Sexism at theregister.co.uk

I think it's fair to say that The Register has always been the red top of tech publishing, I haven't minded in the past, I'm partial to a bit of puerile humour myself, but their sexist and sexualised headlines seem to have been particularly bad over the last few months. It also seems to have been a very bad year for women in tech, as they say, although maybe every year is a bad year for women in tech.
There sometimes comes a point where you have to vote with your feet, I've tried to give up Google, and now I'm giving up The Register. It's a shame, I mostly like the content, it's only the headlines and the odd Andrew Orlowski polemic that I object to.
The examples below are a few stories I've noticed, ranging from genuine IT stories with arguably offensive innuendo crowbarred into their headlines (the first one is a good example), through vaguely IT-y stories with a sexual element (see the Oracle story for example) to non-IT non-stories that allow a titillating headline and/or picture (take Pamela Anderson, please). There's a bit of everyday sexism too.
Incidentally Bridget Christie Minds the Gap has been excellent.

Facebook turns on frigid Swedish ice-maidens in new data centre And by maidens, we mean slim, 'vanity-free', low-maintenance models

NSA PRISM deepthroat VANISHES as pole-dance lover cries into keyboard Blogging bikini babe blubs about 'the ones I never got to bid adieu'

Shy? Socially inadequate? Fiddling with your phone could help

Fusion-io opens trenchcoat, flashes cheap PCIe cards

Girls, beer and C++: How to choose the right Comp-Sci degree for you

Tearing a strip off Microsoft's Brazilian: That's no way to attract mates

Pussy galore: Bubble-bath webcam spy outrage

'That time I hired a call girl to do my taxes while I f****d my accountant'

Edinburgh students' heaving racks: UK's only hope for cluster-wrestling glory

US public hate Snowden - but sexpot spy Anna Chapman LOVES him Deep penetration femme fatale fancies PRISM deepthroat

Tickle my balls, stroke my button and blow the fluff from my crack "Give yourself a little blow job every morning and your working day will be a happier one!"

Is it a BIRD? Is it a plane? Right first time - and she's in SPANDEX Huawei's superheroine Purple Reign upstages new mobe

Apple drops hints about future low-cost iPhones Maybe just older iPhone models, maybe something new entirely. We report, you decide

Village-swallowing MUDCANO was no accident, say boffins Forget 'Sharknado': the Mudcano is real, destroyed 10,000 buildings and is still erupting

Apple FINGERED our personal packages every day, claim shop staff Hired fanbois demand thousands of dollars in sueball

Chubby-chasing SEX TROLLS ran me offline, says fashion blogger

Think your smutty Snapchats can't be saved by dorks? THINK AGAIN Snapchat Save app promises hassle-free image and video capture

China has another go at rare earth dominance First exchange will 'stabilise the market' as crackdown targets 'smugglers'

Leaked photos of iPhone 5C parts portend ugly Google legal battle Slavish copycat behavior will certainly unleash the lawyerly hounds

Amazon DISAPPEARS from internet Last week Google, this week Amazon, next week

Amazon tightens grip on cloud market, report shows Data reveals cloud inferiority complex in other vendors

Billionaire Google founder splits with wife, allegedly beds Google Glass minx

Women in IT: ‘If you want to be taken seriously, dress like a man’

Boffins lay bare exotic Lara Croft meteorite element ununpentium

10,000 app devs SLEEP together in four-day code-chat-drink tech orgy camp Hey, geeks: Hate the great outdoors? Now you can stay in a tent in a big tent

Beat the UK's incoming smut filter: Pre-censor your grumble flicks Oh NO, we don't have money to pay you! Bow-chicka- EDIT *bzzzzt*

Vote NOW to name LOHAN doomsday box
BRA - Ballocket Remote Abort - (Harvey Trowell)
BRASTRAP - Big Red Abort Switch To Release Aerial Payload (Steve Davis)

TPG flashes cheeky 'down under' CAPTCHA Bum's the word on who's responsible

Oracle sued over $33,000 bill for SaaS: STRIPPERS as a SERVICE Company credit card allegedly racked up thousands on the other kind of rack

Ubuntu 13.10: Meet the Linux distro with a bizarre Britney Spears fixation Search me, baby, one more time

Japanese pussies slurp 'meow meow' sex wine

Alarming tales: What goes on INSIDE Reg hack's hi-tech bedroom

Not so Saucy after all: Ubuntu reveals Mirless Salamander... and what, no Britney?

