Via. Freeconomics Part I – or who is paying for your Free lunch? – broadstuff and found somewhere on slashdot. “You must be new, welcome to the Internet. Here on the Internet you are required to view any publicly held company as evil and any effort on their part to charge for a service as pure, [...]
May 26, 2008
I’ve just deleted two trackbacks that led directly to malware installation routines posing as Anti-Virus scanners. On IE7, it was necessary to switch off the iexplore process manually to get the windows to stop. I’ve scanned for any traces using Spybot – S & D and seem to be clean. This is obviously really annoying for [...]
May 24, 2008
If you need the history – I had a big problem with the company (blogged here), which was resolved the day after I wrote a post about it on this site (blogged here). A lot of people might see this as a victory for blogs and bloggers. I’d agree, sure. But, on reflection, I think it’s [...]
May 24, 2008
This post is a follow-up to the last, rather less complimentary one, Goodbye, Carphone Warehouse, You Lied and Cheated… At 10am this morning – and it’s Saturday on a bank holiday weekend, you’ll note, I got a call from Sarah, a customer services manager at Carphone Warehouse. She gets Google Alerts for mentions of the company’s [...]
May 23, 2008
NB: This story has a happy ending! Dear Carphone Warehouse, We used to have it so good. I’ve been a customer for about four years, and you’ve never put a foot wrong until now. You found me good deals and gave me good advice on tariffs and handsets. But I’m not sure our relationship can recover after [...]
May 3, 2008
Fortieth anniversary of MLK’s death tomorrow. This is from one year before he died. A transcript is available here.
May 29, 2008