Monthly Archives: June 2006

Shard Rider

By Mark | Published: 23:05 Friday 30 Jun 2006
Saw mention of this – sort of – on Nee Naw yesterday and it surfaced on the BBC a while ago – Hasselhoff in chandelier accident. Is this guy supremely tall? You’d think a chandelier would be high enough to not present a collision threat unless they were really tall. Like 12 feet or something. [...]
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Nikki. Big Brother

By Mark | Published: 20:53 Friday 30 Jun 2006
She should be shot. Sooner would be better. Thanks. (And I don’t watch it – J has it on in the bg as I’m here working. That whinging screech…… jeez)
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16 digits

By Mark | Published: 16:00 Friday 30 Jun 2006
BT fixed the link. BT cut the line speed to a third of what it can be. Okay so it’s still fast but that’s not the bloody point. They’ll call out that they have upgraded and unbundled but they don’t mention the fact that they also happily screw with paid for services. Bloody idiots. Bon [...]
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Packet loss. BT

By Mark | Published: 15:50 Thursday 29 Jun 2006
25% packet loss consistently today. Massively frustrating. New router, new modem and problem persists. It is making work much much harder to do. Disable wireless. Go hunt in the garage for the cat5 cable – return with it. All 14 miles of it. (It’s very very long). Machine is now hardwired. STILL I have the [...]
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Packets and loops

By Mark | Published: 22:43 Wednesday 28 Jun 2006
I was going to blog about the 20% packet loss I’m sometimes getting and how helpful the guy at Zen was. (I need to play with other electrics I think). I was also going to blog that Steve has just mailed me to say I’ll have a new machine soon. I might even have mentioned [...]
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Ping no pong

By Mark | Published: 16:58 Wednesday 28 Jun 2006
Modem. Router. Not fun at all trying to get them to talk to each other. Anyway, that’s something different. Lots of pinging going on to test connections without opening Firefox and it’s many tabs. ping bbc.co.uk – no problem. wordpress.com – no problem. cnn.com – get nothing. Damn connection must have gone, check settings. No [...]
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A sharp poke from reality

By Mark | Published: 11:18 Wednesday 28 Jun 2006
J has been pretty good recently. It’s been nice. I gave her the Interferon-b injection last night as is normal for a weekly event. About 6am I surfaced from a very deep sleep just enough to move and appear awake. J asked me if I was awake, so I was. She needed to get out [...]
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In draft

By Mark | Published: 22:50 Tuesday 27 Jun 2006
I just spent over 30 minutes writing a post about the new Automattic Support Network. The draft goes down to where the Google image is so it’s not short. If I still like it in the morning I’ll click Publish. Don’t hold your breath though – it’s not happened yet. Write > Publish. That’s the [...]
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IM

By Mark | Published: 19:26 Tuesday 27 Jun 2006
I don’t use all of them all of the time but I do use all of them sometimes which is why I started with Gaim, played with Trillian and then moved to Miranda. When it works, I like Miranda. It’s a b*stard to get working and looking how I want – and I’m not being [...]
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-modem

By Mark | Published: 22:11 Monday 26 Jun 2006
The router arrived this afternoon. Unfortunately the modem took exception to it – and died. Got one on eBay so by the end of the week I should have a newer – and better – connection. Left netstumbler running for ages this morning as I was hoping for a comparison. Checking back showed another connection [...]
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