2015–2026
1,488 posts
2026 45
October 2026
- Some simple Eufymake tips 3D print over print
- PCB mechanical fit testing
- Is TOTSCO fit for purpose
- BT SFI Should not exist any more
September 2026
August 2026
July 2026
June 2026
May 2026
- PCB designs, Ethernet, and PoE
- Rendering
- Tindie
- CE
- Customising PCBs
- Cheeky domains
- Blog post
- Lectronz and IOSS
April 2026
March 2026
February 2026
- Openreach director
- Charging for postage
- Companies House ID checks
- What dreams are made of
- Battery powered board
- Conspiracy theories
- Telescope issues
- Losing my dad
January 2026
2025 81
December 2025
November 2025
- Native TinyUSB on ESP32S3 using my own device class
- USB project
- Boots (chemist) banning me because of their cock up
- More useless Amazon
- BT plc officially cancel British Summer Time???
- Personal use call recordings
- Import Duty
- WiFi details via NFC
- The Streisand effect
- Punched paper tape
- Oven pre-heat
- Noises off
- My ultimate e-paper board...
October 2025
- More on VAT an Duty on imports
- The end of 17070 and serious consequences
- Oh, Amazon, you are crazy
- LED Strips
- Magic LEDs
September 2025
- Power saving on hot tub, and what not to do
- Working with a factory (ESP flasher board)
- One of those days (Amazon)
- Finally Amazon
- Nice neighbourhood
- QR abuse...
August 2025
- Microwave plates
- Stupid user interfaces
- Tindie vs Amazon
- Scammers
- That is not how import tariffs work!
- First resin print failure
- Prototype 3D
- Getting the hang of it (3D resin)
- Moving from FDM to resin 3D
- Interesting new scam "worry free purchase"
- NFC reader and alarm/door entry system
- Ordering 3D prints
- Trying 0201
July 2025
- GS1, scam?
- The printer that just worked (and other fairytales)
- Age verification
- Bloody Amazon
- Updated regulator
- IR cameras
- Wish list: Power/battery management IC
June 2025
- Faikin board ATE
- Battery life
- Tax, duty, VAT, GST, Tariffs on import?
- Canon CT-21
- Some more of my videos
- Canon PRO-1000 vs CT-21
- IR LED controllers
- Infra-red remote conrols
May 2025
April 2025
March 2025
February 2025
January 2025
2024 78
December 2024
- Making my bed
- Don't use UPS to ship to UK
- Deliveries from China
- Fb9000
- Audio sync
- ESP32 SD Card wiring and driving
- Small LED strip boards.
- Fun with... LED Strips
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
- One Touch Switching
- Selling via Amazon
- TOTSCO (One Touch Switching) Live
- Power on the line
- Cool feature on VoLTE
- Broadband slamming
- Trying out a service
- The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013
- TOTSCO load
July 2024
- 12:60
- TOTSCO 66 is guidance, optional
- OFCOM disinterest in OTS?
- TOTSCO moving goal posts, again!
- Bulk ESP32-S3 programming
- TOTSCO - the top level - ordering
- TOTSCO journey (to help other CPs)
- TOTSCO Integration testing done
- TOTSCO - making it work
- TOTSCO change freeze
- TOTSCO, telcos, a little help please!
- TOTSCO Tick Tock
June 2024
- TOTSCO correlationID
- Will TOTSCO be ready?
- TOTSCO, gets worse
- NOTSCO (Not TOTSCO) One Touch Switching test platform (now launched)
- Working with TOTSCO
- One Touch Switching
May 2024
- Hot tubs are expensive (again)
- ISO8601 is wasted
- Debugging
- Data packages
- 07700 900461
- Adults must show ID to use social media
- COVID+7
- Is it spring yet?
April 2024
March 2024
- The first council rant, and my apologies
- Hot tubbing...
- Learning to count [in recycling] ♳♴♵♶♷♸♹
- Brady M211
- Bugfix of Damocles
- Missing unix/linux/posix file open option
- Separating waste
- How not to QR (again)
- Except for access
- Think
- One can dream
- 2038
February 2024
January 2024
2023 51
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
- What counts as R&D?
- Amazon done wrong
- LIGHT HAS A SPEED - SO WHY NOT DARK?
- ESP32-S3-MINI-1 GPIO
- ESP32-S3
July 2023
June 2023
- Pipelining
- CH340X DTR/TNOW with ESP8266/ESP32 BOOT and RESET
- JLCPCB and fun rules
- To USB or not to USB, that is the question!
- Companies bad at banking
May 2023
- Defensive coding
- SQFMI Watchy (first impressions)
- Shoe laces
- USB Lead (and the state of modern tech and advertising)
- TX1812Z5 and WS2812B
- Customs
April 2023
- Popt
- Bulb and Ombudsman
- Industry standards
- Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
- Phœnix Contact connectors
- Talking to an AI would be easier than Amazon
March 2023
- So.Energy & Ombudsman
- Pecr
- Bed sensor
- Sci-fi and time dilation
- The end is nigh (for phone lines, anyway)
February 2023
January 2023
2022 78
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
- Out of respect
- Richard Joseph Kennard, 1937-2022
- Waiting to die
- Getting data out of smart meters
- Free electricity
September 2022
- Lies, and politicians
- Angles Mort
- Pet hate number 0̷
- Recording multiple cameras on a Mac
- Weird science
- Winter is coming
- Battery, part 3
- You learn something every day (law)
- Windows update
- Battery pack
- Latest recipe tips
- Current clamps
- Geek energy saving (SFW cabling porn)
- Not saving energy
- Battery, part 2
August 2022
- Is GDPR even more flawed than I thought?
