Google is the Brazil of customer service

And anyone who's read this blog will know that's not meant as a compliment. This post could ramble on for ages so I'll try to keep it short and to the point.
1. This blog comes courtesy of Google as well as myself, showing that I am still a Google junkie and will require much effort if I am to wean myself off it.
2. Years ago I was evangelistic about Google and would happily have paid an annual fee just for using its magical search engine. I began to drool about Google taking over my life. Just imagine: Google email, a Google calendar, a Google computer, a Google phone !

Memory lane ?

It's easy to be neutral about a place when you don't live there. But rants such as this, followed by endless pages of comment and debate, do tend to make me shiver with recollection. 

What do you do ?

The next time someone tells you they are "in property," remember what that notorious anarchist Winston Churchill said:

"Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains -- and all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is effected by the labour and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist, as a land monopolist, contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived."

Read the whole piece here.