The Curious Engineer

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December 2014

  1. Compartments
  2. Should I avoid religious posts?
  3. Telephone Preference Service out of date?
  4. Short email address discrimination
  5. Bank Machine Ltd machines increasing risk of mugging?
  6. Glad to be home
  7. BT hate site?
  8. BT won't fix their own error
  9. Notice before action
  10. Copyright madness
  11. BT blame OFCOM for not being able to fix their own cock ups!
  12. Don't spam me
  13. Who are these people?
  14. Think of the children
  15. Yes, playing World of Warcraft is work!
  16. "Squirrel Man" - the most ineffective super hero ever!
  17. Unfiltered advert!
  18. Everyone is entitled to their opinion
  19. Medium
  20. Quiet
  21. Blizzard drop IPv6 support?
  22. Side effect of tracing IP addresses
  23. Update Unavailable with This Apple ID
  24. Razer Naga SHIFT key use on iMac OS X
  25. Sneaky change of BT terms that affects BT infinity

November 2014

  1. Nominet being strange
  2. Ed Vaizey says that once you are 70 you don't have to pay your bills?
  3. Ctsb
  4. To DLM or not to DLM?
  5. Privacy IP addressing
  6. FaceBook is not an ISP
  7. How to prevent murder?
  8. Look out for terrorists!
  9. BT giving us access to their network?
  10. Theresa May loses the plot again?
  11. Blizzard IPv6 broken
  12. Worst kind of spam?
  13. To BT or not to BT?
  14. Who do you work for?
  15. National Advice Clinic?
  16. Going nuts
  17. Fibre data SIMs?
  18. Transfer aborted: Instance not found
  19. The only way to watch the news
  20. Daft idea
  21. Turning to the shiny side...
  22. This is a good thing, yes?
  23. Bluetooth tracker things
  24. I am a scammer?

October 2014

  1. Freedom of expression
  2. Not a terrorist!
  3. When adverts change
  4. Set the code free!
  5. No contract?
  6. ICO ignore 1,000 complaints of calls from 0843 numbers
  7. Aircon memes
  8. Won't someone think of the imaginary children!
  9. Is there still a place for fax machines?
  10. More targeted adverts?
  11. Ivory
  12. What a strange phishing email
  13. ACE inhibitors - magic cure or annoying itch?
  14. Seppuku
  15. I never did study history
  16. Targeted adverts?
  17. Mttc
  18. Notice & Takedown
  19. IPv6 working
  20. Nominet pushing .uk domains
  21. VAT free!
  22. Robot butlers
  23. You canna change the laws of physics, captain!
  24. Headaches
  25. Adr
  26. Step back!
  27. It is time Virgin apologised
  28. Bgp
  29. Slower broadband migrations and more slamming
  30. BT losing plot on FTTC

September 2014

  1. Taps
  2. Cruise
  3. Still at sea
  4. At sea
  5. Thank you British Gas
  6. SatPhone (Callmonitor Ltd)
  7. Ashbury Sat Com
  8. Whisky tasting notes
  9. In the line of fire
  10. Barclays, you arseholes!
  11. Making a start
  12. Think of the children
  13. Out of action
  14. I need a keyboard that lights up!
  15. The Telegraph are now spamming me illegally!
  16. Getting old
  17. Bad account management
  18. XML done badly?
  19. Back to the future, I mean past.
  20. Saving the planet?

August 2014

  1. I can cook!
  2. Migraine trigger?
  3. I've got your six
  4. When does the taste not matter?
  5. Scottish Broadband?
  6. Migraines
  7. Photo sniping?
  8. Roaming UK SIM testing
  9. Iridium: Technically Incorrect
  10. Why did I buy a Makerbot Z18?
  11. 13A socket
  12. A&A summer barbecue
  13. Latest email to ICO...
  14. UHD TV as a monitor
  15. Does John Doe not work there any more?
  16. Man cave
  17. Gourmet Society data leak
  18. The long journey home
  19. Cyprus
  20. ICO refuse to do their job, still
  21. The use of complaining to BT plc?

July 2014

  1. Late payment penalties, too late?
  2. Bring back TheOatmeal.com
  3. Villa Plus and Air Con
  4. IPv6 in Cyprus
  5. When is an air conditioned villa not actually air conditioned?
  6. SIP call flow diagrams
  7. Makerbot Z18 major disappointment
  8. Virtual theft!
  9. New spam calls
  10. If you build it...
  11. Dear David Cameron...
  12. Is that legal?
  13. Micro Direct data leak?
  14. Software release cycle
  15. Air con at home?
  16. Dirty tricks or caveat emptor?
  17. DRIPA and AAISP
  18. Police state
  19. Big Foot
  20. General Public
  21. Data Retention
  22. Well done steak
  23. House project?
  24. The end of the Internet as we know it
  25. The bluntest instrument!
  26. Latest query to ICO
  27. The den
  28. Right to freedom of expression? Not to TalkTalk customers it seems.
  29. Are TT getting as bad as BT?

