June 29, 2003
woo hoo ! the summer nationals!
fifth in qualifying,
through the first round, through the second round, through the third, through the fourth !
broke out in the final and ran a personal best of 18.8.....
the SPRC summer nationals VW sportsman runnerup 2003 !
and then i had a nice cup of tea.
June 28, 2003
no comment!
saturday night at skanka pod raceway relaxing after a hard days qualifying and battling through the surliest curry rushden town could supply finds adele from striptease racing attempting top fit six chocolate mini rolls into her mouth at once. the akciddento sticker is there merely to protect the innocent.
wax - ed.
helping you akciddento less every day...
anonymous
June 27, 2003
fugly has found a home
here it is nestled between the trees next to the samba.
had a quick look over it in the cold light of day and it appears top be very solid. there's a variety of electrical mayhem going on and lots to be refitted but hopefully this will be straightforward. it also appears to be pretty much complete - which is a bonus as a quick hunt on the web didn't find much in the way of type 4 parts suppliers!
off to skanka pod shortly for the summernationals this weekend. More racing!
sadly it's raining.
BUT i bought a huge gazebo/tent thing (big enough top put the whole bus in!)
more later when i get back...
:)
June 26, 2003
i have the ugliest car in the world
and here it is !
luckily colin, the guy who delivered it from suffolk took away all the type 3 panels that simon delivered yesterday. MORE New Old Stock delivered into the evil clutches of the type three detectives!
was very funny seeing the reaction from the yardies on the corner opposite my house... the best bit was when i started it up to dtrive it off the trailer without the ramps down, it looked like i was going to floor it and jump the car off. luckily the trailer is a seesaw style one si i gingerly edged it off and onto the drive. the police took a cruise past extra slow to see what was up but they rolled on witha a look that said 'ignore it, if we stop there's far too much paperwork involved...'
had a good giggle watching the locals trying to work out what was going on. loads of people speak patois around here but colin is a good ol' boiy from noomarkut and even though i lived there for ten years i can't understand a word he was saying. so us shouting up and down the street as we unloaded car and re loaded a pile of NOS panels put the locals to shame... :)
so...
although i thought the day was going disasterously it seems that it turned out ok...
i finished painting the frame on the new pit bike (though i did pay my boy louie to bare metal it. after doing the other bits i just kinda lost the impetus to do it...)
i even picked up a new box of akciddento stickers from the printers. i only have a few of the 'doing the things that we want to' ones left and i shall keep them for the archives. the new designs are the same as the old ones (just to be consistent) but with the new strap line-
heroic and glorious or blind and stupid, only history can judge us
the best result from the day was finalising some new artwork for akciddento...
so here it is. for the first time in public.
brand Ak
here are some trial shirts i did up to check the design. captain zwitter doesn't like the design. claims that the original is an 'international classic' Pah! what does he know...
June 25, 2003
its on the lights i tell you !
just snooping around the web and found details of ALL the runs from the vwdrc meet at big bang on eurodragster
it actually makes interesting reading now i've got some idea what to look for.
the information is all gridded up showing all the qualifying and eliminations, each drivers dial in time, their reaction time, their 60ft time, 1/8th mile, quarter mile and their terminal speed.
looking back at the qualifying for the bus i can see how inconsistent the runs were...
but most interestingly, seeing as most of the wins or loses are in the manner of a few hundredths of a second i wondered where the mistakes were.
(it seems to me that it's less about being 'better' and more about making fewer mistakes)
it would appear that most races are decided on the reaction time. often the winners are running with a bigger margin of error on the dial in times they run to but are making it all up on the reaction time. some ofthe drivers are like clockwork.
bang on consistent reaction times, everytime
think i better get the linelock sorted real quick so i can launch properly without rolling back off the startline (did i tell you that the startline at skanka pod is slightly downhill?) when i stage at the moment i can't reach the handbrake...
oops..
gah! oh happy day
looks like the new engine won't be ready for racing at the summer nationals this weekend, i thought it was a bit too much to hope for...
summer nationals co-incides with the party of the year at jony and pippas house in the woods in snowdonia. and they're moving so it's the last one ever. no more swimming in the lake the morning after!
...the fugly 412 is spewing oil everywhere so it's still in suffolk, at least it happened there not here, and puppy @ t3d bless him has promised to sort it all out as fast as he can.
the pit bike is still not finished, though the front forks and some other bits are in blau weiss top coat...
