Vodafone seem to have decided that this would be a good time to prevent me from sending text messages to anyone - you know, now that I've got a bit of news to spread. Thanks, guys.

Over the weekend, my phone suddenly decided that it could no longer register on Vodafone's network. Thinking that this might be a continuation of the other hardware failures my phone has had, I figured I'd try the SIM in another phone. I tried two different phones, and both refused to even unlock the SIM, from which I concluded that the problem was ( Read more... )

After a recent night of revelry I woke up to discover that my phone was apparently dead. Poking the power button elicited a brief lighting-up, but neither plugging it into the charger nor hooking it to a USB port caused any further activity.( The Saga Continues... )

Go to this page and enter anything you like into the login/password boxes, then click submit.
It won't go anywhere, because of this:

An offer page on Vodafone's website currently reads, "Register you phone online and receive FREE call credit" (my emphasis)

This billcompared with your last billTotal usage: €0.00^ up 100% - was €0.00

I guess 100% of nothing is, in fact, nothing, so it's probably correct in some sense.

(since I'd planned on hitting the sack about an hour ago ( Read more... )

Update on my mystery multi-owner mobile phone account: I emailed care@. I got an autoreply telling me they'd endeavour to respond within 24 hours (this used be "we will reply within 24 hours"...), followed some 24 hours later by a request for security information to confirm that it was in fact my account (I am restraining myself from whining ( Read more... )

While debugging some site-scraping code, I noticed the following message on my mobile phone account:Unfortunately, as there are several users on your account and your number is not registered to view all bills for this account we are unable to complete your request.
Now, aside from the fact that I wasn't attempting to change anything, the presence ( Read more... )

- laptop decided it didn't like the local power source (or something) and refused to either power up on mains or recharge itself. It's fine now, although I suspect the battery may be roached ( Read more... )