So Glo Networks is moving on in leaps and bounds. We have a great team working hard looking after our always happy customers. Big thank you to the team and customers so far.
For the last two months we’ve been working hard with our new marketing partner Stepping Stones Marketing and we now have a great new website.
Today we launch our Twitter account and watch out for the Blog entries about to be turned up a notch.
health and safety is the undoing of evolution
Avoid it like the plague. Rude reception and frankly fraudulant billing practices!
Staying there this weekend, more info on my return.
Ok so everyone loves the iphone 3G. The hype has no doubt helped make it so popular and thus just over a month ago I got one through work. Now I’ve been using Windows Mobile devices since the Compaq Aero PDA that was black and white ! I’ve probably had over 30 PDAs and phones over the years so coming to the iphone 3G was interesting. It’s got to be said that the hardware is amazing. I love having a Word document viewer, MP3 player, phone, calander and emails all on one very well made device. It works very nicely and taking and making calls on it is great. There’s no delay in pressing buttons like on a Windows Mobile PDA.
To tell the truth I’m already getting a bit sick of it. The lack of freedom is ruining it.
Why can’t I share the data connection on it ?
Why can’t I use sat nav on it ?
Because Apple have decided that we don’t need it. Personaly I don’t think that’s got anything to do with them. And as such I’m still using my HTC Touch Diamond. Why on earth do we have to put up with this ? ! Why on earth have Apple restricted all users to these rules ?
I’m off to Jailbreak my phone in the hope of being able to use it how I (the owner) wants to.
Just watched Southland Tales … It linda made no sence at all but was fantastic ! Yup go watch it and see what I mean 
. Amazing film and so different to anything I’ve every seen before. I can’t wait to watch The Box.
Posted via my iPhone using the Wordpress App … quite impressive really .
Recently purchased a camera from pixmania.co.uk and personally I’m going to avoid them like the plague. Their backend systems are just crazy slow … and I mean crazzzyy slow. I’ve ordered from them in the past and received my items next day so I thought I’d get the same treatment. Well apparently not -
1. Item ordered July 1st at about 11am.
2. By 5pm on the same day their site was showing no progress at all. Thinking there might be a payment issue I called them. Sounds like an India call as I could hardly understand what the lady was saying when I spoke to her. Turns out that there is nothing wrong but I should call back tomorrow as the “Validation” part takes 24 hours.
3. July 2nd they appeared to do nothing at all.
4. July 3rd it showed as validated and all the way through the ordering process.
5. July 4th they bothered to ship the item.
What on earth took them 4 working days to ship something they had in stock !!! Either someone messed up somewhere or that’s just the way they do business. I’ll assume it’s the norm for them as they didn’t communicate an issue at any time.
So I defiantly wont be buying from them again anytime soon. You’ve lost me as a customer.
I’ve used Nero since the days of 5 or possibly before then. I’ve also always paid for the upgrades. But I’m not thinking about Nero 8 and wondering what the point is ! I only use Nero BurningROM and Nero BackItUp, all the other junk doesn’t even get installed. So it there any point in me paying for the upgrade ?
Why not offer a Nero Lite package for people to pay for that just want the basics ? Surely I’m not the only person on the planet that would pay for that ?
Well our company is doing well and it’s time to find some more customers. To do that we need to sort our marketing out. First stop the website: www.glo-networks.com, get the design finished and started up a blog.
Previously we’ve found the blog to be a handy way of communicating our technical abilities without having to clutter the website up. So here it comes again.
Read this over the weekend. It’s basically a new potential to SatNav. A system on the roads reports to the SatNav what the speed should be is and the SatNav yells at you to slow down if needed. On top of that they want the SatNav to actually make the car stick to the speed limits and not let you break them. Great idea really, get on it !
But think about it a second, it’s just like speed cameras or safety cameras or whatever they try to call them to make us like them ! These systems are only effective on one type of person, that’s the insurance paying, road tax paying and car registering public. So by following the law and being good you can get in more trouble. Fair enough some say. So what happens to those that don’t have insurance or those that don’t pay their road tax or those that don’t even register their cars, bikes etc ! Well if they ever get caught they get a ban and or a small fine. Why not pour the research into catching that lot and actually deterring them from being baddies in the first place ?
Yes I know that if they don’t pay their road tax their cars get crushed or if they don’t have insurance they get a ban. These type of people really don’t care about bans or crushed bangers. As if they did there’d be none of them left. Put in proper punishments that will make these people think again. Or better put some tech in place to remove them completely from society.
Rant over
So the Tefal QuickCup isn’t really as great as I first thought. After a few months of using it here’s a few issues -
a) Very noisy when in use.
b) Leaking filter / hole in the bottom – a puddle appears under the device
c) Just wont switch on sometimes. No matter how much the power button is pressed or how many times it gets reset sometimes it just wont power up at all. Leave it unplugged a few hours and suddenly it will be fine again.
d) Power use, because the power wont always come on we’ve started to leave it connected over use. Expecting it to not use any power when not in use but in the morning the top appears to be warm to the touch which is weird. So on went the power meter and it appears that over night it uses 0.01 kwH.
e) It moves around the kitchen top when it’s not got enough water in it. Not good as you normally leave it to fill the cup … great to come back with it having traveled across the counter and dumped a load of water elsewhere.
f) Nowhere near boiling water out of it really.
It so feels like a generation 1 product. Having said that we’re still using it.