Anybody tried booking partner awards online with Diamond Club?

I had a quick look at that blog and wondered if they had tried using BA Miles to book, er, BA flights instead of somewhat exotic flights with partners. I think not. There's a lot of bleating in the BA forum from people who are not BA frequent flyers trying to book non-BA flights from the US to the Far East via the Pacific using up their 'free' credit card miles. I guess this is more of the same.