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	<title>Blog of Ian Parr &#187; whine</title>
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		<title>Dumbass ParentPay website still down at start of new school year</title>
		<link>http://ianparr.com/blog/2011/09/07/dumbass-parentpay-website-still-down-at-start-of-new-school-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[parentpay, a photo by zippysticks on Flickr. What&#8217;s the point of logging in if you can&#8217;t use the website ? &#8211; morons. UPDATE &#8211; they have changed their message on the website &#8211; unhelpful as ever. For those that have no idea what ParentPay is &#8211; its the cashless system that many schools have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PayPal really are a joke</title>
		<link>http://ianparr.com/blog/2010/12/09/paypal-really-are-a-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanted to close my PayPal account, tried to do it online but discovered I had $0.01 remaining from a gift voucher present from my former FT.com colleagues four years ago. Got an email from them this evening: Dear Ian Parr, Thank you for contacting PayPal regarding the problems you are experiencing closing your account. Firstly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local papers vs BBC</title>
		<link>http://ianparr.com/blog/2010/06/02/local-papers-vs-bbc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[local news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Greenslade]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Guardian blog post by Roy Greenslade annoys me. Here is a screen shot of my local news paper website homepage. As you can see four &#8216;article&#8217; teasers and a HUGE volume of advertising. Actually the articles are more often than not a single line or paragraph long &#8211; like this: Take careful note of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crap Ebay seller #1 greenenergyuk</title>
		<link>http://ianparr.com/blog/2010/05/15/crap-ebay-seller-1-greenenergyuk/</link>
		<comments>http://ianparr.com/blog/2010/05/15/crap-ebay-seller-1-greenenergyuk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 08:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[whine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bouldr developments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenenergyuk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grid tie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inverter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mastervold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soladin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This time its grenenergyuk selling the Mastervolt Soladin 600 grid tie inverter. Bought one at the bargain price of £360 only to find that they dont respond to emails and when I eventually manage to get them by phone it turns out they don&#8217;t have any in stock. This while they are still advertising dozens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>unimpressed with r4i.co.uk (memorybits)</title>
		<link>http://ianparr.com/blog/2010/04/13/unimpressed-with-r4i-co-uk-memorybits/</link>
		<comments>http://ianparr.com/blog/2010/04/13/unimpressed-with-r4i-co-uk-memorybits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[whine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delivery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hopeless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memorybits.co.uk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[r4i]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ordered and paid for an r4i card (for research purposes) from r4i.co.uk ( a web property of memorybits.co.uk) on March 28th. Still no sign of the darned thing despite a 2-4 working day delivery estimate &#8211; I&#8217;m distinctly unimpressed with their customer service team who tell me it must have been lost in the post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambulance chasers advertising on hospital appointment cards</title>
		<link>http://ianparr.com/blog/2010/03/31/ambulance-chasers-advertising-on-hospital-appointment-cards/</link>
		<comments>http://ianparr.com/blog/2010/03/31/ambulance-chasers-advertising-on-hospital-appointment-cards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is on the back of my appointment card for The Princess Royal hospital in West Sussex]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Hero on Amazon website &#8211; broken description</title>
		<link>http://ianparr.com/blog/2009/10/31/htc-hero-on-amazon-website-broken-description/</link>
		<comments>http://ianparr.com/blog/2009/10/31/htc-hero-on-amazon-website-broken-description/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[whine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HTC Hero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LG BL40]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[amazon_Hero Originally uploaded by zippysticks Hmm. Wanted to buy the HTC Hero from Amazon. Seems their product catalogue is broken right now. The website is returning with a title &#8220;LG BL40 Chocolate Sim Free Mobile Phone &#8211; Black&#8221; Clearly the rest of the product description refers to the HTC Hero.]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Mail website as unreliable as their postal service</title>
		<link>http://ianparr.com/blog/2009/09/27/royal-mail-website-as-unreliable-as-their-postage-service/</link>
		<comments>http://ianparr.com/blog/2009/09/27/royal-mail-website-as-unreliable-as-their-postage-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[recently had lots of problems with letters and parcels going missing when using Royal mail &#8211; tried to buy some postage online &#8211; seems their website is just as unreliable as their postal service.]]></description>
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