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A new Sky+HD box already?

by Antony Bailey on July 18, 2010

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Recently I tweeted to say that my Sky+HD box was sticking on standby. This was picked up by @SkyHD who asked me to DM them my details and they would get someone to look at this.

I sent the details and I heard nothing back. I didn’t concern myself too much as the box started to work correctly again. Then a few days ago it started to stick on standby, and I tweeted once more about this.

I got a standard reply again from @SkyHD who asked me to DM my details and so I did once more. I then actually got a call, and the girl booked me an engineer to come and swap my Sky+HD Box.

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Should you be Mayor of your own business on Foursquare?

by Antony Bailey on July 17, 2010

I recently got to thinking about the Mayor offers that are made on Foursquare by certain companies and it made me wonder about who should be allowed to be Mayor of a place.

I hate to single out one person, however for the sake of transparency I will choose one whom I know.

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In my example I have James Kane of Kanes Tea Rooms who was also the subject of a recent blog post.

When I was last at Kanes Tea Rooms, I noticed a sign that invited people to “Follow him on Twitter @KanesTeaRooms” and to “”Like” on Facebook” and “Check-in on Foursquare”. The sign said about offers that are available to the Foursquare Mayor.

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The iPhone 4 and my desire to own one

by Antony Bailey on June 27, 2010

As we are aware on the 7th of June, the iPhone 4 was announced, on the 15th of June preorders were taken and the 25th it went on sale.

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I have never owned an iPhone, I have always considered it, yet never bought one. So I watched this rather intently as I think my next phone will be the iPhone 4.

I’m not going to bore you with the specifications, just know it has all the features I want from a phone.

My current options are:-

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Do tweet counts matter?

by Antony Bailey on June 15, 2010

Due to a recent glitch on Twitter, many people (myself included) have found their tweet counts reduced in most cases by several thousand.

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I was somewhere between 8,000 and 9,000 tweets when I checked and now I am at less than 1,000.

Many people will argue that this is of no significance, as it is the quality and not the quantity of your tweets that matters. To these people I ask if you have ever visited a web forum, registered and tried to talk to an established user base only to be called a n00b/n00b/newb/newbie?

The simple fact remains that we attach a value to our counts as a way of quantifying our engagement.

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I have internet!

by Antony Bailey on June 12, 2010

Today, I got up and waited by my gate for the postman to arrive! At about 09:30 he arrived, and was rather friendly and jokey about the whole thing. I showed him how to work the intercom, and he said he will know for in future.

He brought me 3 Sky routers, which Sky have told me I can keep so I have some spares.

That said, I am surviving on the broadband speed I have been given. Having come from 50mb to this, I am a little concerned I will miss it.

845280845 I have internet!

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So Royal Mail can’t deliver a parcel as they’re too dumb to push a button

by Antony Bailey on June 8, 2010

Having recently moved home and deciding to get Home Phone, Broadband and TV from Sky, I was impressed with the service I got from Sky when they came out and fitted my TV service and with BT when they came and attached my phone line.

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However, Sky have decided that Royal Mail should be used to deliver their broadband routers. A move, that still might lose them a customer. Why? Because after 2 weeks I still haven’t received my router.

I came home on Tuesday the 25th of May to a “Sorry, we couldn’t be bothered you were out” card. With an address on the back, that is about an hour from my home.

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I met James Kane from @KanesTeaRooms and the food was great

by Antony Bailey on June 3, 2010

A few weeks ago I saw that @KanesTeaRooms was advertising that their 100th follower on Twitter would receive a free breakfast. Being an ex-student, I’m always keen to get something for nothing.

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I hit that Follow Button, and I am the 100th follower. I waited a little while, simply because I have just moved home and I had other things to deal with (some of which I will be blogging soon).

I decided that Saturday was going to be the day I would visit, and I walked up to find them.

I looked them up on Twitter to get the address:

23 Stafford St
Liverpool L3 8LX

(0151) 298 1415

I had a little difficulty finding it at first, as I don’t know the area. However if you’re looking you will find them between the two entrances to T.J. Hughes.

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Flattr Bloggers and other web publishers

by Antony Bailey May 27, 2010

A few days ago I noticed that my old friend Cees-Jan, had added some buttons on his site marked as Flattr. I was interested to find out about the service provided by these buttons. Image via Wikipedia I decided to follow the link and I found it is a “social micropayment platform that lets you [...]

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I met Adam and Suman from the Amateur Transplants

by Antony Bailey May 25, 2010

I’ve long said that meeting people off the internet in real life is one of the worst ideas you can ever have. Oh, how I learnt this self-fulfilling prophecy well on Saturday. Image by totalpodcastrophe via Flickr I had seen that @amateuradam, had posted a tweet asking who lived in Liverpool as he was heading [...]