Category: old blogging

As I walked home last night, both of the adult falcons were flying around the cathedral spire, calling loudly to each other. I stood and watched them for several minutes, and could hear them even when I had walked all the way to my front door.

Better response from the broadband people this morning. Apparently the service has not yet been rolled out, although they are committed to installing it. The local community broadband project seem to have jumped the gun by promoting the availability of the service before it is actually available.
And to correct an earlier statement, the broken links were not in the provider’s pages, but in the community project’s pages.

At least I now feel that my BT Business Highway box is less of a waste.

Not impressed so far with the providers of the wireless broadband service that is being launched around the area of work and through the so-called Six Villages area. Sending potential subscribers to web pages with dead links, and then not returning my call when I telephone for the missing information, does not create a very positive impression of a tech- and service-oriented organisation. Let’s see if they put it right tomorrow.
Unfortunately, as is often the case with these things, there is no choice but work with this company.
Thankfully, I decided to put off signing up to a 12-month contract with BTOpenworld to provide dialup access for PFE until today, so read the email about wireless broadband before I got into another contract I couldn’t get out of.

I’m mildly miffed. Only last week, I began a twelve month contract with BT for Business Highway, their over-priced 128k ISDN service, which, incidentally, BTOpenworld don’t support (grr). Today I have received an email telling me that the long-promised wireless broadband service for the village is now online and that we can sign up (and get a whole bunch of launch offers – or at least we could if the webpage was functioning correctly). So I’m stuck with having to pay for Business Highway because I’ve not yet got anywhere near the minimum contract period. guh.

This is the first entry posted from my laptop. I’ve got it hooked up to my broadband connection at home now. Tomorrow, I’ll sort out the 64k digital connection at work. I’ll also need to sort out a dialup modem connection using the internal modem for when travelling.

First impressions? It’s groovy. Having not used a laptop much before, there are a few things that will take a little getting used to. I’ll also get myself a USB keyboard to use in the office as well, and maybe a mouse. The screen makes the cream background of grayblog look a lot paler than I’m used to, but perhaps that is how all of you see it.
And it’s very toasty on the knees.

In other news, Charlie has severed her Achilles tendon whilst playing squash. Ouch. She’s going to be in plaster for six weeks, which is less than fun.
I think this vindicates my policy of not exercising excessively.

Le laptop est arrivé.
Expect quiet whilst I set it up.

Busy busy busy. But, just to keep you informed, my office is going to be painted Lemon Tropics, and I think I’ll be buying a desk from MFI as they have a 20% off sale today.

Beer tonight with Greg, Paul F, another Paul (I know too many Pauls), DA, Kearn, Hamish, Ruth, Matt, Matt’s fiancee, Alex and Lucy, with sightings of one or two other usual suspects.
I’m glad I was talked into going out.

New Weebl. Go see.