Nice things for Vista: BBC and Live Messenger Gadgets

Over at Cener's Gadget Gallery, you'll find a couple of nice Windows Vista gadgets that I'm fond of. One is a Live messenger connected instant messenger gadget, which is cute. The other is a BBC Radio gadget, allowing you to listen to BBC live streams from your sidebar. I'm also running an equivalent for Australia's ABC Radio, On which I'm currently listening to TripleJ, though I have no recollection of where I got that from. That being the case I've uploaded it here: ABC Radio Gadget for Vista. Hopefully not violating any licence terms or anything, please let me know if I am.

On the subject of Vista, I'm now running RTM - Enterprise at the office, of course, and Ultimate on my Alienware Area 51, and can report few problems so far. RTM is more stable, seemingly, than RC2 and I haven't experienced any significant issues so far. Rather boring I know, but hey, an OS that works IS boring. It's meant to be - it just stays in the background and works without intruding. Boredom is the best I could ask for.

Today's Punch To The Throat goes to...

... The benighted fucktards of Citibank's Australia Pacific call center, who seem congenitally unable to follow the instruction "call my accountant for any verification info you need".

I just received the third call on what should be a simple verification process, if only the mouthbreathing cockwits they employ could get it through their heads that I don't deal with any of my own tax information, but let my accountants take care of it.

Now, I understand that to offer a low-cost service to the customer, Citibank have to cut costs at the other end. But why does that mean they need to employ the mentally-challenged? And why does their phone connection have to be so crackly and prone to drop-outs? (I'll tell you why; they're skimping on that too)

Fuckers.

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