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Google autocorrect for cleaning phone boxes

Google autocorrect goes all Big Society on me

9 May 2011 ,
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To you, it's an empty pavement; to me, it's a miracle

Phew. After seven months and involving Westminster Council, the GLA, Transport for London, Virgin Media and BT the broken utility box outside my place of work finally has been removed. In the end it was a BT box, despite BT previously coming to inspect it and saying it wasn’t, and Westminster Council variously insisting it [...]

The genius of BT

31 January 2010
I ring BT. I report an issue to them. They say they’ll sort it. They give me a number to call for any follow up. The issue is outstanding. I ring that number. They tell me that’s the wrong number. They give me another number, and tell me to pick option 6. I ring the [...]