June 2014

  1. Cycling in Bracknell
  2. Odd comment from the ICO
  3. Now OFCOM ignore the PECR
  4. Good girl
  5. ICO get worse
  6. Mobile roaming
  7. Watson, come quickly...
  8. ICO refuse to take action
  9. Uptime
  10. Our favourite telco
  11. ICO unable to play a call recording
  12. Catching junk callers
  13. Blog post
  14. The DSR is dead, long live the CCICACR!!
  15. Turing test
  16. More Sanity
  17. revk.uk
  18. Arrrg! Why do people work for these criminals?
  19. Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
  20. Can't fix your fault, I have a hospital appointment...
  21. BT charging for fixing a fault
  22. Keeping secrets
  23. New penknife
  24. What's special about fibre
  25. Biggleswade Sweet Chilli Crisps
  26. Zebra++

May 2014

  1. HMRC Prompt Payment Discount VAT
  2. Long week (not keyboard related)
  3. Unifi UAP-AC with 802.3af and 802.3at PoE switches
  4. The complainers
  5. I am a shark!
  6. Virgin lies?
  7. Not smartstamp, but what?
  8. Is RIPA fit for purpose?
  9. Speechless
  10. Non-conformist
  11. Slower fault repair?
  12. Your hold music is too loud!
  13. One SIP at a time
  14. How did Windows get to advertise on my keyboard
  15. Lies, damn lies, and statistics (internetmatters.org)
  16. New Kitchen
  17. Please Barclays: Email machine processable daily transactions
  18. VAT change on prompt payments
  19. Lies, damn lies, and statistics (British Gas)
  20. Do CISAS know the meaning of "dispute"
  21. SIP2SIM
  22. Zebra ZXP8
  23. Bank Holidays
  24. Virgin: The plot thickens
  25. BT vogons
  26. BT advert

April 2014

  1. 4k TVs
  2. Record breaking base jump?
  3. "we use the fibre optic cable to install the services at the customers property"
  4. SFI2 is an optional extra service
  5. Red faces
  6. Drinking too much?
  7. order with obligation to pay
  8. Securing the office
  9. Rangemaster - why?
  10. Fibre optic cable?
  11. Zebra letting me down, again
  12. BT 7 hour fix, a con?
  13. Voice Assured Broadband
  14. The problem with SIP
  15. "No contract"

March 2014

  1. Adr
  2. BT want to charge us for someone else's mistake
  3. The new number tax
  4. How do girls cope?
  5. Stolen copper
  6. Losing the plot?
  7. BSA busted
  8. Should we sell phones?
  9. Long day
  10. What do you pay for your mobile?
  11. Zebra ZXP8 contact encoder fiasco
  12. I am not a drain
  13. Stuff
  14. Emailed VAT invoices
  15. www.legislation.gov.uk
  16. I am not a consumer!!!
  17. Argos: Can't tell difference between an invoice and a credit note!
  18. Uber: Late nights in London
  19. Zebra ZXP8 Contact Station
  20. &
  21. Do you want to round up your bill and donate to some charity?
  22. BT refusing to fix a fault?

February 2014

  1. stats aren't facts
  2. BT 21CN not fit for purpose?
  3. IPv6 works!
  4. Achievement unlocked: Level 50
  5. Can Europe go its own way on data privacy?
  6. Porn filters - no it is not a law!
  7. Greater Manchester Police discrediting the Irish?
  8. Seeing sounds?
  9. What is Packet Loss?
  10. BT official: 3% packet loss is not a fault!
  11. Exclusive!
  12. Is the Scottish Goverment committing terrorism?
  13. LED there be light!

January 2014

  1. Web site operators will have to apply to UK government to allow their web site to be seen by UK citizens
  2. Open letter to Baroness Howe
  3. Mentioned in The House of Lords
  4. Pirate Bay News
  5. Thank you (iMessage)
  6. Royal Ascot Racecourse associated with criminal activity?
  7. Barclays Fraud Debt, again
  8. Comparing broadband
  9. Audiophile bullshit
  10. Direct Debit Rules (an evil thought)
  11. Nanny state getting worse
  12. 3D Banana
  13. The Day After Tomorrow
  14. The need for speed
  15. Nuisance or loss?
  16. Dear Accounts Departments
  17. Incorrect weather
  18. Best efforts
  19. iMessage i@j.je please
  20. Explain the difference: Modem, Router, WiFi
  21. Happy New Year

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December 2013

  1. Prehistoric Park
  2. Space dice!
  3. Most Reliable Broadband?
  4. Panasonic NN-CT562M fail
  5. Chess
  6. AO.com messing me about (result!)
  7. Antiques
  8. Lordk
  9. 3D maths objects
  10. Pardon!
  11. Parenting
  12. Weddings, Septic tanks, Women and Franking machines
  13. The perve list
  14. Getting old
  15. 46 seconds of fame
  16. Mega
  17. Suffering for his art?
  18. The Internet Dark Age?
  19. Ethics
  20. ABS lock vs 3D printer
  21. Odd Christmas present
  22. "Why is it that all true geeks end up straying onto activities that were they not geeks would be considered criminal?"
  23. Winding down?
  24. SIP2SIM relaunch?
  25. Interesting approach to SFI charges
  26. Blog post
  27. Customer Service and ADR
  28. Ultimaker rip off
  29. Wires only FTTC
  30. Direct Debits
  31. Barclays same day replacement debit card

