Chaos-23

Wishing people Merry Christmas.

I was pleasantly surprised by a UPS man arriving yesterday with my fixed n800. I bought it back in January when they first came out over here, then I suffered early adopter syndrome and it died in February. Well, less died, more sort of had repeated bouts of something near-fatal. I signed up to some forums and it turned out to be very common amongst the first batches. The touch-screen would die completely, sometimes turning it off and on again would work, but often you just had to wait. While it wasn’t working the buttons would spazz making it unusable. Then it’d come back, but the right-side of the screen would be about as sensitive as a brick.
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using my newly fixed n800 again. Oh friend how I missed thee!

Finally got round to playing this last night (haven’t played a real game in years, it’s been all about Guitar Hero, Peggle Deluxe, etc. for me recently), can’t say I find it that great. The climbing and diving into bales of hay is cool and the killing is cool, but the walking about everywhere bores me silly. I’d only been playing for about half an hour when I got the 360 achievement for staying alive in battle for over 10 minutes… mainly because I was so bored of walking/riding I just killed… Yahtzee was spot on, it should be called Faffing-About Creed. And yeah, that FUCKING hill is well annoying.

It’s really lovely to look at (although Kristen Bells’ cross-eyed face in Heroes is bad enough without seeing it in all the lab bits too) so now I think I’ll stick doing just that, watching my mate play through it and telling him when I spot flags and stuff.

I did have fun though, when I ‘parked’ my horse next to another horse while I climbed up to a View Point, came back and some mad woman was twirling about around my horse!

So today I got my special person link for pre-sale Tour Tickets… but I’m not even sure I’ll use it as they aren’t playing Reading in 2008 I’m not sure if it’s because the Hexagon will be in its state of limbo then or if they just don’t fancy Reading. Here are the rest of the dates anyway:

11/09/2008 Edinburgh Festival Theatre
12/09/2008 Edinburgh Festival Theatre
13/09/2008 Glasgow Pavilion
14/09/2008 Glasgow Pavilion
16/09/2008 Dublin Olympia (not available pre-sale)
17/09/2008 Dublin Olympia (not available pre-sale)
22/09/2008 York Opera House
23/09/2008 York Opera House
26/09/2008 Harrogate Theatre
27/09/2008 Harrogate Theatre
01/10/2008 Buxton Opera House
02/10/2008 Buxton Opera House
03/10/2008 Wakefield Theatre Royal
04/10/2008 Wakefield Theatre Royal
06/10/2008 Sheffield City Hall
07/10/2008 Sheffield City Hall
15/10/2008 Liverpool Arena
16/10/2008 Blackpool Opera House
17/10/2008 Blackpool Opera House
18/10/2008 Cardiff CIA
20/10/2008 London Brixton Academy
21/10/2008 London Brixton Academy
22/10/2008 London Brixton Academy
27/10/2008 Bristol Hippodrome
28/10/2008 Bristol Hippodrome
31/10/2008 Birmingham NIA
03/11/2008 Oxford New Theatre
04/11/2008 Oxford New Theatre
05/11/2008 Wolverhampton Civic
06/11/2008 Wolverhampton Civic
07/11/2008 Nottingham Arena
10/11/2008 Portsmouth Guildhall
11/11/2008 Portsmouth Guildhall
12/11/2008 Brighton Centre
13/11/2008 Brighton Centre
17/11/2008 Plymouth Pavilions
18/11/2008 Plymouth Pavilions
19/11/2008 Bournemouth BIC
20/11/2008 Bournemouth BIC
26/11/2008 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
01/12/2008 Manchester Apollo
02/12/2008 Manchester Apollo
08/12/2008 Leeds Grand
09/12/2008 Leeds Grand

There’s an update to my previous post about my credit card woes. I still haven’t had the amount credited back to me. While I have just been re-assured again that I won’t have to pay, I don’t like that amount sitting on my card for so long. It means my limit is far too close. An emergency now would be disastrous.

However, it would appear I now have the address of the ****s who used my card. They share my surname, so it seems as though my details could well have been sold to them. What makes me really, really angry to the point of my blood boiling though… is that they are clearly better off than me. So why not use your own money you evil, thieving bastards!

http://www.millsproductions.co.uk/

This is the woman whose name is on the invoice I’ve just received from dabs.com

http://www.millsproductions.co.uk/clare-mills.shtml

She doesn’t look like an internet criminal, she looks like my techno-phobe mother. Looks can be deceiving.

Right, having played GH:III (Wii version) for several more hours now, I thought I’d re-write the previous entry:
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I’ve had a bad few days. Pretty much everything has gone wrong.

Thursday night I realised I had a few missed calls on my phone and a voicemail, it was my credit card company. Checked on-line and there was a pending amount of about £2k. I haven’t had a job since May and so was 100% sure I hadn’t bought anything. So, phoned them, they asked if I’d purchased some AEIS GiftCheques… err… no, what are they? (I have looked them up since and so know what they are). Also, had I spent £2k at dabs… No. Shit, not again. I had my card in front of me and only ever use it on-line so this must have been from the silly little bits of software I’d bought for my phone. Last time this happened it was from buying software for my Mac. Anyway, got my card cancelled, those charges denied and the police called.

Then the whole GH:III farce. Play said they dispatched mine about a day before my friends ones. Yet all theirs turned up Friday. Mine didn’t. It was sent via ParcelFarce so there’s not even any decent tracking (it generally only updates when you’ve signed for it). So I phoned ParcelFarce… and spent ages on the phone repeating the tracking reference over and over before giving up and having to speak to a real person. Looks like it vanished into the ether. So, much angry crying later, I was given the option to borrow a friends one. You see, I couldn’t even tell Play not to send me another and to refund my card because - YES! My credit card was cancelled so nothing could be refunded to it. Grrrr…

Anyhoo, I don’t know happened but now I have another copy winging its way to me. Yay!