Interesting interview with young upcoming British driver Nick Yelloly. Penned by young upcoming journo Josh Bell.
Nick Yelloly: Progression and Persistence – Formula Renault 3.5 – The Checkered Flag.
Author: siskinbob
Formerly employed by MOD and IBM, now retired
It Makes You Wonder …. ?
The company that I work for has a fancy telephone system. One of those that you have to log into using a password of 8 characters or more. You know the sort. The ones that cannot have any repeated characters, cannot be spurious i.e. cannot be people’s names or obvious like birthdays etc. etc. Oh and they are changed every 60 days or so. Woe betide you if you forget your password and that is exactly what I did. Came back from holiday and tried what I thought was my password. Tried too many times and was eventually locked out.
Since I work from home fairly frequently I wasn’t too worried but I did note that some messages had been left in the message centre ….. Voicemail. So I thought I’d get my password reset and see if any of these messages were important. So I contacted the help line who were very helpful and provided me with a web link to a site that they assured me would sort everything out. I duly followed the link, completed the various drop downs and sat back and waited for a temporary password to be sent via email.
After an hour or so an email arrived informing me that a problem ticket had been raised and pointing out that if the solution they had provided didn’t work that I could respond via the problem ticket. Another email followed informing me that the link I had followed was only to be used for IP phones. I don’t have an IP phone so I had been directed to a dead end.
Back to the first email and that problem ticket to which I responded and I sat back and waited to be contacted again.
Nothing happened.
So I started the process over again. This time I enforced the point that I did not have an IP phone. Having twice been placed on hold for several minutes the operator informed me that they didn’t support our phone system and that I would have to contact a different help desk and provided me with the number.
I contacted the new help desk and was greeted by a very friendly individual who knew exactly what I needed to do. Within the hour I had a temporary password and also I was provided with a direct dial number that would let me access my voicemail from home. So not just a problem resolution but also a bonus too.
So yesterday I was able to access my voicemail.
Remember the original problem ticket that was raised. The one that they said I could respond to and did. The one that I did not receive a reply to. Well the fourth message in my voicemail was from the lady from the help desk asking me if my problem had been resolved.
How on earth did they think I was going to hear that message ???
Surely a big clue would have been the introductory message that she would have heard which includes the date when I set it.
Car Surfing – Insane
Just read about a court case that has taken place in the US.
Where else ?
Apparently two 18 year olds were clinging to the side of their friends SUV while he, their friend, drove. Two other friends were “safely” inside the vehicle when it reached an estimated 70 mph, in a 35 mph zone. The passengers realised that the were about to crash and screamed for the driver to stop before the inevitable happened. The two surfers were killed in the resulting wreck which saw the SUV overturn and burst into flames. The driver and remaining passengers were hospitalised.
The driver did not contest the charges of reckless driving and vehicular homicide.
I am surprised at the homicide charge but I suppose, since it was his car he is responsible. After all the two teens that died do not appear to have been coerced so they must be assumed to have been partially responsible.
According to the mobile phone movie footage, one of the teens is heard to say “This is insane” and another is heard saying “If I died, remember this is Carlos’s idea
What these fools were doing is not unusual. There are numerous film clips available on the web that show many variations on the same theme including one where the video description is
“My friend Tyler climbs on to hood of car and I drive one handed from passenger seat while the cruise is set at 80mph and hold my phone out the window with other hand and record him…..crazy mother f*****.”
Unbelievable.
Anyone who does this has to be short a few brain cells and all who do it are heading for their own place in the Darwin Awards.
View From The Conservatory
Just a brief note as I’m working here this evening.
Just looked up from my laptop and there is a gorgeous yellow moon blazing through the trees. Sort of spooky with the branches silhouetted against the moon.
Temperature, according to the puter is 1degC but it felt colder than that a short while ago when I was outside.
Charles Dickens Born 7th February, 1812 – 200 Today
English novelist Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on this day, 200 years ago, in Landport, Portsmouth.
Happy birthday Chas and good luck to Pompey as they kick off their year-long celebrations.
Happy Accession Day
Today the Queen is celebrating her 60th year on the throne.
A bit of a double edged sword this as it is also the day her father, George VI, died.
However, I hope she has many more years as our monarch.
God Save The Queen
Residents join the debate to improve Waterlooville
Councillor Buckley, hailed the Waterlooville Community Board meeting a success.
On what basis ?
Over 40 people turned up, 40 people out of a population in excess of 10000 residents. Not such a success from my view point.
Where the hell was the meeting of the Waterlooville Community Board advertised ? Surely a leaflet drop was in order to all residential homes.
I have lived in Waterlooville for 26 years and am thoroughly disgusted at the steady decline of the town centre. A decline that has been accelerated by the poor planning decisions that have been made over the years. I would have loved to have the opportunity to join in discussions about Waterloovilles future but was denied the opportunity due to lack of publicity.
Residents join the debate to improve Waterlooville – East Hampshire – The News.
Have You Noticed ……
…… how, once you have a tooth pulled, everything you eat heads for the empty socket.
I had a wisdom tooth pulled at lunchtime today. Six hours later I am trying to eat something that requires no real chewing, minced beef in gravy served in a jacket potato. I think every granule of the minced beef found its way into the open socket. No matter how I tried to keep everything over to the right, somehow those little meaty critters snuck around my remaining teeth and leapt into the gaping maw.
Fire hits metal recycling centre in Portsmouth
That explains what all the smoke was when I was driving into town earlier today.
Fire hits metal recycling centre in Portsmouth – East Hampshire – The News.
Top Totty Beer – A real Brew-Ha Ha
I cannot believe the debate that this brew has caused. Haven’t our politicians got better things to spend their time on ?
A beer called Top Totty has been banned from the Strangers’ Bar in the House of Commons because its pump plate, featuring a half-naked woman, offended female MPs.
Half naked ??? Woman ???
Come on folks. Are women offended by women on the beach at Brighton when they are in their bikinis ? Of course not. Anyway, it isn’t even a real woman, it’s a caricature or cartoon if you like.
Kate Green, Shadow Equalities Minister, was apparently “disturbed” by the sight of the brew. Truth be known she spotted an opportunity for some self promotion by creating a fuss. Hence the discussion of this issue in the house.
In my view Kate Greens actions can only be seen as childish and demeaning for MPs in general. If MPs don’t have a sense of humour then they have no place in politics where they lay themselves open to ridicule on a daily basis.
For more on this story, see HERE
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