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In memorium, my London

By A.A. GILL

Published: April 27, 2012 N.Y. Times

You want stiff-lipped men in bowler hats and cheeky cockneys with their thumbs in their waistcoats and fish on their heads.

I’m sorry, but they’re not here anymore. No city’s exported image lags so far behind its homegrown veracity than London’s, so let’s start with what you’re not going to find. We’re all out of cheeky cockneys, pearly kings and their queens, and costermongers. You’re not going to find ’60s psychedelia and the Beatles in Carnaby Street. There aren’t any punks under 50 on the King’s Road; there are no more tweedy, mustachioed, closeted gay writers in Bloomsbury, no Harry Potter at King’s Cross. There aren’t men in white tie, smoking cigars outside Pall Mall clubs and there isn’t any fog, but you can find Sherlock Holmes’s house on Baker Street.

N.Y. Times discovers Sony has dropped the ball.

I think the N.Y Times reads my blog. See January's "What's the Matter With Sony?"

Now look at this:How the Tech Parade Passed Sony By

By HIROKO TABUCHI

Sony once wowed the world with the Walkman and the Trinitron TV. But its fortunes have taken a sharp turn amid disruptive new technologies and unforeseen rivals.

Vodaphone, horrible people.

Recently Vodaphone cut off a business (with a perfect payment record) with ten lines because it was one cent short in its payment. The kicker is, the error was with Vodaphone, their invoice was one cent short of their own accounting record. So the business was without their phones all day and when finally the difference was paid with a personal credit card, one cent, they took another four hours to reconnect. Bitter complaints were met with the response, "There are other phone companies, go there." We will, we will.

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Issue 169, 4th April, 2012, Page 02.