Tag Archives: fail

In The Spirit of Schrödinger

I got a bit of a chuckle out of a poll I stumbled across at the bottom of an article in regards to comments by Carlos Slim in regards to the National Broadband Network. Conroy Hits Back At Slim In the true spirit of Schrödinger’s cat, how exactly do you answer this: Are you for […]

Tell The Truth Fairfax!

Sitting down to lunch this afternoon, I found an email from the “Fairfax Digital Membership Team”, advising me of “an important message about [my] newsletters”. I have signed up for a few newsletters of interest to be delivered, and generally find something interesting to read. However, it was the nature of this “important message” that […]

More V/Line Pointlessness

Doing a quick scan of my Twitter feed last night before snuggling down into bed, I read the following tweet from the “often absent” V/Line “information” account, “@vlineinform”. I mean, what is the bloody point? At 21:29 you “anticipate” that the 21:05 will be 15 minutes late? I mean seriously, what? It either left nine […]

V/Line Band Aids

Last Tuesday evening, V/Line’s newest, shiniest V/Locity DMU was stopped for almost 30 minutes at Spotswood station, operating service number 8229, otherwise known as the 16:40 Southern Cross to Marshall. Passengers were told that the new unit – (running at the front of the three unit consist) – had become “uncoupled” from the two rearward […]

The Reason Your V/Line Train Runs Late

V/Line will always blame something other than themselves for their trains constantly running late. Well, I think I have found the main reason – they think they are sending trains to one location, when they are actually meant to be going to another location. This ”updated track works notification” was just released, indicating track works […]

Supermarket Special Price Fail

As a conscientious shopper, I’m always on the prowl for special price deals at the supermarket. I mean, who doesn’t want to save a few dollars these days? Doing the groceries this afternoon, I spotted this deal, knowing that our little daughter simply loves her juice: Sounds pretty good right? I mean, two litres of […]

Herald-Sun Fail!

There is a lot of pointless hoopla going on today about the Collingwood vs Geelong / Top of the AFL Ladder tonight – much of which is quite tiresome. However, I guess it would have been respectful of the Herald-Sun to have gotten Geelong’s colours right? Don’t Geelong have DARK blue HORIZONTAL stripes, and not […]

iPhone Fail!

Really cool idea for a journalist – use your iPhone to record stand up interviews – like this one with Australian Formula One driver, Mark Webber, after practice at the Australian Grand Prix on Friday afternoon. However, the last time I checked, the microphone is at the BOTTOM of the phone – (pointed at the […]