November 2013

  1. Extrudicate
  2. Still no day in court
  3. BT & Huawei working with us
  4. Brave move
  5. Section 97A orders
  6. Oh, no ADR for me!
  7. Duty of Care
  8. WTF LG
  9. Dear OFCOM
  10. Learning OpenSCAD
  11. Something useful
  12. Back to the 3D
  13. Clueless API
  14. Why not just email me an encrypted XML bank statements every day?
  15. Fuel card spam - seems they just cave!
  16. From Russia with love
  17. The next spammer to tackle
  18. Not getting my day in court
  19. Confusopoly
  20. BT Huawei FTTC modem bug breaking VPNs
  21. ADR from the other side
  22. Finally, the ICO agree with me

October 2013

  1. ASN.1 BER
  2. FLOSS Unconference
  3. Juice may be one thing, but WTF is "popcorn chicken" ?
  4. The most demanding customers?
  5. Clever, and a bit spooky
  6. Censoring the Internet
  7. Any MP that can correctly use "regex" in conversation is OK by me.
  8. iPhone 5S not on the level
  9. Acr
  10. Defence for spam case
  11. Spam court case
  12. Arbitration
  13. Juice

September 2013

  1. Zebra ZXP 8 Card Printer
  2. Dumb question!
  3. Bending the rules?
  4. Ubiquiti APs
  5. WTF Novatech
  6. ICO being a tad strange still
  7. fuck.me.uk
  8. Junk caller pays
  9. S Three / Huxley and contradictions.
  10. Cracked crypto?
  11. BBC fooled by my tarpit
  12. They must have noticed, surely?
  13. Crashing blog post
  14. سمَـَّوُوُحخ ̷̴̐خ ̷̴̐خ ̷̴̐خ امارتخ

August 2013

  1. Bread
  2. Helpscout: Data Protection questions
  3. Fun with numbers
  4. Who can't get broadband?
  5. Insomnia 49
  6. Seriously now - apple are pissing me off
  7. Changing the guard
  8. Free services are a problem
  9. PoE has its day
  10. This is why you need a proper email address
  11. punycode
  12. I think the ICO are a tad confused
  13. Court ordered web blocks - a tool to break the Internet
  14. Changing locks (euro profile)
  15. Up to
  16. Nostalgia is not what it used to be (modems)
  17. They need to protect us from this!
  18. Think of the children!
  19. SThree have the cheek to junk call us too!
  20. 10 hour voicemail
  21. I really dread calling Sky TV
  22. I have no idea on Swedish law
  23. #PornGate: What could a determined small ISP do?

July 2013

  1. Taking a step back
  2. Well fuck.me.uk Russia
  3. The ICO agree, excellent
  4. Trying to wrap this one up...
  5. Junk call tar pit still going
  6. And section 21
  7. Check Mate!
  8. Vexatious defendant?
  9. The Guardian fights back
  10. More from the spammer.
  11. Finally a list provider is spamming me
  12. Writing code in my sleep
  13. Pre-action conduct
  14. Interesting reply from spammer
  15. Where are we with spam now?
  16. Kite Griffin Solicitors, Bracknell
  17. Talk of censorship gets an audience...
  18. Active choice
  19. Free speech, what does it mean?
  20. Politicians need help to understand the most basic technology
  21. Something is wrong on the Internet?
  22. Leodis Sports Management Limited - F1 Silverstone 2013
  23. Get your email from Yell?
  24. You canna' change the laws of physics, cap'n
  25. Net firms raided over broadband 'throttling'
  26. Free
  27. War on spam
  28. On the loo
  29. Blog post
  30. Digging a hole for themselves
  31. Spammers 0:1 RevK, again?
  32. Good for the environment?
  33. Spammers 0:2 RevK
  34. Spammers 0:1 RevK
  35. Silverstone F1 2013

June 2013

  1. 4 million number tarpit for junk callers
  2. When is a beep not a beep?
  3. Can "they" see what I am doing?
  4. Pharmacy advertising diabetic check ups?
  5. Mistakes happen?
  6. More site blocking?
  7. Challenging spammers - and winning!
  8. Dealing with Leodis Sports Management Ltd
  9. As seen on TV
  10. Should ISPs be doing more to block harmful content
  11. Nice
  12. Late payment penalties
  13. Drinking problem?
  14. The never ending hunt for CPE
  15. Taking OFCOM out of the loop
  16. Replacing A&A mobile service
  17. Shouting at the TV
  18. Clue bat
  19. Tesco Express
  20. ORGCON2013
  21. Now, that's a sign!
  22. SIP Arrrrrrrrg!
  23. It's a sign
  24. Protecting free speech will never be completely free of risk
  25. On-line Safety Bill, yet again...
  26. Worth a try...
  27. What is "smart dual band"

May 2013

  1. Calling SIP URI
  2. Watchdog annoying me
  3. Unfiltered or not unfiltered
  4. BACS/RTI hash
  5. SIP and NAT
  6. Unexpected night shift
  7. Another SIP challenge
  8. Monopoly collection
  9. One day, technology will "just work"
  10. New VoIP platform
  11. Banks bouncing shit
  12. Bank with clue?
  13. Future of voice calls?
  14. How OFCOM should handle UK number allocation
  15. Recruitment agencies
  16. OFCOM destroying competition
  17. Terrorism
  18. OFCOM stitch up
  19. English as a first language
  20. The rules of FTTC
  21. Clue bat!
  22. Snowed under
  23. Shame

