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~/ I Can Type Freely Now My Keyboard’s Fixed /~
At last … My Latitude’s original keyboard, which survived a pint being spilled over it and the evil that undoubtedly ensued underneath the membrane, gave up the ghost. I’ve been using external keyboards since, but I finally got hold of Dell the other day and booked a replacement. Bloke comes in, unscrews bit, replaces bit,…
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BT ADSL Falls Over; People Notice
Last Friday afternoon was interesting: a shedload of BT business ADSL customers and almost all of their dial-up users lost their connectivity. Oh, when I say BT ADSL customers, I mean “ADSL customers who happen to have a BT Wholesale provided line”, i.e. potentially a massive proportion of all business ADSL customers who aren’t necessarily…
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Encyclopaedic Rows
As usual, it takes me a few days to get through each Sunday’s Observer — which is handy as I usually only buy a daily paper on Saturdays (the Guardian, natch) and it gives me stuff to read at lunchtime at work during the week. So there I am at lunchtime, chicken soup in one…
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$ /usr/bin/aggregate –since=”2004-12-01″
Crap. I love blogging, but sometimes I just zone out and forget all about it. So it’s time for another CramBlogEntryDuNeuro™ … november > new car > dj’ed (!) at john and sabrina‘s wedding > videoisland died > december > firefox 1.0 > rediscovered celestia > blagged myself a free iPod mini (a gold one,…
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Dixons Miss Point
Dixons, one of the UK’s largest retailers of electrical goods, have decreed that they will stop selling video cassette recorders (VCRs) and will have sold their remaining stock by this Christmas, according to a BBC News article. Their rationale is that we “are now entering the digital age and the new DVD technology available represents…
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‘Punters’, Auuugh!
El Reg reports: “The latest [local loop unbundling (LLU)] cuts – on top of the reductions announced in May – should make it far more easier for rival telcos to install their kit in BT exchanges and provide services direct to punters.” That’s great news, especially since I work for an ISP who is investing…
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Leuchars Redux
For the last decade or so, I’ve gone to RAF Leuchars Airshow with my dad, also with my late Uncle Hugh in earlier years, and with my mate Jim in later years. This year, however, I had been infected with the plague, and I’d misdiagnosed it earlier in the week as a late-summer hay fever…