...i've sprained/chipped my ankle. though the swelling is going down so it is probably just a sprain.
my phone won't send images to the computer in the studio so i think the bluetooth is not working, but this might be that the new firewall software is running properly.
and my lighter just ran out of gas.
ordinarily this might upset me somewhat. my kids are highly amused seeing me crawling around the house. my boy has been trying to help me up and down the stairs - which is a lovely gesture, if only he'd stop smirking.
i'm feeling quite philosphical about it all. i got a great book called 'loslogos' in waterstones - 3500 logo & type identities from designers around the world. some of them are even quite good !
i also got a 2nd hand boxed set of the dvd versions of koyaanisqatsi and powaqqatsi* for less than a tenner ! will wonders never cease!
oh, i think the finder has just crashed so i must post this and restart before i lose all the text. night night beautiful world..
*directed by godfrey reggio with music by philip glass. an extreme must see for ANYONE!
June 24, 2003
write to us here !
wa hey!
just got notification from the post office of the new akciddento mailing address....
if you want to write to us, send us a stamped addressed envelope for stickers and stuff or order shirts and hats with a cheque or postal order then you can use our all new snail mail address!
Akciddento
PO Box 2222
Bristol
BS99 7HE
how cool is that ?
scaring sheep away!
ha ha ha !
Just been looking through the log files for akciddento and checking the search engine categories and it seems that we've had at least one visitor to the site linking from the search phrase 'scaring sheep away'
if you search for 'scaring sheep away' in google akciddento comes up eighth!
now that's fame !
June 23, 2003
the morning after
well, it's monday morning after the VWAction summer beach party at herts county showground.
looking at the week ahead it looks like a busy one. i should be having the orange 412 that i bought turn up tomorrow. i'm racing at the summer nationals at the weekend, i'm supposed to be getting the new engine installed this week, i need to fit the new lineloc into the bus. i need to finish (start) decorating where i knocked out the downstairs walls last week.
it's the fugliest car i've ever seen, i think thta's why i bought it. i have this fantasy that if i slam it and put it on 20 inch touring car style wheels it'll look cool.
however i thin it'll just look like trhe fugliest car in the world that someone that can't afford a vauxhall nova has had a go at.
neon washer jets anyone ?
so, i didn;t realy do any of the things that needed doping but i did do a lot of gardening. so now the space is clear for the 412 to nestle in next to the samba when (if...) it arrives tomorrow on a trailer from the east, the mystical east!
i also started stripping the akciddento pit bike
i finished the day with the front forks and chainguard and got them into primer, sorted out the saddle and cleaned all the gold (bling) overspray off the wheels and tyres. it'd be nice to weld in some extra tubing to make it more chopper/lowrider if i had some welding gear, and some tubing, and could weld worth a damn...
i guess i really ought to learn to weld properly. but then if i did i'd be able to weld which would mean more projects would be within my reach whoch would mean i'd be buying every rotbox waif and stray within 100 miles and spending all my time welding up garbage that i don't want just because i CAN weld.
so,
I can't weld worth a damn, and i don't want to know (actually i do) unless there's going to be a collapse in the fabric of our society and i end up in a vally in vales welding old traktors together to make cheese to power generators or some survivalist nonsense like that....
June 21, 2003
Vw action beach party...
Sitting under the stars. Listening to the M1. What strange lives we lead.posted by phone
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but the good news is that i bought the soon-to-be akciddento pitbike from paul on the T3D stand. i think he found it at the tip, it's a cheap taiwanese knockoff of a schwinn style cruiser bike that paul, in his wisdom, sprayed gold.
it's not really what i had in mind but it saves me from
A. buying a $4500 segway as a pit bike
or
B. buying some other overpriced hairdryer-with-handles-scooter-thing.
so, problem solved. i think i might do a mild resto on it and spray it up the same colours as the bus...
see blau unt blau weiss
i spent the day sat on the typethreedetectives stall or wandering around. i met up with ben and tom. ben being a celebrity DJ who dj's from his rather lovely celebrity double sliding door orange samba.
tom, on the otherhand has my favourite car of the moment. i saw this for the first time at the volksworld show at the beginning of the year and fell in love with it. the picture doesn't do it justice really. it's subtle and it looks so hard.
tom was telling me a story about how often people come up to him and give him hassle about the 'swastica' on the fender skirts. i can quite believe this, sadly there are people out there who don't know the difference between a swastica, probably the most reviled symbol in history, and a maltese cross.