Meet the 'KARDASHIAN Phone' – what Apple bods nicknamed the iPhone 5s

Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson battles bullfighting

Swedish teen's sex video fine slashed: Unwilling co-star girlfriend furious 'It feels like a slap in the face' says ex

LOHAN's vital statistics splashed across fruity display

UPDATE: Ok, they're just trying to rile me now.

In a meeting with a woman? For pity's sake DON'T READ THIS Just put that gadget away, or she's liable to do one

I am a recovering Superwoman wannabee

San Fran tech hub wants hookers and hackers for Halloween

UPDATE 22-Jan-2014 : I've been keeping an eye on it and they really seem to have cleaned up their act, both in respects of the images and the headlines.

(Almost) Passive Cooling an Acer Aspire Revo R3600 Intel Atom 330

After I removed the fan of my Revo R3600 in order to change the hard drive it became incredibly noisy, sounding a bit like a motorbike. Given that it was in the lounge I needed to do something about it. At work one evening I realised there might be a nice big heat sink in a recently deceased Dell Optiplex 380 (I think) desktop. There was, and it was an amazingly good fit, though it's not properly attached (yet). I use fancontrol to switch the fan on at 60C, and it doesn't come on often. The piece of paper is blocking a hole in the fan, forcing all the air to pass through the heat sink.

Ideally I'd get rid of the fan and stand the case up to let the air flow naturally through the heat sink.

The Truth About Film and Airport X-Ray Machines

When I went to Africa recently on honeymoon, I took with me my new bride, and a load of film. I was a bit concerned about the effects of X-ray machines at airports, but apart from keeping it in my had luggage I didn't have much choice but to put them through (I did speak to a photography shop about lead lined bags, but was advised that they didn't work, and may just result in technicians requesting that the film canisters go through again). In total they went through thirteen, yes, thirteen, X-ray machines, at places as big as Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle right down to Inhamebane, one of the smallest airports I have ever used in my life.

The set below is a film which I took with me, but didn't use at the time. I mention this particular film because it is particularly fast, at ISO 1600, and as far as I can see shows no ill effects of all those X-rays.

Giving up Google

For a while now I've been mulling over quitting Google. I started to think about trying out Yahoo Mail for its tabbed interface, which I quite like; Gmail is starting to look dated. But more than that I felt like a bit of a hypocrite, I don't like Google (especially now they've killed off the Location History API), I often bitch about them, and yet I was using many of their products virtually every hour of every day.

Products and services of Googles that I use include search, email, maps, location recording, mobile OS, calendar, blogging (oh the irony), price finding, Keep (their mobile notes app), YouTube, I even use Google for my SMTP server from home, although in practice that's only data from RSS feeds. The only one of their big products that I don't use is their browser, Chrome, I've always thought giving them that extra bit of control over my life a step too far.

Switching email providers was easy for me as I've always used my domain registrar to forward my mail to Google, so switching to a Yahoo address was easy. If you don't want to lose your Gmail address you can use their pop/imap service with any other email service/client of your choice. While this won't stop Google from reading scanning your mail, or sharing it with the NSA, it will remove one of their ad revenue streams and can allow you to gradually migrate, slowly changing your address with third parties. Of course, moving to Yahoo won't completely stop the NSA, but it might help a bit, and I feel happier spreading my eggs between many different baskets.

