Trojan

Got a damn Trojan called zlob.dnschanger - well according to the Panda Anti Virus site and Spy Bot. However checking with a couple of other Virus and Anti Spyware sites they didn't find it. Also Spy Bot said it was removed but it is still there. Will have to investigate further.

Rugby still enthralls (well almost) particularly the minnows. However the AB's were not impressive despite the score line. As for the jerseys - that is just typical of the incompetent IRB. Tonga - England will still be an England victory and I think Argentina will roll the Irish.

Going away for a few days up to the Hawkes Bay and also hope to visit White Isalnd although with Ruapehu erupting for the first time in 10 years it may have some effect out there. We will see.

The Cup runneth over

And so it does with more games than my brain can stay awake for. So that is one good thing about a Hard Drive Recorder I just tape up to 6 hours at a time and then make a decision from the result/what I read/hear/see on the morning news etc if I should watch it. Even then I watch part of some games in Fast Forward.

I think Georgia are the team I admire the most. The League people would hate it as they are not pretty and no "airy fairy" stuff. Just one game plan - drive it up the middle and if it goes to the First Five then boot it!! However it is effective from their point of view and it gave Ireland the hurry up.

The Phoenix, the Wellington soccer team, are to host the Galaxy Club with David Beckham at a cost of $2 million. I wouldn't cross the road to see him and I don't care but if I was a Wellington ratepayer then I would be concerned as they are to pay part of the bill. If it is such a good deal then why not let The Phoenix carry the can. I think it is $$$ down the gurgler.

Local Body elections are coming up and I suppose the usual pathetic voter turnout.

What is it with democracy that when you have it, you don't care, and when you don't, people have to die to get it.

Anyway I know a couple of people standing and will of course, as always, make sure my ballot is cast.

The World Cup and other matters

First the Xtra debacle. It now seems to be working except the Download Manager I use says it wants to download two .mp3 files. Telecoms brilliant answer was that it must be in one of the emails. What rubbish. It is due to their site otherwise why would I always get it with literally dozens of different emails?? Also they appear to have tweaked their Spam filter as legitimate emails now seem to be getting through, but of course so is a lot of Spam!!



Now to more immediate and important matters. The Rugby World Cup. Got up to see a reasonable upset but I have never underestimated "Los Pumas". I see that they have, in fact, more registered players than Australia. The downside is that we could meet France in Cardiff.

As for us - the injury front is a real worry and of course it is our two weak spots - lock and centre. Anyway Italy tonight which shouldn't cause too many problems.

Xtra Bubble - or should that be Booble!!

Well you can tell you are back home when everything is back to "normal" - just another Telecom "upgrade, enhance and improve" shambles. Cue Tui advert time - what a debacle.

Nothing worked and couldn't register for "Booble" and of course they only answer their "Help" desk if you have several hours to wait. So I emailed them and to their credit they phoned me. He went through the explanation of how everything would be better in a few days (weeks??) and give me a whole lot of free services I don't need or want.

However, of course I couldn't register anyway so I was told to wait a few days.

But as usual it got worse. Found out from others that emails were missing and as I had heard nothing about this from Telecom emailed them again. Their response this time was to ignore the questions and send a whole lot of useless links. Emailed again. They re-sent the same useless info. Emailed again telling them to read the questions. This time they did respond differently - but with some different useless info.

So as usual with this outfit you have to do it yourself.

I found I could now register and then after searching and digging around as well as reading all the stuff at the N Z Herald from the thousands of annoyed customers I found how to locate all my missing emails. Talking to others it would seem every person has different problems and Telecom doesn't seem interested in advising a list of the problems and how to fix them .

Oh for decent unfettered competition.