Well done Hull for their victory over Bristol in the Championship play off final! The Premiership is going to be full of underdogs or historically ’smaller’ clubs next year; thus, it should be really interesting at the bottom of the table. Looking forward to the Leeds Doncaster game tomorrow too; although, revision might just get in the way! I tried to read throughout the match… and it didn’t really turn out so well. Fifteen pages in 90 minutes isn’t really progress!

Oh, the BBC have some new kids show called ‘Meta4orce’ on their homepage. Now I get the idea with the number 4 being used instead of just calling the program Metaforce, like ‘2 Fast 2 Furious’; however, it looks like the shows creators have made a little mistake. The way it currently is, the title would be pronounced Meta-four-orce; now I doubt that was the intended pronunciation!

Over the weekend my internet went down, which really isn’t much fun; however, it does help you get revision done! Really starting to crank up on my revision, so the site will get a bit of neglect. I did say I wont be posting every day any more, so I hope you got that.

I am having soo much fun drawing up little revision cards, really it’s almost as good as actually having fun…

My crummy ISP decided they’d give me 3 days of downtime, so sorry for the lapse. Shame, as I had a nice little run of posts going…

I am currently suffering from a nasty caffeine head-ache. I went home (after guzzling tons of tea, coffee, and coke to live through the evil last weeks of the term,) to find all the tea and coffee was caffeine free. Now I normally would have no problem with this, but after a ‘caffeine binge’ not touching the stuff will cause a nasty headache.

Trying to do an assessment with a banging head is not fun. Neither are the pains of three hours of football

A nice find on Bristol road:

Not sure if the sign is still there, the road works are probably finished now.

WooOOOO! I now get to escape from Tesco! They even decided to pay me correctly for a change, just as I leave.

On the other hand, this means I have to get cracking down with revision, and two assignments… which won’t be fun. Aleast I’ll be able to watch Grand Slam Sunday at on the huge TV at Opal with no-one around, as everyone has gone home from University.

What I want to happen:

Arsenal to beat Chelsea

Liverpool to draw with Manchester United

Why? As a neutral it keeps the title race open and I’d rather have the flowing football of Arsenal get rewarded over Chelsea’s dire stuff. Especially when they have numptys like Ashley Cole in their squad. Secondly, a Liverpool draw gives Everton some hope in snatching 4th spot and disrupting the so called ‘big four’. With the money every side gets these days the extra money from the Champions League is not as huge a factor as it has been in the past (that money basically gave us a big 2, then a big 3, and finally a big 4.) Sides like Everton, Aston Villa, Manchester City, Tottenham and even Newcastle have a much greater potential to break into the Champions League, and break up the ‘big four’. I’ll be glad to see a much more open league, as long as the standards stay high.

However, what I expect to happen:

Chelsea to draw with Arsenal

Manchester United to beat Liverpool
This would all but end the league race, but weaken Liverpools grasp on the 4th spot. Shame as this year looked to have the most open title race in years.

Bah, still two more working days at Tesco. Silly me decided to do some overtime on Good Friday, at least the pays good…

One hectic week coming up. Hopefully I’ll have some decent posts for you.

Woo, only one more Saturday left after tomorrow and I am free of Tesco! Freedoooooooooooom!

I’ve had a good pretty good decent 2 years with the company; although, there have been numerous lots of mishaps. I still like the company and defend it for certain practices, but I had to leave after all the problems with my transfer and I have far too much work to do for University. On the other hand, I seem to have been offered an opportunity by the YHA to help them with SQL (which I suck at.)

1. After moving store, they messed up my payments resulting in no pay for 4 months!

2. My privelige card did not work for the same 4 months… grr!

3. They still haven’t refunded me for travel for an interview. Let me tell you travelling to Welwyn Garden City by train is a pain! You can’t get a return from anywhere but London, as you can’t use the return ticket from anytime between 1pm and 8pm. So you are forced into buying two singles, for me that amounted to £35 each way. Note to Tesco, give me my £70!!!

4. Twice missed out on stock bonuses. First time round because I had worked for 11 months, and not 12, on the cut off date; the second was — again — due to the bloody 4 months in limbo!

5. They fucked up my pay and overpaid me, then took the money back (Well no-one ever gets away with that, do they?)

6. I don’t think they paid me for any of my overtime during my 4 months in limbo.

7. They thought I had ‘quit’ when I had actually swapped store.

So goodbye Tesco!

I just got this posted in time!

Sadly, I’ve been enjoying my new 22″ LCD monitor too much to remember to post — NO DEAD PIXELS! Thank you aria! If Wordpress had an auto post plug-in it could have used the stories I’ve saved up. Damn, that’s one thing where Postnuke is actually better than Wordpress… but I guess there is a plug-in for that anyway.

I’ve just noticed how much damn SQL work they expect us to do at University in just one week. The workload for the next month seems drastic, I’ve got 3 rather important assignments to do

Anyway, I’ll try to post something more meaningful tomorrow.

I received my mobile phone bill today and got a nasty shock when looking at how much I was charged — £72! (around $150.) Seeing as I am on a £15 per month contract and rarely exceed my allocated minutes I was really confused. Had I been browsing using 3G and not wireless for the past month? After all the data charge is around £2.70 every megabyte after your first megabyte. Had I left my phone connected when calling an expensive number such as an 0845?

Nope none of the above, instead O2 had messed up with my canceled upgrade. As you may see on Tech Rant, I bought a N82 sim free. Now at first this was not the case, I upgraded with O2 to a £40 per month contract then canceled it and returned the phone, as I worked out it was cheaper to simply buy the phone if I rarely use the minutes. The contract gave me around 1000 minutes a month, I barely use a fifth of that. It seems O2 decided to receive my phone and not cancel the contract, I had to ring up customer service and the lady on the end of the phone had to ring up the returns department. At this point I was really worried that the phone had got stolen in the post or something.

Anyhow, I was assured that when my bill came in the post that this would all be sorted out and that I would be back on the £15 per month contract. Plus, I would get an extra £5 out of courtesy, needless to say I was pleased. Yet the thought of joining another network was creeping in, I could easily save money by going pay as you go. Maybe even get some cheap cinema tickets with Orange as their rates are reasonable.

Sadly things haven’t worked out. I was charged the full £72, so back to O2 customer service I went. It seems they now cannot make a refund until my next billing date, effectively locking me to my contract for another month. Even more annoying is the fact that I cannot request my PAC code (to move my number,) as I do not want to stay with O2 after all this mess. This because O2 have treated my cancellation and return to my old tariff as an ‘upgrade’, how that works I have no idea, but because of this I cannot move networks until I have served 30 days of my contract. Eh? I thought 30 day grace periods worked the other way around?

Needless to say, I will not be staying with O2 after all this is sorted out; unless they bribe me with a lot of free credit on their Pay As You Go service, if they cannot handle such a routine task as canceling an upgrade then I have no faith them.