Philip Nicosia

We’ve got a Warmworld HE 70 boiler which unfortunately broke down a few days ago. We also have a service contract with British Gas so called their engineers out to fix it. When the engineer arrived he said to me “has anyone told you that this boiler is obsolete and the company doesn’t exist anymore so we can’t get spares for it?”.

To cut a long story short, after the 3rd visit it was diagnosed that we needed a new sequence control board which they didn’t have and as it was obsolete probably wouldn’t be able to get one and we would need a new bioler. I was told the call would be left open and their obsolete spares department would search the country for one but that would take about a week before I even got an answer. I was also told that if I found one they wouldn’t be able to fit it as they didn’t supply it and I’d have to make my own arrangements.

Meanwhile we freeze. Anyway, a quick search on Google for Warmworld Boiler Spares proved fruitless so I thought I would do a search for Warmworld UK Ltd to see if there was any details on them being taken over by a different company.

Imagine my surprise when the first result was Warmworld.co.uk

The company does exist so I rang them and asked if they had the spare part and was told yes, its in stock, part number BS7707 and it costs £62.09.

I explained to the gentleman on the phone that we had a British Gas Service contract and that we were told the company no longer exists to which he told me, yes they do (obviously) they have the spare parts and they supply to British Gas.

So I called British Gas, gave them all the details and they sent them off by email to their spares dept and was told they would contact me. When they didn’t call back it was explained to me that they aim to read emails and return calls within 48 hours.

I could get the part delivered to me before they even read their email!

So if British Gas or anyone else says you can’t get spare parts for Warmworld boilers anymore that’s rubbish. Warmworld can be reached on 0117 949 8800.

Don’t let the engineer leave your house without giving him the number and insisting the spares team call them while he is there otherwise you may end up cold like us for days to come.

It looks like Google has fixed the spamming issue with Google docs. When you do a site search of Google docs it only returns 1 result whereas before it was a couple of thousand url only listings.

Google docs was being used successfully to spam Google and gained many top 10 competitive results which contained little more than an external link to an affiliate site.

It took them a while to sort out and it must have been embarrassing for them as a lot of these search terms were for adult themed site.

I guess it was good for the spammers for a while but like anything obvious was destined to end. I bet some of them made a ton of money though.

Congratulations to Shilpa for winning Celebrity Big Brother. A well deserved win in my opinion and with 63% of the vote a convincing win at that.

It was interesting to see that the top 3 celebrities weren’t British. If you include Ian in that (he’s Welsh) then it’s the top 4.

That says a lot about our so called UK celebrities and their behaviour in the house.

On Russell’s program after the show there was a noteable absence of Jade, Jo, Daniel and Jackiey.

It came as no surprise that Jo was evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house but I was surprised that she showed no remorse for any of her actions in the house seemlingly comfortable with her behavior.

She has been reported as saying she wouldn’t change a thing that she said or did.

That says it all really and demonstrates exactly what she is like.

One of my brothers recently bought a Sony UX280p as a treat to himself for giving up smoking after seeing my Sony UX180P. The main differences between the two are more ram and a bigger hard disk drive in the UX280P.

When he got it he didn’t realize that he had a sim card in it and could use it to access the internet on a 3G connection in the UK. He even deleted the Cingular Connection Software that came with it.

Anyway, after pointing out the error in his ways he was able to download the Cingualar Connection Software from here.

Once he had done that he was able to unlock the Cingular Edge Card so he could use it on another network and then got it up and running with a payg T-Mobile sim card taking advantage of their unlimited internet access for £1 a day.

To do this he followed the instructions that I had previously written for the Sony UX180P and these worked just the same for his UX280P so if you need to unlock the Cingualar Edge card on the Sony UX280P or use a T-Mobile sim card with it then just follow the instructions on the pages below:

Unlocking The Cingular EDGE Card in the Sony UX180P

Using T-Mobile on a Sony UX180P