I used Yahoo Mail for a bit, but was then pointed in the direction of FastMail.FM, and haven't looked back since. It feels a lot more professional than Yahoo Mail and offers threading, but doesn't offer the same inbox configuration options. But that's about the only configuration option that FastMail.FM doesn't offer, the configuration pages are labyrinthine, the Alternative Login options being a particular gem. The domain options are good too, similar to Google Apps I suppose. I've left what I originally wrote about Yahoo Mail at the bottom of this post, in case you're interested.

FastMail's privacy policy is written in plain English and is worth a read.

There are a few options for search, I've been using DuckDuckGo and StartPage. StartPage feels like cheating a bit as it uses Google's results, but using DuckDuckGo I became paranoid that I was missing the best results. DuckDuckGo does seem to return decent results, but I do feel that you need to craft your queries slightly differently, adding a subject or context which you might not have had to do with Google search, and I do occasionally check Google results if DDG hasn't returned the solution I was looking for.

I am still using an Android mobile phone currently (my cursed HTC One), but I plan to get a Lumia 1020, just as soon as they are out in the UK. And become affordable. And Three pay out, which they have promised to do.

Maps and calendar are two things that I am not only not too bothered about, but will also probably be forced to migrate once I switch to Windows Mobile.

Google+... only joking.

Google products that I am left using fall onto a scale of so important, frequently used and/or apparently irreplaceable that I can't move away from them, such as Google Talk for chatting to my friends who I can't force to move to another medium (at home I use the third party client Pidgin, but at work I seem to have to use the Google app to get past the firewall), image search and location history, which is invaluable to me for geo-tagging photos, to not really that bothered about and don't use very often, but easily replaceable, such as Blogger, Drive and Docs and YouTube.

Of course the elephant in the room is Facebook. I've tried to minimise the amount of stuff that Facebook knows about me, lying about my date of birth, removing all my employment and educational details. Although none of that will help when the tabloids want to find an incriminating picture of me.

UPDATE: I have just received my Nokia Lumia 1020 and can report that Windows Phone 8 is definitely usable. My only complaint so far being that the keyboard takes up half the screen, doesn't do any numbers/symbols as long presses and doesn't support Swyping.

Yahoo have updated their mail interface making the following even more redundant. I haven't looked in detail but the update seems to include threading, and making the preview setting sync between settings.

Having used Yahoo Mail for a few weeks I can report that it is definitely usable, though it does lack many features (threading's a biggie*, I now understand why people top-quote) and many options (you can't configure your inbox** or sending format for example). However the Android app is fine, and I got used to the niggles quickly. One issue that concerned me, spam filtering, turned out not to be an issue. A couple of spam messages have got through, but hopefully with training they will trail off. Yahoo Mail even has some advantages over Gmail, including the fact that the orientation of the preview pane is specific to each local machine, so my work PC with its portrait monitor can remain different to my home PC in landscape, with Gmail I stopped using the preview pane due to having to constantly switch.

* If you're missing threading, I might point out Yahoo Mail has a feature to mitigate this. When you hover over the subject of a message in the inbox a magnifying glass appears next to it. Click this and Yahoo Mail will show you all messages with the same subject line. The same can be done with senders too.

** Not being able to configure my inbox to default to showing unread messages first has made me rethink how I manage my emails, which in the long run might be a good thing.

