Pissed off

This computer not connecting to the internet business has gone from being mildly inconvenient to bloody irritating. I need to pay a bill online - the only way I can do this is online and it has to be done today.

I'm now living in hope that I'll be able to do this from the College of Law computers tonight, if not I'll have to try an internet cafe. This ought to work - I can't see why I wouldn't be able to make secure connections from the CoL (which is the reason I can't do it from work).

Wandered along Oxford Street to find a modem - telephone cable, which I found in the third shop I went into. Tried it out and that's not the problem. My mother has suggested it might be a fault with the phone line, so I'm going to call BT and see if they can test it remotely.. Done. They've told me to call my ISP, since I might need the 'gain' turned up on the line. So that's an email to support@lobsterpot.net.uk when I get a chance.

Oh yes, this'll get me shouted at I'm sure, but I'm sufficiently pissed off that I don't care - I think Boris Johnson was right to say what was said in the Spectator. Rather careless and not quite as shrewd as he should have been - the sentiment was right, but this wasn't the time to express it, but the mawkish sentimentality point rings true. I don't remember enough about the Hillsborough disaster to comment on it - I remember seeing the stadium alight (with people running everywhere not with fire), people not being allowed onto the pitch and watching the television coverage, but not much else, and I remember the proposals, that were bitterly opposed at the time, for all seater stadia. But the fact that something which happened in the 1980s is still such a significant event in that city certainly says something about the city. I'm not saying there shouldn't be memorial services for those who died, or that sympathy shouldn't be expressed for the families or that it should be forgotten completely, but they just seem to take things too far - I'm told that the Sun still doesn't sell well in the area because of something it wrote about the disaster, not that I think people should be reading the Sun (newspaper - the 'worst' of the tabloids (ave Sun reader has a vocabularly of 30 000, ave Times reader has a vocabularly of 300 000)) but give it a rest people.

Pissed off

This computer not connecting to the internet business has gone from being mildly inconvenient to bloody irritating. I need to pay a bill online - the only way I can do this is online and it has to be done today.

I'm now living in hope that I'll be able to do this from the College of Law computers tonight, if not I'll have to try an internet cafe. This ought to work - I can't see why I wouldn't be able to make secure connections from the CoL (which is the reason I can't do it from work).

Wandered along Oxford Street to find a modem - telephone cable, which I found in the third shop I went into. Tried it out and that's not the problem. My mother has suggested it might be a fault with the phone line, so I'm going to call BT and see if they can test it remotely.. Done. They've told me to call my ISP, since I might need the 'gain' turned up on the line. So that's an email to support@lobsterpot.net.uk when I get a chance.

Oh yes, this'll get me shouted at I'm sure, but I'm sufficiently pissed off that I don't care - I think Boris Johnson was right to say what was said in the Spectator. Rather careless and not quite as shrewd as he should have been - the sentiment was right, but this wasn't the time to express it, but the mawkish sentimentality point rings true. I don't remember enough about the Hillsborough disaster to comment on it - I remember seeing the stadium alight (with people running everywhere not with fire), people not being allowed onto the pitch and watching the television coverage, but not much else, and I remember the proposals, that were bitterly opposed at the time, for all seater stadia. But the fact that something which happened in the 1980s is still such a significant event in that city certainly says something about the city. I'm not saying there shouldn't be memorial services for those who died, or that sympathy shouldn't be expressed for the families or that it should be forgotten completely, but they just seem to take things too far - I'm told that the Sun still doesn't sell well in the area because of something it wrote about the disaster, not that I think people should be reading the Sun (newspaper - the 'worst' of the tabloids (ave Sun reader has a vocabularly of 30 000, ave Times reader has a vocabularly of 300 000)) but give it a rest people.