Monthly Archive: March 2006

Mar
31

Lube

My fabulous Spanish office cleaner came in today, after finding this in our (shared) shower room. She wanted to know: a) What it wasb) Whose it wasc) What to do with it now I couldn’t give her an answer through my laughter… Clicky for bigger

Mar
24

Eeep

Sorry for the rubbish availability of the site today – just for once it’s not Be*, but a DDoS against my nameservers. Bollocks.

Mar
09

Be-gone?

Yesterday was the singularly worst service I think I’ve ever had from an ISP. Be’s network started suffering from very high packet loss around midday – it carried on until late evening (9 or 10pm). In all this time, it was impossible to get through to their call centre – not surprising given the scale …

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Mar
01

Call to arms

Now, I don’t normally do these online petition things very often, but this is different. AOL are proposing to start charging (large corporations who send large amount of email) to email AOL subscribers. This is all being done in the name of an anti-spam measure, but it will only end up creating a two tier …

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