It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah

[This article was originally published by Oliver Hotham at http://oliverhotham.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/its-great-when-youre-straight-yeah/ (Google Cache) but was taken down after a DMCA take down request from Straight Pride. See his update here.]
There has never been a better time to be gay in this country. LGBTI people will soon enjoy full marriage equality, public acceptance of homosexuality is at an all time high, and generally a consensus has developed that it’s really not that big of a deal what consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedrooms. The debate on Gay Marriage in the House of Commons was marred by a few old reactionaries, true, but generally it’s become accepted that full rights for LGBTI people is inevitable and desirable. Thank God.
But some are deeply troubled by this unfaltering march toward common decency, and they call themselves the Straight Pride movement.
Determined to raise awareness of the “heterosexual part of our society”, Straight Pride believe that a militant gay lobby has hijacked the debate on sexuality in this country, and encourage their members, among other things, to “come out” as straight, posting on their Facebook page that:
“Coming out as straight or heterosexual in today’s politically correct world is an extremely challenging experience. It is often distressing and evokes emotions of fear, relief, pride and embarrassment.”
I asked them some questions.
First of all, what prompted you to set up Straight Pride UK?
Straight Pride is a small group of heterosexual individuals who joined together after seeing the rights of people who have opposing views to homosexuality trampled over and, quite frankly, oppressed.
With the current political situation in the United Kingdom with gay marriage passing, everyone is being forced to accept homosexuals, and other chosen lifestyles and behaviours, no matter their opposing views. Straight Pride has seen people sued, and businesses affected, all because the homosexual community do not like people having a view or opinion that differs from theirs.
Are your beliefs linked to religion? How many of you derive your views from scripture?
Straight Pride aims are neutral and we do not follow religion, but we do support people who are oppressed for being religious. Only today, Straight Pride see that two homosexual parents are planning to sue the Church because they ‘cannot get what they want’. This is aggressive behaviour and this is the reason why people have strong objections to homosexuals.
You say that one of your goals is “to raise awareness of the heterosexual part of society”. Why do you feel this is necessary?
The Straight Pride mission is to make sure that the default setting for humanity is not forgotten and that heterosexuals are allowed to have a voice and speak out against being oppressed because of the politically correct government.
Straight Pride feel the need to raise awareness of heterosexuality, family values, morals, and traditional lifestyles and relationships.
Your website states that “Homosexuals have more rights than others”. What rights specifically do LGBTI people have that straight people are denied?
Homosexuals do currently have more rights than heterosexuals, their rights can trump those of others, religious or not. Heterosexuals cannot speak out against homosexuals, but homosexuals are free to call people bigots who don’t agree with homosexuality, heterosexuals, religious or not, cannot refuse to serve or accommodate homosexuals, if they do, they face being sued, this has already happened.
Straight Pride believe anyone should be able to refuse service and speak out against something they do not like or support.
There is a hotel in the south of England, called Hamilton Hall which only accepts homosexuals – if this is allowed, then hotels should have the choice and right to who they accommodate.
What has been the response to your campaign?
The response to Straight Pride’s formation has been as expected; hostile, threatening, and aggressive. Homosexuals do not like anyone challenging them or their behaviour.
We have had support from many people saying that if homosexuals can have a Pride March, and then equality should allow Heterosexuals to have one too. After all, the homosexual movement want everyone to have equality.
Why would you say that heterosexuality is the “natural orientation”?
Heterosexuality is the default setting for the human race, this is what creates life, if everyone made the decision to be homosexual, life would stop. People are radicalised to become homosexual, it is promoted to be ‘okay’ and right by the many groups that have sprung up.
Marriage is a man and a woman, homosexuals had Civil Partnerships, which was identical to Marriage with all the same rights, they wanted to destroy Marriage and have successfully done so.
If you could pick one historical figure to be the symbol of straight pride (just as figures like Alan Turing, Judith Butler or Peter Tatchell would be for Gay Pride) which would you choose?
Straight Pride would praise Margaret Thatcher for her stance on Section 28, which meant that children were not taught about homosexuality, as this should not on the curriculum.
More recently, Straight Pride admire President Vladimir Putin of Russia for his stance and support of his country’s traditional values.
How do you react to anti-gay attacks and movements in Russia and parts of Africa?
Straight Pride support what Russia and Africa is doing, these country have morals and are listening to their majorities. These countries are not ‘anti-gay’ – that is a term always used by the Homosexual Agenda to play the victim and suppress opinions and views of those against it.
These countries have passed laws, these laws are to be respected and no other country should interfere with another country’s laws or legislation.
We have country wide events which our members attend, and ask people their opinions and views, on such event at Glastonbury this year was very positive with the majority of people we asked, replied they were happily heterosexual.
For the record, Straight Pride did not respond to these questions:
“Pride” movements such as Gay Pride and Black Pride were making the argument that the stigma against them meant that proclaiming their “pride” was an act of liberation from oppression. Can being heterosexually really compare?
A problem that Gay rights activists cite is the issue of bullying, and the effect this can have on young LGBT people. Do you think a similar problem exists with straight children being bullied by gay children?
I will obviously add to this if they do respond.
You can follow Straight Pride on Twitter here and see their Facebook page here.

