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customer support
Dear Tracey,
Thank you for your advice. Unfortunately, the first part of it repeats a previous conversation, and is therefore not very helpful. Repeating a statement twice does not make it true (although according to Lewis Carroll, trice does).
As for the suggestion that I send you a screen shot, regretfully I do not own a time machine, nor do I capture my screen continuously, and thus have no way of retrieving a screen shot from three weeks back.
best regards,
- Yishay
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2009/1/27 Web Customer Support <WebCustomerSupport@nationalexpress.com>
Thank you for your email regarding seat reservations.
Seat Reservations need to be made at the same time of booking, and the website does give you this option to opt in to reserving on your preferred services.
If you would like to reserve seats now, you will need to take your tickets into a station.
as stated in your email that you selected the seat reservation for the outward and return journey could you please send in a screen shot so we can look into this fault further.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Regards
Tracey
national express Web Support
PO Box 1207
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE99 1JH
I digg Ada LoveLace day
I like the idea of Ada Lovelace Day, and I like the way it is happening. @FindingAda
Just decided to do it. So she set up a pledgebank:
Pledge “AdaLovelaceDay”
“I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same.”
— Suw Charman-Anderson (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 24th March 2009
499 people have signed up, 501 more neededMore details
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements.It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about – everyone is invited to take part. All you need to do is sign up to this pledge and then publish your blog post any time on Tuesday 24th March 2009. If you’re going to be away that day, feel free to write your post in advance and set your blogging system to publish it that day.
We will gather as many of the posts together on the day as we can, and we’ll let you know exactly how we’re going to do that nearer the time. For ongoing updates about Ada Lovelace day, please follow us on Twitter, join our mailing list or see our blog.
And started promoting it on twitter. I thought, maybe a post on digg would help?
Oops!
This URL has been reported by users to be in violation of Digg’s Terms of Service and cannot be submitted at this time. Please refer to our Terms of Service (digg.com/tos) for more information.
And which terms would those be?
Luckily, Cory has posted it on boing boing so I could digg his story
And guess what I get?
And believe me, this was just the begining. Before the clips from break.com
I wonder…
When John Cleese calls Sarah Palin a parrot, what kind of parrot is he thinking of?
(ht Mark)
Randall Monroe strikes again
Hey Godel, we're compiling a comprehensive list of fetishes..
Occam’s razor (or how scientists ignore the obvious)
New scientist reports on a study which finds that men in polygamous societies live %12 longer on average. The distinguished scientists go to great length to propose sophisticated explanations, ignoring the most immediate hypothesis: sex is good for you. The more you have, for more years, the longer you live.
If it wasn’t my kid, I would laugh too
Actually, I did laugh. Even when the joke was on me.
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Alia and Yamina kindly invited me to a preview of their new show. I’m not the comedy type, I usually get my laughs from the 10 o’clock news. But these girls hit the nail, and hit it hard. If you’re around Thursday night, come see them at the goodenough.
Disclosure: Alia’s an old friend, so obviously I’m biassed, but hey – what’s the point of having a blog if you can’t promote your friends? |
Alia Alzougbi and Yamina Bakiri would like to invite you to a night of quirky comedy. It’s Nothing Personal will explore at least 1001 ways of stereotyping “the Middle East” In this magic carpet ride, we will address the following:
- Is west of the Middle East still east?
- What are the political and health benefits of olive oil?
- Is female emancipation down to shaving hair?
- Would the Big Bad Wolf discriminate on the basis of religion?
- Does it make sense to marry a brain surgeon when your father is diabetic?
- What do the Koran and The Communist Manifesto have in common?
Unfortunately the accuracy of the answers is not guaranteed with the ticket price (£5); as such, we cannot promise you an educative night, but you might just have a chuckle (or two). It’s Nothing Personal will take place on Thursday the 19th of June at 8:30pm in Goodenough College, London House Large Common Room, WC1N 2AB. All proceeds go to SOS children http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/children-charity.htm
Mac users don’t like people touching their kit
Cognitive daily reports a dramatic and statistically significant difference between how much PC and Mac users let friends try out their new devices.
I wonder what the results would have been for Linux people.
Go Harry, go!
Osama called the Taliban, he said,
Let’s kill the Brits,
They like a beer, they like a laugh,
They like girls with big tits,
Let’s kill them all, those infidels,
Let’s kill their wives and kids,
But Queen Liz overheard them both,
And this is what she did
She shouted out “Oi Harry,
Get in your fucking van,
Put on your best shit-kicking boots,
Drive to Afghanistan,
Those Taliban are fucking cunts,
Their shit has got to stop,
Get over there and shoot those fucking bastards in the cock
Shoot them in the cock, yes shoot them in the cock,
Osama and the Taliban, shoot them in the cock,
Shoot them in the cock, yes shoot them in the cock,
Osama and the Taliban, shoot them in the cock,
Prince Harry swapped a helmet for his diamond-studded crown,
He took his ermine robes off, donned fatigues of desert brown,
He pulled on his shit-kicking boots and gave those cunts a shock,
When he fucked off to Afghanistan to shoot them in the cock,
Shoot them in the cock, yes shoot them in the cock,
Osama and the Taliban, shoot them in the cock,
Shoot them in the cock, yes shoot them in the cock,
Osama and the Taliban, shoot them in the cock
Now Harry is our hero,
He’s as hard as fucking rock,
He got those fucking Taliban,
And shot them in the cock,
He charged into their fire shouting,
“For England and St George!”
And when he’d shot them in the cock,
He shot them in the balls
For England and St George!
For England and St George!
He shot them in the cock and then he shot them in the balls
For England and St George!
For England and St George!
He shot them in the cock and then he shot them in the balls
For England and St George!
For England and St George!
He shot them in the cock and then he shot them in the balls
For England and St George!
For England and St George!
He shot them in the cock and then he shot them in the balls
The things you find on the internets when you have a solid deadline. (ht http://www.rathergood.com/)
