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Archive for December, 2009

Tesco – Every little helps!… their pockets!

Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Christopher Shennan  |  No Comments »

Tis the season to be jolly but I think Tesco has Scrooge on their payroll!
A few weeks ago I was in Tesco (in Coatbridge) to buy some Christmas presents and I wanted to buy a box of chocolate biscuits as a gift for a friend and I saw their promotion of £4.99 for 1 or [...]

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It is an “Off Peak” ticket!

Posted on December 9th, 2009 by Christopher Shennan  |  No Comments »

Senario:  Waverly Station, Edinburgh during rush hour
This time of year really seems to bring out the idiots who constantly seem to get in your way as you are trying to get somewhere but they appear to be completely oblivous to the fact they are in the way.
This time I was trying to catch my train [...]

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Wordpress Snow Effects

Posted on December 7th, 2009 by Christopher Shennan  |  No Comments »

I launched this site at the weekend and in order to get the Akismet plugin working I had to go and register with Wordpress.COM in order to get an API key to activate the plugin.  When I got to the site I though my vision had gone funny as sometimes when I work at a [...]

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Change of Domain because of Cyber Squatter

Posted on December 6th, 2009 by Christopher Shennan  |  2 Comments »

I guess my first official whinge has to be about getting forced to re-think what domain name I wanted for this site. After deciding that I wanted to produce this website I wanted the domain name “thedailywhinge.com” so off I went to Heart Internet to register it only to find that it had already [...]

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Welcome to the Weekly Whinge

Posted on December 5th, 2009 by Christopher Shennan  |  No Comments »

This site has been created to provide a platform for me to vent my seemingly endless frustration and irritation at the constant failings, sub standards and general idiocracy that surrounds us on a regular basis without constantly chewing off my best friends ear. I think she has become a bit tired of my ramblings [...]

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