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Orange Mobile Contract Cancellation and Renewal
February 23rd, 2009With my old £40/month Orange contract coming to an end I decided to give them a call and see what they could offer me in the way of customer retention.
Speaking to a nice Scottish lady (sorry Nice Scottish Lady, I didn’t catch your name!) we went through a few options and I eventually plumped for:
- Free Nokia 6300
- 300 Anytime Minutes per month
- 100 Texts per month
- Unlimited Landline Calls
- £45 Account Credit
This amply covers my 100-minutes-a-month usage, though I may – may – go over the text allowance if I get carried away. Price for this package? £14-odd a month, so with the £45 credit there’s nothing to pay for the first three months.
I realise the included Nokia isn’t the most recent or even advanced of phones, but it’s the exact same phone that I have already and I’m perfectly happy with it. The new one will serve as a ‘just in case’ phone since I don’t have any form of insurance. Since I’m careful with phones anyway, there shouldn’t be a problem.
Giddy 3 – Resonably Special Edition
February 13th, 2009Funkster Foo has crashed firmly into the reality barrier by getting hit classic retro platformer Wibble World Giddy onto multiple formats.
Giddy close (but not-quite-enough-for-copyright-infringement) resembles a certain ovoid game hero of the late-80’s and sports unfeasably large hands, wibbles his way through some 30 puzzles to the climatic final bit of the game. Amazing.
Giddy 3 is available on:
- Microsoft Windows (and MS-DOS)
- AmigaOS 4
- Nintendo Wii
Go get you some egg action, here.
Personally I’m holding out for a Nintendo DS version.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
February 12th, 2009Finally, my little corner of North East England has got some serious snow – enough to prompt my boss to call and tell me to work from home tomorrow. I had a feeling it would all melt overnight and leave me crestfallen in the morning, but it’s coming down with no sign of letting up.
I decided to bring the cars in off the road, with M’s going into the garage and mine sitting out of the way on the drive. It didn’t take long to become covered, either.
Dog loves it – he and I had a mad ten minutes in the garden playing fetch with snowballs, with him looking very confused when the seemingly disappeared into the ground.
Eventually we had to go and rescue my brother from the Asda store in town and we took the opportunity to do a bit of shopping as well. By this time the snow was several inches thick and traffic was moving at a crawl. On the way back we helped a woman driving a (front engined, rear wheel drive) sports car who was getting no grip at all on the icy hill. Good deed done, we continued our slippery journey home.
Another brief snowball fight, and we all retired inside with a nice warm drink.
Lovely jubbly.
Update:
Me and my big mouth – it stopped!