- Saving energy...
- W3W business plan
- Grid reference
- Battery, part 1
- Open the pod bay doors, HAL
- WIFi is not Internet!
July 2022
- Research on misdialled numbers
- How did the aircon cope?
- It's bad luck to be superstitious
- A flaw in GDPR
June 2022
- The round one
- ICO and NHS
- Euro profile locks - a few tips
- Ipv8
- Un-mapping CGNAT for IPv6, etc, with no overhead?
- Starlink (2)
- Security by annoyance
- Shelly Plus 1 GPIO
- A bit more on air-con
- Starlink
- New air-con, part 6
May 2022
April 2022
- The latest crazy law
- Blog post
- Solar install, part 4 (export)
- Solar install, part 3 (performance)
- Solar install, part 2 (tasmota/shelly EM)
- Solar install, part 1
- Power line signalling thoughts (demand power management)
- New air-con, part 4
- New air-con, part 3
- New air-con, part 2
- New air-con, part 1
March 2022
- When is gigabit not gigabit?
- Faster fibre at A&A
- Possible VAT scam
- VAT on energy products
- Environmental sensors (SCD41 CO₂)
February 2022
- ESP32-PICO-MINI-02
- And another board
- The new ASR33 controller board
- CR+LF has a long history...
- So this £200 loan will be mandatory - crazy!
January 2022
2021 67
December 2021
- Is Boxing day 2021 a holiday?
- Irrational numbers and copyright
- Proposal: Updates to the QR specification.
- More fun with LEDs
- Dial the gate
- Where are we with the air-con?
- Tech, and mince pies
November 2021
- More on Highway Code (Abergavenny)
- ESP8266 vs ESP32
- No, we don't have servants
- Carbon cycle
- Blockchain is not the answer
October 2021
- DEFCON Lights
- The COVID experience (vaccinated)
- Tasmota thermostat
- Mitsubishi Lossnay+GUG aircon (not actually working)
- New Mitsubishi Ducted Air-con with Lossnay (bad user interface)
September 2021
August 2021
- Solar System goes live
- NHS covid pass
- Review how emergency services handle location data from the public.
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
- Almost a real RF engineer!
- Solder paste, and reflow oven
- Well, I made one
- Tooth ache
- Home automation for geeks
- Why Three Words
- Discussion: Not an Elechouse PN532 board
- The good, the bad, and the ugly
- UK Cyber Security Council
March 2021
- Selling a house
- Environmental sensors (now in colour)
- The trick to soldering these buggers (QFN16)
- The MK Grid Plus rabbit hole
- Hobby PCBs
- Selling a house (week 1).
February 2021
- UK smart light switches
- Fibre cable
- RJ45 crimp tool
- Three weeks in 🏴
- Internet in Wales
- TAZ 6 printing tip of the day
- I'm happy to be judged by my bookcase.
- Life in the slow lane
- Life in Wales
- Week 0 (selling)
January 2021
2020 73
December 2020
- BNT162b2 Pfizer COVID vaccine, on paper tape!
- Facebook portal oddness
- Week 6
- More magic QR codes
- The trump tweet machine
- Week 5
- Banning encryption, again
- ASR33 consumables
- Week 4
- '70s game on '60s teletype
- Connecting an ASR33 Teletype to an ESP32
- Week 3
- ASR33 Restoration
- Instant (10 minute) COVID-19 tests
November 2020
- Week 2
- Week 1
- Moving house
- Geek's house
- Using MIFARE Classic in 2020
- Smart card readers
- Ampersands are fun
- Why A&A are asking you to ask for a PAC?
- Reverse engineering
September 2020
- Fun with QR library
- The blue M&M test
- Tech: Managing calls
- UK government digitally signed my penis!
- How not to QR (NHS COVID-19 App)
- Dull images
August 2020
- Pseudo C++ using cpp (the RevK macro)
- Blog post
- Making a meme?
- A simple flat tyre - but this is 2020, so no...
July 2020
June 2020
- Beyond credit cards - is this a way forward?
- Logic puzzle?
- Linked households and musical chairs
- Confirmation of Payee
- Mental health
- Follow me for more recipes
- The new rules (Wales, June 2020) - a little different to England
May 2020
- The new rules (England, June 2020) - Barnard Castle trip definitely legal now!
- Case study: Payments and trust (Monzo)
- Holiday refund
- Cycle lane logic?
- JSON all the things
April 2020
- Be reasonable
- Going to work?
- Bgp
- Losing all respect
- Monzo Business Account
- NHS ID not good enough to prove "Essential travel"
- "Light" lockdown
March 2020
- Rules
- 🦠 Cashless Social Distancing
- CrowVID-19 infects our home
- Business as usual, or is it?
- Pi day
- Backwards compatibility!
