Cup Of Coffee

There seems to have been some interest in my earlier post on FTTC / Fibre To The Cabinet / BT Infinity so here’s a bit more info and some more pics. These shots were all taken on the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc by the way… Here’s the new BT socket. The BT engineer actually left [...]

OK, I’ve had an email. Strangely it seems that there’s a few more people reading this blog than I initially thought. James tells me… My housemate is walking non-stop for 16hours a day for 7days just because another housemate said he couldn’t. Crazy.. some money should be changing hands, surely ? Anyhow, if you’re quick [...]

This is quite comforting when you’re working with large networks every day ;) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2011/03/bbc_online_outage_on_tuesday_2.html http://bit.ly/h2vsEf

Yesterday I had FTTC installed. Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC) is a product sold by BT Retail as “BT Infinity”. This post will be a little geeky… FTTC promises “up to” 40Mbps but this depends on the quality of your copper and the distance to the green box. Up until now ADSL1 (“up to 8Mbps”) [...]

Top story on the BBC News website today is this.. Hmm.. Just how many people are thinking that this story has something to do with glamour model Katie Price (aka Jordan). It seems lots of people have thought the same thing but, if you go into the story… DOAH!

It’s getting to be a revolving door at www.engadget.com … :(

A few weeks back I was looking for car insurance and was shocked at the increase in premiums. In the news today this teenager received a quote for £33,000 from one insurer, which is a heck of a lot more than I got quoted. However… if I was to go back onto those price comparison [...]

Hello all. I’m back. It’s been a very strange few days. I won’t go into too much detail but my son was admitted to hospital with a very high temperature and we ended up living there for about a week while he went on to catch a chest infection and have IV fluids pumped into [...]

I tell you what, if someone wants to give me £4.50 a week I’ll pretend to be Justin Bloody Bieber and send you texts every day!

Do you run a company ? Do you run a company with lots of outlets in the UK ? You do ? How about you ruin all the hard work and money you’ve spent doing that by telling Brits that their women are ugly and the food tastes crap ? This dick did just that. [...]