Friday, September 25th, 2026, 10:06 am
They should know better than that; it insults the customers
find myself having to talk to a person every year or so (usually 2 years) regarding energy bills at E.ON, aka E.ON Next. This year they have a chatbot with voice. If you say “speak to a person” like 10 times you get to an actual person. It’s not easy, but still feasible.
Once I spoke to an actual person everything was very nice, smooth, and both sides were happy.
The freephone number is appreciated, though the clients pay for it as part of their bills.
Friday, September 25th, 2026, 9:13 am
Daniel Pocock is using the High Court now

ome months ago we kept mentioning Daniel’s political endeavours.
He has just taken on the UK Racist Party ‘head-on’ [1, 2, 3] and we wish him success. He did win in the past. He beat Big Blue (IBM).
Friday, September 25th, 2026, 8:31 am
No actual verdict, just hypothetical

n this month one year ago I published “The Mind of the ‘Hulk Hogan of UEFI’” after a long run in the nearby park and after feeding 100+ birds (some jumped on me as they were really voracious). One part of it aged well and still resonates: “Garrett would ask/invite a Microsoft/GitHub/GNOME/Mono ally (whom he knows and spoke about for years) to file another lawsuit from the US, using the exact same legal team, because merely reporting that someone strangled women is the real issue? The reporting was done 3-4 years earlier, i.e. out of time for any libel claim.”
That someone decided to sue me for mentioning physical abuse of women does (to this date) make me proud. I invite more men to sue me for talking about crimes against women.
He also hates animals, like many psychotic men do. No empathy whatsoever.
Friday, September 25th, 2026, 8:10 am
Old is not bad
wrote many cards to Rianne this week. They are not digital, they’re physical cards and there’s no scan or digital copies of these. They can last a century, i.e. more than a lifetime.
The health of our relationship is built around mutual trust and respect. As usual, and as noted before, Rianne and I plan to pursue an appeal in our case next year in the UK Court of Appeal.
In courtrooms we always use physical notebooks and pens, not laptops. It has served us well.
Friday, September 25th, 2026, 7:19 am
Not “slowing down” but failing
his morning I published “Things Not to Measure in Quantity Alone” in the Techrights site.
“The calls for “slowing down” are part of the marketing hype,” a friend has told me, “and to try to prevent new entries to the market, bolstering the established companies’ positions…”
I agree. The slop bubble is popping and some companies hope to establish: 1) bailout (subsidies from taxpayers) and 2) de facto monopoly.
Friday, September 25th, 2026, 6:06 am
Tomorrow

kind of miss football. There won’t be any PL (club) matches for over 2 weeks to come. Nothing. Just dull international games, starting with Spain.
Norway has just (barely) beaten Denmark, with our Manchester-born Haaland scoring twice.
Yesterday we went past the stadium and saw lots of major improvements, including in the “main” bridge leading to its northern gates (and hotel). It was a project well executed and worth the wait (they had closed that bridge area for weeks).