I love this track I’ve been using for the current TPN pre-roll promo. It’s by a group called Larval and the track is “Predator or Prey”. Kind of sounds like a mixture of 90’s Tom Waits and 70’s Lou Reed with a little bit of Ronson-era Bowie.
“Predator or Prey” (mp3)
from “Predator or Prey”
by Larval
(Ropeadope Digital)
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Jason has written a great post on what he has learned about losing weight over the last year. It’s something every geek needs to read. As we tend to allow ourselves to lead very sedentary lives, we need to get this fat thing under control. Even though Jason has only lost 20 pounds (a little over 9 kilograms) in a whole year, the lessons he has learned about changing his lifestyle and mindset are terrific. The world needs geeks.
My guest today is a G’Day World listener from Paris, Bernard Malige. Bernard, who works as an engineer with Renault, helped me better understand the French system of taxation and social services. If you’ve seen Michael Moore’s latest film SICKO, you already know that in France, pretty much all health care (except high end elective procedures) is paid for by the Government out of your taxes. When I saw the film, I wasn’t sure how high the taxes were in France and Bernard offered to help out. Turns out, they are quite low. If you’re an American, you probably don’t want to listen to this show. It’ll just depress you. We also talk a little bit about the French public’s view on Iraq, the USA, Libya and Napoleon.
Bernard is now our official “European Correspondent”.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
Get a copy of the Aug/Sept 2007 edition of Australian Anthill magazine so you can cut out my picture and stick it on your walls. And throw darts at it.
UPDATE: This is the link to the online version. Anthill have just launched the new version of their site. Now the guys have the full text of their articles online and for free! Way to go gents.
Here’s the latest chapter of my saga with 3.
As regular readers may recall, about 8 weeks ago I dropped my 5 month-old DOPOD 838Pro into a 3 store because it had stopped working. They told me they had to send it away to get it repaired and it would be back in three or four weeks.
When I called them four weeks later, they told me it would be ANOTHER 3 weeks.
When I called them three weeks later, they told me it hadn’t even been looked at yet and they couldn’t tell me how long it would be before I had my phone back.
So I asked them to give me a new phone but they couldn’t do that because they didn’t have any DOPOD 838 Pros in stock.
So I asked them to just terminate my account and let me go get a phone from somewhere else. They told me that would cost me a $900 fee.
So i fumed and waited.
Today they called me to tell me my phone was fixed and ready to be picked up at the store. After 8 weeks.
When I went to pick it up from the store, the guy told me it was all fixed. But when I tried to check it, the battery was COMPLETELY dead and I couldn’t even get it to turn on more than 5 seconds.
So I brought it home, charged it up – guess what? They hadn’t fixed a GODDAMN THING. The same problem I had 8 weeks ago – namely that the thing is a brick, won’t make calls – is still the there.
So I called the store back and they told me they now had their own repair center in St Kilda Road and I should take it there. I rocked up at St Kilda Road, only to be told by the girl there that they don’t actually open until September and don’t repair DOPODs anyway.
I told this girl I was furious and explained the story. I then sat there for an hour while she called everyone from the manufacturer to the repair center to “priority support” trying to get me a solution.
After an hour, I had no explanation why they returned me a phone without fixing a damn thing, and they gave me two options:
1) Take the phone MYSELF down to their REAL repair center in Nunawading, lose it for 5 days, and take my chances.
or
2) They had a refurb unit, another DOPOD, not the same model as mine but similar, which they will send me. It will take three days. It doesn’t have a battery. So I need to go online, order a battery, pay for it, then after the battery and phone arrives, I can call 3 “customer support” and they will refund the amount of the battery.
Because I wanted a working phone as soon as possible, I took the last option.
I cannot WAIT to get out of the contract with 3 and I would highly recommend you avoid 3 if you can.
Yes, Hugo, you called it mate.
UPDATE: Looks like I’m not the only person with a gripe against 3. Check out this thread on NotGoodEnough.org.
UPDATE 2: Looks like the NGE people didn’t like my post for some reason, they took it down and deleted my account I think!