tom said that he'd got a bit worried when recently, shortly after some older fellow had complained about said 'swastica' he noticed a car car full of large black men pull up alongside, engage in some animated debate in the car then drop behind and proceed to follow him for several miles.
after a bit of light hearted banter about this and peoples general stupidity i got to thinking, is this something people in the VW scene are a bit blase about ?
the maltese crosses on the sides of toms car are just that, maltese crosses, or Iron Crosses if you like. they're not swasticas and tom's NOT a bigot or a racist.
however...
the association that iron crosses are often used in is just that, a direct association... blitzkreig racing being a prefect example plucked from many...
i don't for a minute believe that the folks behind blitzkreig racing or those wearing their t shirts or stickers are fascists
but...
and this is where i got to....
for a little light relief from that useless ramble, heres ben and tom and jo and lisa in bens samba at about midnight. i took thsi as a panoramic with my phoen....
if you're wondering, the image does do it justice...
June 18, 2003
summernationals racing!
spencer tramm from the vwdrc has just posted the current entry list for the summernationals, the next racemeet in the points of the championship
so here it is.. the list looks quite long already and there should be a few more to add. various people have engine/car/mechanical/crew/etc problems so we shall see how it goes
Rathbone Race Cars Pro VW (7)
10 Russ Fellows
38 Paul Bate
40 Scott Evison
63 Ian Dale
66 Neil Davies
673 Jason Aldred
701 Justin Aldred
Beetlemania Sportsman VW (15)
1 Stuart Hinds
14 Steve Lee
16 Graham Fairhead
34 Neil Thompson
41 Sarah Rollin
42 Simon Cooper
53 Brian Burrows
59 Roy Ayton
65 Simon Longman
75 Phil Barker
92 Martin Kearn
97 Dan Buzzo
99 Chris Kousaris
181 Conor La Grue
AMR Motors Alt Eng VW (2)
83 Gin Marrone
86 Matt Attwood
thanks spencer
June 17, 2003
it's a rotbox, what can i say ?
i had a call from my friend guy, the bass player with the most excellent band 'actual size' who told me he was looking to buy a bus....
...stop me if you've heard it before...
so anyway, we chat on the phone and i agree to look at a baywindow camper that he and his girlfriend have found... it's orange and they really like it...
we go over to see the bus and alarm bells sound in the distance...
while the seller - a strange old guy with a flowing white beard, covered in tattoos who apparently liked in a cave in india and is selling the camper so he can move back to the cave (NO, i'm not making this up) - was showing guy & co the nice new cushions i had fun poking my keys throughthe carpet tape and filler in the sills. most of the underside was coated in a nice new thick coat of black bitument type sealer (always a good sign). luckily the rear sill closing panels had escaped the dreaded 'hide all' undersealer to give me clear view of the factory original toilet paper filling the ends of the sills.
i made some more discrete holes in the freshfiller-andpaint-over-dodgy-oldrot body panels and suggested we take it for a test drive. it looked like a dog, ran like a dog, drove like a dog. with the nasty whining from the back it even sounded like a dog.
if only we had wanted to buy a dog.
we left discretely and returned to akciddento HQ for coffee and a debriefing. i wanted to burn the bus and push it into the sea, they loved it and wanted to buy it....
we chatted, and chatted. non volkswagen people don't seem to get it. that you think about how much of it you want to fix yourself before you buy a vehicle... that you steer clear of shiny ones and look for ones with old original paint...
phrases like 'you just zip out the sill and drop a new chassis crossmember in at the same time' seem to disconcert them... my suggestion that perhaps a ford or a japanese day van might be more what they are looking for upsets them even more. they want a volkswagen!
after much talk and a snoop through dozens of websites showing buses within their budget rising to buses four times their budget they have this bewildered look in their eyes.
i feel cruel and heartless.
i can almost hear them thinking
'owning a camper isn't like this in the adverts'
June 16, 2003
how much !!!
i truck down to the local apple centre to see about getting my laptop repaired.
the receptionist calls the head technician down you has a quick look at the it. we chat a bit.
not a problem as it turns out.
its just the hinge that is broken, apparently it's a common fault. luckily enough apple have just reduced the cost of the part too. the technician prints me a quote (and charges me £50 for the priviledge!)
here is what it says;
FAULT DESCRIPTION
broken right hinge
ITEMS FOR REPAIR
PB G4 800/1024/60/combo/dvi/ap
PARTS REQUIRED
disply module 15.2" part no. 661-2691 order no. SOR116874
PRICE
£1161.86
PARTS TOTAL £1161.86
LABOUR £100.00
VAT £220.83
GRAND TOTAL £1482.69
yes.... that's what i thought
June 15, 2003
volksfest - Oh...
