Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Spore

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on June 30, 2008
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I had a spare moment this morning and seeing as I’d heard so much about it, I decided to take the Spore Creature Creator for a spin, and I tell you what, it’s great fun!

Spore is a game where basically you create yourself a creature and then help it along it’s way in it’s evolution. You can create tribes, vehicles and even build a UFO and explore the galaxy where eventually you’ll find yourself other players creating their own creatures. It’s a great idea and for sure I’ll be getting it on 4th September when it comes out.

For now though, the creature creator allows you to do the creature creating part and then take them for a spin and save them for when the game finally does come out, and building creatures is fun! Here is a picture of my very first creature, fairly boring and normal’ish looking, but I shall have a few more shots and see what else I can come up with!

Go download the creature creator right now and see what you can do! It’s rather addictive once you get going! The program is free but if you pay $10 you get the full version with more body parts. I’m making do with the free version for now :)

Lonely? Don’t be!

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on June 26, 2008
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I’m not sure how I came to be researching this stuff, but it’s gross so I thought that I would share a little trip through You Tube related videos all to do with microscopic little creatures that live on our bodies or in our homes… 

To get you started, here is a short video about the more than 6 billion creatures that live on our bodies right now, that no amount of washing will get rid of. Hit the link after to view some more!

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Wedding Countdown

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on June 23, 2008
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With only 8 weeks or so to go until the big day I’ve added a great little countdown in weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds until the big day, hehe. Now everyone can keep a track of what is going on!

And with the wedding in mind, if you’re one of the lucky people to get an invite to the wedding and the reception, you really must returned the RSVP slip by the 30th of this month. If it doesn’t get returned there won’t be a seat for you, or food, or anything. So please please get them back to me as soon as you can before the 30th.

Update - Apparently people can’t find it (*cough* Sky *cough*), it’s on the right hand side above the photos.

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T-Mobile = Evil

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on June 23, 2008
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I have a T-Mobile contract, and it’s great really. I have their Flext 35 package with the Web ‘n’ Walk option added too it so that I have basically £90 of a allowance to use on either texts or calls and I get “unlimited” mobile internet and email access from my phone. Pretty good and I would recommend a Flext contract to anyone really.

But they have recently changed my opinion, following some Ofcom guidelines they felt the need to increase the costs of their call rates to 0845 and other non-geographic telephone numbers, in my case landing me with a 100% price increase.

Now, seeing as I hate my phone (An LG Viewty) I saw this as an excellent opportunity to ditch the contract free of charge, afterall a 100% price increase is clearly large enough to satisfy the clause in the contract about price increases above the retail price index, so called “material detriment”. But alas, T-Mobile are sneaky and in their recent T&Cs update moved numbers starting 08 into non-standard charges, making them exempt from the clause. Clearly premeditated when they changed the terms in preparation for a price increase they knew people would want to leave over.

I know companies are meant to make profit, but to make profit at any sneaky little turn they can at the expense of customer satisfaction? Seems a bit wrong to me, very wrong in fact, not just a bit.

Now, I will admit that perhaps, possibly there is a large part of me that saw this as an opportunity to ditch T-Mobile just weeks before a certain phone produced by Apple is released with O2. And I’m sure that many people are the same, but still had this been at any other time it’s still wrong to abuse your customer relationships like this and to just take money at any chance you can.

Of course I still want the new phone what with it now being 3G and of course the addition of uber cool MobileMe but I guess if I want rid of T-Mobile I’ll just have to pay the termination fee… grr. Not sure I can really justify paying it just so I can get a shiny new phone, haha.

What you think? Is a 3G iPhone really worth it? :P

Update - I have just written a letter to T-Mobile to cancel my contract under the terms and conditions (7.2.5.2 and 7.2.5.3 to be precise). We shall await with interest as to whether it works. I think I’m correct, and I put forward a very logical and easy to follow argument. My hope is that they will just give in if I cause enough trouble rather than fight me, although either way is fine by me.