Monthly Archives: July 2011

O2 coverage in Centerparcs

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Just a note to say that if you are planning a trip to Centerparcs in either Nottingham or Penrith – the O2 network coverage is very weak. Also had issues with very slow Internet access on the internal wifi network. You could use dialup connections if all else fails. In fact I did that on […]

Twitter feed hacked

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Have just found that my feed had been compromised with the usual “Mom makes $500 a day” spam  – can only assume that Twitter’s bruce force break protection is not all its cracked up to be. Well its now even better protected and  I will be looking at other means of protecting the account.  Not […]

Stopping the Ninjatization of everything

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<Rant> I have noticed the terrible creeping “instantness” of Ninja this and Nija that in the IT and other arenas. Its perhaps a bit pedantic but I have to comment on the mixup that appears to have crept into the use of the term Ninja and its application to being skillful and adept. Ninjitsu is […]

Slow broadband – curse of holidays

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I have had to put up with absolutely terrible internet access while away on holiday. Its pretty amazing that the carriers cannot actually get their act together and put decent wireless or broadband into areas with large numbers of people. Loss of signal and flapping between networks makes the situation even worse. I definitely think […]