited (3 long weeks went by), and the ****ers had already taken my money… Figures hey! Corrupt bastards!!!!

Finally I got told that it would be delivered today. So I made the effort, got up early and drove into work (well I drove to my wife’s workplace), where the PC was delivered. Got home, set it all up, only to discover the PC was in fact NOT the PC I had purchased. In fact it was a piece of shit, not even close to the spec computer that I paid good money for.

Me thinks, they did it delibrately, hoping an IT Genius like myself would not notice. Well you little ****ers I did, so there! You cheating corrupt son of mother gremlin eating a sack of  $!*£#ers!!!!!

So I’ve written them a not so polite ENOTE demanding my money back, and the very least they can do with their tails between their legs is send me the PC I ordered or ELSE!!!!!!

Online shopping – I just hate it when big name stores think they can rip us off!

This is very annoying. Why should we the poor consumer have to pay such ridiculous prices for petrol or diesel when the petrol companies (Esso, BP, Shell) are all making billions of pounds profit. It just doesn’t make any sense. The government should step in and say "No more price rises", but they won’t because they too are making billions on the increase of the oil price. Something has to be done before it’s too late. I rekon we need to NOT BUY PETROL FOR A WEEK. If you can hold out that long, it will cost the petrol companies millions and the government millions, and then hopefully they can bring the price down.

I got my car back from Skoda yesterday after they supposedly blew the engine. It’s going like a rocket now, well exactly the same as it was before I took it to them. (ha ha), trust me, stay well away from Skoda Sidcup… Everything they touch turns to broken.

So there I was driving back to the station when I decided to visit B&Q over at North Greenwich. I parked outside MacDonald’s and was in the shop for about 5 minutes, came back to the car and discovered some scumbag had keyed my car from the petrol cap to the front mirror.

I stood there looking at it in disbelief. I’ve only just paid off my last bit of vandalism to the car and now this… I just wonder what sort of person goes around keying cars? What is going through their peanut brains? Fortunately my car is not coated with metallic paint, because if it was it would have been a lot worse, but still it’s totally unnecessary. I just don’t understand the mentality of people who do these things.