My Hour with Skype Support

12:41:31 jamiekay

Initial Question/Comment: Using Skype (create a new user, change my profile, manage my contacts)

12:41:31 System

Thank you for contacting Skype Customer Support!

12:41:36 System

Christopher G. has joined this session!

12:41:36 System

Connected with Christopher G.

12:41:41 Christopher G.

Hello! Welcome to Skype Live Support! My name is Christopher. How may I help you?

12:41:44 jamiekay

Hi

12:41:52 jamiekay

I was just chatting to one of your colleagues

12:41:57 jamiekay

and my browser crashed

12:42:05 jamiekay

since merging my MSN and Skype accounts

12:42:12 jamiekay

all my Skype contacts have disappeared

12:42:23 jamiekay

this happened before

12:42:30 jamiekay

and I contacted support

12:42:34 jamiekay

and they restored my contacts

12:42:39 jamiekay

but only to my skype login

12:42:43 jamiekay

not my MSN login

12:42:55 jamiekay

so the contact lists still weren't merged

12:43:31 Christopher G.

Thanks for the following information.

12:44:36 Christopher G.

May I have your Skype name and first name please so I could check your account?

12:44:40 jamiekay

JamieKay

12:44:41 jamiekay

Jamie

12:45:01 Christopher G.

Thank you, Jamie.

12:47:06 Christopher G.

I checked this Skype account but it doesn't show here that you have successfully merged it your MSN account.

12:47:58 jamiekay

ok...

12:48:21 Christopher G.

Is there anything else I can help you with today?

12:48:53 jamiekay

erm

12:48:55 jamiekay

yes

12:49:13 jamiekay

my skype contacts have disappeared since I merged my MSN and Skyep accounts

12:50:21 Christopher G.

May I know your email address?

12:50:26 jamiekay

***

12:51:16 Christopher G.

Thank you. Let me double check our records.

12:51:46 Christopher G.

May I know what is you Microsoft email account?

12:51:51 jamiekay

***

12:54:46 Christopher G.

I checked this email account and it was not linked to your Skype account.

12:55:07 jamiekay

ok, well regardless of whether it is linked or not

12:55:13 jamiekay

I have still lost all my skype contacts

12:55:31 Christopher G.

That is why your are not seeing some of your contacts.

12:55:50 jamiekay

when I sign into skype

12:55:53 jamiekay

using my MSN account

12:56:01 jamiekay

I see all of my MSN contacts

12:56:05 jamiekay

when I sign into Skype

12:56:05 Christopher G.

May I know if you were able to login to the Skype application on your desktop?

12:56:10 jamiekay

using my Skype account

12:56:20 jamiekay

I don't see any contacts

12:56:38 jamiekay

so I don't see how merging the accounts would help

12:56:41 Christopher G.

What do you see on your account right now?

12:56:52 jamiekay

I also do not get prompted to merge the accounts

12:56:56 jamiekay

which I did before

12:56:59 jamiekay

and I accepted

12:57:02 jamiekay

and merged the accounts

12:57:10 jamiekay

which account are you asking about?

12:57:19 jamiekay

my MSN account or my Skype account?

12:57:26 Christopher G.

What do you see on your screen right now?

12:57:47 jamiekay

I am logged into Skype

12:57:50 jamiekay

using my Skype account

12:57:53 jamiekay

and I see no contacts

12:58:26 Christopher G.

What do you see on your screen as of this moment?

12:59:12 jamiekay

I don't understand what you're asking

12:59:19 jamiekay

I see no contacts

12:59:33 jamiekay

I can send you a screen shot if you want

13:00:31 Christopher G.

