Saturday, January 27, 2007
Try Someone Else
All these people bitching about being on so called 'waiting lists' for Broadband with Telecom need to try somebody else.
Telecom told us we couldn't get Broadband where we are soon after we arrived back in Auckland to live. A guy even came around and tried hooking us up and spent two hours to find out "no we can't get it" and in the meantime he even managed to fuck up our dial up connection. A year later and we were sick of dial up so we asked them again and they said we can't get it. My wife then called a Korean rep at Slingshot and one day later, that's right, one day later we had broadband up and running.
Telecom is a lazy, cumbersome beast that is 90% image and 10% substance. If people go with other options as they become available they will get the pants round the ankles shafting they deserve.
Telecom told us we couldn't get Broadband where we are soon after we arrived back in Auckland to live. A guy even came around and tried hooking us up and spent two hours to find out "no we can't get it" and in the meantime he even managed to fuck up our dial up connection. A year later and we were sick of dial up so we asked them again and they said we can't get it. My wife then called a Korean rep at Slingshot and one day later, that's right, one day later we had broadband up and running.
Telecom is a lazy, cumbersome beast that is 90% image and 10% substance. If people go with other options as they become available they will get the pants round the ankles shafting they deserve.
Comments:
The wonders of the market in action.
I see no doom and gloom after the victory against England (although given how pathetic they have been anything else would have been an embarrassment).
I nominate Astle for Legends of Late. A batting average of 35, more than a dozen ODI centuries and 99 wickets. Brilliant career and he went out at the right time.
Dinkas
I see no doom and gloom after the victory against England (although given how pathetic they have been anything else would have been an embarrassment).
I nominate Astle for Legends of Late. A batting average of 35, more than a dozen ODI centuries and 99 wickets. Brilliant career and he went out at the right time.
Dinkas
# posted by 
: 27 January 2007 at 21:45
: 27 January 2007 at 21:45
Half true Dinkas.
Except he never worked on his technique. He had great hand - eye coordination yet never built on that.
Leg Break
Except he never worked on his technique. He had great hand - eye coordination yet never built on that.
Leg Break
# posted by : 27 January 2007 at 23:36
: 27 January 2007 at 23:36
Dinks - I was wondering about Astle. With an average of 35 he wouldn't make the Australian team. More centuries than Gilchrist, but an average 15 runs lower. I tempted to agree with LegBreak.
Astle's average in World Cups was 20 (he played in 3)
His record in other "majors" (ICC Trophy, VB/CB series) was much the same, even when you include the 145* v USA.
At his best he was the best flat-track bully we've ever had.
But that wasn't going to get us through the later stages of the WC.
Leg Break
His record in other "majors" (ICC Trophy, VB/CB series) was much the same, even when you include the 145* v USA.
At his best he was the best flat-track bully we've ever had.
But that wasn't going to get us through the later stages of the WC.
Leg Break
# posted by : 28 January 2007 at 09:57
: 28 January 2007 at 09:57
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