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Welcome

This website is to give my distant friends around the world a window into my life and allow me to share my sense of humour, pictures and writings.


18XS website was first published on 24th August 2008 and closed September 2009 after reaching over half a million hits but I felt so much of what I had written about no longer applies after the rebuild of my life.


A new version of 18XS was published on 12th November 2009 and I hope this updated version will show my successful recovery from what was a painful divorce.

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 I will continue to add new material as time permits.


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Talk Talk Scam. FREE trial !!!

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Talk Talk trying to boost there market share price on the stock market by - 

Offering a 30 day Free trial via door step cold callers. This so called Free Trial cost me £45, well not quite because Talk Talk have not taken me onboard before and had no idea who they were trying to con.

Payment will never be made in English Currency but I can guarantee payment will be made all be it not to their preference. Watch this space.

Talk Talk or their legal department in crime are now applying the harassment technique to screw money out of me by phoning me almost on a daily basis. They have no idea I am amused by their futile antics.

I have found it very interesting that I have reported to them on many occasions that their sales person quoted me a “30 day Free Trial” I take their lack of interest in this extreamly relevant legal point to commit them as being party to the fraud.
 
Working on the reasonable assumption that if their sales person was working outside Talk Talks remit they would take an interest and to take action against the sales force that were making false claims. This is apparently NOT the case and presumably in the absence of a denial Talk Talk condone this corrupt marketing technique.

Waiting for the “Thud” of the landing of a High Court Injunction through my letter box.

16th December.
Another harassing phone call from TalkTalk today in an attempt to screw money out of me. When I was ask to answer their security questions which is a requirement of the data protection act before they can continue, I gloated  and without answering their questions which I had no obligation to do. I directed them to
www.18xs.co.uk

Remember if you get harassed by any company whatever the reason, you only need to refuse to answer their security questions and they are “Fucked” they simply cannot proceed.


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What a busy life I am compelled to lead. I have been left in waiting over Xmas for a further Court Summons to thud through my letter box and wake me from my sleep; divorce can be world war 10 for those who are not able to negotiate terms.

My not unreasonable view has extinguished an authority that possessed delusions it had supreme rule over me, without taking into account the view of my pears that yield the Sabre of Supremacy and cry War in my defence. In base verse, I think the expression be. Fuck with me not.


Update o2 have revised
Tethering Bolt On

See opposite column




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Delusions of supreme grandeur are the grave stone for past Kings.

Oh bugger, bugger is it possible for the shit to get any deeper I have fallen into.

Events are still piling up and testing my resolve.

[1st] My Bank cancels my account in a letter saying the account is in dispute with my ex and all my standing orders are cancelled.

[2nd] A substantial amount of money has vanished into Cyber space paid to me by Nottingham Council as a refund.

[3rd] And not least my bloody iPhone has died. Not sure if someone in high authority is not try to convey a message to me or not.


Should that be the case, may he be advised I am conscious of his presence.

Know me to be a man that never yields in face of danger.


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Had an absolutely fantastic last few days.

Bank manager was very sympathetic to my demise and offered an instant solution to my unfortunate position recognising I had been a victim of circumstances not of my making.

Offering to open a new account in my name with immediate effect and said I would receive a new Direct debit card by Monday, (which arrived early on Friday)

Just when I thought life was rewarding with unjust deserves I took my buggered iPhone to a repair shop in Nottingham expecting him to say he couldn’t help. He took a brief look at the problem and said he could fix it for about £25. Still suffering from expectations that he may report later a different diagnosis, I left it with him.


After arriving home some 3 hours later I get a phone call to say my iPhone is fixed and the cost £20 At this point I had to revaluate my fortunes and consider I am having a good day.

The outstanding honesty and high standards of this shop proprietor who refused to take a £5 tip is beyond belief. I can do no more than publish his name as Ali on Mobile Phone Repairs Tel: 07950 111111 there are not many guys like him around.


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To be continued


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Here I go again making an Exhibition of myself.
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That bloody floor takes some cleaning.


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18XS Website Relaunch

I had no idea if closing my website 18XS after reaching over half a million hits was a mistake but I became increasingly stressed over some of its contents and decided to pull the plug.

