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A bad day for my Treo yesterday – its aerial snapped away from the casing! also was the last day of my O2 contract, which included insurance! Aghh.

Rang the so called member services number for O2 on 0870 444 3333 to be left hanging on for 30 minutes (you would thing that a telecomms company would just say please type in your number and we will call you back – some hope they must make a fortune from lousy company service!) to be told – insurance is only dealt with on weekdays.

So today being Monday, I try again, usual wait and then “OK I will transfer you to insurance service”, after 30 minutes gave up – so much for customer service!.

So I emailed handspring at a-novoradiophone.co.uk, within 10 minutes Chris rang back, very concerned, yes he would try and repair it under warranty (lets hope so £100 otherwise) and he would courier a carton etc over. What wonderful service, he should have it tomorrow so fingers crossed.

Discovered the wonderful Shields Up software that simulates an attack on your computer and publishes all your systems vulnerabilities. Good old Smoothwall at home scored top marks.

Discovered a wasps nest on my balcony this morning, theough www.eyp.co.uk I discovered Five star pest control (01223 264999) very fast and efficient service arrived on time. Very good at £35 and guaranteed treatment. poor wasps are looking very angry and agitated now! Recommended for wasp nest removal in and around Cambridge UK

A truly tragic story here of how a 86 year old guy mistook his accelerator for the brake and killed 10 people in Santa Monica USA. And I guess this sort of thing is going to be more frequent as the population ages and have to use cars as they live on their own. A smaller version of this happened here in Cambridge UK a few years ago when a child in a pram and its mother (I think) were killed in Kings Parade . When the driver did the same thing when trying to stop coming out of Bene’t Street.