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Jared Harris commented on "Simple Kid - The Road"

2012-04-15T18:24:26Z

Jared Harris said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYe0Idy8Lt0&context=C45fd589ADvjVQa1PpcFP06-HzNEwydu1Sc1N-9zAX-YDY-0puqMY= (This is a video I made to promote "The Road")

Pauly commented on "The Oystercard website - exposing the underbelly of your technology is not necessarily what's best for your users"

2012-03-05T23:09:53Z

Pauly said: At last! They've changed it to display the journey start/end time, start/end stations, the charge and the balance! My expenses claims will now involve a great deal less arithmetic and head-scratching. I just wonder about this 8-week cut-off for legal reasons. I bet Big Brother keeps the data for ever and a day, it's only us that aren't allowed to look back beyond a couple of months. It's probably for the same reason that you can only get journey history if you link your Oyster card to a credit card…

Peter Fitzpatrick commented on "Simple Kid - The Road"

2012-03-03T11:39:03Z

Peter Fitzpatrick said: This is excellent news. Hopefully the full SK3 album will follow.

sarah smyth commented on "GE Money - incompetence and downright lies"

2012-01-15T01:43:51Z

sarah smyth said: ge is a horrible company and i hope some day they go under. i know people are complaining alot of about them but i am taking action monday, i have a list of attornies i am contacting and going to meet and i am going to file a class action lawsuit on them, i have had enough and i am not standing here and taking anymore of their crap. 2 years ago i was having financial problems, i contacted them to see about lowering interest and pymt amts, and they helped at the time, i set up automatic withdrawls and over a year they have been taking the money out and then out of the blue they stop the auto withdrawls with no notice, i had alot going on in my life at the time and did not realize for a few months that they stopped until i got a call from a collection agency, i asked for them to get me proof as to why they stopped the withdrawls with no notice, they wouldnt i made arrangements to make 75.00 a month pymt but that i would mail to sams club since that is where my acct should be and not with them, i filed complaint with the bbb and no help, i then get served papers fri eve to appear in court in 3 weeks, that they want balance in full which they also indicated that i had been making payments. how the hell can they file a suit, when your not behind and make monthly payments, i guess thats the lovely judicial system we have her in the usa, instead of really working cases that are hindering other peoples lifes they have to allow this. andrew your statement was well said, they call them selfs a reputable company my a--, they are crooks, nz i am sorry they monopolize you over there, i would run as fast as i could, anyone with a mortgage loan or anything to do with ge money should stay far away. as for the ceo he is a jerk with his comments, i hope one day he falls flat on his face with financial issues, what goes around comes around eventually just cause your company screws other people so you guys can sit on your butts and do nothing while the rest of us are harding working trying to make ends meat. i hope more people pass all this to others and file complaints and small clams court with them as well. i am not backing down. i will do everything i can to make known to the public and everywhere just how horrible this company is. I BEG EVERYONE TO PLEASE SEEK A ATTORNY AND LETS ALL FIGHT TOGETHER AND FILE A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THEM. after i talk with and get more information from a attorny i hire i will pass this website along to him and info i can give others to do the same

Mary commented on "GE Money - incompetence and downright lies"

2012-01-14T08:17:27Z

Mary said: I am still fighting over PPI monies that was added to my account Borrowed £40,000 was told PPI had to be added or no loan had loan for 5months and had to pay almost £50,000 now have 2 sets of account info from 2 different GE departments and both totally different. Mary .GOOD LUCK and Keep the fight going with these rouges ....................

Andrew Bowden commented on "Norway 2006: Day Seven (Around Eidfjord)"

2012-01-11T13:12:21Z

Andrew Bowden said: Don't worry about your English - it's far better than my Norwegian!

Inger Johanne Heiland Amundsen commented on "Norway 2006: Day Seven (Around Eidfjord)"

2012-01-10T18:12:01Z

Inger Johanne Heiland Amundsen said: Hello!! I'm Karl Heiland's daughter, and I got almost shock when i google Kallebu and found this articel. I am glad that you have been there and look how my father lived in the summer during he was fishing in the river. During one summer (2month) he catched 169 kilo salmon in the river. He lived in the little house, and I remember he told me that he feeded one mouse that summer.The mouse came there every day, and he had always someting to give to the animal he loved so much. Trough all the years he was there, it came people from the hole world to take picture of him and the little house. My father died at mars 1985 after a big hertatache. We lived in Ål in Hallingdal, and we tried to travel over to Måbødalen to look after the house. I'm sorry that my English write is no good, but I hope you can read this. Next time you come to this part of Norway you can call me and mayby we can meet somewhere.

