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I have been wondering recently why my favourite soft drink "Diet Vanilla Coke" was becoming hard to buy - but I now know why. See this article on the BBC from November 2005. It seems it is being phased out and replaced with something else "On Thursday Coca-Cola said it would end sales of the two vanilla flavoured drinks in the UK early next year [2006], and replace them with Diet Coke With Cherry."
Today I had my first bottle of "Diet Coke with Cherry" and its damn good. Not as cherryish as Cherry Coke but damn tasty and it smells gorgeous. I mean, I like Diet Vanilla Coke, but this is ace. It smells like an acidic version of Dr Pepper (which I truly adore) but the taste is more "in yer face". I will miss Vanilla Coke, but fortunately I appear to like its replacement. It may of course be re-introduced at some point, which is nice.
Fortunately, they are scrapping the with Lemon for good - which is a good thing, as it is fucking hideous!
A few weeks ago, when I was going through loads of paperwork and shredding stuff (just after Xmas) I discovered a rogue payment that was being taken by Pipex from one of my credit cards.
I'd tried contacting them a couple of times but had no joy. Then today I got hold of a number to call but always ended up being dumped or on hold and then lost.
So I spoke to one of my friends who works for Pipex and he gave me the number for Customer Relations. So I gave them a call and explained the situation.
Essentially, I used to pay �14.99 for my Pipex Dial solution until I upgraded to having an ADSL connection. As part of the ADSL account, I got a reduced price on the Dial account - down to �7.05. Unfortunately, since I got ADSL (early 2003) they have continued to take the �14.99.
So today my credit card was credited with �261.73 which was what they had overcharged me. Huzzah!
Todays link 112 Translations of "Oh My God, there's an axe in my head!"
Apparently, in America it is now illegal to annoy people on the internet. Hopefully, this will see a large amount of crap and users being removed from the 'net and making it better for the rest of us. But I doubt it :)
In other news, I am planning on getting myself a Palmtop. Not a PDA like the iPaq or Palm, but a Palmtop PC. Preferable something like an 
HP Jornada 720
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