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Athens 2004 (posted at 12:05PM BST) After reading about the IOC's attempt to censor athletes and individuals attending the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, I did a bit of digging on their website and found this. So, I would just like to say the following: "The IOC are ignorant bastards!" Thank you for your attention.

I guess that even if you polish a turd and call it something else... it is still a turd! (posted at 11:54AM BST) Centrinet (my former employers and general bunch of incompetent muppets) appear to have changed their name to Avertere. No doubt that this has something to do with the reputation that they are getting within Lincolnshire for terrible pay, awful work conditions, generally useless co-workers and being run into the ground by one particular asshole that the industry in general would be better off without. I notice that the Sales Department has also been outsourced to Manchester... I wonder how long it will be before their helpdesk is outsourced as well ? (as an aside, it is good to see that everyone who has left Centrinet/Avertere in the last two years, including myself, has gone on to do bigger and better things with their career)

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