i often end up at some really strange sites on my internet “travels” (so to speak).
anyway, i was at travel.travel/ just before, looked up, and saw a very familiar favicon.
http://www.travel.travel/favicon.ico.
i’m confused…
Add comment January 10th, 2008
woot. a big bitch about three.
As I said a few weeks ago, I got a new phone.
Because three are, quite frankly, shit.
Started off in April of ‘06. The screen on my old nokia started occasionally going black. Wasn’t a major problem, just a bit inconvenient.
So I went to three, to get a Nokia 6280. since it seemed like a decent enough phone. Filled in forms and whatever, wasn’t exactly service with a smile, but it didn’t really bother me.
Anyway. Get in the car, put the battery in, turns on fine.
Take a picture or two to test out the 2mp camera. Seems quite good.
Then the screen went black. I figured it was just because there wasn’t much charge in the battery.
Aaaanywho, fast forward to a week later, and it had happened two or three times. Then the phone was actually restarting.
So I took it to the Chirnside Park 3 shop, and they said there’s a crappy firmware in the phone, and to come back later.
Kept coming back every week or so, and either got told to come back later when there’s a new firmware, or that I’ve broken my phone myself.
I found it quite odd that Three/Nokia/whoever were still selling this phone, despite having a shit firmware, but whatever.
Got a phone call one day, and when I tried to answer it, my phone froze. Then it happened all the time. I’d get an sms, or phone call, and the phone would freeze, so I’d have to reset the phone to get it working again.
Finally got told by three that I could get the firmware fixed, but I’d have to either go into the city and get Nokia to fix it, which’d take a day or two, or I could get Three to do that, with a $10 credit on my bill, but it’d take a few weeks, and I’d have no replacement phone.
I didn’t like the sound of either of them, so I called Three to bitch, and got told the same thing.
I was also offered a reconditioned phone, of the same model and age, which I told them no to.
I don’t see why I should have someone elses old phone, because I was given a new, faulty one.
Eventually it was getting too annoying. Couldn’t do ANYTHING on my phone without it freezing. Then the screen started going really bad. Inverted colours, upside down, pixellated, scrambled, fuzzy, pretty much anything that can go wrong with a screen did.
So I took it to three, and finally got someone there that wasn’t a cocky little turd. A customer service person that was actually nice, and helpful. So after I got over the shock of that, I showed her my phone and the problems, and was told that “it’s not your fault. It’s a fault with the phone”.
But even though they’re finally admitting fault, they told me that I was about a week too late to get my phone fixed under warranty.
So I called three and bitched, and was rudely told that “we tried to offer you a new phone, but you declined.”
To which I stated my opinion.
I called about cancelling my account, and was asked why, so I told them that it’s because of all the problems, and was told how much I’d have to pay to get out.
A month or so later, I called again to check, since I was further into my contract. Again I was asked the reason, so I made up some bullshit about going to England, and they said “Well it says here that you’ve asked before, and stated three’s service is the reason”.
When I asked them why they asked me, when they already knew, they stuttered some crap that I didn’t listen to.
Anyway, this sort of shit kept going on for ages. And I called up finally to get a fee so I could get out of my contract.
I was insulted several times, spoken to really rudely, and then asked a question about my phone. When I tried to answer it, I was interrupted about 6 times, which resulted in my yelling “Let me spea… let me… let me… GARY. let me speak”, then I was told that I’ve been offered a reconditioned phone several times, and rejected the offer. I told them to read their files and see why I declined it. Apparantly not listening to me, I was offered another reconditioned phone, to which I replied “I don’t want a fucking old phone. I want mine fixed“.
“Gary”, the call center dude, then said that “If I keep being rude, they’ll have to end the call.” I was pissed off by now, so told him to that I can end it for him, and hung up.
I looked up, and realised that I was standing outside a Telstra Shop, which seemed mildly convenient.
So I walked inside to ask for the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman’s phone number, and ended up looking at other phones, and picked up a hiptop.
It was a totally different experience to being with three. The people were quite friendly, and I’d just happened to mention my troubles with three. The lady arranging the phone left for a minute, and came back to tell me that she’d arranged $150 credit on my Telstra account, to help alleviate the costs of paying out the rest of my 3 contract.
I thought that seemed nice enough of them.
So that was all jolly and good. Happy with the phone, and it’s features. Definately happy with the price.
Decided I should give the old phone the treatment it deserves. So I threw it at someone, then put it under a car tyre.
I got a bill from Telstra a few days later saying I had $200 credit on my account. But because of GST, it was $220. That was good. it’s 3 months of phone bills out of the way.
So all in all, Telstra pwns 3. But 3 being the cause of 47% of the TIO’s complaints last year kinda says that anyway.
Yeah, I hate three.
Add comment July 27th, 2007
could be completely wrong here, so don’t be telling me off if I am, but the new mood thing on myspace looks veeery familiar.
it’s the exact same mood list (down to the id numbers in the select box) as the one that livejournal has been using for years and years.
maybe it’s just a strange magical coincidence.
or maybe there’s a nice list with strange id’s out there that’s free for people to use.
or maybe they bought the code from sixapart.
or maybe the stole it.
i dunno.
Add comment July 15th, 2007
i learnt an important lesson at work tonight.
don’t sneeze while holding scissors.
i very nearly lost an eye.
Add comment June 26th, 2007
got a new phone today.
a hiptop or sidekick, or whatever you want to call it.
tis good. the people at Telstra were really helpful. Which is more than I can say for three. (But we’ll save that for another day).
Now all i need to do is have my phone hacked, and get some naked photos stolen, and then have all my friends phone numbers published.
but I guess I’m not quite as popular as Pete, and that scrag Paris, am I?
1 comment June 13th, 2007
"Reactee is a unique service that lets you wear your message on your shirt, along with a number for others to text their support via their mobile phones."
there aught to be an Australian version of this…
Add comment June 5th, 2007
note to self:
sending screenshots of color oracle to people, to show your colour blindness DOESN’T work.
8 comments May 19th, 2007
don’t usually put things like this on room5, but i’m totally bored.
from ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
eirenealetheia.
Leave a comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you like starting with that letter. Post them in your journal and give out new letters to your commenters in turn. NO TAGBACKSALLOWED, unless a commenter specifically requests to be given a letter!
i got w
i’m up to 5 and i’m stuck
Add comment April 22nd, 2007
my sister was watching random videos on youtube, and she was watching wuthering heights by kate bush. (from 1978)
anyway, she pointed out one of the “dance moves” (if you can call it that) from the video.
looks a little bit similar to one of the moves from the matrix, 21 years later…
Add comment March 30th, 2007
haven’t updated this for AAAGES.
my birthday was yesterday.
had a party on saturday.
fantastic night 
on sunday we went to the city. at box hill station on the way back, there were two busses parked next to each other.
this one
and this one.
looked pretty funny together…
i’ve kind of neglected room5 lately.
i’ll look after it again. promise.
Add comment January 30th, 2007
On my random travels on the internet, I ended up at spry.com, and I’ve never found a more ironic SQL error message than
this one:
click for a legible version
.
On another note, I ordered some custom number plates the other day. I probably should wait till I get my license, but eh.
Add comment July 21st, 2006
W00 I rebooted.
Yes, I used the K2 theme, but I spose it’s a reboot of sorts, isn’t it?
I’ll change stuff. Eventually.
Anyway, Bye.
Add comment May 1st, 2006
after i saw all the other maps, like robotjohnny’s and all the other ones, I decided I’d attempt an anagram map of Melbourne’s Train Map.
It’s pretty crap, but I was bored and I’m sick so I had the day off Uni.
Also, there’s one or two stations that I couldn’t change. (such as Bell).
anyway, like I said, it’s really crap/doesn’t make sense, but you can click the picture to see it for yourself. (it’s almost 1000×1000 px)
view just the image
and thanks to Bill for help with the Broadmeadows Drab Sod Am Woe line.
1 comment March 28th, 2006
woo. i googled myself, and various other random things, and look where i came:
)these are as of 23:51 on 21/3/2006 so they’ll probably change soon.
6 comments March 21st, 2006
bill, has decided that the second verse to the Australian National Anthem needs to be changed:
“I particularly like the “For those who’ve come accross the seas, we’ve boundless plains to share”
It should be “For those who steal accross the seas, we’ve locked you up, so there”“
Add comment March 15th, 2006
woo i got to change a wheel on a formula one car today, with the gun thingy. it took me 3.5 seconds
the vodafone guy saw my shirt and called me over.
i got a chocolate bar for it. woo.
now my picture’s somewhere on the vodafone website.
Add comment March 5th, 2006
Omg. Toys R Us had the BEST sale today.
and I just realised I had no tea tonight:P WOO.
1 comment February 20th, 2006
I used a mac today. It shit me.
They’re so difficult to use. The entire mouse is a button, the menus are dogey and I don’t like them.
You have to press about 18 keys to do ctrl-alt-delete, and you have to click three times instead of double clicking.
It was annoying
Anyway, that’s all.
35 comments February 4th, 2006
woo! first thing to come up when you google “matt bannon” or “ttam” is me! 
well that was totally random.
Add comment January 14th, 2006
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