On Saturday afternoon our internet stopped working. Tiscali, our isp, have been less than helpful – informing us that their helpline doesn’t support Macs or wireless modems but “have we tried turning it off and then back on again?”. In actual fact I don’t think there is anything wrong at our end, I think it’s a problem with the service itself. This has happened a couple of times in the past and has mysteriously resolved itself after a few of days. It’s probably just a waiting game, and if it’s not then I’ll just switch isp.
But for the time being I’m without web access at home. Which means no blogs, no wikipedia, and no podcasts. I am completely bereft. I’ve even had to resort to reading books and spending time with my family. Oh the humanity.
Still, I’ve got access at work; although the computers here run a 1963 version of Internet Explorer so google reader doesn’t work properly. This means I’ve not been able to keep up to date with my blogroll recently. I’m making an effort to click through as many as I can from the list down the side of the page, but on these antiquated machines it is slow going and the list isn’t all that up to date.
So there you go. I’m not going to be around as much over the next few days until I can get things sorted out, but to be honest you probably wouldn’t have noticed anything if I hadn’t pointed it out.
No saying horrid things about me while I’m gone.
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on Jan 15th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
The tech people that answer the service lines are nothing more than uneducated idiots that have a script of about three or four troubleshooting protocols. If what they offer as a resolution from the list doesn’t work, it’s automatically a problem on your end and they can’t help you. It’s stupid.
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on Jan 15th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
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on Jan 15th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
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on Jan 15th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Its what you get for living up in the hills, we city folk snigger behind our hands at you you know…
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on Jan 15th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
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on Jan 16th, 2008 at 6:07 am
By the way, nice Thomas Dolby reference. Now I’ve got that song in my head for the next three days.
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on Jan 16th, 2008 at 6:30 am
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on Jan 16th, 2008 at 9:10 am
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on Jan 16th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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on Jan 17th, 2008 at 2:32 am
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on Jan 17th, 2008 at 3:33 am
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on Jan 17th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Judging by the way the walkie talkies worked on the New Year’s Day walk, I reckon we’d need to call THAT helpline too.
Or maybe we just didn’t have anything worthwhile to say to each other over the airwaves, as we were a mere 20metres apart. I resorted to describing lock gates for goodness sake!
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on Jan 17th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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on Jan 17th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I’ve just decided to try and go with another isp, although I’m under no illusions that there level of customer service will be any better.
Kathy – I’ve never heard of St. Isodore. I’d google them but I don’t have any web access. Damn their eyes.
You may ask if I don’t have any web access how is it that I’m responding to your comment. But if I told you I’d have to kill you.
CamiKaos – * crackle *
Gary – We keep coal in the bath as well you know.
Avitable – You’re just touting for more Turkish Delight.
Phil – I have to be honest with you, I have no idea who Thomas Dolby is. I’d google them but …yadda yadda yadda.
Joe – I get up in the morning, turn on the computer to check my emails and then wail in despair when I remember I have no access. I’m like a smoker who has just quit, I can’t find anything to do with my hands.
Arjan – Worst pain there is.
Whit – Who are you again?
Jeff – I ort to charge you for advertising space.
Zoe’s Dad – I’ll send you a handset in the post and we can give it a go.
Oli – I don’t know. I’ve been planning a week of posts based around your eloquent descriptions of the lock gates.
(un)relaxed dad – If I remember rightly broadband internet access is one of the primary requirements in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
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on Jan 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Idiots.
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on Jan 17th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
But don’t bother… my overt attempt to garner all your traffic has only resulted in one visit that I know of so I’m going to pull my advertising from here anyway.
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on Jan 17th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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on Jan 20th, 2008 at 2:19 am
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