April 2013

  1. These are not the DSL lines you are looking for
  2. One of those days!
  3. Wealthy pensions should hand back freebies!
  4. Spring cleaning my RADIUS code
  5. Ruckus is quite fast...
  6. Snooper's Charter
  7. Making a ruckus
  8. FTTC: Wires only or not wires only?
  9. Special nutters even in 1st class
  10. "if you paid more this would not happen"
  11. Viewing a web page is not breach of copyright
  12. "Real" Grandad
  13. Yes, & is a BACS character
  14. Tackling junk calls (ePetition, please sign)
  15. What the hash?
  16. PAYE coding
  17. SIP progress
  18. HMRC and summer time
  19. Nationwide and DDs bouncing
  20. HMRC RTI Hash up
  21. April fool date command

March 2013

  1. Software wears out
  2. Internet on the train
  3. The Big Broadband Survey 2012
  4. Trying out our MP again.
  5. Click for large image
  6. Short email addresses
  7. HMRC RTI and privacy
  8. BACS Submissions
  9. Call recording
  10. WorldSIM con?
  11. Document management
  12. Digging deeper
  13. 10% of lines are faulty for many ISP?
  14. AAISP not one of the "best broadband providers"
  15. PGP signed email
  16. Venetian Blind

February 2013

  1. How to write the date
  2. Adverts
  3. Disappointed with FaceBook
  4. Disappointed with BT?
  5. Disappointed with Fluidata (Be/O2)
  6. Fax is dead, and so is the internet?
  7. Double your speed
  8. Not issuing VAT invoices
  9. Do BT confirm 7 hour fix is a scam?
  10. "In stock" my arse!
  11. Snom m9 IPv6
  12. broadbandchoices.co.uk
  13. Have you tried rebooting it?
  14. Clean desk policy?
  15. The next IPv6 CPE challenge

January 2013

  1. Root login
  2. Apology to BT
  3. Pashley vs Dutchie
  4. Cookie law
  5. 5 + 5 = 7.7
  6. PAYE RTI BACS madness
  7. When is a filter not a filter
  8. Zen Flight
  9. Well done BT
  10. Thar's your problem
  11. OMG Barclays Springboard Mortgage
  12. Looking good
  13. Bullies
  14. publicservice.co.uk Break the law: apologise
  15. Working down
  16. Use the force
  17. What are the ASA for?
  18. And so it begins
  19. Friends
  20. Thar be dragons!
  21. The phone line is dead?
  22. Response to nominet .uk namespace consultation
  23. Second level .uk domains
  24. Discount Communication Online Store

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December 2012

  1. Bellingham postmistress lends own money after internet loss
  2. To WoW or not to WoW
  3. Alan Turing Monopoly
  4. Engineers always find a way
  5. Wow! Monopoly
  6. Seems BTs 7 hour fix is also a con
  7. Apparently, getting fault fixed within the agreed time is only for "critical" customers.
  8. You don't pay for nothing
  9. Damn WiFi captive portals
  10. Start of the 14th Baktun?
  11. I thought my typing was bad
  12. "No contract"
  13. Tracing an IP address
  14. No black boxes
  15. Christmas gifts
  16. A new con from BT
  17. Talk talk lines
  18. Apply cutting corners?
  19. That was fun
  20. International Soundcheck day
  21. Dark Side
  22. I love it when a plan comes together
  23. I can't be the only one that does this
  24. Doing the right thing
  25. This Starbucks thing
  26. A chance to compare
  27. Open Rights Group
  28. Why are people campaigning to pay more for coffee?
  29. Not like selling Mars bars
  30. I see pixels
  31. Not for salad
  32. Losing the plot
  33. Right and Wrong
  34. Off to Azeroth for a bit
  35. Sex discrimination

November 2012

  1. 76Mb broadband?
  2. Correct Horse Battery Staple
  3. If you build it, they will come
  4. Reading fiction
  5. A picture speaks a 1000 words
  6. Stealing back Christmas
  7. BT Wholesale is a world-class enabler of converged network solutions?
  8. New Home::1 order form
  9. Shibboleet
  10. Rank
  11. Should I sue BT, or what?
  12. Just doing my job
  13. Fun with captive portals
  14. Failed
  15. Porting numbers or not...
  16. More than "complete" broadband?
  17. If I knew any marketing, I'd be dangerous!
  18. If I was running BT, how would I have solved it?
  19. New A&A Home::1 tariff
  20. Think of the fucking children!
  21. Usage quotas
  22. Odd day
  23. Migraine
  24. OSPF final stages
  25. Cold be gone
  26. हम इन वैकल्पिक मॉड्यूल आदेश नहीं था, इसलिए उनके लिए शुल्क मान्य नहीं हैं
  27. Alan Turing Monopoly
  28. OSPF blues
  29. Height of rudeness?
  30. Yes, BT are serious
  31. Multicast
  32. Unlimited but slow?
  33. Adverts
  34. Rumous of my birthday are greatly exaggerated!
  35. BT shareholder asking why pay someone to wind up customers?

