I decided to buy a Blu Ray disc finally to try out in my Acer Aspire. Might as well use the heap of junk for something and as Dirty Dancing was only £7 in Tesco I decided to get it and try it out.
What a pile! The menu’s take a litte while to load, what’s that about? There’s only play menu and features.
However once the movie started I paid attention as the quality is supposed to be top grade, and my Acer is supposed to be full 1080 HD.
The movie starts and guess what? Yup. No different to any bog standard DVD. Nothing at all.
Oh but wait, 20 minutes into the film and it starts skipping and jumping. I tried everything to alleviate this and nothing would so I had to watch it the way it was. Every few chapters were the same and when I checked the disc for dust it was pristine, and the head was clear as it should have been. The Acer is on full power and boasts 4 gig of DDR3 RAM, and 2 gig of video memory. I did a quick google and guess what? Yes you got it, this is a known problem of Blu Ray lol
So, the conclusion is … Blu Ray is not worth the energy used to say the words, and my Acer continues to be the pile of crap I knew it to be anyway.
Blu Ray was in my humble opinion nothing more than a cynical attempt to leech even more money out of people to fund the greed of the big corporations, so back to the great DVD.
A couple of weeks ago I was chatting to a mate on Facebook, when up pops Jo to say hello. That’s Jo >>
Well I was surprised, cos the last time I saw Jo was about 3 years ago when after several meetings, we had a very nice date, then she disappeared!
So here she pops up and we catch up and swap numbers, then a week later we meet up and hey, she’s just as gorgeous as she was back then and I instantly fell for her all over again lol
She felt exactly the same thankfully so after 1 more date just to be certain, we decided we are an item. 
She really is one of the loveliest women and I’m currently very happy indeed to be with her again. :)
Update 8th March:
We’re not looking for the same things, I’m told 
Oh well . . .
Today I finally, after 5 months, got the response from Otelo that they promised last summer I’d have in 4-6 weeks.
When you have a problem with Vodafone, you contact Otelo who deal with it on your behalf. Ofcom don’t actually get involved at all. However your problem must have existed for 12 weeks before you can contact Otelo, (this is set to change to 8 weeks this year) and you must have used Vodafones internal complaints system. Well that part actually makes sense.
My basic problem is, my mobile broadband dongle with Vodafone stopped working very well, then stopped working at all last year. Between January and May I had problems which resulted in it being unusable. I was still paying the monthly fee the whole time. Vodafone sent me two new dongles, but as a program on Radio 4 recently highlighted, it’s the service itself that is at fault. They have basically oversubscribed their service, are not willing to invest anymore money in it, but are still actively selling the service. It’s not just me either. Visit Vodafones online forum and you will see hundreds of people with the same problem.
So after months of deliberation, Otelo has decided that even though I have constantly been paying my monthly fee, have had little service since Jan last year and none at all from May, their decision is that Vodafone should send me a written apology and refund me…wait for it…£30.
So as far as I am concerned, Otelo is just another paper exercise, same as the toothless trading standards and other useless organisations.
My advice to anyone suffering problems with Vodafone is don’t go down the complaints route you will get nowhere. Best just cancel your contract and go to O2 or Three both of whom offer a reasonable mobile broadband experience.