BT ADSL Falls Over; People Notice

Last Friday afternoon was interesting: a shedload of BT business ADSL customers and almost all of their dial-up users lost their connectivity . Oh, when I say BT ADSL customers, I mean "ADSL customers who happen to have a BT Wholesale provided line", i.e. potentially a massive proportion of all business ADSL customers who aren't […]

Encyclopaedic Rows

As usual, it takes me a few days to get through each Sunday's Observer — which is handy as I usually only buy a daily paper on Saturdays (the Guardian , natch) and it gives me stuff to read at lunchtime at work during the week. So there I am at lunchtime, chicken soup in […]

Dixons Miss Point

Dixons , one of the UK's largest retailers of electrical goods, have decreed that they will stop selling video cassette recorders (VCRs) and will have sold their remaining stock by this Christmas, according to a BBC News article . Their rationale is that we "are now entering the digital age and the new DVD technology […]

Just Roll Me Home

From CNN Money : Hardee's rolls out its new "Monster Thickburger," which contains two 1/3-pound slabs of Angus beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered sesame seed bun. Holy Fattening Obesotron, Batman! This sucker gives you 107g of fat (46g of which saturated), 230mg of cholesterol and 2,650mg […]

Who Needs CNN When You Have IRC?

From #scotlug ... [12:28] <tam> PRESIDENTIAL RESULT [12:28] <tam> Kerry wins [12:28] <tam> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/americas/04/vote_usa/html/8.stm [12:28] <edward> tam: that's just DC [12:28] <tam> ah

John Peel Dies

John Peel has died aged 65 of a heart attack while on a working holiday in Peru with his wife. Such a sad loss, one of my favourite DJs — I always remember enjoying listening to his shows as a kid more than the more "trendy" Top 40 on a Sunday ... :(