October 2012

  1. BT find new ways to rip us off!!!
  2. Special Billing Investigation
  3. OSPF plodding on
  4. Junk calls
  5. Most complete?
  6. Taking a stand?
  7. Have you paid us yet?
  8. Fed up with having a cold
  9. Slow SFP
  10. IPv6 privacy addressing
  11. Tested!
  12. When is a fault not a fault?
  13. Divide and conquer
  14. Returning to OSPF
  15. That is not how it works - or is it?
  16. IPEXPO 2012 FireBrick
  17. OSPF is definitely a 4 letter word
  18. Credit licence?
  19. Sorry, BT can't find the National Gallery
  20. Regulators that can't tell you if you need a licence?
  21. Warning!
  22. Heartless git?
  23. Found RF interference - won't tell anyone.
  24. Meet Ignis...
  25. Is it true that a picture of a cat will get more hits?
  26. Bike shops
  27. Not quite "OSPF for Dummies"...

September 2012

  1. I wonder if I can pay in World of Warcraft gold now?
  2. WoW gets battle pets
  3. Well, I had to...
  4. iOS6 file upload strips exif data?
  5. Will it burn? iPhone 5
  6. If Microsoft were forced to offer choice of browser, why not force Apple to offer choice of mapping?
  7. Apple update T&Cs
  8. Nano-SIM, yes you can
  9. iOS6 maps are crap
  10. Holy Ten Point Eighty-Seven Jigga-Pixels, batman!
  11. Randall is totally insane
  12. Not orange juice
  13. Meet the orc (Oct 17/18)
  14. Turning to the dark side
  15. Video watermarking idea
  16. Text tone
  17. So long, and thanks for all the fish
  18. No flash photography
  19. Making Greek internet look good
  20. Back to reality
  21. Well done Entanet
  22. What sourcery is this?

August 2012

  1. Blue moon
  2. Surprisingly easy jet!
  3. Greece²
  4. Silver lining
  5. Train tickets make no sense
  6. In Stock!
  7. I don't know how they cope
  8. Getting an engineer out is a matter of luck now?
  9. How bloody stupid is EU law?
  10. Maybe they are getting ready for IPv6
  11. Re-inventing wheels
  12. What does this mean
  13. A Rev on holiday
  14. Canon 1Dx Y U No IPv6?
  15. DO NOT USE DHL THEY TELL TOTAL LIES (wav)
  16. Apple laptop charging vibration effect
  17. DHL fail!
  18. Olympic Holidays
  19. Let us pray
  20. New toy
  21. Yes, it does mean IPv6
  22. Slow internet?

July 2012

  1. Shiny
  2. Holiday
  3. The apple way or the fuzzy way
  4. Top UK ISPs finally agree to provide IPv6 to all customers?
  5. IPv4: THE END IS NIGH!
  6. Philosophy and Immortality
  7. Loss, latency error correction and retries
  8. Sacrificing Chickens!
  9. Is this IPv6 NAT? Someone shoot me!
  10. Finally, a UK mains plug you can put in your pocket.
  11. Barclays Fraud Dept
  12. Apparently *we* are BT Retail, that explains it!
  13. Get a home hub 3 from BT?
  14. Zero packet loss
  15. Nice one Barclays
  16. What's my name?
  17. Suggested serving size
  18. FTTC/Etherway working
  19. RIPE NCC winding me up (again)
  20. BT refusing to work on a fault 24/7?
  21. iPad on PI
  22. Top tips on getting PI space
  23. Total BT con? 7 to 13 hour fix time?
  24. FTTC Etherway - yes we are the first
  25. Is this the first FTTC / GEA / Etherway?
  26. Calls from the grave
  27. Geek present...
  28. Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
  29. Now apple can't count?
  30. Government snooping for dummies
  31. Impressive speed test
  32. PI
  33. How it works: https
  34. You are now breathing manually
  35. How it works: Private Browsing
  36. Monitor or intercept
  37. Geolocation errors

June 2012

  1. Ghost town Bracknell?
  2. The Queen messed up my cash flow!
  3. 3D TV: LG vs Sony
  4. Tricky
  5. New type of email address
  6. Apple lies?
  7. Creating PDFs
  8. Not as easy as it looks...
  9. An odd thing to find on the fire alarm at the office
  10. Can BT run a back-haul network?
  11. WoW IPv6
  12. A simple guide to spotting bad union flags
  13. Sustainable pricing for broadband
  14. Butterkist food labeling
  15. Knock on effect of ADR
  16. Diablo --

May 2012

  1. Efficient pdf and postscript manipulation
  2. Technically correct (union flag)
  3. Well done Andrew, Jimi and Paul
  4. Diablo ++
  5. That's how to fix a bug?
  6. Diablo -1
  7. Company values
  8. Reporter on my doorstep!
  9. Find My Friends
  10. PGP/GPG Digital Signature credibility
  11. Special offers
  12. Diablo 0
  13. Holiday
  14. A new ADR
  15. Dragging Pauline in to the 21st Century
  16. Pushing down the list
  17. Pushing boundaries
  18. Tiring
  19. All change
  20. RIP Dorothy
  21. Welcome to the future!
  22. Meeting the standard - come on ISOC!
  23. Adrian's apple
  24. Postal fraud or just crazy person?
  25. Clueless B2B XML
  26. The problem with Communications Data and the Internet
  27. May the geek be with you
  28. Is the telephone call dead?
  29. Sky1 "Touch": Irresponsible insulin injection!
  30. Blocking the pirate bay

April 2012

  1. Decisions
  2. Odd day
  3. Surreal Weekend
  4. Bug hunting
  5. EEP to Nominet
  6. Is it fraud?
  7. Nanny state - think of the children
  8. Picking IPv6 addresses
  9. New FireBrick release
  10. IPv6 tunnels
  11. Slow week
  12. Most Haunted use Star Trek Tricoder to hunt ghosts
  13. Apathy
  14. Petulant child?
  15. Broken BT promises
  16. Back to work
  17. Off sick!
  18. Targets for customer services
  19. Polycom works
  20. What next
  21. Let the fun begin
  22. Dtmf
  23. Seeing reason
  24. Do I fall out with BE?
  25. How hard can it be?
  26. Who knew? SPAM may have uses
  27. April fool 1984?

