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Thursday 29 May 2008

Companies continue to rip off consumers with 0870 and 0845 customer-service numbers

‘A list of companies and government agencies using costly phone helplines to make money at customers’ expense has been published by a consumer group.’

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Filed under: consumer — GS @ 7:19 am
Wednesday 16 May 2007

Photographer loses image library in fire — how safe is your audio and visual data?

As a photographer myself, I broke out into a cold sweat reading how this poor man lost most of his image library in the Lever Street fire. Equipment can be replaced but unique transparencies, negatives and digital images can’t be.

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Filed under: History, Manchester, Photography, TV & film, Video-making — GS @ 9:59 am
Sunday 15 April 2007

Data protection

Have you noticed how many companies are trying to get the most unnecessary personal data these days? My favourite a few months ago was when I called United Utilities and they told me they couldn’t discuss my water bill over the telephone unless I gave them my date of birth.

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Filed under: Politics — GS @ 10:35 am
Wednesday 25 October 2006

Questions that Manchester Pride, Marketing Manchester & the Manchester Evening News don’t want to answer

On 18 August 2006 I wrote to Manchester Pride with the following questions. I received a reply from Marketing Manchester, saying that I would get a ‘prompt reply’ just as soon as Pride was over. More than two months later I am still waiting…

Here is my letter:

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Filed under: LGBT, Manchester — GS @ 1:14 pm
 

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