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(doesn’t everyone name their cars!?)

So today after 3 years and 57470 miles Gertie Golf goes back so:

57470 miles / 32mpg (avg) = 1796 gallons of go juice
1796 gallons = 8165 litres
8195 x 115p litre (expensive fuel, rather than the norm) = 9424.25 UKP

of which 6126 UKP went straight to the government in fuel tax

Nice.

Or how about :

57470 miles @ avg speed of 20 mph = 2873.5 hours
2873.5 hours / 24 = 119 days 17.5 hours driving

Unless of course you are the current prime minister, in which case it is seemingly more important to ensure that as far as the royal family is concerned, they should be able to marry left footers, and that women can now take the top job even if there are other royal men alive (well done princess Anne you get promotion from 10th to 4th)

*seriously*

Who gives one? (apart from the idiot on TV right now, no not Nicholas Witchell, some other “expert”)

Still maybe Gordon is taking 5 minutes out from preparing for the G20… (how ex-president Blair must be killing himself laughing now)

So here I am taking a break from working from home, to work in my local (ish) coffee republic which offers free wifi, average coffee and a medicore bite to eat, I’ve been using my conputer for 50 minutes and have 58 minutes of battery life left.  According the Apple website I should be able to get up to five hours of life, now of course that will be with all radio’s off etc but I’m using the better battery life video card in my laptop, I’ve got the keyboard light off and the screen on the lowest setting, yes I’m using the WiFi but bluetooth is off and I still don’t get two hours of life, fucking joke.  Wonder what the real world battery life of the 17″ MBP is? probably no where near the claimed eight hours (if it is, I might get one!)

Really are people so stupid to fall for spam that is this bad ?

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Sersiously, it’s not even written in English (bit like this blog if I’m honest) and the link is an IP address not even something similar to fleabay….

FAIL.