Asgrim

Here’s what I got up to today:

• James is loving the 31 degree sunshine in Germany! Hour and a half til we reach Wacken. (2008-07-29 09:31:17)
• James is in Wacken! Its damn hot and my battery is low so I may not be able to Tweet! (2008-07-29 13:37:19)

Here’s what I got up to today:

• James is wondering where on earth ParcelForce is… (2008-07-28 12:19:05)
• James is leaving for Wacken in 1 hour! (2008-07-28 18:32:53)

Yes, today we leave for Wacken, it’s nice and early and suprisingly a sunny day here. I’m up bright an early as there’s simply loads of stuff to sort out. We won’t actually be leaving this house until about 9pm, but there’s loads to do! Money changing, server cabinet to be picked up, other bits and pieces.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to it, and I’m quite hungry, so I may go and grab some breakfast! Adieu.

Here’s what I got up to today:

• James says: good morning Vietnam! (2008-07-27 04:47:36)
• James is locked and loaded. (2008-07-27 08:40:02)
• James is absolutely dead. But not as dead as the other team were. (2008-07-27 12:58:49)
• James just watched The Dark Knight. Going to bed now, mentally preparing for the long drive to Wacken! (2008-07-27 22:15:23)

Here’s what I got up to today:

• James is bright and shiny. (2008-07-26 07:24:43)
• James is gettin ready to go to London (2008-07-26 08:01:13)
• James is concerned that his future mother in law is talking about giving him an enema… (2008-07-26 11:39:03)
• James just watched Phantom again woo. Was ace. (2008-07-26 16:06:45)
• James is finally going airsofting at UCAP again! (2008-07-26 20:57:06)

Yes, at last, with 100% thanks to Newnet, I finally have internet. I won’t repeat my praises too much about how excellent their tech support is, and how much of a pleasure it was to deal with them and get the problems sorted. I highly recommend them to anyone at all.

Here’s what I got up to today:

• James is blowing over grim moors… (2008-07-25 08:26:03)
• James is starting to think about Wacken. (2008-07-25 13:19:53)
• James may or may not have internet again… (2008-07-25 14:22:24)
• James has internets!!! Yes it’s true!!! Finally! (2008-07-25 17:47:47)

You’d think something as basic as syncing with a network disk would be available to everyone… but no, one of those annoying things I’ve found about Home Premium is this:

The ability to sync with network folders is not included in Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic, and Windows Vista Home Premium.

It wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t cost £100 odd quid to upgrade! I don’t have that sort of money, damnit!

I’ve finally managed to get the last remaining websites I used to run on my home servers up and running. Hannah and Tom’s blog are now online and raring to go…

• Hannah’s Blog
• Tom’s Blog

Check them out!

I just had a little rant post on a forum and I thought I’d post it here. The mentioned argument happened last Thursday.

I had an e-mail argument with Matthew Evans, the Assistant to the Chairman & Chief Executive, but they literally don’t care. He shoved all responsibility to BT Wholesale, and said they can’t do anything about it… I said why not, BT Wholesale is part of BT, and you’re the assistant to the CEO, surely you have some say over what BT Wholesale says - and to that he replied with the standard crap I’ve heard before - they’re non customer facing,and he doesn’t have access to the results and reasons why BT Openreach would not give me copper overlay… what does that say about BT??

Basically, you can’t complain to BT about this kind of thing, you have to complain to the ISP, because BT simply do not care.

BT Wholesale’s customers are the ISP’s i.e. BT Retail, Be Unlimited etc. Wholesale liaise with their customer’s only. Unfortunately you cannot liaise with Wholesale directly as you are a customer of the ISP. If you have a complaint re Wholesale you would make that to your ISP. Your ISP would then liaise with Wholesale to resolve the complaint and would then come back to you with the answer.

As far as I can see this process has now been followed and you need to accept that unfortunately, at this current period in time, it looks like a broadband service is not available to you. However in the future, as technology advances, this may change.

You really can’t take this matter any further.

Which translates to me as:

I couldn’t care less you can’t get internet, you didn’t go with BT as your ISP so we won’t bother sorting you out with internet. If you had gone with BT, we would’ve actually given you a copper overlay, but then screwed you over with a 2KB download limit. Haha, consumers are so stupid, look at my BIG PILE OF CASH SITTING ON MY DESK.

Grr.. BT annoy me. Supposedly they were supposed to fix my line yesterday, that never happened. Supposedly they are doing it today. I might get internet one day.. I might not.