Occasional Tales

Oh now what? I had thought that MSN had got it's shit sorted. I seem to be wrong. Spaces was down again last night, no better this morning, and I find myself back here. As I've already said, I don't really want to give up on Green Bamboo . That's where I get all my traffic. I expect that GB is temporarily out of action, but this is beginning to be a repeat screening of May last year when I almost completely switched to gmail because changes to Hotmail effectively killed the service. Is the headline Voters turn their backs on Labour and Tories exactly a big surprise to anyone? A majority of voters, 54%, say the next general election should bring a change of government. Only 21% think Britain should stick with Labour. I'm with the majority on this one. Unfortunately, that means the Tories in power again. Ugh. New Labour. No, the ughness I feel for them is about the same as the ughness I feel for the Tories. No wonder [o]ne in three voters have turned their backs on L...

Eventually. I thought I'd try getting a VGA cable so that I could connect the laptop to the new TV. I found what I was looking for in Metro, but I wasn't absolutely certain I should be buying a male-male cable. I returned home and found that I was right, but I'd also noticed that the cable at Metro had a damaged end. I decided to try Yonghui Supermarket, but they didn't have any. I knew that there was another branch of Gome in the vicinity which I found by luck rather than certain knowledge. Once I managed to convey to them what I wanted (I had the manual with me, but they still seemed unable to grasp initially that I wanted a VGA cable), I was informed that they didn't have any. Huh? This is Gome. It's an electronics shop. I returned home and then headed to the branch of Gome on the mainland where the same thing happened, but with none of the what-the-hell-does-the- laowai -want-in-spite-of-a-Chinese-manual routine. They sent me to 大利 which turned out to be op...