Saturday, November 30, 2002
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Friday, November 29, 2002
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Well, I've had one victory. The Housing Benefit people finally decided (after I whimpered 'But, I'll get evicted!' and other guilt inducing phrases) to just phone the Jobcentre and get confirmation that I had been unemployed. That simple, after weeks of drafting letters and waiting for answers and going round in circles!
The cheque reaches my bank next weekend. Which is when I discover how incompetent my bank is........
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Thursday, November 28, 2002
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via the Guardian's Online section- RuaVista This Brazillian site is dedicated to images of the urban environment. Given that over half my pictures of the day fall into one of their categories, I have a bit of kinship.
They also have links to various 'secret city' and architecture sites, which I'm off to surf.
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They also have links to various 'secret city' and architecture sites, which I'm off to surf.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2002
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Apparently, I moved out of this house in July. My electric company told me so. They got a phone call from some woman saying she'd moved in, so they closed my account. It had just taken me six months for them to realise I had moved in and let me set up a standing order, so I either ignored the letter or didn't get one because everything was automated. I found this out because today I received a bill for 'The Occupier' for the intervening period and called their enquiry line.
Meanwhile, BT have been charging me for Surftime, despite the fact that I've had broadband through them since September. You'd think one department would talk to the other. I spent twenty minutes on the phone being passed form one person to another and then to a dead line.
Are all corporations/ bureaucracies totally incompetent, or do I just bring out the worst in them?
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You can't go wrong with the Abbott & Costello Who's on First routine, rejigged here for the new General Secretary of China.
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With all the years I've lived in Manchester, I still had to move to Surrey to be burgled (touching wood whilst typing). Now the Southerners are getting touchy about adverts pointing out how crappy London is.
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Just finished- Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson It's easy to see why Dubya called this book "unpatriotic and ridiculous", with surreal stories of Gulf War Syndrome manifesting as a vestigial ear and hallucinations, military technology and doctrine taken to illogical extremes and Norman Schwarzkopf's 'raisin heart'. Not easy or coherent reading, more of a bunch of twisted allegories on the damage done by war.
Just started- Children of Chaos by Douglas Rushkoff. Snowboarding, video games and comics as a way to understand a fragmenting future. Hmmmm.
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Just started- Children of Chaos by Douglas Rushkoff. Snowboarding, video games and comics as a way to understand a fragmenting future. Hmmmm.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2002
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