I can see exactly why you have to act as a go-between

It's more the fact that my landline number isn't on telecom's system, even though I they gave me the number last week and I can ring it and here my answer phone message.
Ihug can't fill in a…

I fail to see why I have to act as a go between for them.

I can see exactly why you have to act as a go-between – because you want a connection.
Of course, you shouldn't have to, but you have Hobson's choice. Roll on some kind of competition,…

Just got an email from a bogus address with the subject line:

VERIFY YOUR FREE IHUG MAIL ACCOUNT NOW !!!

Not quite sure what the financial motive is, but it's an obvious attempt to harvest Ihug logins. Unlikely to dupe Public Addressers (yes, like Ihug is…

Whoa...I see your "roll" now seems to extend to the illustrious heights of Telecon ... Watch out world here comes RussB

Not me — credit the Ignite Trust people.

Actually, Pt Chev is somewhere where there is a genuine engineering case for cabinetisation: bad cooper, very long run from the…

Whoa...I see your "roll" now seems to extend to the illustrious heights of Telecon.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10477862

Watch out world here comes RussB

the phone cord had become tangled around a power cord

Doesn't that say something about the quality of technology that is ADSL? Not to mention the Sky issue, which I had and solved by unplugging my Sky box (with zero impact on the telly that came through it). My ADSL…

My xtra broadband was working beautifully – and then........ about 7 weeks ago, it all just turned to craq. Sometimes my modem lights would go blinkety blink blink like a cheshire cat on crack

A similar experience, same symptoms, in my case a technician called round and checked all the…

oh, except ihug still trying to charge me for services i'd cancelled.

Ironically when I shifted my toll calls from Telecom to Ihug several years ago, Ihug sent the notification through to telecom that they were no longer my provider, and Telecom arranged for my calls to go through ihug…

Ihug:

They invented flat rate here, and forced the rest of the market to follow them. The other big commercial ISPs in 1996 all wanted to charge $5 an hour, but they had to fold.

damn straight. after my first $100 bill from some isp i immediately changed to ihug,…

then I got a job at Xtra. Even though I had a free phone line and monthly $50 credit that I could spend on the Telecom services of my choosing...

Having just signed a Telecom employment contract (for a very loosely affiliated business unit) I am eyeing this little clause…

They invented flat rate here, and forced the rest of the market to follow them. The other big commercial ISPs in 1996 all wanted to charge $5 an hour, but they had to fold

1. I remember when Xtra controversally dropped their dial-up hourly rate from $5 to $2.50. Smaller…

It's solid, if not stunning

I'm finding the announcement of Spoon pretty exciting – indie rock heaven! Was hanging out for a Jens Lekman announcement though, that would have been summer-tastic.

And they were often a price leader and they were big on flat rate when it was a new idea here in NZ.

They invented flat rate here, and forced the rest of the market to follow them. The other big commercial ISPs in 1996 all wanted to charge…

I've given up on file sharing, since they seem to detect it and throttle it. Silly them, since it was my only reason to have a high cap in the first place. So I dropped the cap, and pay them bugger all now.

I ditched ihug for that very reason…

You know, I used the phrase "that's how I roll" just yesterday

Ditto that. My mother didn't know what the flip I was talking about. I ain't frontin', holmes. Word.

Personally, I'm prepared to pay $10 more a month for Telecom/Xtra to have a single point of blame – if the service doesn't work then it's them or the modem, and I have two modems to try.

IHUG now offer single point of blame service. And actually their phone system…

I've given up on file sharing, since they seem to detect it and throttle it

There's work going on to avoid that through encrypted torrents. Personally I can't be bothered with file sharing either, mostly because I'm not a big watcher of videos.

Shame Kate Nash couldn't have dragged her shag out here for a holiday as we would have got the Cribs in on the act also.

Yeah, I was really really really hoping that the Cribs would be on the line-up. There are enough rather good bands to keep me happy…

Personally, I'm prepared to pay $10 more a month for Telecom/Xtra to have a single point of blame

Yeah me too. It's almost my only reason these days. I've given up on file sharing, since they seem to detect it and throttle it. Silly them, since it was my only…

hang up, fill in a change of address card, and send it to them

That'd be about right.

Personally, I'm prepared to pay $10 more a month for Telecom/Xtra to have a single point of blame – if the service doesn't work then it's them or the modem, and I…

I got the same. Then some nerdy guy struck up a conversation, we compared PDAs and I could see the penny dropping all around "oooooh, IT guys...that's all right then". The smiles came after that.

The Dec of Human Rights ought to have something about the right to blog, and maybe a prohibition on murdering idioms.

As I understand it, you're allowed to kill idioms, but only in a humane way that does not inflict unnecessary suffering on the idiom itself.

From: Faux-Vives, Geneva

Tse-Ming, is there really a suburb of that name? I think it roughly translates to "Vivid Fakes". Or do you mean Eaux-Vives?

The Dec of Human Rights ought to have something about the right to blog, and maybe a prohibition on murdering idioms.

I would get one from Fuel, but something about me just can't spend money when the KC is free.

It's a little hub of English railway etiquette.

almost two months we've gone without a connection because we need to keep my girlfriend's slingshot address for her work (no option).

I've spoken to a number of phone folks at slingshot about it in the past 7 weeks…

Don't miss Operator Please. Saw them supporting Arctic Monkeys in Sydney and their punky/poppy sound is a lot of fun live.

Shame Kate Nash…

I'd be really curious to know about the conversation with the good Dr Skilling and the other prominent CEO's on NZ ICT infrastructure (shame about those Chatham House rules). It would be reassuring to…

I guess I don't have the required social skills – not least, the ability to hold a glass of wine and a plate whilst imbibing from either – how do you do that elegantly? Is it taught at Business School?

Me neither. I believe there are schools in the States…

I guess I don't have the required social skills – not least, the ability to hold a glass of wine and a plate whilst imbibing from either – how do you do that elegantly?

Actually, being able to have a good talk to someone over a drink is often the…

Sounds like you're accessorized to be a CEO. You just need a digital shave ...

I have my people do that in Photoshop. It's so much more convenient.

I know the real purpose of these events is to network and make contacts, but I just have this massive aversion to standing…