I was recently in an RTA. I’ve only once before been in a car accident but this time my car was quite badly damaged and the damage was judged to be “borderline”. This means that the cost of fixing the car is in the same region as the car value. In this case a decision has to be made on whether the car will be fixed and this is done by “elephant.co.uk engineers” viewing the damage either via video link (yeah, right!) or, as I was told, digital images (much more likely). Once this has been done the insurance agency will make a decision on whether the car is written-off / a total loss. If it is written-off / a total loss then your car won’t be fixed and the insurance agency will make you an offer for your car. So, in effect the insurance agency is buying the car off you.
Updates from January, 2007
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Whinge of the Week: Elephant.co.uk - bad experience
Phil Leggetter
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XBox 360 Power supply interfering with WIFI
Phil Leggetter
Update: My post on the XBox360 forum was removed – looks like they are trying to hide the fact that it really is a problem
My fantastic girlfriend bought me an http://www.xbox.com" href="http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/hardware/xbox360/">XBox 360 for Christmas. I got a real bee in my bonet about a 360 ever since I saw the trailers and read the reviews for Gears of War. I did consider hanging on for a PS3 but just could stop myself from dropping hints about a 360 for Christmas.
Anyhoooo, I do love my 360 but I’ve noticed that it badly interferes with my wireless network *. So, I’ve made a post about the power supply causing wireless interference over on the XBox forums to see if anybody else has had a similar problem. I’d really like confirmation that it is the massive power supply that’s the issue.
Oh, and I’ve also already had to have the hard disk replaced because it was corrupt. I just ain’t the luckiest!
* Setting up the network in the first place certainly wasn’t a piece of cake. I’m not using the MIMO technology that I actually bought all the Netgear products for because with the Auto 108 option set in the router config the CPUs on both my desktop and laptop go crazy. This is obvoiusly something to do with the netgear drivers but after hours of messing I finally had to set the router to Channel 7 and G-only to get a steady connection that didn’t fry the CPUs of my machines.
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Where has Phobos7 gone?
Phil Leggetter
The old blog is still over @ http://www.phobos7.co.uk but I’ve decided to start a new one here on my wonderful new domain. I’ve been after a Leggetter domain for ages but Andrew managed to snap them all up way before I even thought about registering one.
