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Having previously experienced the hell of trying to claim on a Dixons Coverplan, I can understand what motivated Marie to set up her Mastercare blog.

Going back a good 12 years, I couldn’t for the life of me get a stereo repaired on Dixons so called Coverplan. They took the thing away (or rather, I took it back to the store) many times, only for them to take it away and deliver it back to me in the same state several weeks later each time.

I eventually gave the stereo to my sister and bought a replacement for myself, although by that time they had actually fixed it properly. This was only after I wrote a detailed description of what was wrong and what they should do to fix it, as well as explaining that it was damaging my CD’s.

About time somebody took it to them.

I spotted this story on CNN about Disney’s plans to sell throw away DVD’s which are watchable for only 48 hours after purchase.

Along with AOL’s quest to blanket the planet with their CD-ROM’s this has to be the least environmentally sound idea of recent times. The popularity of Disney movies will ensure that if this concept proves a success, there will be huge volumes of these disposable DVD’s filtering into landfill sites via eager consumers.

While the governments of the world are keen to stem the flow of spam at the moment, shouldn’t they be more concerned with the unwanted waste happening in real life?

Everybody’s favourite web standards evangelist, Jeffrey Zeldman has just announced he’s to be married at the end of June. (Somehow he’s managed to redesign his site without me noticing too… it changes more than this place does!)

Jeffrey is a decent, hard working NY city guy – congrats to him, and I hope married life doesn’t tear him away from what he does best – making sure the web is a better place to work.