Tony Sutton’s Blog!

Tonight was okay. Spent most of the time taking apart my old computer so I can sell all parts and throw away the old case. Not sure how to do it, perhaps down to the local rubbish dump.

Going to put them up soon over the weekends, perhaps on ebay or somewhere else.

Hoping to go to Lowestoft tomorrow morning. I’m going to take my digital camera with me. I haven’t been there for a long time so thought it would be nice to go there.

Weather for tomorrow is okish as long as there’s no rain!

Now going to bed early… I’m feeling worn out!

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I rebooted my main Win2k desktop for the first time for 36 days 22 hours due to security upgrade and other software installations.

I think it’s pretty good.

Finally got my car back. Gasket head repaired free of charge, which was good.

Engine is now running very smooth! I’m happy They asked to bring the car back next Sat so they can do another check up, which was nice of them.

Not much happening tonight.

BLECH

nite peeps

Still nothing from the garage regarding my car. I have e-mailed them this afternoon… hopefully I will have a reply tomorrow with a update about my car.

New DVD film arrived today from Play.com - Saving Private Ryan - a very good film. Play.com has it for just £6.99 (used to be £19.99), which is why I got it. I always wanted to watch the full film as I missed it last Xmas on TV.

Went to Sainsburys at 9:30pm to do our shopping and got out quickly as they was closing at 10pm. Close.

Need to upgrade to the new version of the message board software for my forum - guess I’ll do that tomorrow.

Feeling sleepy, so I’m off to bed. Nite.

Sunday was okay. Mostly a lazy day. Returned two hired DVDs to shop. Cleaned around the house a bit.

Cooked our roast dinner and it was good.

Today, I still have not heard anything back from the garage about my car, so I think I will e-mail them to find out what’s happening tomorrow.

Am at college, doing my evening class - Data Analysis. I can’t wait to go home and have my dinner as I’m hungry. Anyone fancy cooking my dinner for me?

Just been to the garage - bad news! The car’s temp kept flashing all the time, engine overheat all the time on the way to the garage.

Spoken to the man and he said the best time he can fit in my car for checkup is next Sat so he asked me to bring it in next week. I asked to see if the car would be ok for 1 more week. And he wasn’t sure. I offered him to look under the bonnet.

Opened it up and what do we see? Oil everywhere! Looks like an blown gasket. He decided to tell me that I need to leave the car asap before it got worse and Monday evening would be the best time. So we left… but the car kept overheating, so I turned round and got back to the garage and told him what happened. So we agreed to leave the car with the garage and gave him the key. He said he will either text me or e-mail me with the news on Monday and if it needs some repar, he will try to get me a free hire car, which was nice of him.

The repair will be covered by warranty, so no expensive bill to worry about.

So, we got home by bus (ugh) and limped all the way back home (toenail) after the bus dropped us off at the city.

Need lunch now and gonna to rent out a DVD to watch.

Pub & dinner from last night was great. Cash machine took my card because the buttons on the cash machine does not work! It was waiting for me to pres the buttons. My friend and I pressed every buttons we could find including “Return Card” without any luck. The cash machine kept beeping like mad. Then it displayed. “Would you like more time? - Return Card or Contiue” We kept banging the Return Card but nothing’s happening.

And the cash machine ate the card! Screen displayed “Please contact your bank”

GRR.

Good thing I have my credit card with me, so I’ll use it for a while until the bank send me a new card.

Today, I’m off to the garage to have my car looked at and hopefully it will be fixed under warranty.

Work was slow. No student here due to half term, but there are a few here for ‘Taster Week’. Left work early so I could get ready for pub & dinner with the workmates from work.

Should be fun, I hope.

Squirrel Fishing
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~yaz/en/squirrel_fishing.html

LJ is slow today… someone is doing an DDoS attack against LiveJournal servers. Grr. Hope I can post this.

In other news, I am home now for lunch and checked the posts today.

A letter from NHS!

Opened it and read it. They gave me an date for my ingrowing toenail operation. But it’s ages away - 14th April. At least, I will have the operation soon and get rid of the pain I’ve had for over 1 year!

Been busy cleaning up my desk yet again to put the new laser priner in!

Photos at http://www.hypergallery.co.uk/laser

On 11th Feb, I saw this news article and decided to e-mail BBC Subtitles with this:

Hi,

I have been reading about the TV licence rise - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2743863.stm and I was wondering if this fee rise will increase the number of TV programme to be more subtitled? (including late TV shows)

I work all day and when I gets home, there are lack of subtitles in the evening time and I feel left out due to lack of access to subtitles. I think it would be good if you increase them.

Many thanks,

Tony Sutton
Profoundly deaf since birth

I never heard back from them.

Today, I finally for a reply from them with this reply…

Dear Tony

Thank you for your email and my apologies for the delay in responding.

We are very sorry that you are disappointed by the lack of subtitles on some programmes. I can understand how frustrating this must be for you, and how you feel that you are being left out, and want to assure you that we are doing our best to ensure that this is not the case. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to subtitle everything we would like and our efforts tend to be concentrated on peak-time output and news programmes. Beyond that, we have to make some difficult selection decisions about which other programmes should be subtitled and I am afraid that not all programmes can be chosen at present. However, the BBC is committed to increasing its subtitling coverage by at least 5% every year on all the BBC channels - BBC One, BBC Two, Choice, Four and News 24 - resulting in full coverage by 2008.

I realise that this is of little consolation to you at present, but hope that this goes at least some way to explaining the situation.

Kind regards

Tessa Wolfe
* Assistant to Director of Access Services & Head of Operations, Access Services BBC Broadcast Limited *

Gah! 5% increase per year is NOT enough! And 2008 is too long to wait.

*mumbles*

Parcel Force lied. The printer arrived just now!