After a great day at bristol volksfest im back in the studio sunburned and happy.sadly i dropped my laptop and ripped the screen off. So this is posted by phone while all the other machines are busy trying to resurrect it. --- a glorious morning, i get up earlier than i'd like but still early enough to smell the damp of the night evaporating from the grass with the first rays of sun of the morning. mug of tea in hand i pad about on the front lawn with teh sunlight filtering through the trees, the gentle dappling on the front of the bus looking like some cheesy german ad from the 1950s.
ollie calls over early as i am filling the bus with vw junk i'd promised to people or am planning to sell at volksfest. after more tea we hit the road north from bristol. then abrubtly we're there. a journey of less than ten miles ! Tim from the bristol dub foundation has sorted me out a ticket on the gate to get the bus into the club display area. he's also asked me if i want to play music for the afternoon. well. he did askl!@ the venue is great and the regular crowd are there. the team from dubscene magazine brian from VWaction and so many more people. the sun beats down all day on a gentle scene. i sell nearly all the VW parts i'd taken with me, HURRAH! i also sell some t shirts and distribute loads of flyers, despite being rather haphazard about it. i chat with several; people who visit or have visited this website and people seem to like it.
beats me !
June 13, 2003
friday the 13th !
back up north, talking this talking that.
on a mission to drop the new engine over at martin tayloprs workshop in bradford so he can fit up the fuel injection and dyno it and map the ECU. i call over at steve walkers and have a look at his new audi estate. nice car. nice leather interior. drives lovely. completely mad brutal 3 litre twin turbo monster. but subtle looking with it. on the way over to chez retro he proves the point (in a completely responsible way) to two accountants going home on their shiny japanese motorbikes with matching his and his leathers.
when we arrive steves landlord pete has bad toothache - wisdom teech hassle- and has been self medicating foir the past day or two. I suggest some of the soluble paracodol i have jammed into the tooth. worked for me when i cracked a tooth in newzealand. so soon we are sat round the kitchen table with mugs of tea, chatting buses as pete, sat in a dressing gown, chops up lines of paracodol and proceeds to sit there rubbing the powder into his gums...
after the best chinese takeaway that 17 pounds can buy we settle into a evening of playing old punk records and muttering about what is scary about the 'car wash' disco phenomenon. i try and find positive or charitable things to say aboput it and i just ebnd up feeling like a bitter old cynic.
nothing new there then...
its wrong, its just plain wrong, and it's a fire hazard.
we get into a discussion of classic first albums and the list gets reeled off. when i mention the stranglers and 'black and white' pete, steve's landlord, rushes off and retunrs with a box FULL of stranglers 7 inch singles. being a bit of a stranglers fan myself and having grown up the younger brother of a stranglers fan, i pitch a few things at him, then i ask, casually
'oh, did you get the free 'white single' with the album?'
'of course' says pete, with mock indignation and promptly produces TWO copies of the aforesaid rarity. whereupon he thrusts a copy into my hand and insists i must have a copy. despite my mumblings that i donj't have a record player and i've sold ALL my cds (after ripping them to mp3 of course) i still leave with a precious copy.
heres pete with TWO copies of 'the white single'.
then its eleven o clock and the tv goes on for bo selecta, i've not seen it before. everyone else laughs but i just sit there bewildered. i don't understand. it just seems like a load of people shouting at other. after a bit of consideration i realise that it is just a load of people shouting at each other. in between there are adverts.
adverts scare me. luckily this evening i just feel like they're aimed at someone else.
after bo selecta big brother comes on. i can't believe that people actually fell for this as television. the tv goes off and we waffle some more. mostly about women and buses. we reach no coonclusion on the first count but fare much better on the second subject.
the night ends on agreement. as long as it works and goes scary fast who cares....
June 12, 2003
onward tech!
i was so impressed with the basic ability to post straight into the weblog databse that i registered the software i'd downloaded into my new nokia 3650 phone.
the application is called Kablog and you can get it at www.rawthought.com.
unfortunately there was a problem with the registration code so i mailed the software author (seems like it's a kinda hobby or one man type operation, as some of the best stuff seems to be) and Todd at rawthought was kind enough to send me a reply to help me sort it within half an hour. seems that he is also working on the version to post pictures AND other media from the phone into the movabletype weblog software and asked me if i want to be involved in the betatest program. the geek in me immediately said yes! however, i know what comes next from past experience...
