Monthly Archives: April 2005

MCI and Qwest

I can’t believe this is still going on..but it looks like Qwest, who never gave up, may have got what they wanted.

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OFCOM

OFCOM came back to me earlier in the week following the questions I asked them. It appears their website is about 2 years out of date!.  I spoke to someone in our legal yesterday and she also commented that the … Continue reading

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Teak oil

I’ve just been out in the Garden teak oiling the furniture ready for the summer. It’s a really nice day, it’s in the high teens (17-19 degrees) so we’re gonna go for a walk to the park.

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Powerpoint control via bluetooth

i installed the bluetooth app to control powerpoint from my smartphone, but I couldn’t get it to work. There’s a few more things to try but I’m not too hopefull i’ll get it to work. The idea was I’d have … Continue reading

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Le Pont de la Tour

Just spent all of lunchtime and most of the afternoon in Le Pont de la Tour, which was very nice. I walked back to IBM southbank to walk off the food.

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Flickr

Cool…Flikr has just given me two years for the price of one as I signed up for a pro account, they’ve also given me 2 pro accounts to give away and double the upload bandwidth to 2gb…top.

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WikiCentral

I’ve just been helping my old team out with their Wiki. IBM has Wiki’s available to anyone inside IBM, So the team have set one up on PDing Network faults. The Wiki’s even come with an xml feed, so my … Continue reading

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Om Malik on Broadband ? Euro Telcos Not Feeling The Urge To Merge

Link: Om Malik on Broadband ? Euro Telcos Not Feeling The Urge To Merge. I think Om may be right. We haven’t seen any movement as yet.

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Games, Podcasts and Pirates

I’m sure that it’s only the Gamers, the podcasting community and pirates that are the only people making the most of the fat DSL pipes we’re now being offered. I can’t see how any normal day to day use of … Continue reading

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Fibre’s not coming home

Roger Darlington talks about Fibre to the Home. Fibre to the home will be too costly and unnessecary as DSL technologies improve. We’re up to 25mbps right now and that’ll grow with time trust me. I can see major business … Continue reading

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Bloglines?

is it broke for anyone else?…I can’t log in right now..no picture of a plumber this time.

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UK still lags behind Europe

8mb DSL is starting to hit the UK market, but you can get 20mb in the Netherlands [via EuroTelcoBlog]..wow. Italy leads the market in unbundling and France has a fast mutring triple play market. Where are we here in the … Continue reading

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economics will kill MPLS

LLU unbundling is going to change the face of the market for small bandwidth connectivity. The only reason DSL isn’t used for business connectivity is the SLA’s and inparticular the fix time, around 28 hours. LLU will mean operators able … Continue reading

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GPRS setup again

just had to go through the whole process of setting up GPRS again. It turned out trickier than I first thought. The x40 doesn’t have a CD player built in, that’s in the ultra doc.

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9.99 for 512K broadband

ukonline has reduced the cost of a basic broadband service to less than a tenner. The only catch is that your exchange has to be one of the ones that has been unbundled. So if you’re exchange hasn’t been unbundled … Continue reading

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