RavensLog

I’ve been curious about VOIP with Vox for quite some time now… I’ve used Skype before and it is awesome. It works Really well except your PC has to be on to make or receive calls and you don’t have a phone number that can be called to from any other phone network. So, Skype works well but with limitations.

I came across and read about Vox ages ago and was quite interested to try it but it’s not free… until last week. I got a call from the guys at voxinfinity who offered me a 20 days, no obligations free trial. They delivered the Vox Box for free. inside the box is the handset, a wireless ADSL router/handset cradle, power supply/lightning protector, the necessary cables and easy to follow setup instructions.

So anyway, I unwrapped this 20 day “gift”, read the instructions and was ready to setup when… as luck would have it, my PC died… something about some file being missing or corrupt.. but that’s another story that I’d rather not get into.

Eager to get this thing setup, I dug out the old faithful laptop and followed the easy instructions to get all setup and ready to use my new toy… Now if only someone would call me so that I can test the damn thing before the end of my 20 day free trial…

Calls are cheap enough and you get a website login where you can check your usage and also your revenue earned. Yes, that’s right; you earn a rebate for every call you receive. Calls are also cheaper, international calls in particular, while Vox to Vox is free… so imagine all the people who you usually call also had Vox. That would surely reduce your phone bill.

I’m not gonna go into any details about cost and all the technical jargon, that’s all found on the Vox website http://www.vox.co.za/ProductADSLPhone.aspx so got check it out for yourself.

As I understand, electrified fencing gets installed on the top of walls so that people don’t climb over… but it doesn’t stop them from going around the wall…

Brainiacs on electric fence

Thomas Cook and ABTA did some research and in their findings were some ridiculous complaints made by holidaymakers. Here’s the top 20:

A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel “inadequate”.

A woman threatened to call police after claiming that she’d been locked in by staff. When in fact, she had mistaken the “do not disturb” sign on the back of the door as a warning to remain in the room.

“The beach was too sandy.”

A guest at a Novotel in Australia complained his soup was too thick and strong. He was inadvertently slurping the gravy at the time.

“Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women.”

“We bought ‘Ray-Ban’ sunglasses for five euros (£3.50) from a street trader, only to find out they were fake.”

“No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled.”

“It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home.”

“My fiancé and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.”

“I compared the size of our one-bedroom apartment to our friends’ three-bedroom apartment and ours was significantly smaller.”

“The brochure stated: ‘No hairdressers at the accommodation’. We’re trainee hairdressers – will we be OK staying here?”

“There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners.”

“We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white.”

“We had to queue outside with no air conditioning.”

“It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel.”

“I was bitten by a mosquito – no-one said they could bite.”

“I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts.”

“It’s lazy of the local shopkeepers to close in the afternoons. I often needed to buy things during ’siesta’ time – this should be banned.”

“On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food at all.”

“We booked an excursion to a water park but no-one told us we had to bring our swimming costumes and towels.”

How bizarre! There’s a restaurant in Latvia that gives hospital food new meaning. This restaurant is owned by Latvian doctors who thought it would be “cool” to sell “body parts” that you eat using surgical utensils. Ok so it’s not real body parts but come on, who wants to eat food that looks like body parts?… really!

“Excuse me nurse, I’ll have the eyeball soup with fingers and blood dip as a starter and for mains I’ll have the thigh drizzled with bile and for dessert I’ll have your breast, thanks”.

Talking about breasts, check out this strange boob claw machine in Japan…

Anyway, here’s a video about that weird Latvian restaurant…

What kinda people eat at a place like that anyway… I dunno maybe the food is really good… I’m sure Hannibal Lecter would love it. OK, so maybe I’m curious and would probably try it at least once if I’m ever in Latvia.