... i get completely sidetracked by technology and start posting stuff like this instead of interesting ranting volkswagen dragracing related anecdotes...
sorry folks
i was just checking the links on this diary entry and found a picture of Todd, thought you'd like to see what he looks like. this is the face of a person who spends his spare time writing communications software for mobile phones. heavy geekTech but very cool too!
and he looks happy too, doesn't he ?
June 11, 2003
Tech a go go
Well here i am tapping away on my new cell phone . With luck this will work as a masterpiece of technological achievement
June 10, 2003
legal hassle now? cool!
just received an interesting email from Shabbir Zainuddin, the Intellectual Property Rights Assistant at cafepress. one of the sources i use for merchandise for the akciddento store. seems that they don't like the use of the word 'volkswagen' in the expression 'volkswagen drag race championships'. i'll write to him/her and see where this leads. read the extended entry for the full details and my response. this could be the beginning of something fun...
Dear CafePress Storeowner,
It has recently come to our attention that you have created a merchandise store through the services of CafePress.com that may contain image(s) copyright/trademark protected by others. As stated in our Intellectual Property Rights Policy and Members Agreement all designs must be original or have proper licensing.
The use of a copyrighted name, image, logo such as that of Volkswagen / Audi can constitute both copyright and trademark infringement. If your designs are similar to any brand or copyright, you must either have permission from the copyright holder for the images or not use the material for profit. Even if a product is not marked up from its ?base price? (price offered by CafePress.com to storeowner), the sale is still legally considered a ?for profit? sale.
Intellectual property infringement is a serious matter. Penalties for copyright infringement can reach $150,000 per work infringed and penalties for trademark counterfeiting can reach $1,000,000 per trademark for each type of goods sold.
In the event that you have not properly secured the right to use the images/pictures in your store for the sale of merchandise we request that you remove the images immediately.
We appreciate your time and look forward to your prompt response. Please respond no later then Wed Jun 11 to avoid the closure of your merchandise store.
If you have any questions relating to the above mentioned please let us know.
Best regards,
Shabbir Zainuddin
CafePress.com
Intellectual Property Rights Assistant
Trademark@cafepress.com
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Dear Shabbir Zainuddin
thankyou for your email of 10th june 2003, if you care to look at my cafepress site you will see that all artwork and designs are wholly original works created and owned in their entirety by myself.
in the header description the word 'volkswagen' is used twice in the following context.
'support team akciddento as they race the rookie year in the UK Volkswagen Drag Race series. buy quality mechandise securely and help speed sambasaurus - the 1965 volkswagen type II microbus walkthru sliding door samba into the points!
the first occurrence is descriptive of a Volkswagen endorsed activity and the second is the correct name of a volkswagen product that i own.
I appreciate the legitimate concerns of cafepress in areas of possible copyright infringement within it's users stores but as i am sure you can appreciate both references to the word 'volkswagen' are legitimate descriptions allowable in law.
as a long time cafepress user, both with the 'akciddento' store and others i am somewhat concerned that your email indicates that i have only one hour and fourtyfive minutes to respond.
I would be grateful if you could respond at your earliest opportunity.
best regards
dan buzzo
team akciddento
4.1 litres of aircooled power!
after an early start i decide to keep the single quiet pack exhaust on the bus rather than swap it back to the magnaflow muffler as i had intended. no real reson, just lazy i guess...
..off to the bank and sneak out with a big manilla envelope and off to portsmouth to the funkenblitz workshop to meet peet and look at an engine...
needless to say i am now poorer by quite a bit but had the dubious pleasure of driving the samba back with 4.1litres of aircooled power in it...
...albeit with 2.3 litres of it sat in the back on the lino...
one thing (of the many) that struck me from the day was that it's incredible how much garbage men talk when they're around women but that's nothing to the garbage that they talk when they're just with other men...
oh and if you're from the road planning department in Bath and you're reading this then take note! when you make a diversion because you've got a dog show in town try not to divert the main A road traffic from the edge of town straight through the centre.
it's not funny,
you have a sick sense of humour and need counselling.
if you have a friend in the Bath road planning department hit them,
hard.
June 09, 2003
do you flirt ?
as someone on the Volkszone forum asked, do you flirt?
personally i only flirt with danger
GRRRRR!
actually that's not true, at the end of the evening after flirting with it outrageously i laugh in the face of it and walk off in a huff.
