Archives for the 'communication' Category
seasons greetings
Thursday, December 16th, 2004
spammers Christmas present
overinflated wifi
Thursday, December 16th, 2004
Teresa Almeida has made a contraption which inflates in the presence of a wireless network. it would seem to look something like this. thanks to we make money not art.
spamment
Saturday, December 4th, 2004
so, along with the rest of the world, i’ve got serious spam comment issues. i just installed a new plugin, SpamWordBlock – let’s see if it stops me having to delete 100s of spams every day from my moderation queue. also let me know if it stops you commenting on something..!
we are very busy at the moment
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Last night at 23:50 my internet connection went down. I thought my Westell ADSL TA/router needed a reboot, as sometimes it does. I tried it, but after disconnecting from Virgin, it wouldn’t give me an option to reconnect. After 20 mins of fiddling, I realised it was unable to make any ADSL connections. Then I [...]
sweaty phone?
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
Telecoms Korea have information about a new phone, called the IM-7400, which comes “coated with nanometer (1 billionth of a meter) — sized silver particles that are effective at attacking pathogens and deodorizing.” Sorry? Pathogens? Deodorizing a mobile phone? What?
leeeeeech
Friday, September 24th, 2004
I’m in Sandwich for the weekend with my family for a wedding, luckily one of the neighbours of the cottage we are staying in has broadband and a Netgear WiFi router so we can leech free connections. Also lucky 3/4 of us brought laptops.
spammy day
Thursday, September 16th, 2004
today i have received over 50 spam comments on my blog, none of them got through the crude wordpress spam filters, but still..i’m going to be investigating some more spam-blocking options.
solving supersized hair
Thursday, September 16th, 2004
so my hair looked as if it has been supersized and was obviously in need of a crop. for some reason i have an overwhelming fear of hairdressers, but booked myself in at mack daddys. i arrive, the hairdresser asks me how i am, ‘good thanks’. she starts to cut my hair and periodically says [...]
i complain, therefore i am
Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
The Virgin Train I travelled on at the weekend was delayed by over an hour. According to their Passengers’ Charter this means that those on the train are entitled to compensation for delay. I wrote a letter and put it in an envelope with the tickets in order to get a partial refund. While searching [...]
another reason to move to Sweden
Thursday, August 26th, 2004
100mbit domestic net connections for 595 Swedish crowns a month. xe.com tells me today this works out at £43.87.