Sorry about the gap in posts. Let me explain. I recently moved house to a street in the heart of the swinging West End. A street, in fact, one down from a similar street I used to live on. A street served by Virgin Media who provided me with my internet fix in my last place. Unfortunately my new house, being as it is, all of 75 metres from this previous abode is not cabled. ‘Fuck’ I thought.
But as you know dear readers, I am not one to be beaten by Richard ‘Creepy Uncle’ Branson. So I thought I would give ADSL a go. This meant I needed a BT land line. Why, I don’t know but need one I do. BT checked my line and said that it was working perfectly and just needed to be activated. ‘Great’ thought I, ‘this will be a nice and simple experience’. Such ridiculous hubris, of course, could not go unpunished by the God of shit storm known as British Telecom. They told me that it would take 3 weeks. They didn’t tell me why. Not even when I asked. When I asked if all it took was for their computer system to update their records they answered ‘yes’. When I asked them if this would take three weeks they said ‘no’. Logic is not a friend to BT.
But here I am, simply bathing in information of all kinds that’s pouring all over me from a BE Broadband branded intertube. As far as I can report their 24 megabit service is excellent. I’m not getting anywhere near 24 but that’s all right. Its much better than Virgin’s 10meg service I was on last. Hopefully this will last. That is my story of woe and despair and I hope you accept it as a fair excuse for not blogging.
I have lots of things I would like to talk about. The ipad, the digital economy bill and the new Dr Who to name but a few. Hopefully I will get to all of these in time. Having just been to theheliumballoon for the first time in ages I’m actually quite shocked at how ugly it looks. Totally gone off the theme I’m using. Will have to look at getting a new one. Will consider paying the professionals to make me one I can be happy with. But this is all for the future. I’m excited to be back and look forward to hearing from you.
Laters
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Hello Neil
I’m very interested in your kitten picture and can confirm that BT are indeed a bunch twatfaces when it comes to actually providing any kind of efficient, economic or logical service. I look forward to your take on Dr Who – I will probably get around to watching it tonight.
Incidentally have you seen the Inbetweeners? I’m just watching it on recommendation and it’s actually pretty funny so far.
What up dude?
The picture comes from the fabulous icanhascheezburger.com (the wonderful lolcats). God bless kittens.
Dr Who was awesome. Great new doctor, great assistant, great head writer, slightly less good theme. The previous one was perfect. This might warrant its own post.
I tried watching the inbetweeners but lost interest. Clunge is certainly an onomatopeiacally funny word but that’s about it.