Did you login to the Skype website or to the Skype application?

13:00:38 jamiekay

the application

13:01:41 Christopher G.

Thanks for that information.

13:01:43 jamiekay

if I log in online

13:01:45 jamiekay

I can see

13:01:50 jamiekay

that it confirms

13:01:54 jamiekay

that my MSN account

13:01:59 jamiekay

is linked

13:02:02 jamiekay

to my Skype account

13:02:17 jamiekay

I do not know why your system says they are not linked

13:02:31 Christopher G.

Is there anything else I can help you with today?

13:02:36 jamiekay

YES

13:02:46 jamiekay

MY SKYPE CONTACTS HAVE DISAPPEARED

13:03:11 Christopher G.

Okay please stay on the line while I check my resources regarding your concern.

13:03:25 jamiekay

perhaps you could check what the previous person did

13:03:28 jamiekay

to restore them

13:03:30 jamiekay

on 27th July

13:05:31 Christopher G.

Thanks for patiently waiting.

13:05:41 Christopher G.

Upon review, I've noticed that your issue is handled by another department. I will need to transfer you to the team that handles this kind of issue.

13:05:46 Christopher G.

Please stay on the line, I will transfer you now. Have a great day.

13:05:56 System

You are being transferred to another queue. Please stand by...

13:05:56 System

Christopher G. has left this session!

13:05:56 System

Danna Kenett Z. has joined this session!

13:05:56 System

Connected with Danna Kenett Z.

13:06:01 Danna Kenett Z.

Hello! I'm Danna Kenett.
It seems you have been transferred to me for further assistance. I'll just take a look at your previous conversation and then we can get started.

13:06:07 jamiekay

Thank you

13:07:16 Danna Kenett Z.

You mentioned that you are unable to see your Contacts. Is that correct?

13:07:26 jamiekay

my Skype contacts, yes

13:08:06 Danna Kenett Z.

May I please know your operating system or device?

13:08:13 jamiekay

Windows 7

13:09:06 Danna Kenett Z.

Thank you.

13:09:16 Danna Kenett Z.

Can you please confirm your Skype name?

13:09:24 jamiekay

jamiekay

13:09:31 Danna Kenett Z.

Thank you.

13:09:36 Danna Kenett Z.

Please hold on.

13:12:16 Danna Kenett Z.

Thank you for waiting.

13:12:31 Danna Kenett Z.

May I please know if these contacts are Skype contacts?

13:12:39 jamiekay

yes

13:13:21 Danna Kenett Z.

Approximately how many contacts do you have with this account?

13:13:37 jamiekay

approximately 10 - 20

13:13:51 Danna Kenett Z.

Do you have other Skype account?

13:13:59 jamiekay

no

13:14:31 Danna Kenett Z.

May I please know the email address attached to this account?

13:14:39 jamiekay

***

13:15:09 jamiekay

this has happened before, perhaps you could check the notes of the previous call?

13:16:21 Danna Kenett Z.

I see.

13:17:06 Danna Kenett Z.

But we are able to see if you are just calling Skype to Skype.

13:17:26 jamiekay

I meant the previous support call

13:17:36 Danna Kenett Z.

Upon checking your account there are no saved contacts here and you have 1 deleted contact.

13:17:37 jamiekay

surely you keep records of each support call?

13:19:36 Danna Kenett Z.

I see, that your account is merged with your Live account, right?

13:19:40 jamiekay

yes

13:19:51 Danna Kenett Z.

So the missing contacts are from Live, is that correct?

13:19:55 jamiekay

no

13:20:21 jamiekay

it's my Skype contacts that have disappeared

13:20:26 Danna Kenett Z.

But in your account there are no contacts.

13:20:39 jamiekay

EXACTLY

13:21:06 Danna Kenett Z.

And there is only one deleted contact.

13:21:27 jamiekay

do you have the records of my support call from 27th July?

