... that their service, and their notions thereof, suck profoundly ( Read more... )

Well, you never saw a speedier response than I got from Passionato - had the Linux download manager under test the same night as I blogged! The version I downloaded was fine for 32-bit but not 64-bit; it's Java-based and it didn't like 64-bit Java one little bit ( Read more... )

doesn't Passionato have a download arrangement that works on Linux ( Read more... )

One doesn't think of a global bank as a "good citizen" really - and after the press they've had lately, with collapses, bonuses and what-all, their decent-human-being credit is at an all-time low.

BUT!I am gobsmacked; flabbergasted; astounded (and was briefly dumbfounded, but I'm better now) by the blithe UNgreen behaviour of my bank this week ( Read more... )

It's a sad thing to report that Eurostar's First Class Service - isn't. It was my unfortunate duty to travel using this once-honourable provider from Lille to London this afternoon, and a sad pall lies over the experience ( Read more... )