Category: Life

I am a toy!

Gogos Mosh
This is me! Apparently.

Not content with Nokia ripping my “name” off for a rather naff online sharing site and Yahoo! pinching it for a failed social networking project (see this old post),  life has dealt me another unworkable copyright wrangle.

I just spotted that one of the most desirable “GoGo’s Crazy Bones” toys is the Mosh. Available in several colours including a “most valuable” gold one that recently went on eBay for the astounding sum of £2.44.

I am feeling as if my name is being sadly devalued. What next? An Eminem song?

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Bah, humbug!

pound sign £
The true meaning of Christmas - these days anyway

Just so you know you’re at the right blog, my traditional Christmas greeting to you all.

Best wishes to everyone out there. I hope you all get the chance to be with your respective families and enjoy a relaxing day off from the rest of the world. Eat well, drink well and watch a ton of crap telly.

My personal aims today are to watch Little Cuz destroy 3 sapient pearwood‘s worth of wrapping paper, see both my grannies, have a decent bit of scran at my aunt’s and ensure I get to see Dr Who and the last episode of James May‘s Toy Stories.

Don’t forget – Christmas is for children. They’re the single best thing about it. So if you don’t have any to hand, just act like one. With luck, nobody will notice.

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SAAS really suck big pendulous donkey doo-dads

After finally getting my award notice through (three flipping months), I found a nice sum in my bank account. Lovely. Then I checked my award letter and realised it was less than half what I was expecting. Not so lovely.

I’m due over £5k in student loans to tide me over as I qualify for the maximum. I have received less than half that. Now, it may be that the money is dished out in amounts per term which is fine if it’s in the rules. However, I can’t find anything telling me that.

Also, given that it’s three months since I applied to SAAS I have pretty much pre-spent the money that’s just come in. Had I been paying rent I’d have been utterly screwed and most likely have dropped off the course over a month ago.

I’m curious to know when I’d get the next payment. So I went to email them (they go home early on a Friday, lucky ducks) and received the following message when I hit “send”:

Application Error

An error has been detected in the operation of this application. It is not possible to continue with your email to SAAS.

A report has been sent to the SAAS Web Support Team and the matter will be resolved as soon as possible.

Please accept our apologies for the incovenience. You should now close your browser session and try again later

SAAS

Well, that’s useful.

SAAS. About as good as Barclays.

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No wonder I couldn’t get a girlfriend

At least I had <em>hair</em>
At least I had hair

Thanks (I think) to Andy who sent me the photo attached. It’s from his graduation at Bradford University back in 1996. I don’t actually remember the day whatsoever (sorry, Andy!) but I can tell you I was stood outside University Halls (of residence), near the top of the stairs that used to lead down to the computer centre. Which have not vanished completely which freaked me out last time I was there.

Anyway. Enjoy. Have a laugh. And not at my limited edition Carcass “Swansong” t-shirt I got free from Roadrunner Records.

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