- No comment
- Big number maths
February 2020
- Internet in a box
- RevK 2.0
- Escorted off the ship
- Standard C function to read lines from a file
- VPN on a ship
- VPN over UDP over *fake* TCP
- Far from #Brexit - some civilised drinks
January 2020
2019 76
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
- GPS trackers
- Dropping summer time
- ESP-IDF re-partitioning the flash on the fly
- GPS made easy
- Dissolvable PVA support
- LulzBot TAZ Pro (dual extruder)
- USB-C not so easy
- Powering widgets
- Iot
September 2019
- Brexit
- 99% of insurance claims
- Countdown and clock changes
- Brexit countdown clock
- Environmental sensor
- Front door locks, at last
- PCB milling
- Pololu D24V5F3
August 2019
- ESP32 Interrupts
- ESP32 progress
- ESP-01, ESP-12F, ESP-12S, ESP32
- Moving to ESP32
- New milling machine
- Body cams are weird #GDPR
July 2019
- 🚲 Paint only cycle lines
- Environmental sensors
- Door control
- DoH and VPNs and trust
- Amazon Yesterday
- What if I eat it all?
June 2019
- Soft RS485 UART using interrupts on ESP8266
- Choosing interface for PN532 (I²C, SPI or HSU) to ESP8266
- I knocked up a library
- NXP MIFARE DESFire EV1 for access control
May 2019
- Tipping the scales
- Door entry system
- Relays
- PCB Milling bits
- I've got the power!
- New life for old tech (Galaxy keypad)
- PN532 Disappointing electronics
- WiFi for an alarm system?
April 2019
- PCB milling
- Upgrading the scales to WiFi and RFID
- Upgrading my Marsden M-125 scales to WiFi
- Arduino / ESP8266 / ESP-01 / ESP-12F
- Inveo Nano
- This is cool
- Tasmota / Sonoff - two way light switch controls
- Setting the temperature
March 2019
- Marmite popcorn
- Mqtt
- Reprogramming a light switch
- De-clouding IoT
- What are N26 bank up to?
- Understanding CO₂ air quality better
- Air quality and CO₂ levels
- Serious WiFi case study (a house in Wales)
- Daikin Air-con WiFi control
- Bleeding time and motion
- Over kill?
February 2019
- Fun game!
- My first Borg implant
- Outside WiFi
- When is an email address not an email address?
- Decent WiFi
- Don't make up email addresses
- An interesting scam (I wonder how Amex will cope).
- Personal (medical?) data
January 2019
2018 175
December 2018
- Amazing
- Meaning of an Amazon Christmas?
- Is my LG TV haunted?
- Game Over for Stargate playing cards
- Another new toy
- Ho Ho Ho!
- New watch
- Scripted font generation using fontforge
November 2018
October 2018
- Unicode dicks
- Playing cards
- SVG being a tad special
- Better audio
- On the matter of fonts and copyright
- Not the Alteran font
- Getting bank details right
- Canon EOS-R
- Polarised filter
- A lesson on how to piss off a fan!
- Selling playing cards on Amazon
- Cal Mah
- Norfolk Broads
- SVG, font metrics, am I being thick?
- Making people aware: Anglian windows
- Making tax digital
- OFCOM and some sanity? Maybe?
September 2018
- Being a fucking idiot, or just getting old.
- I thought PDF solved this crap
- Licensing intellectual property - a tale of two journeys
- Where am I with these damn Stargate playing cards?
- When is a final bill not a final bill? British Gas
- Amazon again
- Stargate addresses
- Gate glyphs (#stargate)
- The RevK brand
- Dual purpose QR codes
- Printing, and microscopes!
- New CLI rules are a bad idea
- Amazon, again
August 2018
- Stargate address numbering P3X-421
- Alteran digits
- Stargate Alteran playing cards
- Amazon and VAT look, err, fun
- Drawing GS-1 barcodes
- Emc
- Amazon a tad disappointing
- OFCOM think people cannot use a diary?
- I thought Amazon did logistics?
- Conservatory
- Selling promotional products
- Amazon - fulfilled by us?
- Another tip for small items on Amazon
- More on Amazon (Brand Name)
- The Real World
- Dealing with GS-1 and Amazon
- Trying out Amazon...
- A RevK GiveAway
- Lungs of the Earth
- GDPR: Secret black lists
- Playing cards getting out of hand now
- Royal M17l?
July 2018
- Things can be fixed!
- I could never be an artist!
- Promotional playing cards
- Funeral plans
- Some lessons learned with inkscape
- Diabetic dieting
- Very frustrating modem bug
- Copyright
- FTTP and G.fast
- Blogspot did it again
- Air conditioning at home (planning permission!)
June 2018
- SVG Vector Playing Cards
- Tesco Scan As You Shop
- Bistromathics
- All good things come to an end
- This, Jen, is "The Internet"
- Taking a computer on holiday, or not
- Flir
- Insulin - an idea
- Did GDPR kill my blog?
- Multihoming IPv6
- Insulin
May 2018
- Winding down
- Analogue phones, 1876 to 2025, RIP
- Pick a card, any card... @monzo a winner
- New toy (Mag card reader/writer)
- Holiday tech
- If you wanna be the best, if you wanna beat the rest, medication's what you need
- Apple used to be good at this!
- Gdpr
- (mis) targeted adverts
- Looking forward to a holiday
- Real banks are shit, but "challenger" banks are more shit, maybe?