 

After re launching 18XS on the 12th November 2009 with tongue in cheek I had no idea if it would maintain such a successful following as its previous publication. I made the decision that if the site received only one visitor I would maintain it with all my enthusiasm.

 

I can’t begin to describe the humility I have felt by the return of so many of my previous readers and friends and thank those of you for taking the time to email me.

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Russ


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I have to confess delusions of Grandeur
are reserved for me alone.

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Mess with me Not !!!

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Shit stop it
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it is hurting

Having a bad day today if it can go wrong it has. Only found out tonight nobody is getting my text messages from my mobile. Spent ages on the phone to o2 and need to wait for a new sim card.

I bought a Coffee machine on eBay that finally arrived this morning at 8:00am, my first disaster was to pull the front door over my bear foot ripping it open and was very painful. Some Blue Mountain beans from Jamaica arrived later, connected machine to water supply. The machine is a Profesional Cappuccino maker and has to be plumbed in. Switched it on and left it to heat up. Eventually the fuse trip blew. I assume the seller hadn’t used the machine for a long time or tested it because the inlet water valve had seized which caused the heater to melt on power up. It is really stupid for a £1600 machine not to have a safety cut out.

Espresso Machine
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Grimac Mia Professional

Feeling somewhat pissed off I drove to B&Q to buy a large enough spanner to get the element out which cost £26. Spent the rest of the afternoon on Google trying to find a company who has a heater element in stock, the only company I could find listing the heater as a spare are quoting £66 delivered but they are closed till Jan 5th so I don’t know if they have one in stock.

Feeling nothing else can go wrong today I discovered my website is not available due to an administration error over my payments to the hosting company even though I paid over a month ago.

Clearly I need to get a life.


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o2 have revised their Bolton On Tethering option which started out at £15.00 per month on top of your £35 per month iPhone contract which the whole of the UK iPhone users have been up in arms over.

Good news prevails and not without mentioning the good will of o2 who have not only reduced the Bolt on charge to less than £10 but it also includes “Free Landline Broadband” this in my view is an exceptional reduction in costs and therefore have reluctantly decided not to make public of how to Jailbreak your iPhone with OS v3.1.2 operating system on your iPhone.

One has to be fair and adhere to certain morals.

Ok maybe I have been a bit too techy here talking about “Jail Breaking” an iPhone.
Basically what it means is Apple have decided your iPhone is not yours to do with as you like even though you may have paid £400 or £500 for it and further bar you from installing un approved applications.

This dictorial deliousion of fantasy adopted by Microsoft many years ago but have in more recent times recognised it became their enemy. Apple still have this lesson to learn.

I quote “Corporate Power” now your power comes from me alone. My name is “Your Customer” should I show you my back you will freeze in Hell and wither.

Will thou
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recover from this

Jail Breaking your iPhone frees you from Apples over ruling authority of master over you as a customer and allows “YOU” to choose what applications you install on your iPhone.

Apple may argue (or try to bullshit) in their defence that they are merely trying to maintain a level of standard but in reality they are taking part in restricting practises and preventing “You” the customer from using your iPhone as “You” please. As an example they removed a program from their approved website called “***” because after its approval they realised it allowed you to initialise “Tethering” which your ISP want to make a charge for so they withdrew the application and is now only available from unapproved websites and to use it you need to Jailbreak your iPhone which stops Apple from blocking unapproved applications.

Delusions of supreme grandeur are the grave stone for past Kings. 1st Microsoft who intimidated the world with its Windows operating system. Next after saviour from bankruptcy ( Chapter 11) Microsoft’s chairman stepped in to save the floundering Apple Computers, I believe his name was “Bill”

Shit stop it
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Tears run down my face with laughter!!!


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Mess with me Not !!!

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Mmmm TalkTalk have taken a quiet stance, maybe they are re-evaluating their corrupt sales force and

Shit stop it
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Tears run down my face with laughter!!!

Re-training them.


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Before time began, before there was nothing, not even a void.

I cast a shadow
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I was a mere existence. This is how the Universe started from nothing.


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