Liverpool City Council, you have excelled in customer service. After my last post, I received a good-length reply to my letter to Liverpool’s taxi licensing people. The chap wrote expressing their own frustration with these bandits. The practice I talked about of plucking only the expensive jobs off of busy city centre streets is known [...]
Archive for July, 2007
My first observation about Liverpool, shortly after arriving, is that the suspicion of everyone in the customer service industry here is that you are either in the process of ripping them off, have ripped them off, or are about to rip them off in the near future. One of the first tasks any visitor to [...]
Trainfuckers.com
16Jul07[ Two days ago... ] I have been encouraged out of London this weekend by the promises of a knee-slapping night out at a Liverpudlian rock club as a means to a housewarming of friends Seth and Gareth. Unfortunately, travel outside of this hallowed city, rare as it is, requires use of one of the [...]
LowePro redeemed, I’m an idiot
11Jul07In my previous post, I may have implied that the Slingshot AW200 was a conspiracy by LowePro to disenfranchise millions of lefthanded photographers with their asymmetric sling-style camera bag. I may have also compared using this bag to wiping your bum with the wrong hand. I wrote to LowePro to ask them if there was [...]
Since I bought a new lens in Japan, I’ve been thinking of the need for a new bag. The new lens is a bit massive and has finally forced me to outgrow my little Crumpler thing I’ve used since I started out on this crazy gig. One of the chaps at work has a nice [...]