- Change of mindset
- It feels wrong somehow
- Buzz off
- Did https kill my blog
- The problem with SNI (and domain fronting) - Heisenberg's SNI?
- Discounts and surcharges
- Network appliances and https
- Junk calls, what can we do in A&A
- How can we have effective laws against cold callers?
April 2018
- Security is fun
- Learning to ACME
- On line orders
- FB2900 and Let's Encrypt
- Outward opening front door
- Standards (TLS)
- JSON vs XML
- Ianal
- Fb2900
- FireBrick FB2900
March 2018
- Nice one blogger
- I wonder if you can trade mark a phone number
- Ongoing A&A broadband stuff
- Decent microphone for my videos
- find.me.uk
- Memcpy
- Staying sane
- Blogs brewing
- Fair reporting
- Frustrating year so far for me
- Limits and tolerances
- LG and privacy (again)
- LG and privacy
- Wallpaper TV
- Installing LG OLED65W7V Wallpaper TV
- LG 65EG960V 2015 Curved 4k OLED 3D TV
February 2018
- Very Special "Data Protection" logic from Norwegian Cruise Lines
- Slightly frustrated with Starling bank...
- Costa
- The Orville
- Network equipment in cars and boats?
- Direct Debit fraud
- Let the juice flow
- Clawing back a DD
- Startgate Origins - Indeed!
- Barclays incompetence
- Apple iMac Pro 10G Ethernet buggy?
- Power to the people: Stage 1
- What a "dick head" (his words): NRG Installs Ltd
- Banks trying to change the rules by bad use of wording.
- When it a "30 minute guarantee" not a "30 minute guarantee"?
- ICO web site hacked?
- 2D bar codes
- The frustrating bit...
- Only ISP guaranteeing no mid contract-price rises?
- The important bit!
- svg inkscape and ghostscript...
- The soul of a new machine
- Number right?
January 2018
- No, you hang up!
- How do we explain: Maths does not work like that?
- When is "next day" not in fact "next day"?
- Custom (UK mainland) car number plates
- We need something better than TPS and current legislation
- VDSL SFP and FireBrick
- Special paperwork!
- Universal Paperclips
- I did take a course in economics.
- Emergency plumbing...
- Innovation at its best
- Discount for cash! No!
- Just Eat
- Fake News
- Why can't people make workable laws, FFS
- Financial Ombudsman and PGP
- No more card charges
- Making pre-loaded Raspberry Pi image
- Bootlace Crimp Ferrules
2017 276
December 2017
- Pondering the new year
- Pre-order
- Merry Christmas
- Sunday Trading Laws
- Meaning of Christmas
- The smug is strong with this one
- A keyboard feeling the cold?
- Lines or markers
- Working with Starling Bank?
- Rose tinted glasses
- Buying a car...
- Health
- New RFC? IBAN URI
- New year, new pipes (not made of wet string, honest)
- The new levelling up
- I really am starting to lose my rag with @Barclays
- Please upgrade me to ADSL over wet string
- It's official, ADSL works over wet string
- Canaries
- Frozen!
- More fun with SVG
- Dismantling a canary?
- Paperless
- IPv6 World Leader 2017
- Friends do not let friends share passwords!
- Today's recipe: Crisps from Makro
- Fire place
- Today's recipe: Chicken Korma Pot Noodle
- My Christmas present
- Payment Services Regulations 2017
- Why? apple
- Today's recipe: Curry Pot Noodle
November 2017
- Christmas is coming?
- Trademark
- Today's recipe: Grilled cheese on toast
- Today's recipe: Chicken soup
- Tracing a bitmap
- SVG all the things, now!
- Today's recipe: Ryvita and soft cheese
- Bloody banks!
- Svg
- Summer is coming?!?
- Openness
- Moving on
- This is why I will never be an alarm installer
- Monzo current account and fast payments and their API
- DoS attacks, sorry
- OK I get it, enough is enough
- Pushing the limits
- Flat Earth
- 🎶 The Internet is really really great... 🎶
- Ada
- Is this getting out of hand now?
- Droning on
- Automatic Compensation for Broadband faults
- Better broadband
- The shame, the failure...
- CISCO & FireBrick?
- Tax avoidance
- Friends
- NAT is evil, and really, not a good firewall, honest
- Burning an Openreach van effigy will clearly fix the broadband.
- Stargate Gods?
- Net Neutrality
October 2017
- Is there a role for social media to solve the "web of trust" issue?
- Winter is coming
- Twitter Troll
- BT Light user scheme
- Advantage anyone not using Openreach?
- BT can fine you for getting broadband elsewhere?
- Picking holes in a TV show, again...
- Fraudsters get £120,000 in email scam - who is to blame?
- Social care / low income mobile tariffs
- 55p a minute
- Recording
- Blip
- Clueless
- Another little gem in the OFCOM CoP
- Small world, it is...
- Concrete example of 10th percentile issue
- One in ten UK broadband lines are faulty, says OFCOM ?
- SolarSystem alarm and web sockets
- Websockets are awesome
- Apple TV
- Next step with A&A tariffs
- Sudafed
- Amber Rudd - you do not need to understand encryption
- Amigo Loans being thick
September 2017
- Sloppy 3D print designs
- Amigo loans
- Unicode SSIDs
- iPhone roaming with IPv6
- Insulin pens and temperature
- Who could have predicted this and told the ASA?
