James.Cridland.net

James Cridland's blog

Where radio and new platforms collide. With beer.

« A trawl around the web, February 29th to March 20th | Blog index | The Cross Keys Inn, Aldeburgh »

Things I learnt this week

Posted on Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 2:39pm. #

Metal spider

Things I’ve learnt this week:

Geneva airport’s tannoy “bingbong” is the first five notes of “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window”.

My nice Finepix F31fd camera has dust in the CCD. See it in the middle of the sky on the above picture. Sigh. Time to get a new one. The replacement F50fd model is apparently rather rubbish. Any recommendations?

When roaming, O2 charge you twice for people leaving you voicemail: once for the call, and again for the diversion to voicemail. Charlatans. I complained and, mostly because they accept that I didn’t get anything telling me this with my iPhone, got a fiver off the bill.

Ripping classical music CDs into iTunes is a profoundly unpleasant experience, metadata-wise.

Socialthing will be great once they add an iPhone view.

Tags: | Permalink | Comments RSS | Leave a response, or trackback.

4 comments

Nick Piggott said at March 21st, 2008 at 5:56pm

“Geneva airport’s tannoy “bingbong” is the first five notes of “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window”.”

Boy, am I glad you said that. Everyone I’ve ever mentioned it to thinks I’m potty. (Including some of your esteemed colleagues).

Richard Morris said at March 23rd, 2008 at 10:40am

It is annoying - but I thought it sounded like the first notes of the Australian national anthem….

Helen Blaby said at March 24th, 2008 at 7:04am

When we did something about best and worst airports on breakfast recently a lot of people said about the bing bongs and doggie, so don’t be alarmed.

Can I recommend the Olympus FE300 which is a lovely camera, and even I can use it to take good photos.

Frankie Roberto said at March 24th, 2008 at 3:45pm

Ah, you’re so right about the Geneva airport tannoy. I completely didn’t get that whilst I was there!

Leave a comment

This website's Gravatar enabled (that's the pictures on the right)

To prove you're human, type the two words below into the box provided.

These are my personal views and not those of the BBC | Full disclosure | FAQ | Contact me | More Cridland stuff at www.cridland.netMade in the UK