March 2012

  1. Ready to party
  2. Testing it out...
  3. Call pick up and steal
  4. Busy lamp fields
  5. Night shift
  6. Queuing calls
  7. Flakey broadband back-haul lately?
  8. Transferring calls
  9. FTTC 80/20
  10. FireBrick SIP feature plan
  11. ORGCon 2012
  12. Letter to MP on ADR...
  13. IPv6 SIP
  14. Something else to SIP
  15. Call groups
  16. Getting out of hand
  17. Full circle
  18. Testing SIP
  19. Special customers
  20. Levelling
  21. 3 SMS 03
  22. It's good to talk
  23. Communications Provider
  24. Bad timing
  25. More on ADR
  26. Diabetes
  27. Close Encounter
  28. Mr. Watson, come here -- I want to see you
  29. One SIP at a time
  30. Ipad3
  31. Elf & Saftey
  32. 2Q or not 2Q
  33. Moving on - lets get SIP working...
  34. Non ADR
  35. Questions
  36. The farce
  37. SIP progress
  38. ADR: Stand back and review
  39. Adr
  40. Tr069
  41. SIP: Making a start
  42. Aiming high
  43. Putting it off
  44. Zoom doing IPv6
  45. John J Maher
  46. Who should pay?
  47. Legacy IP!!!
  48. Spring?
  49. Automatic IPv6
  50. Slicker PPP
  51. The shortfalls
  52. Event (not so) brite
  53. AAISPISSUP 31st March. Bracknell
  54. Losing the race

February 2012

  1. The soul of a new rack...
  2. Tighter timing on routing on PPP
  3. Source filtering L2TP
  4. PS I promise not to take AAISP to ADR!
  5. Thanks for the support
  6. First casualty
  7. Apology
  8. Quicker court action for non payment of bills?
  9. Coding
  10. Not our fault?
  11. Calmer?
  12. Below average
  13. New scam
  14. Changing terms
  15. Rude ISP
  16. Business, Contracts, and law
  17. ADR Arses
  18. Busy
  19. What are you all downloading!
  20. TR069 progress
  21. Are we nearly there yet?
  22. Take a small sip...
  23. Refusing to fix an FTTC fault?
  24. Insulin++
  25. Off to Leeds
  26. Dname
  27. Starting TR-069
  28. Pondering ADR
  29. Fun day
  30. Taking the day off
  31. Bloody Barclays
  32. The needle
  33. Nearly there
  34. TR-069 ACS
  35. There's always one!
  36. Silly set backs today
  37. Non standard BGP
  38. Breaking new ground
  39. Upgrade progress (LINX and transit)
  40. Abusing the system?
  41. Snow
  42. Sharps box
  43. Adr
  44. Two steps forward, one step back
  45. Well, someone has to test it
  46. Ooops

January 2012

  1. If I am on a course
  2. No such thing as 7 hours fix
  3. Favourite telco
  4. Busy week
  5. Bad luck to be superstitious
  6. 80Mb/s FTTC
  7. RIPE PI
  8. Bypassing congestion on a carrier network
  9. Guess who?
  10. Moral compass
  11. How do bankers do it?
  12. Passwords, memory and xkcd
  13. Happy New Year

2011 355

December 2011

  1. The telco that stole Christmas
  2. BT invent time travel
  3. What happened to Christmas this year?
  4. 3D computer games
  5. Quote of the day...
  6. Turning to the dark side
  7. RIPE still squirming over PI
  8. I am not cool enough!
  9. How to complain!
  10. Really strange key on my keyboard?
  11. Say what you mean!
  12. Unhooking BRAS
  13. Sick day
  14. PI space scam?
  15. Major outage, I tell you! MAJOR!
  16. Road Kill
  17. Broadband 101

November 2011

  1. Free IPv6 wifi for people stuck in M3 traffic jam?
  2. correcthorsebatterystaple
  3. Net Neutrality - what is it?
  4. FTTC 12 month min term?
  5. Things you don't do
  6. 20CN not fit for purpose?
  7. IPv6 for consumers on DSL at last (Technicolor)
  8. Fun weekend, in Leeds!
  9. DenverCoder9 where are you?
  10. Traffic Lights and cyclists
  11. Monthly insurance payments
  12. IPv6 on a cable modem?
  13. Do you know this man? (please share/retweet/etc)
  14. Consumer IPv6 router - at last!
  15. © CreativeRight
  16. The plot was not that bad was it? (CAD)
  17. Where do you eat when in Harlow?
  18. Knee jerk reaction government
  19. You can't be doing this sober
  20. Secret to accessing newzbin2 from BT lines
  21. Inbox stress
  22. Yet another hotlinking analogy