- Data Protection
- OFCOM confirm BT lied to us
- Quota Bonus
- NIS Directive and Internet companies in the UK…
- On a scale of one to ten
- Taking a break
- Moving on...
- Don't be a dick
- Approaching the Unknown (2016)
- Thanks for the comments
- Metered Water
August 2017
- Transparency
- Tell me what you want for A&A tariffs
- More Thomas Cook frustration
- The Star Trek view of the future
- PWS Builders - not recommended
- A day in the life...
- A report from the front lines at A&A
- Epic Adventure
- Epic fail? Thomas Cook and Norwegian Cruise Lines
- Public Interest
- Dear OFCOM, can we play this game too?
- Why do Openreach lie?
- EU mobile roaming after brexit
- NCL Epic priority elevators
- Lifts and idiots
- Cruise₂
- Contracts, payments, and @tesco
- Ada
- Home secretary embarrasses herself, again
- Contactless technology @tesco today
July 2017
- Very careful blog post...
- Maths test
- Honeywell RF stuff
- Playhouse alarm
- Say the words three times, stand on one leg, what else?
- Nominet Domain Lock
- warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions
- More on pitfalls of redundancy...
- It is almost like the good old days, err...
- Githun
- Bricking it!
- Porn ID checks set to start in April 2018
- To open source, or not to open source? That is the question...
- When you know the design is bad
- In theory, theory and practice are the same, but...
- Pitfalls of system redundancy
- Definition of income / turnover
- Busy week
- SolarSystem?
- Parmrk
- So far I quite like the RIO
- More coding
- Alarm panel code
- Techie: How would I do it?
- Hacking
- Moral high ground?
- Store cards
June 2017
- Moral guidance
- What is the scam here?
- Badly written RFCs
- Amazing
- Stereotyping?
- Controversy of empty London buildings
- Much better motion blur using Final Cut Pro
- Time lapse and motion blur (Final Cut)
- I am me
- Why you need exactly TWO 3D printers...
- Right and Left
- Politics
- Bandwidth
- Boiler plate text on emails
- Vote
- Social media bubble
- Pen & Paper cryptography - people always have a safe place to communicate
- Extremism
- Blue, Black, White, or Gold dress
- Junk mail
- Comparing tatt
- We live in interesting times
May 2017
- Feiyu MG V2 3 axis gimbal
- Time-lapse
- A crime that one cannot report
- 24k Gold Foil Playing Cards - with Certificate
- If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear!
- No way for terrorists to safely communicate!
- The internet of video
- Oh Apple, thou art trying to vex me
- Stupidity tax?
- Tesco multibuy
- Norwegian Jade, Day 9
- Norwegian Jade, Day 8
- Norwegian Jade, Day 7: Bergen
- Norwegian Jade, Day 6: Geiranger
- Norwegian Jade, Day 5: Ålesund
- Norwegian Jade, Day 4: Skjolden
- Norwegian Jade, Day 3: Stavanger
- Norwegian Jade, Day 2
- Norwegian Jade, day 1
- Copywrong
- OFCOM consultation on ADR
- OFCOM consultation on automatic compensation
- Banning end-to-end encryption
- Is end to end encryption banned?
- Contention ratios
- Apple TV
- Apple and Unifi
- Even more confusion when picking a broadband provider
- Premium All(most) Inclusive
- ColorFabb wood fill
April 2017
- Slartibartfast tour!
- "I don't want porn coming in to my home"
- The plot thickens...
- Cursed apple
- I expected better
- Talking to apple support
- Julian Huppert - Cambridge
- PGP usage
- Serious rants at apple now
- Progress on iPhone roaming
- Apple TV has gone terribly wrong for me
- Customer Privacy
- Gravity plating
- Barclays on-line banking bug
- Next step in AP testing here
- Working with ubiquiti
- AAISParty - 20 years old
- Encrypting emails to customers
March 2017
- "Up to" speeds
- Where are we with Unifi and iPhone roaming?
- The new £1 coin
- Misleading customers?
- Was I wrong on the oven?
- Critical thinking
- Thermostats (again)
- OFCOMs plan for automatic compensation for broadband faults
- Keeping Customer Informed
- Proud dad
- Think of the Children (again)
- Back to work
- One size does not fit all
- Brexit Broadband
- Tactless
- Why did I make a blog?
- Gearing up!
- Getting screwed
- Today's work
- Meet your ISP
- Resistance is futile
- Buying plastic
February 2017
- Never say "yes"
- File sharing crime
- Engineering precision?
- 3D printing liability
- Odd use of QR code
- Finishing touches
- Protect me, not yourself, Barclays...
- 3D printing materials
- Snooper's Charter and LINX
- Pain killers
- More on OpenSCAD
- TV has changed
- OpenSCAD with some heart, and balls!
- 3D print graveyard
- Investigatory Powers Act on EuroNews
- Moving
- Lulzbot TAZ 6 - when things go wrong
January 2017
- Lulzbot TAZ 6 vs Makerbot Replicator 2
- "Alternative" Dispute Resolution
- Aliens killing the network?
