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What is it with all these music artists signing up to the “Save the Earth” festival. Surely holding a festival is one of the worst things you can do to save the planet.

Think about it. You are going to have thousands of people going to the concert it self, most of these people will drive which uses a lot of petrol or diesel. The others will probably come using trains or the buses. Well they are really eco-friendly aren’t they.

Then take in to account the amount of petrol used up by the artists themselves driving their giant coaches with air conditioning on 24/7. Also the amount of electricity that will be used for lights, amplifiers and everything else. Most of the electricity that is used is created from burning fossil fuels which pollute the planet even more.

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MORE EYE CANDY OR ITS GOING TO DIE

This is really infuriating me. I don’t like the look of the Luna theme for XP let alone the look of the new Aero theme for Vista. But why does my computer run faster with the new Aero theme then with all the graphics and eye candy disabled?

I have set Vista to look as much like Windows 2000 as I can. But it is now running slower than it was when I had Aero on. Don’t get me wrong I know lots of people will like Aero, with all its transparent windows etc, but a lot of customers won’t read what they are getting and end up buying Home Basic which doesn’t support Aero, or have a graphics card incapable of running Aero. Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone who has Orange as their ISP should change as soon as they can. Orange are nothing better than Osama Bin Ladens turds. Shit speeds and even worse customer service.

I have been a customer since the good old Freeserve Pay as you go 56k dial up connection. After a couple of months I upgraded to the monthly plan for Freeserve 56k which worked out a lot cheaper.

With the new age of Broadband I felt compelled to upgrade to broadband. And what a difference it made. Going from 56k to 512k was like a shopping trolley to a Ferrari Enzo. Soon after going down the broadband route, they either changed their name or were taken over, either way they were called Wanadoo. I couldn’t of been happier with the service until a couple of friends who were only with Wanadoo for a couple of weeks got a free upgrade from 512k to 2mb. I have been a customer for 3 years and I didn’t get upgraded. I confirmed on the BT website that my telephone line is capable of 2mb so why wasn’t I upgraded? Read the rest of this entry »

For the my sanity will the driving age be increased. I am fed up of being woken up in the early hours by a Peugeot 106 with a backed bean tin on their exhaust. It is a fucking PEUGEOT, it is not supposed to wake anyone up, why the fuck do they insist on putting shitty exhausts on their cars.???

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