October 2011

  1. Stranger key on my keyboard!
  2. BT listening to us?!
  3. New blogger not working from ipad
  4. Hundreds of email addresses in To: line
  5. New serious limitation on all BT broadband lines!
  6. Are you sure it is Thursday?
  7. Are you sure it is Wednesday?
  8. Syncing my life to the cloud?
  9. Cannot trust WMBC policers...
  10. You can sort our internet out, right?
  11. Is this a good look for me?
  12. Nominet and suspending domains
  13. Flu jabs
  14. Special password rules
  15. Hmmm
  16. iPhone4S Siri (pic)
  17. Apple melt the internet
  18. Think of the children!
  19. Popular blog post
  20. IPv6 BMW
  21. Getting lost
  22. Eating out
  23. An apple a day obviously does not keep the doctor away
  24. Font sizes
  25. Odd fraud
  26. Code libraries
  27. Never knowingly undersold
  28. PPPoA DSL users will only want legacy internet

September 2011

  1. SHOCK! half the country below average...
  2. Putting up prices
  3. PGP and bankers
  4. Dodgy transactions?
  5. Barclays fraud dept
  6. Funerals
  7. Commercial 3D
  8. 1 to 10
  9. Bullying phone calls?
  10. Shopping
  11. Pay for daughter's wedding! Pay for the divorce now?
  12. Business ethics?
  13. Will UK Computer Misuse Act get as bad?
  14. Corporate lies?
  15. Guess who...
  16. Major service outage
  17. You canna change the laws of physics
  18. How fishing works in world of warcraft
  19. Unique skills
  20. Extra special customers
  21. Virtual fishing
  22. How true
  23. Hackety hack hack
  24. Electronic hygene
  25. Found it
  26. Novatech Ooops
  27. New blogger has no title on posts
  28. Nominet want to take down domains without due legal process.

August 2011

  1. Redundancy
  2. As smooth as a DALEKs bottom?
  3. IPv6 routers: Thomson step up their game
  4. Thrall is a doctor now?
  5. IPv6 product marking
  6. Used too much force, Luke
  7. Yoda MRI
  8. My own 3D slicing code...
  9. Google+ because it does not have Frontierville
  10. Doctor's CAPTCHA
  11. IPv6 routers
  12. Getting my head examined...
  13. A rant on riots
  14. RFC3514 firewall?
  15. Randall does it again
  16. What has Thrall been up to?
  17. Six degrees of separation
  18. Money making machine
  19. The new PC term for "Jobsworth"..
  20. GMT and BST
  21. Polygon library working?
  22. Our favourite telco refusing to fix faults again
  23. Beer mat logic

July 2011

  1. Operations on polygons
  2. Winding me up!
  3. Busy week, busy weekend
  4. Sonim 7 bites the dust
  5. Blood sugar
  6. Bricking it
  7. Polygon libraries
  8. 3D coding
  9. OFCOM, again, again
  10. The dark side
  11. Thrall to the rescue
  12. Weather radar
  13. 3D spam?
  14. How BT should do it?
  15. "up to"
  16. Migraine
  17. Gearing up
  18. Arrrg OFCOM, again
  19. Regulating ISPs
  20. 3D printing of important things
  21. Top posting in emails
  22. Arrrr
  23. Colour coded
  24. Hmmm, OFCOM
  25. It's REINing

June 2011

  1. Evolution (pic)
  2. Finally
  3. Not impressed with AA
  4. Quiet week?
  5. Pop, bang, fizzle
  6. Arrrg! OFCOM
  7. Extrudiate!
  8. But is it art?
  9. Hot and fast...
  10. High speed internet - fixed at high speed
  11. I now have a shiny new hot end
  12. Too hot to handle
  13. An iframe to save £2000 a month?
  14. Still no hot end
  15. Fed up
  16. Buggered hot end
  17. World IPv6 Decade is nearly over...
  18. World IPv6 Day and nothing broken yet!
  19. My nozzle is too big
  20. Tardis
  21. PLA FTW
  22. "Packet loss" as a fault
  23. 4D printer
  24. FB2700 to the rescue

May 2011

  1. One lump or two...
  2. 3D or not 3D
  3. Soul of a new BRAS
  4. How the cookie crumbles
  5. Stupid new in sewer ants law
  6. Progress
  7. Can you tell what it is yet?
  8. 3D party
  9. 3G Dongles, USB and PPP fun
  10. Borrowers
  11. Some assembly required
  12. The Theory of Financial Relativity
  13. To infinity, and beyond...
  14. How fast can you get broadband?
  15. Sky being a pain
  16. Phone lines
  17. Beer festival (stats)

April 2011

  1. WoW not IPv6
  2. What to do today?
  3. Beer6
  4. Sonim 6 bites the dust
  5. IPv6 WoW!
  6. 3D projectors?
  7. Sounds like a plan...
  8. Fun week
  9. All natural ingredients
  10. Ha, did Apple forget they make iPads too?
  11. Summer storms
  12. How to organise a piss up at a beer festival?
  13. Who am I?
  14. To AV or not to AV
  15. The Future
  16. Kids these days!
  17. Strange key on my new keyboard? (pic)
  18. Glad to see some sense at last.
  19. Time to PANIC, APNIC
  20. Then end is nigh... APNIC first RIR for fall!
  21. A&A B2B XML gateway and IPv6
  22. Sonim XP2 Spirit No.6 for my daughter!
  23. Reverse court action?
  24. No progress on ponies
  25. 07
  26. Running IP course on Thursday
  27. autotrader.co.uk and other URLs?
  28. App ideas?
  29. Census fail
  30. Ipap
  31. Why
  32. So other telcos have nice single points of failure too?
  33. Meta-non-conformist?
  34. 1's complement, if only I had a time machine...
  35. iOrc2 (pic)
  36. Don't put files in /tmp/ if you want them later
  37. Nice apple
  38. Sonim support staff cannot view web pages!
  39. Your email address is too unusual!
  40. iPad2 is way fragile (pic)
  41. It's Friday?
  42. April fool

