Stop the (Word)Presses!

It’s 2am

I should be asleep so that I can wake up tomorrow for school.

But fuck, this is just too good and random to wait.

Firstly, all the following is from the Bridezilla Wikipedia Page. And none was done by me. I have an account on wiki, and I really can’t understand Japanese.

More on that later.

Anyways…

Click to enlarge. Now focus on the six there. The reference, that is.

Now see this…

Okay, enlarge that picture. You see something strange? It links to my review of that concert six months ago, yet on Last.fm japan.

In short, I’m the author of a reference on Wikipedia, a place reserved for academic luminaries or band’s myspaces.

This is weird.

The best thing to happen to commercial radio

I got Nova 969 to play The Beatle’s classic I Want To Hold Your Hand on Friday night.

They also played The Panics‘ Don’t Fight It just before it. That makes it, officially, the best six minutes of music ever on that wretched station.

And I’m proud to have been apart of it.

I’ve won tickets to U2 and CDs off Nova before. Yet no victory is sweeter than this one.

133MAC

Mac support (that also take iPod support calls) have a very perculiar call centre. First and foremost, the guy on the other line had no fake-Anglo name, spoke in broken, accented English, was arguing with two others who seemed, from a phone at least, to be fluent in Australian English, didn’t notice that I told him that I had Window Vista on my PC, and hung up on me halfway through explaining how to reformat my iPod Shuffle.

In contrast, Symantec’s Support Line have a very Indian-Subcontinent-Sounding David Welles in a quiet call centre, who asked for all my operating details (In a non-phising way) and guided me right through fixing my Norton Internet Security subscription so that my mum would be happy.

Makes you think: we always bag out the Mumbai Call Centre, yet they seem to be the ones offering decent service. Of course, there’s the issue with our information being jeopardised (I’m sure Product Disclosure Statements cover that, though), but when I get decent service, I recognise it, even if it has to come from someone who thinks I live in Austria.

May I take this moment to point out how much I hate call centres in general. Despite many suggestions to do otherwise, I do not plan to work at one any time soon.