13:21:56 Danna Kenett Z.

Please hold on to check.

13:23:21 Danna Kenett Z.

The contacts that you have here is just today, 3 times now, right?

13:24:01 Danna Kenett Z.

May I please know if you used other Skype Name or email address?

13:24:31 jamiekay

The MSN account that I merged is ***

13:25:51 Danna Kenett Z.

Can you please try to login to people.live.com?

13:26:15 jamiekay

yep

13:26:51 Danna Kenett Z.

Please see if your Live contacts are there.

13:27:10 jamiekay

Yes, my Live contacts are there.

13:27:56 Danna Kenett Z.

Are these contacts are you referring to as missing?

13:27:59 jamiekay

NO

13:28:08 jamiekay

It's my SKYPE contacts that are missing

13:29:26 Danna Kenett Z.

May I please know if you are login to your Skype account in the Skype application?

13:29:33 jamiekay

yes

13:30:21 Danna Kenett Z.

May I please know how you login there?

13:30:34 jamiekay

what do you mean?

13:30:43 jamiekay

with my user name jamiekay

13:31:03 jamiekay

can we start again?

13:31:12 jamiekay

since merging my Skype and MSN accounts

13:31:21 jamiekay

I have lost my Skype contacts

13:31:35 jamiekay

this happened before

13:31:41 jamiekay

on Sat 27th July

13:31:46 jamiekay

and they were restored

13:32:18 jamiekay

however my two contacts lists were still not merged

13:32:22 jamiekay

so I unlinked my accounts

13:32:26 jamiekay

and re-merged them

13:32:28 jamiekay

and now

13:32:37 jamiekay

my Skype contacts have disappeared again

13:33:16 Danna Kenett Z.

Are we talking about same accounts? jamiekay and ***@live.co.uk?

13:33:21 jamiekay

yes

13:33:33 jamiekay

live.com

13:35:21 Danna Kenett Z.

Okay.

13:36:01 Danna Kenett Z.

I have checked your history of merging and unmerging your account and this happen last July 27 and unmerging today and merged again today.

13:36:24 jamiekay

yes

13:37:16 Danna Kenett Z.

If you unmerged your accounts with your Live account the contacts of your Skype account will not be affected if you have Skype contacts, but there is non here.

13:39:41 Danna Kenett Z.

Can you please try to login using your Live account in the Skype application.

13:40:04 jamiekay

yes

13:42:51 Danna Kenett Z.

Were you able to see your Live contacts?

13:44:21 jamiekay

yes

13:44:41 Danna Kenett Z.

Are these the contacts that you are referring to?

13:44:47 jamiekay

NO

13:44:56 jamiekay

as I have told you repeatedly

13:45:05 jamiekay

it is my SKYPE contacts that have disappeared

13:46:31 Danna Kenett Z.

Okay.

13:46:46 Danna Kenett Z.

Would it be okay to make a follow on this issue.

13:47:06 Danna Kenett Z.

We will check further on your account to see if these contacts are missing.

13:47:20 Danna Kenett Z.

May I please have your email address to send you the response?

13:47:27 jamiekay

***

13:47:36 Danna Kenett Z.

Thank you.

13:48:11 Danna Kenett Z.

Aside from this, would there be anything else that I can assist you with today?

13:48:27 jamiekay

Not apart from this

13:48:46 Danna Kenett Z.

Okay.

13:48:56 Danna Kenett Z.

Thank you for your time and patience.

13:49:01 Danna Kenett Z.

Have a great one.

13:49:14 jamiekay

bye

13:49:16 Danna Kenett Z.

We will get back to you as soon as possible.

13:49:21 jamiekay

ok, thanks

13:49:26 Danna Kenett Z.

Bye.

13:49:31 Danna Kenett Z.

You are most welcome.

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UPDATE: I thought my colleague George was joking when he said these sound like 'bots, but reading it again I wonder if he's got a point. It also seems that each time I started SHOUTING I got passed on. Maybe 'bots don't like caps-lock.