June 08, 2003
June 07, 2003
gti festival of the apes
the infamous captain botch does some friendly welding for stretch and the 'welsh contingent'. unfortunately all the safety gear to hand are gardening gloves and his stage wig and sunglasses from his part time job as pole dancer with jensen d groovers cash wash 70's disco show.
it's wrong, it's just plain wrong - and it's an obvious fire hazard.
kevo does us all proud on the laptop of steel !
'so you grab a track like this, drag and drop it like that, here's the crossfader... how long is it since you've dj'd ? wow, that long... ok your turn now, i'll be back later'
and he mashed up top tunes, all night!
the reprobates party hearty in a circled wagons stylee
tim and jimby debate the rain
June 06, 2003
ARRRRRGH !
what a mess.
you know that little bit of your life when you're looking at something and you know that it's not actually very complicated but you're a bit tired and it's been layed out in a stupidly over complex way that is illogical and inefficient and you just know that if you can calm down , pause and take a deep breath you can reach in and start unravelling it and actually work out what bits are not even doing anything, rationalise and consolidate it. and actually make it work. except that your brain has too many frayed ends to track. you know that if you'd done it yourself it would have been done, properly, by now.
but - you've paid cash money for this, this isn't your job. it's supposed to work, it's suppose to be better than the job you could do
then in the background you can hear yourself screaming at the computer screen ?
just asking.
the ongoing saga of the mobile phone might be solved. after a return call from my main man at (ahem cough cough phone company) they're sending me a new nokia 3650 to play with. the camera resolution in it is much better and theoretically i can 'push' images over the bluetooth wireless connection to my mac... we'll see tomorrow. oh god i am bored with technology. its all plastic bontempi nonsense.
June 05, 2003
garage sale time !
i finally pulled out all the junk and garbage and dusty bits of bus and engine i've been storing for who knows how long and piled them up in the kitchen. i also pulled all the old music and computer gear into one heap and photographed the lot in preparation for selling it all. i'm running out of space for storing stuff i know i'll never use!
after some cleaning and clicking i've posted a list of splitscreen bus and engine bits onto the Volkszone forum. the drummachines and other cumputer gear has gone onto ebay. i've never sold on ebay before so we'll see what happens!
the parts on the VZ forum have generated quite a bit of interest. most of the stuff has sold twice. - in theory- lets see who actually sends the payment through. i'll let you all know over the next week or so who is particularly slack at stumping up payment (:)
is it a minisubmarine? a vintage time drive ? an excellent condition eberspacher BN4 petrol heater ? you choose, yours for £150
a classic Korg tape stage echochamba? or the wildest vintage radio for your bus ? yours for the change down the back of the sofa and a sticky carpet covered toffee.
i don't like toffee. its a pointless, spiteful kind of sweet. why not eat flavoured cowgum?
maybe it is flavoured cowgum
the nokia 7650 camera phone i got yesterday is a big pile of cheesy dreck. it won't link to my mac of the USB data cable. the nokia website has no mac drivers the only 3rd party software i can find is for putting logos onto the phone and doesn't work either. after a bit of investigation i find out that the camera is the lowest resolution one on the market too. after tooling round town to the 02 shop, the nokia shop and the (cough cough phone company) shop it turns out that no one really knows what the phones do or what the specs are on them but they can sell me a nice range of coloured clip on covers. and don't get me started on the acid damaged schizophrenic pricing policy !
and the phone is stupid and damn fugly.
what's wrong with these people? do they think that the public will stand for overpriced, shoddy, useless, pointless functionality in a basic device and spend money just for the cause of fashion ?
just how stupid do they think we are ?
....erm. hang on a minute
June 04, 2003
the man from the ether, he say yes!
got an email from paul zwitter in london
"just reading the diary....
class!!!!
- better read on...
:)"
just minutes later i got another mail entitled
"ROtFLMAO*, Nearly spat my lunch over my studio display...!"
*rotflmao
rolling on the floor laughing my ass off
just did the exchange of the old/new phone for a shiny nokia 7250 camera phone. i shpuld be able to grab images of junk wherever i go. ordered a data cable so i can dump images to my map laptop. with a bit of twiddling on the server that hosts this wonderful website i might even be able to directly post images into the weblog from anywhere on the planet!
techno ago-go! big band techno bling!
mess with me and your bank account is toast!
June 01, 2003
the deva dub show
not much more that i can say at the moment.
blown away.
it's wrong!, it's just plain wrong, and it's a fire hazard.
see what i mean ?
