* Posts by jdotc

5 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2007

MyTravel's website woes

jdotc

"normal" service??

According to my brother, who just returned from a holiday booked with MyTravel, "normal" service means re-routing you from Gatwick to Manchester with no explanation, consistently delivering lies and misinformation and then calling the armed airport police when the disgruntled passengers start complaining.

As my brother put it in a text message: "free speech is alive and well in the UK"

The downtime couldn't happen to a nicer company, if you ask me.

Crudware pusher to pay $25,000 to settle charges

jdotc

That name...

sounds like something Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons would use. In fact, wasn't he once "Lionel Hutz aka Miguel Sanchez aka Dr Nguyen van Phuoc"?

OLPC project goes into production

jdotc

Re: Spectrum

Wow.... I hope so.

I then await the creation of comp.sys.olpc and a whole new outlet for crossposted comp.sys.cbm and comp.sys.sinclair flame wars.

Canadian iPod user struck by lightning

jdotc

Wow

I can understand being struck by lightning because of listening to Metallica...... but "religious music"???

Maybe it was really "In the Garden of Eden" by I. Ron Butterfly.

Leaping sturgeon menace 'Swanee'

jdotc

But I thought....

that Dubya said: "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully"