But why is it opening a day late?

Very True Mood:  curious

I joined Facebook yesterday, feel free to look me up on there. I liked that it was very easy to import this blog’s RSS feed, I disliked the fact that there’s no “this is what your profile looks like to other people” option.

It got me to thinking about what other social networks I was on. This was easy because LibraryThing has a nifty “Also in” feature where you can add links to your profiles on other networking sites. So, with a bit of cut and paste, here they all are: LiveJournal, Last.fm, MySpace (the shame, the shame), LinkedIn, Flickr, Squirl.

There you go, discover just how bad my taste in books/music/whatever is, add me as a friend, stalk me to your heart’s content.

So, are there any others that are worth joining? You’ll notice that I’m not on any social bookmarking sites. I made a del.icio.us account but couldn’t be bothered to use it (the buggy nature of the tools available for integration with Opera was one factor, not really seeing the benefit of it was another).

I remember, and was even a part of SixDegrees.com which was a social networking site before there were social networking sites. It was rubbish and folded in 2001. Oddly enough being rubbish hasn’t prevented many of the current crop from being highly successful.

Very True Mood:  thoughtful

Update to the last post.

So after a while, and with it rapidly approaching the time their customer services department go home, I call again. I get the automated welcome message, then I get through, I hear background office noises and someone typing nearby, then I hear the receiever being picked up and put down, click. I try again, same thing. And a third time. On the fourth attempt I get a recorded message telling me that the office is now closed.

Then half an hour later the consignment tracking web page is updated to tell me that the driver called at 12:18pm and as no one was there to take delivery left a card.

So let’s get this straight - I’m waiting in all day from 9am to 5:45pm, no delivery is made, and even if one was attempted no card is left. So this alleged delevery was either made to the wrong address, or not made at all. When I call customer services they can’t get through to the delivery department and so can’t do anything. When I call shortly before the close of work I get cut off three times so that customer services don’t have to speak to me and possibly work a little beyond home time. The web page for tracking my order isn’t updated until seven hours after the delievery was allegedly attempted.

Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to insist on the delivery being made at a time convenient to me - an evening or weekend, and that I don’t care if a manager has to delivery it himself in his own car to make that possible. I’m will inform the company that I bought the computer from that I will never buy anything from them again because of the quality of service from their couriers. In the future I will inform any other company who use these couriers that I won’t do business with them because of the courier service they use. I will write to the MD of the courier company informing him of the poor service I have received and informing him that I will never use his company and will never buy from any company that uses his company as couriers.

City Link - don’t use them, don’t buy from anyone who uses them.

Very True Mood:  restless