food: tumbleweed

For my tea yesterday I purchased an Asda Stuffed Crust Meat Feast Pizza. With the wording Meat Feast I was expecting quite a banquet on my plate. But what I got barely fulfilled the claim of Meat and certainly fell short of being a Feast.

I expected the top of my pizza to be piled high with cow, pig and various other animal innards, but what I instead received were 6 slices of peperoni, 10 squares that I believe were meant to be ham but more closely resemble diced carpet tile, and some brown lumpy pieces that I believe were scrapped from the inside of a McDonald's deep fat fryer but the label on the box purported to be 'Beef'.

By the time I discovered how far I had been deceived by Asda I was starving and ate the sickly tomato monstrosity, but I will be writing to my MP about this I can assure you.

And have you tried that Asda Price Guarantee? I'd like to see a person that has successfully met every criteria laid out in the T&Cs.

technology: landline is king. long live the landline.

Like many of you today I woke up and was unable to make a phone call from my mobile. At first I thought the phone was broken as it has been crashing a bit lately, but after resorting to a landline and then surfing the internet via a landline based ADSL connection I discovered that O2s network for most of the South East of England is down due to an 'equipment theft'.

This is just another reason why being completely reliant on a mobile phone is always going to result in tragedy, and no matter how hard the industry argues, landlines cannot be fully replaced with a 'cellular' network.

So take today as a warning, mobile networks fail, and they fail bad. The landline phone is still king.