John Wheatcroft commented on "GE Money - incompetence and downright lies"

2012-01-10T08:19:09Z

John Wheatcroft said: GE Money are so good they have successfully managed to lose a cheque from my solicitor for £576.00. During a conversation with them over Christmas they told me the money had come in as they could see it on the system However yesterday 9/1/2012, I receive letters saying the money is still owing, # On closer investigation it turns out that one department has separated the letter from the cheque. Bunch of donkeys these people, they really are

Pat Bland commented on "GE Money - incompetence and downright lies"

2012-01-09T21:44:15Z

Pat Bland said: I think you can assume that they will ignore your letters. They always ignore questions that are "inconvenient". It is unlikely they will sue you. At the end of the line they are practised cowards and bluffers. As for charges, they are currently charging me additional interest on credit balances when I regularly make my payment five days before it is due, and have no arrears. I have asked for their justification for this - guess what? - they have not replied. As for telephone calls they will never let you have them since they would incriminate themselves. Good luck! Pat

sandie commented on "GE Money - incompetence and downright lies"

2012-01-09T11:13:27Z

sandie said: ge money continue to add charges on my account - i thought i had a payment plan in place and was assured no further charges would be added to my account if i stuck to the agreement. i received a letter claiming i owed them £40 default fee plus £40 per month that my account is behind. when i phoned i was told that i hadnt made an agreement with them despite having names of individuals i had spoken to. i requested transcripts of phone calls and was told it would go to litigation and as far as they were concerned my complaint was closed. i would also have to pay a £200 litigation fee. looking back at my account they seem to add charges to the point that the balance is barely reducing. am now drafting a letter to ask for all information they have pertaining to my account including transcripts of the disputed phone calls. lets see if they ignore this as they have ignored previous correspondence - despite me sending them by recorded/signed for post.

MARIE BYRNE commented on "All aboard the Rocky Mountaineer for the adventure of a lifetime. And a picket line."

2012-01-08T04:07:48Z

MARIE BYRNE said: We only found out 15mts before we got on train that there was a strike but we were assured that the new staff were very capable.This we found not to be the case the staff we had were very young not alot of customer service and very little knowledge of the surroundings. The food was not a standard for the Gold class we were travelling in it was served very late with not a great selection and not enough. We were more than disappointed with our trip and I am sure this experience would have been different if the regular staff were on board.The Rockymountaineer is not doing itself afavour by employing untrained staff and I would never recommend this this journey to anyone as long as the strike continues

Andrew Bowden commented on "Saving Money On The Trains"

2011-12-23T18:42:05Z

Andrew Bowden said: Hi Kuldeep. To answer your questions... 1) you can buy it from either. For the most part they're the same if you buy it from a National Rail or tube station. If there's a benefit from buying from one and not the other, I'm not aware of it. 2) your wife can get a third off the National Rail fare after 9:30am (and all day weekends) but only if she travels with you. She wouldn't get anything on the tube. 3) Best place to find the details of the Gold Card discounts is on the National Rail website (it's quite buried but there) at http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/season_tickets/goldcard.html

Kuldeep commented on "Saving Money On The Trains"

2011-12-23T16:19:17Z

Kuldeep said: Hi, Amazing website with lots of information. I also have something to ask. I am travelling from Mitcham Eastfileds to Oxford Circus and planning to buy Annual Season Pass(Gold Card). I just want to know few things 1. Do i need to buy it from National Rail Station or Tube Station and what is the difference between both of them. 2. Can my wife gets any advantage on daily travel to her office. She use to travel from Mitcham Eastfields to Balham. 3. I am sure there are so much benefits of having gold card. Can you please highlight few of them as i have seen on so many websites everyone has different opinion. Thanks in advance, Kuldeep

Andrew Bowden commented on "Installing Linux on an elderly laptop"

2011-12-11T22:57:31Z

Andrew Bowden said: This post was from 2008 so you might want to go to go a little newer - XUbuntu 11.10 is out now.

