Monday, December 05, 2005 - Posts

posted Monday, December 05, 2005 11:23 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Rant 3: BT and their weird phone calls

This (http://mtaulty.com/blog/archive/2004/11/30/925.aspx) happens to me again today. I had a phone call from British Telecom which went like this;   BT: "Hi, this is X from British Telecom, we're just ringing about your phone…"   Me: "Ok"   BT: "Could Read More
posted Monday, December 05, 2005 10:37 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Rant 2: Email Signatures

There might be a bit of "tongue in cheek" here… ;-)   What is it with email signatures? I've noticed that they're growing and growing and I'm getting more and more email (admittedly, most of it internal Microsoft mail) where the email signature is bigger Read More
posted Monday, December 05, 2005 10:30 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Rant 1: The "soft-sell" of the call centre

I'm just in the process of moving house and I've had to phone a number of companies (credit cards, insurance and so on) and let them know that I'm changing my address.   I've noticed a new line of patter that the call centres seem to have developed. It Read More
posted Monday, December 05, 2005 10:06 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Pandora

I'm guessing that this is "old" and everyone knows about it by now but I'm finding this;   http://www.pandora.com   really interesting right now. I remember a graphical version of this (probably by the same people) which would let you explore a map of Read More
posted Monday, December 05, 2005 2:48 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

And here is the SQL News: SQL Midday Briefing

The chaps over at the SQL Server FAQ are running a new LiveMeeting slot in lunchtimes that covers a bit of news, updates and has a live demonstration on an aspect of SQL Server.   Sounds like an interesting format to me. The next one is tomorrow, sign Read More