Spur of the Moment
A disturbing thing happened the other day. I made a decision. For those who don't know me, I suck at making decisions thus, me making a decision was actually quite disturbing...
The decision I made wasn't about something trivial like what to eat for Breakfast - oh no! I decided to drive a 200 mile round trip for some sugar coated rings of heaven.
Yes, Krispy Kreme. For those who have never heard of Krispy Kreme, it is an American and Canadian doughnut chain which has been going for over 70 years. I personally got hooked on the doughnuts when I went to Canada and visited one of the outlets.
Since then, I have been trying to figure out the logistics of sending doughnuts via the postal service with them remaining edible at the end of it.
That was until I discovered that Krispy Kreme had branched out into the UK. TOTAL WIN! Well, actually not quite. Upon checking the UK website, I discovered that though they were in the UK and growing, the majority of outlets were in London and the nearest one to me was Birmingham...
A nice 2 hour drive and several litres of V-Power later, I arrived at the Bull Ring shopping centre in Birmingham city centre (which incidentally is actually quite a funky place to visit). I entered the lower floor of Selfridges where the Krispy Kreme was located and could smell the doughnuts already. Now, this particular outlet was nowhere near as big as the ones I'd been to over in Canada, but still... *drools*
You can actually see the doughnuts being made and when the machine is on, all customers waiting in the queue get a free freshly baked, hot glazed doughnut. Mmmm...
Moving along the conveyor belt being cooked
Coated by a river of thick gooey sugar
And the final product!
Yes, yes I did buy two dozen.
Say No to 0870!
Yes, I'm writing something useful for a change.
A lot of companies now use what are known as "Non-Geographic" telephone numbers for call centres, support lines etc. The reasons for this are usually because it allows them to use a number which, for the most part, is a lot easier for people to remember and it standardizes the call costs (usually 4p-ish a min to 0870 numbers). All well and good, right?
Well not exactly. If you, like many people use contract mobile phone instead of a land line, or indeed just because it is easier, you will know that non-geographic numbers such as 0870, 0845 etc are very rarely included in your inclusive minutes. In fact, O2 one of the last providers to include these numbers in their inclusive packages recently announced that this was stopping.
Not only are the numbers no longer included, you are often charges a nice premium for dialling non geographic numbers from your mobile - often to the tune of 20p+ per minute.
Now, I was recently pointed towards a website which I found so useful I almost fell over. Almost.
Some of you may have already come across this site as it has been advertised on various radio stations and certain tv shows and may be using it at the moment, good on you. Help spread the word.
For those who don't know: What this site allows you to do, is search either by company name or by the non geographic number you have, to find a direct equivalent geographic number. How freaking cool is that. Then you can dial that number, get the same service you would have got from dialling the 0870 number and it's much cheaper (free if you are on a mobile contract!)
As well as using the service to search, you can also submit any equivalent numbers you know of to help expand the database.
Awesome.
Darth Vader gets so much Abuse
I mean, he always seems to be the centre of ridicule. Granted he doesn't help himself by wearing that ghetto costume - if you looked like this...
...you'd think people would take you seriously right? All dark and brooding and mysterious. Well actually, no. That picture makes me laugh.
You then get things like Darth and the infamous Chicken...
He tries to be all serious and then fails majestically. Speaking of 'FAIL' ...
...And if you don't get that picture, you just aren't cool enough.
Even Family Guy has taken to abusing good ol' Vader...
What has he done to deserve this!