Day: September 10, 2003

Hmm. I may have over 15 days worth of space on my MP3 player, but it’s full. I just had to delete some obscure Flaming Lips to make room for my new Cardigans and Damien Rice albums (I mean it’s not like I ever really listened to Hit to Death In The Future Head or Zaireeka anyway).

I suppose I could always go and buy a 40GB drive and put that in, which would give me a whole month’s worth of music to carry around with me.

On the other hand, I could just delete my Britney Spears and Robbie Williams albums, but what would be the point in that?

Whenever I’m short of something to write about here, it’s reassuring to know that I can always rely on finding something suitably objectionable to comment on in Metro. Today’s dose of hypocrisy comes from their cover story, which appears under the headline “Store cards ‘scam’ probe”. The report is about the fact that MPs who fear shoppers are being “saddled” with billions of pounds of debt have ordered an inquiry into “rip-off” store cards. The article goes on to point out that, as well as having high interest rates, staff [often] “do not allow customers to take the terms and conditions home to study them properly”.

A few pages later on in today’s paper is an advert for House of Fraser, who are promoting a competition that you can enter by using your House of Fraser, um, store card. I looked for the terms and conditions of the card (or even some information about their interest rate), but rather strangely, even though they had paid Associated Newspapers all that money for a whole page of prominent advertising, they somehow didn’t manage to include this information…