Ok this is 2009 (in the first set of snowfall we had)

How does it compare to years snowman:

The year before?:

My three riding buddies bailed. PUSSIES.

Epic snow drifts.

Trail wings aren’t gonna cut it here. Shame, I bet the KTM would have sliced through it.

I masturbate to this photo.



KTM doesn’t have an MOT, probably a good thing. The DT was great, lightweight. Lovely, I forgot how nice it is to ride.

Now what?

Last week on the KTM, not sure the knobblies are /always/ a good thing

When I began trail riding locally I was frustrated about the lack of legal lanes. There’s not much information on the web and I didn’t really know where to start.

Having done lots of groundwork, research and riding I’ve got a nice collection of lanes I ride regularly.

I’ve collated all the Greenlanes in East Sussex into a nice easy to view database. I’ve even recorded a video of each one.

I plan on expanding the database with search functionality, details of the best and the easiest. There’s a lot more to come it’s not even half finished.

But I hope it helps some newbie who wants to get into some trails.

Good luck!

I don’t read the daily mail, a friend of mine copied an extract of some text to me in an msn conversation and he noted that the website automatically appended the url on the end of the clipboard text.

Try it, goto this article then copy a portion of the text to your clipboard.

Now paste it.

Do you see how it appends ”Read more: [url]” onto the end?

Now, even more clever click the  read more link it provides, see how it highlights WHAT you put in your clipboard when you go back to the article?

Extra super clever. I like it, good marketing by the Daily Mail.

Sorry I’m a web nerd, things like this impress.

As I mentioned previously I was having some difficulties with Vodafone.

Last months bill was OVER a thousand pounds for only half the month, I called and disabled internet usage on the phone on the 14th – so fourteen days cost just over £1,000 in data usage.

I rang, and rang, got told different stories. Today I wasn’t going to give up. I called managers, asked for team leaders and generally made a nuisance of myself.

After seventry three phonecalls, several emails they admitted there was a problem with my handset. Something I insisted was their problem not mine.

£3274 refund!

I’m sure there are some people in the same boat.

• Tell them to justify the charges
• You want a breakdown of which sites, ip addresses, anything
• KEEP A LOG. Who you called, what they said, date/time.
• Record the calls, if you have the facility – tell them they’re being recorded.
• The data protection act is your friend. Send a “subject access request”
• Don’t pay! Make them take you to court, the judge will certainly need the evidence they refuse to show you
• Don’t give up! Make a nuisance of yourself
• The data charges cost them nothing. Insist on a full refund, don’t settle for less.

You know, I get annoyed. I do.

Todays annoyance: Vodafone.

Got a £2,000 phonebill and as you’d expect was a little suprised, so I call Vodafone. Turns out it’s all internet usage.

So I ask for a breakdown.

They send through something that looks like this:

It’s gibberish! Means nothing to me.

So I call them up, and ask for a proper breakdown

Vodafone: “We can’t send anything else”.

Me: “I need a breakdown of the data, the websites visited?”

Vodafone: “We’re not allowed to, it’s data protection”.

?????

You’re protecting my data from me? errr?

So I pointed out, what if Vodafone turned around tomorrow. And sent me a bill for £100,000. You can’t justify what you’re billing me? How am I supposed to know it’s correct or not?

I got nowhere. I was told I’d have to go down the fraud route and ring the police.

WHAT? I don’t agree with my bill, and my only option is to waste police time? Are you kidding me?

The crazy thing is a lot of the times on the breakdown are the middle of the night. And the size of the data is a lot for a phone. It takes forever to download a 12k image. So how the phone managed 12mb in some sittings I’m not sure?

As discovered reading Griff’s blog a few minutes ago, Ireland has made offending religious belief a crime.

As Griff asserts:

Is it still the 21st century?

Not read the whole thing, it’s late. I only have this to say:

What
The
Fuck

if you’d like to “see” the track, learn more about nauseness then watch this bullshit: (But the above is more worthy of your time)

Fathers day arrived early it seems.

It’s a fridge.

There’s no redbull in it, it’s filled with enough beer to kill a small horse. Said beer shall be no more before tomorrow night.

Sven > small horse.