- Calling all small ISPs: Fixing broadband faults
- DE Bill - phone blocking orders
- ADR (Otello) from the other side (EE)
- UBNT/Ubiquiti and iPhone and roaming not working
- Barcode reader apps (iPhone)
- On the TV again
- The Queen's cold
- Teaching us to suck eggs? BT?
- Traffic management in A&A
- Barcodes
- URL shorter for barcodes
- Happy New Year
2016 205
December 2016
- SendNotificationResult
- BT and their wifi adverts
- Connecting to @AAISP Fast?
- Good news for privacy - Investigatory Powers Act vs CJEU
- IEC18004 QR Codes
- Boiling a frog, and old age
- Change Freeze
- How not to do 2FA?
- OFCOM Broadband USO
- What we did in the end for A&A 2FA
- Copyright and links
- The TOTP seed storage dilemma
- Leaning to code
- 2FA on A&A control pages
- Security is a battle on two fronts
- Investigatory Powers Act - devil in the detail
- Two factor authentication
November 2016
- Evaluating a VPN provider
- Openreach/BT Split
- Human Rights
- First they came for the porn sites
- IPv6 and Zen
- Snooper's Charter and A&A
- More on Live TV from my man cave
- Dreams
- Indapamide
- Brick wall BT
- Scammers are obvious
- Technically correct (@aaisp and 10Gb/s backhaul)
- Giving the police more power? (#IPBill/#IPAct)
October 2016
- Latest attempt at filtering the Internet
- Meta
- Phone numbers
- Taboo and privacy...
- Bending the rules? 07 mobile VoIP
- To ten gigabits, and beyond!
- Next it will be burning books
- Card fraud
September 2016
- Bloody Banks @BarclaysUK
- WoW Gold and Blizzard bank?
- Meeting a hero (@xkcd)
- Unifi/Apple getting worse
- Timers and thermostats
- Live TV interviews (Using DSLR with Skype on a Mac)
- Sponsored schadenfreude?
- Numbering plan
- Sorn
- How not to do WiFi?
- My daughter got married
August 2016
- Apple tax
- Net neutrality and IPv6
- Man cave: Day 366 - finally done
- How many times do we have to explain it?
- Drones and police
- Help to Buy ISA
- 360 degree images
- IBM Model M and Filco keyboards
- Maybe it was Unifi after all
- Editorial control
- Droney McDroneface: Flight test
- More mis-selling from Sky Q?
- iPhone WiFi roaming and DHCP issues
- Pointless tests at BT Martlesham
- Are we living in a simulated universe?
- WoW IPv6
- Why OFCOM's ruling on BT charging Talk Talk SFI and TRC charges does not help most ISPs
- Making network cables
- iPhone Unifi DHCP issue
- Captive portals (apple)
- Hard sell from BT
- Up to 80Mb/s
July 2016
- Sky Q
- BW Reed & Son Ltd (Builders)
- Man cave - the final countdown
- Blizzard working on IPv6
- Blizzard withdrawing support for IPv6?
- Out-geeked by the best
- Think of the children!
- The new elephant in the room - meta data collection. We need your help!
- Will anyone buy a UK crypto solution ever again?
- Everyone loves Lenny!
- Junk calls, TPS and DPA
- Operations Manual - bloody stupid
- Paper planes
- Battery Safety
June 2016
- Scotland
- Heads or Tails? Who are your friends now? #EURef
- Daft question
- The death of the land line?
- Leaving the EU
- Droney McDroneface: Day 4 (I passed!)
- Droney McDroneface: Day 3
- Droney McDroneface: Day 2 (Air Law)
- Droney McDroneface: Day 1
- Should I thank Theresa May?
- Canon EOS 1DX MkII
- Busy day
- Using Mondo Card in the US
- The Hangover, Part 50?
May 2016
- Droney McDroneface
- Photographing children
- When is a KCI3 not a KCI3
- Fun with numbers
- M&S, could have been good, failed badly.
- ADR and broadband switching
- 20CN reprieve?
- The 20CN dilemma...
- Apple practising bistro mathematics
- New door, and google image search
- Rip
- Barclays cut off times?
- It is possible to move number to VoIP and not kill broadband!
- Check my physics here...
- BT plc anticompetitive stonewalling?
- #IPBill commons committee stage... Was it worth it?
- ASA broadband and "line rental"
April 2016
- $5 wrench #IPBill
- Explain it, as you would to a child... #IPBill
- So, I'll try contacting Lord West #IPBill
- Good question from @LordStras on #IPBill today - shame about the answer!
- More on SciFi: Stargate communications stones
- Number porting update
- European Convention on Human Rights
- CPP why do you hate me?
- Who would want to work for an ISP? #IPBill
- #IPBill madness
- Keeping your number
- Protection from Harassment Act 1997
- Stepping back
- Is this why we need to spy on every citizen on everything they do in their home all the time? #IPBill
- Mondo
- Tax avoider?
- My solicitor
- Dear Blogspot - just in case Verso Group (UK) Ltd contact you...
- Verso Group (UK) Ltd
- Posting about A&A
- Verso Group (UK) Ltd
- Number porting, Broadband, and VoIP
- Growing pains - pain relief
March 2016
- Growing pains - next step
- Internet Connection Records, a small taste of the problems with #IPBill
- CISCO and ARP?
