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I just got back from a really cool weekend in Milan, and will write plenty o' stuff about that later (once I've divested the camera of its photographic payload), however I thought I'd chronicle the next gripping instalment of the ADSL saga. The day following the debacle I got up and rang BT at 8:31,…
Is there no end in sight ? Yesterday when I got home I found that my broadband connection had dropped off, which was a bit weird, but anyway… I tried reconnecting, and it just wouldn't go. My attempt to call “customer service” resulted in a warning that waiting queues were about 45 minutes, and as…
It turns out my analogy of a musical feast was quite accurate, with tonight's performance admirably making up the cheese part of the meal. I turned up at the Hammersmith Apollo – the same venue I'd seen Billy Connolly at – to witness what would probably be a once-in-a-lifetime experience: a Europe gig. For those…
I've been concerned for a little while now that “functionality” isn't really a word – I always thought “functions” or “features” were more succinct and sounded less like someone trying to talk up what they were doing… out of curiosity I popped it into Dictionary.com, and this is one of the things I found: functionality…
I'll get straight on with it shall I ? There's a lot to write about. This week I've been to 3 (count them, 3 !) bands, which is probably 2 more than I went to in 2003. If you can spot any kind of unifying theme here, then you're doing well. Monday night I went…
I love that our work Windows Password Policy is set for strong passwords – i.e. when you set your password, it must be longer than 8 letters, contain a mixture of upper and lower case letters, and at least one number, and not contain your name (or significant chunks of your name). There are reasonably…
Don't ya hate that when you discover that you've been saying something incorrectly for rather a long time ? In this case, I think since about 1998 whenever I've been describing to anyone the paroxysms of laughter I used to dissolve into whilst singing The Anvil Chorus with the Cantabile Singers, I've explained that we…
A better title for this might be “Fun with Wireless Broadband, Part 2”, but it's sort of relevant as-is. Saturday I decided to pop down into the city to go to a computer fair to pick up a new (working) ADSL modem, cos I wasn't gonna just sit by and have unusued bandwidth at the…
I do hope I don't sound like I'm always complaining about this place – I'm really enjoying being in the UK, and wouldn't have traded the decision to come over for anything (maybe for a dinosaur, but that's just a pipe dream)… But I tell you what, life seems to be needlessly comlicated over here,…