It must be August, as there is no news (apart from random terrorist incidents).
Over the last few weeks I've read about how high heels are bad for you (which is hardly new news), something about french kids getting high on mothballs (which at least made me laugh), some MP saying that diabetes is caused by inbreeding and a load of boring twaddle about various other stuff.

Today though we have the wonderful news that David Beckham has been dropped from the England squad! I've been saying for ages that he's past his best, and although I think dropping him completely is a little harsh, I can see why it's happened.
Even better than Beckham being dropped is that Calamity James has also been ditched! This is something that should have happened years ago. Oh wait, it did... but some idiot brought him back.

Anyway, something more interesting this week is the news that HSBC's online banking might be easily hackable. Again, not really new news, at least to me. I've never really been entirely comfortable with their login system. Even Barclays, who seem to be the crappiest bank ever, have a better system. Oh well.
I was, however, very reassured to hear that HSBC consider their security 'adequate' - it's ok because it's not been hacked. oh great, I will sleep well tonight knowing that

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This week I have had the unfortunate pleasure of having to speak to someone in BT's callcentre. Bet you can guess where this post is going already...

I like paying bills online. I logged in to pay our last phone bill online, to discover that for some reason the new account never got added after we moved. So I set it up, and got a message saying bills/calls etc would be viewable 'within 48 hours'.
Four days later and there's still no sign of any details. So I phoned customer services, and had a frustrating conversation with a very nice Indian lady who didn't understand what I was saying and didn't know how to help anyway.
In the end she decided it would take 5 working days to setup, and that I should have recieved some emails and blah-de-blah. Fine, you're wrong, but whatever.

So I gave up and paid the bill in the Post Office. Even that wasn't without drama though, as for some stupid reason BT won't let you pay bills with a credit card (yet they will online, hmm). Urgh.

As for the online account, I figured that one out - typo on the account number. Ooops.
Even that's not easy to fix - can't edit the account number, so I figured I could delete it and try again. Oh no, can't do that... got a nice message in angry red text saying to ring customer service and get them to deal with it. Bloody hell Not got the energy or patience to attempt that one just yet

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Whilst sat in a massivly huge traffic jam on the A49 yesterday evening, I heard the distinctive sound of a small rock landing on the roof of my car. There were some kids wandering around, probably trying to get a look at whatever was causing the traffic jam (big crash), so I assumed it was them throwing stuff. How rude.

I somehow managed to get home without it falling off (mostly because I was only doing 25 miles an hour because of the traffic), and a quick inspection revealed that the rock was absolutely covered in bird poo. So probably not thrown at my car by some little kid, but pooed out by some evil bird.

This is not quite as bad as last week, when bird poo landed on my face and leg during one of our many barbecues. Yuck.

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