Posts by Hockney

Virgin Media email customers enter third day of inbox infuriation

Never mind the email - where's the broadband?

I've been without TV and broadband form Virgin Media since 20:50 UK on Friday 23rd

Fix ETA is now tomorrow morning.

Normally I wouldn't care, but had aimed to watch some Glasto coverage.

There was a golden period yesterday (25th) when the fix was expected to be done by 4pm June 24th - a year away!

Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game

Re: Last paragraph

I followed the DCMS link and the text is written in the PM's voice! Good work to mimic the carrot-topped barf-bag so well, but I feel slightly soiled.

Still, mustn't grumble, eh? Got through worse in the war didn't we?

Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo dies aged 92

That's the lockdown comfort reading sorted.

When I was first working in London I picked up a few of them and read them on the tube, much to the chagrin of the guy I commuted with. He asked if I wouldn't mind buying a pr0n mag to hide them in as it would be less embarrassing. He was a Tintin reader, poor lad.

Y2K quick-fix crick? 1920s come roaring back after mystery blip at UK's vehicle licensing agency

Never mind 2038, what about the 22nd century?

I just want to be here in when Neil and the rest of the Elder Race return to save us from the priests of the Solar Federation.

They're due some time in 2112.

'Cockwomble' is off the menu: Uncle Bulgaria issues edict against using name in vain

Beat me to it.

(https://thebarstewardsons.bandcamp.com/album/the-bar-steward-sons-of-val-doonican-2008-2018-2018)

Vulture gets claws on Lego's latest Apollo nostalgia-fest

Re: Lego 928

I was an earlier generation.

1973/74 gave me these...

https://brickset.com/sets/358-1/Rocket-Base

https://brickset.com/sets/367-1/Space-Module-with-Astronauts

The web site should come with a time-suck warning.

Surprise! Wireless brain implants are not secure, and can be hijacked to kill you or steal thoughts

Less 'host In the Shell', more 'Psycho-Pass' (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379308/), where we all think socially acceptable thoughts for fear of being corrected in a terminal fashion. All under the benevolent gaze of Siri.

10 PRINT "ZX81 at 37" 20 GOTO 10

3D Monster Maze

The best computer game ever.

Okay, it was all in your imagination, but it had a maze. And a dinosaur. You ran until you died.

Perfect life lesson

Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

Upvote for the Rankin reference. Have a sprout.