Cock_E commented on "Installing Linux on an elderly laptop"

2011-12-11T18:32:52Z

Cock_E said: ...after reading this post, I hope to get it right with Xubuntu 8.04. XE3 is pretty robust piece of hardware, so I asumed that it should last more than few weeks after leting it to my neices - just to get familiar with another OS ;) So thnx in advace, cause you've made my decision about which distro to install. Thnx man!

kim mccready commented on "GE Money - incompetence and downright lies"

2011-11-16T15:31:04Z

kim mccready said: my sister in law died leaving a secured loan and after calling 2 day's after her death to notify them they have charged well over 1000 pound's on to the account, we were told that the account would be frozen after 6 month's they have explained they are not. They are a bunch of inconsiderate B*******. What heartache they have caused my family and her son that is only 5 and they are taking away his only money that he would have had.

Andrew Bowden commented on "The Unmemorable Memorable Word"

2011-11-10T21:09:47Z

Andrew Bowden said: So tonight, after twenty minutes, I found out another reason why I've been having so much trouble with Barclaycard's online system - and indeed why I didn't get a memorable word hint. My username was wrong. I was typing in the wrong thing convinced it was right. Once I finally got in it took me five minutes to find out that there is nowhere in the entire service where you can actually see what your user name is. You can login using your credit card number if you've forgotten it, but if you have then you just have to create a new one. [bangs head on table] And, of course, when you do choose a new username, well it has to be 8-16 characters and contain letters AND numbers. Which is why I forgot my username in the first place. [breaks table with head banging] I'm now off to write my username down. Because that's secure...

Mike Fisher commented on "The Unmemorable Memorable Word"

2011-11-10T16:44:23Z

Mike Fisher said: I am also a former Egg customer, and am similarly unimpresed by the "mybarclaycard" website. The default security seems to be incredibly insecure: a six figure passcode that defaults to your date of birth, and a "memorable word" that displays the hint for all to see. My first attempt at a memorable word was an obscure Czechoslovakian flute maker. (I happen to own an instrument made by them.) I thought this ticked all the boxes as difficult to guess, personal to me and (being a foreign word) not susceptible to dictionary attack. It was, of course, rejected as it contained the sequence of neighbouring keys: "ert". I settled instead for the town where I grew up, which is much less secure. I've had a few other issues with myBarclaycard, too. So far, the site has refused to allow me to change my memorable word (I since thought of a really good one!), not changed my direct debit instruction, occasionally logged me out for no apparent reason, and displays only one of my two cards. I used the secure messaging system to ask them about the second card, but they haven't got back to me despite promising to do so "within 24h". Ho Hum. Like you, I stuck with Egg for a number of years because their online facility was so good. I don't think I'll be with Barclaycard for as long!

Andrew Bowden commented on "Bus Week: 25 Years of Bus Deregulation"

2011-11-06T14:49:50Z

Andrew Bowden said: I wouldn't say I confuse privatisation with deregulation. It's quite obvious they are two different things. However I simply do not think it's possible to view one without the other. Each were, as far as the Government of the day was concerned, a key part of their intent to change the system. Indeed I'd argue that it would have been foolish to do deregulation without privatising the likes of the National Bus Company. Deregulation suddenly put a whole heap of commercial risk on the operations. Better to flog them off, take the money and transfer the risk to someone else. Given several municipal bus operators went under after deregulation, I'm sure some local councils wished they'd sold up sooner.

Martyn Lewis commented on "Bus Week: 25 Years of Bus Deregulation"

2011-11-05T18:11:33Z

Martyn Lewis said: As is so often the case you confuse deregulation with the privatisation of nationally and locally owned government transport operators - these were two distinct phases of Tory government legislation. Deregulation brought in competition which to be honest a complacent industry needed, whereas privatisation (which began at around the same time) simply served to make a number of former government employees quite wealthy men, buying publicly owned assests at knockdown prices and in a short space of time selling them on to shape the industry as we know it today.