- Public Bill Committee Written Evidence #IPBill
- Signal #IPBill
- Replacing switches
- Call apparently from VERSO GROUP (UK) LIMITED - junk calls
- #IPBill - Next Step the public bill committee
- Brexit?
- Micro controller stuff
- There can be only one!
- Phone lines and broadband, and OFCOM
- This is special
- Calling from OFGEN? Really?
- BT refusing to fix faults
- GCHQ boss: Tech firms should co-operate over encryption
- Child Safety Online
- Growing pains
- INSERT INTO table SET field=value,...
- Investigatory Powers Bill published
February 2016
- Maricopa County Attorney bans iPhones
- The state is our servant not our keeper
- On splitting up BT...
- BT Group plc shareholder
- Talk Talk refusing to fix faults
- SciFi: Time Travel
- Another stupid OFCOM code of practice
- Computer says "no"!
- Apple
- Accused of lying?
- Skyaphobia
- The power of the blog
- How slow can it be?
- Problems with Royal Mail
- Should we stay in ISPA?
- Properly clarify status of encryption in The Investigatory Powers Bill
- Market power (Facebook and the French)
- Likes
- Sorry, but still unclear on crypto #IPBill
- Terabyte services
- #IPBill Joint Committee report
- L2TP services
- Future of BT?
- Blood pressure
- Copyright reform
- The price of snooping
- Will Govnt allow companies to offer communications services which can't be read?
January 2016
- Terabyte services launch
- BT Engineer appointments
- Infinity, unless it is for a competitor
- Rejected Petition
- Applying for credit these days...
- Will UK government allow companies to offer communications services which can't be read?
- Counting the terabytes
- Latest nonsense from ASA in collusion with OFCOM!
- Forget the technology
- Mathematics does not bend to the law
- Busy week
- How many grammes long is your parcel?
- Chaos2
- Live on the ocean
- Next milestone
- Terabyte service milestones
- Talk Talk (wholesale) once again do not understand what they sell
- Annoyed with @IKEAUK today
- Christmas list
2015 283
December 2015
- 2016
- Royal Mail Shipping API - finally working
- Honoured, thank you.
- #IPBill implications
- Live on TV via Skype!
- Royal Mail Shipping API
- We must all be better than average
- WSSE PasswordDigest
- My experience with @iMakrStore
- Bah, humbug!
- More on #IPBill
- Splitting up BT?
- The future of door keys?
- Bed levelling
- Wasp Delta 20x40
- GCHQ and snooping
- Merry Christmas
- #IPBill Oral evidence to Joint Committee on Draft Investigatory Powers Bill
- Can you justify your Internet Connection Records?
- Why #IPBill is bad for business
- Apparently, for a fee, BT can control the weather?
- Police misleading the public to pass the Investigatory Powers Bill?
- Relativity
- All about trust
- Lies, damn lies, and Royal Mail
- The demise of SmartStamp
- Threat from terrorists
- Back-dooring encryption, via the back door?
November 2015
- Draft Investigatory Powers Bill Select Committee
- Data Retention, Spooks, and National Security
- Logging DNS lookups
- Snooper's Charter 101 Please share
- Home Office meeting re IPBill
- Changes to IP Bill?
- Poisoning the well
- How can terrorists and pedophiles bypass the IPBill?
- Cost of Data Retention
- BGP Blackhole routes
- What could happen next after #IPBill?
- Uncrackable encryption
- https and shopping, for dummies
- Plan an attack in-game?
- This is not new, and it does not work
- What is an "Internet Connection Record"?
- How to take the latest attack
- What privacy can we promise you?
- Play nice or "they" could make life difficult for you
- Why internet is not the same as telephone - lesson for MPs
- Computer vaccine? #IPBill
- #IPBill Police ask you to break in to A&A offices and steal a hard drive?
- Gagging Retention Orders
- 10Mb/s USO?
- IBM Model M buckling spring keyboard
- McDonald's Apple Pie
- Working with ISPs
- Not a Licence to Kill, thank you Lord West of Spithead
- Draft Investigatory Powers Bill
- Wood stain saga
- Government still think there are "communication providers"
- Fraudulent calls to 123
- Safe secrets?
October 2015
- No, we will not be logging your search history, David Cameron
- New New York
- Seriously, censorship of communications is bad
- Daylight Saving Time
- F1 Paddock Club
- Matica/EDISecuere vs Zebra
- Unraveling a zebra
- Reverse engineering the IDSecure/Matica XID580ie/XID9300 card printer
- Man cave: Nearly
- Man cave: Day 24
- Outward opening external door
- Floating shelves
- Retirement?
- Man cave: Day 23
- Man cave: Day 22
- Cycling on the pavement
September 2015
- Man cave: Day 21
- Man cave: Day 20
- Man cave: Day 19
- Man cave: Day 18
- Man cave: Day 17
- Credit agreement for insurance
- Man cave: Day 16
- Man cave: Day 15
- Internet and law
- We disputed BT charging us £39,744.00 to fix three FTTC lines
- Man cave: Day 14
- Man cave: Day 13
- Man cave: Day 12
- Man cave: Day 11
- Cctv
- Man cave: Day 10
- Man cave: Day 9
- Man cave: Day 8
- Barclays another hour wasted
- Man cave: Day 7
- Man cave: Day 6
- Barclays/Woolwich pain in the arse
- Barclays pain in the arse
- Man cave: Day 5
- Man cave: Day 4
- Man cave: Day 3
- Man cave: Day 2
- Man cave: Day 1
August 2015
- 0̷
- Specialist Printing Equipment and Materials (Offences) Act 2015
- Printing SIM cards
- Man Cave: Day 0
- Times change
- Received Packets With Error
- 0000
- Back door keys
- T-3 days, ish
- Getting a refund out of Apple!
