I just wrote a really long post and blogger ate it! Should I just summarise?

The engineer called last night and said various things like we shouldn't be using USB because it's rubbish and that it was working now so we'd just have to monitor it. Of course, it stopped working as soon as he put the phone down. So I spent 40 minutes in NTL's mazelike phone system getting through to technical support again. But a nice person called Chris sorted me out. He said the engineer had been stupid and it wouldn't matter if we had a giraffe plugged in because that wasn't the problem. Hehe. He checked the power levels and they were way down. Then he gave me another number to call in the morning to get an appointment straight away.

So, this morning I called them and they said an engineer would come between 12 and 4. He turned up at 11.30 and sorted it really quickly - it was something I'd wondered about. Basically our really long cable (long enough to reach from Ali's room to mine) was kinked up and that was the problem. He cut it and it worked! But I couldn't get the internet to my room any more.

Thankfully Rob leapt into action and bought stuff to set up a router. Now the internet is sent wirelessly all over the house! It's very cool. I can sit downstairs and use my laptop to surf around.

I can't help but think that makes us very geeky. I mean, how many people would buy their girlfriends a wireless network? And how many girlfriends would be that pleased with a wireless network? I think it's fantastic. It's like magic. The best thing since... I dunno, insert something to make this sentence work, USB? DVD? Anyway, it's cool.

Apart from that, the boiler's had it so we won't have hot water for at least a week.

And, erm, dissertation stuff. I've written up the main 'ceramic history' section and the methodology to show Nick tomorrow. I'm going in first thing. I hope they're okay... I don't think the ceramic history reads that well. The data's there though. Hmm...

I have been mostly.... WATCHING (TV): neighbours (bbc 1) / READING: star wars new jedi order 1: vector prime (r.a. salvatore); edge magazine / PLAYING: star wars galaxies

posted by Fiery Fred @ 9:15 PM