March 2011

  1. What 21CN really means?
  2. Ban phones, encourage bullies?
  3. Damn, have to fill in census on paper now...
  4. Little Bobby Tables (census)
  5. Job title: Orc polisher (census)
  6. Census: First unclear questions?
  7. iWaited (pic)
  8. iOrc (pic)
  9. iLike (pic)
  10. iQueued iPurchased iHaveOne
  11. iMpressed
  12. iPride 2
  13. Price of legacy IP
  14. Kindle waste of money? (pic)
  15. BringonIPv6
  16. Man walks in to a bar
  17. When is an IPv6 address not an IPv6 address?
  18. Lunch time doubly so!
  19. Busy week
  20. Arrrg, ebooks - kindle is no better!
  21. Not so secureID
  22. Sorry, you can't have fibre to the cabinet, your email address is too long!
  23. Magic smoke and well trained staff!
  24. Ebooks
  25. aa.co.uk
  26. aa.org.uk
  27. Somin guarantee working
  28. Sunday off
  29. Nice employer - pick a job title for 27th March
  30. FB2700 s/w upgrade
  31. End of an era
  32. Soul of a new release!
  33. Plan of action (OFCOM)
  34. OFCOM outlaw mobile call diverts?
  35. Comtrend a dead duck
  36. Toothless
  37. Linking in img tags from other sites
  38. More bad law (cookies)
  39. Could bt.com or x.com be deleted?
  40. Fine
  41. Quiet week?
  42. Works for me?
  43. Tweaking how we handle IPv6CP
  44. Fun with javascript
  45. iGotWet
  46. Stolen car and recovery fees
  47. HD and SD TV
  48. OFCOM's speed report
  49. When is save 20% not save 20%? (pic)
  50. Why I have no intention of ever using ADR
  51. Blizzard's Real-ID system starts to work (pic)

February 2011

  1. IPv6/IPv4 backwards compatibility
  2. How to get the government to understand?
  3. Must resist the book of face...
  4. My ISP is net.uk ?
  5. Impressive deal from telehouse
  6. IET Talk at Reading last night...
  7. Orctastic
  8. That, Jen, is "The Internet"! (pic)
  9. Koh-I-Noor, Priestwood, Bracknell
  10. Loops of Zen
  11. Alex meets Orc (pic)
  12. One time passwords
  13. Sonim 3 year warranty
  14. Suggested google logo for june 8th?
  15. Paul, the movie
  16. Somin + 15 year old girl = fail! (pic)
  17. Snoms and IPv6, fail! (pic)
  18. 3 simple questions?
  19. Evil ideas and IPv6
  20. Take two phones in to the shower? not me!
  21. Sonims bounce :-)
  22. Anonymous call from Barclays
  23. Sonim 3 year warranty ok?
  24. Sonim 3 year warranty is no use?
  25. More meddling - this time porn
  26. Burtons 20%
  27. Sonim XP2.10 spirit 3G
  28. Quote of the day
  29. IPv6 and office printers
  30. Impulse buying
  31. Quote of the day "Most cp's have plenty of ipv4 space left"
  32. Tescos reply again
  33. Why are people seeing this as something out of the blue?
  34. What hope is there?
  35. We need some useful website that is IPv6 only
  36. Virgin fibre IPv4 only!
  37. memcpy: Minor "D'uh" moment on my part, and warning to the wise.
  38. World IPv6 day - a challenge to manufacturers?
  39. No more IPv4
  40. Metro, today, IPv6
  41. Special Faults Investigation
  42. TESCO and 20% off == VAT-Free shopping
  43. What next for IP?
  44. Entry level broadband IPv6 routers?
  45. So long, and thanks for all the fish

January 2011

  1. Men, women, and technology
  2. So, the old Internet gets another day!
  3. Consumer broadband IPv6 routers
  4. When IPv6 routing breaks...
  5. It will get more fun!
  6. DHCPv6 and CISCO 877W
  7. Another 20% off == VAT back
  8. Hmm, test or survey?
  9. The end is nigh!
  10. Stupidity from Nokia this time...
  11. Tesco falling for basic maths error
  12. OMG! The drivel starts!
  13. DHCPv6 working!!!!
  14. Dhcpv6
  15. DHCPv6 over PPP
  16. Tricky parenting questions...
  17. IPv6 Expert?
  18. Busy Week
  19. Call recording
  20. Open letter to Three
  21. PPP IPV6CP vs DHCPv6
  22. The demise of shops?
  23. Three shop and SoGA
  24. Orange still breaking the law!
  25. And so it begins...
  26. World IPv6 day!
  27. How much?!?
  28. Busy day
  29. Vat
  30. Orc problems
  31. Up to half price
  32. BT FTTC PPPoE 1500 MTU FB2700 FTW
  33. 2011

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