- Government to abandon all ideas of trying to ban strong encryption
- T-4 days
- T-5 days
- This message intentionally left blank
- T-6 days
- T-7 days
- T-8 days
- T-9 days
- We fixed your FTTC - that'll be £25,200.00 please
- On getting a new TV
- Choosing a TV
- OFCOM numbering tax
- Floating floor
- #CryptoWars - why back doors in iMessages are stupid
July 2015
- Crypto wars
- Baroness Howe at it again
- Nearly slamming
- Holy cow - man cave may happen!
- 116000 more important than 999?
- Private mobile data networks
- Watches2U really are scum
- More scum?
- Who's the data subject?
- Ban random numbers
- Late payment penalties - good or bad business?
- Ban multiplication!
- Running up that bill
- No smoking signs
- TV licence loophole
- When is a 5% discount not a 5% discount?
- OFCOM - plot thickens
- Rationality
- Honestly?
- 15 minutes of fame is not enough...
- OFCOM's latest folly
- NoT - the quiet week
June 2015
- Binfield Engineering Centre
- Do they not teach decimal numbers in school any more?
- Back-haul
- NoT and 12 months term
- Business Names Act
- BT Account Managers
- Do I give in to blackmail?
- ICO is total waste of time
- 3D scanning
- Fun weekend, NoT
- Well done OFCOM!
- Slamming
- Talk Talk wholesale dragging their heels
- Broadband speed
- Peter McGhie, Phase DSCS / Phase Broadcast
- Stress
- Slow broadband
- Busy week
- How hard can it be?
- Legal entities
- Number porting woes
- Bob the builder
- Can of worms
- Thar's you problem
- Marketing?
- Apple Watch whilst driving?
- Consumer Rights Act 2015
May 2015
- Anti slamming service
- SEO scum?
- When to give up?
- Stressed
- OFCOM being very special
- 3D print show
- Right When Tested
- Age of Empires
- Meaning of life
- Strange court summons
- Politics
- Should've got Office::1
- Defamation
April 2015
- Back doors
- Manually keyed IPsec
- Ipsec
- What is a broadband fault?
- Race to the bottom
- The plot thickens
- Trying to do the right thing
- How do you know your core routers have no back doors?
- New TLDs
- Further in to the rabbit hole
- Emailing people asking if it is OK to email them?!
- It is rare to sack a customer
- Day in court
- BT: We'll fix a fault in 40 clock hours, unless it is because we did not invest in the network...
- My dead mother-in-law
- Man cave
- Photographing kids
- Hashes
- Passwords
- Distressing
- A&A support hours
March 2015
- Being fair to A&A customers
- What comes after SFI2?
- I have a cunning plan
- I wonder if we need to get OFCOM involved
- Some times BT just don't understand
- Man cave going nowhere
- Schrödinger's meme
- Well, I tried - GNU Terry Pratchett
- Sin349
- Ironic
- Industry wide process (SFI)
- When Sky give you our number!
- Free repairs and servicing!
- No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away
- THE ONE TIME WHEN TYPING IN ALL CAPS IS NOT SHOUTING
- iTunes down
- Naked DSL
- 4G dongles
- Sales dropping - increase prices!
- A&A and PGP
- The future of 999
- OFCOM above the law?
- Helping BT
- Banging head against wall (BT)
- The ICO do not record when someone makes a request under section 32 of the PECR
- Net Neutrality
- Mornings
- These go to 11
February 2015
- Unintentional DoS attacks?
- Knowing your customer
- OFCOM confirm...
- Training is hard work
- Building a new community
- The IT crowd: The next big challenge for IPv6
- Talk Talk at it now
- The outskirts of Communicado
- No clue
- Democracy
- TPS actually respond
- OFCOM drop the ball?
- OFCOM think they are above the law?
- Congestion case study
- When is junk mail not junk mail?
- Tax avoidance
- I hate being fucking ill
January 2015
- Afraid of being caught?
- Video editing
- Helping terrorists?
- God save the queen
- Reach Recruitment Services Ltd
- Anti-Terror laws are like antibiotics
- SnoopersCharter is already out of date
- Watching the government do its work
- Cool gadget
- Let's make a law, that will fix it
- Can we use David Cameron's super powers for good?
- Radio 5 interview shows stupidity
- Call for Apple to "do the right thing"
- No way to run the country!
- Please buy numbers in conservation areas
- Passwords
- Is over blocking legal?
- What's in a name?
- z226etuo57q9m6brbblz6ztkpea5ct23rmex0vlv3ik*0m3rw
- Meta spam
- Keeping secrets
- Sorry David Cameron but we have a right to privacy!
- Paying to a charity to settle a claim?
- Unethical?
- Reducing carbon emissions?
- Nuts on a plane