After not receiving a reply to my enquiry with Virgin in over a week (despite their site saying they'll respond in 48 hours) I started looking around for other ISPs tonight. I posted this in comments earlier but am more impressed with Be Un Limited than I have been with anyone else so far, so it gets it's own post. Got a reply by email in a little ( Read more... )

Well, looks like the Phorm debate has stepped up a notch. BBC Breakfast ran this article this morning and this interview. It misses out most of the tech points and only covers the advertising side of it but it does address BT's alleged illegal trials, albeit badly and with the usual BBC Breakfast lack of actual informative content - still any ( Read more... )

Been meaning to post this for a while but there's so much information to collate it's taken me a while to get it together in my head. Still I figure that what is basically a technical (i.e. geek) issue needs to be made more public ( Read more... )

this one kinda follows on from spudtater's post having watched Crucify me.

( Ramblings on atheism )

Top flight ice hockey is back in Edinburgh!I've already asked Chuck via email cos I know he's a hockey nut, but is there any chance anyone in Edinburgh could print one or two of these posters for the Edinburgh Capitals Ice Hockey Club and get them put up in their local pub/club ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a thoroughly insane weekend - more on that later, cos I'm still far too busy to actually take time out to do a proper update. IF I've been ignoring folks on MSN, my apologies. It really is that manic. Looks like I may have picked up two more parish plans - that makes four on the books now - and I've got a meeting with ACRE in 9 ( Read more... )

Pink Floyd reunited!

From a purely selfish point of view, that was worth every second of tedious dross that I caught of Live 8 today. I would gladly sit through another ten hours of musical crap to see that again.

From a moral standpoint (and I direct you to kmart_cowgirl's post here for the view of someone who was actually there and I'll raise a glass to her ( Read more... )

...the whole reason for "BracknellExile" is that it a) wasn't taken, b) Bracknell were playing Edinburgh tonight at the Murrayfield rink and having been a Bracknell Bees fan for far too many years, I'm kind of exiled from there now I'm back north of the border, and c) it's my logon for the Edinburgh Caps forum, so I figured I'd stick with it. So ( Read more... )