Neil Ogden http://neilogden.co.uk/blog Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:53:06 +0000 en hourly 1 Tip for the Top http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/tip-for-the-top.html http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/tip-for-the-top.html#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:48:11 +0000 neilogden http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/?p=20 We’ve featured new artists and groups over the yeats on my radio show, some of whom have gone on to do major things.  Remember Celine Dion?

Our first Tip for the Top of 2011 is Scarlette Fever.  Here’s the video for the new single – “Crash and Burn”

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]]> http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/tip-for-the-top.html/feed 0 All those unwanted phone calls http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/all-those-unwanted-phone-calls.html http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/all-those-unwanted-phone-calls.html#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 22:14:39 +0000 neilogden http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/?p=17 I seem to have had an increase in unwanted marketing calls recently, mostly from automated messages telling me I can cancel all my debts if I press 2 on my phone (even though I’m normally listening to an naswerphone message).  Some even say “this is not a marketing call” yet when you call them back their automated messagse says it WAS  a marketing call.  So even they can’t make up their minds.

I used to get hounded by mobile phone companies but some of the claims they were making were torn apart very quickly.  One company called and said I should buy their all new singing and dancing phone with a camera on so that when I was using it to call someone I could see them as well and they could see me.  When I asked what if the other person hasn’t got one of their new fangled camera phones, they said that was still OK, they could still see me and I could still see them, although when I asked how, the phone went strangely quiet. 

Then there was Sky.  Yes, the satellite TV company called Sky, who just basically told me lies from start to finish.

First they proclaimed that if I didn’t sign up to their service I would “lose my TV”.  I asked why and they said because everything is going digital.  I said I had Freeview, they said I would still need to sign up to them and their service was better anyway.  I asked them to tell me what good programmes I could watch then.  They could not name one single good show, in fact the salesman couldn’t name ANY show on ANY of Sky TV‘s channels.

One thing you can do is challenge the company calling to send you the information they have on you under the Data Protection Act.  They are legally obliged to do that when you ask.  When I asked Sky, they said they couldn’t.  When I asked what was stopping them from printing it out and posting it to me, first of all it was lack of printer, then it was lack of envelopes and then it was they couldn’t afford to buy a stamp!

Makes you wonder just how they afford all those TV rights!

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]]> http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/all-those-unwanted-phone-calls.html/feed 0 Computer Challenges http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/computer-challenges.html http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/computer-challenges.html#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:50:07 +0000 neilogden http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/?p=13 Just when I thought it was all getng better as January disappears and a new month comes along, I come home from the radio today to find my computer has tried to reboot but been haled by n error that says it can’t find nything to boot from.  My first reaction as my hard drive had done wrong, but unplugging my externl hard drives and turning off my printr alloed it to boot.  Just when I thought it was fixed, I decided to restart and came up against the same thing again and the  error “ntldr is missing”

Various internet searches brought up various solutions and whilst it worked the first time the error returned the next time.  I am now back in Windows recovery console doing a scan and repair where it’s been stuck on 57% for the last hour.

Mabe one day I will get back to trouble free computing.

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]]> http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/computer-challenges.html/feed 0 The challenges of January 2010 http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/the-challenges-of-january-2010.html http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/the-challenges-of-january-2010.html#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:51:33 +0000 neilogden http://neilogden.co.uk/blog/the-challenges-of-january-2010.html It’s 23 January 2010 – which means it’s a month since Christmas. January
has certainly been a challenge for many with the large amounts of snow seen
over much of Britain. Once again the question was asked why is the UK so
useless at dealing with snow? Other countries seem to cope much better.
The answer of course is we are just not used to it.

I was talking to someone a few days ago about what other countries do. In
Austria for example, they scoop it up into the back of a truck and deposit
it in a convenient location outside the main areas of population. Once the
snow is gone, they put the grit down, rather than trying to melt the snow
with the grit in the first place.

No doubt we will get more bad weather in the coming weeks. We can only hope
that maybe we’ll cope with it a bit better next time around!

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