The warranty on my E61 was about to expire and it was unable to mount mini-SD cards for a while so I decided to send it in for repairs.

This was on the 17th of July, the package was delivered and signed for on the 18th yet Nokia have no record of it. I’ve been calling their helpline almost daily in the hope that the tossers would stop fellating themselves and manage to find my phone, no such luck even though they have the tracking number and it is “apparently” in another department which magically doesn’t reply to emails.

Naturally they promise to get back to me within X days and never do, so I’ve contacted another branch of customer service.

They have replied stating I should get in touch with the people I had been talking to before which would mean that they either didn’t read or didn’t comprehend the fact that I wanted my phone tracked down by Wednesday else I would take legal action.

Nokia define recursive in the following way: “Recursive: See recursive.” and their customer service adheres to it.

I was reading something about varmint rifles on wikipedia, which as things do led me on to another article on pests and varmint hunting…

One definition given there for pests was “invasive species of animals that are displacing desirable native species” which sounds to me a bit like the american grey squirrel, which invaded Britain and is the reason we now only have red squirrels on the Isle of WIght and a few other places.

Hunt them, use them for their fur and turn their flesh into food for livestock or pemmican?

Anyone? Anyone at all?

I’ve had quite a few punctures ever since having my new fixed gear wheel built, even though everything was fine for about two weeks. After some investigating, there was no damage to tyre itself for example, it turned out that they were caused by a lack of rim tape,  so I went and bought a roll of rim tape and applied it.

Annoyingly enough, I’m still getting punctures so I either suck at applying rim tape or it slipped even though I reapplied it today and had a puncture within half an hour, go me!

I’ll try wider tape, but I’ve ordered some veloplugs which are little plastic plugs which fit into the spoke holes hopefully those will be there in time for London to Brighton… Don’t really want to change tubes on the road every 10 miles or so.

This morning I had a call from the BHF and was given my rider number so that I could set up the online donation page.

It would appear that my welcome pack has been lost in the post and they’re going to resend it, hopefully it’ll arrive in the next few days.

I’ve decided to do it on the recent fixie conversion, which should make the 54 mile journey rather interesting to say the least but I’ll make sure to carry enough water and the like…

My exams finish on the 21st of May, which will give me about 3 weeks to focus on nothing but training and moving back home!

Will be cycling to Nottingham this Saturday to give me a taste of doing 30 miles and over on the fixed.

Anyway as previously mentioned I do have a donation page now, so if any of you out there want to sponsor me in aid of the British Heart Foundation it would be greatly appreciated. I can’t say what exactly the money will be used for as it is a general fund raiser, but research is highly likely to be one of them.

My donation page can be found here.

I converted my bike last weekend, and rather enjoy the whole fixed gear experience even if it is slightly odd at the moment and will probably take a bit more getting used to.

The most amusing experience so far was forgetting I was on a fixed gear bike for a millisecond, trying to coast and having both feet thrown off my pedals!

I do still enjoy it though, it’s amazingly quiet and feels somehow more reward, so I’m going to stick with it.

I didn’t enjoy working in a call centre last year, it was boring stressful work which involved trying to somehow make a connection with utter retards, just to complete your set target of crap per day, going weeks without hitting anything; so complete crap.

Sure, working for £8/h was nice, but since I only worked 3-4 hours a day that hardly mattered.

On Monday I’ll be going on a course, which upon passing (How ridiculously hard it is to pass get 28/40 questions right </sarcasm>[Could be 60...]) and after paying SIA an exorbitant fee, I’ll be a fully licensed security guard/bouncer…door supervisor.

It will mean that whilst I may not necessarily earn more per hour, I’ll put in more hours over the summer, so I’ll make more than about £200 a week.

Not to mention that I’ll get a lot of time to read up on course related material in the dead of night, hopefully.

We shall see, I think it might be interesting and at the very least it’s another qualification, and one I can use to work part-time with friends in Leicester but make more money in the same venue.

As gleaned from the Introversion forums, testing for their latest creation Multiwinia has begun, which will make an exciting addition to the IV stable in the form of a multiplayer version of Darwinia.

Hence Multiwinia…

Personally, I can’t wait for Linux beta testing to begin, hopefully it’ll be conducted before the game is released and not face problems as Defcon did.

I’ve not checked this for a while, which is why it comes as a surprise but it would appear that my Google page rank has dropped from 3 to 0 in the latest update.

What did I do to warrant such a significant drop? I haven’t run this blog any different, yet I gained PR in the update before this one, and the same behaviour seems to result in a drop now.

Quite a drop, I’m sure a lot of other people have been affected similarly, and probably share my feelings.

Dear person who came to this site by googling for “kids that are 8 having sex.com”

Walter wants you to know that you’re entering a world of pain.