Archive for February, 2008
…Just as I’d gotten settled.
I awoke to a phone call from my boss yesterday. I’ll be spending the rest of this week on board a ship, out at sea. Not to fix computers. Not to troubleshoot connectivity. Not to survey other tech on board… I’m doing 4 days of manual labour, in a cold, dark, cold, monotonous environment. No [...]
Almost moved…
Apologies for the quiet blog of late, chaps.
I’ve finally got most of my moving done, and soon Portuguese Man will return to being hosted from my home in the very near future. :)
Luke vs TV
We’re moving house at the moment, and the idea of destroying an old TV set was too good to pass up.
Of course, like many bits of hardware - a TV won’t go down by being hit by the flat edge of a shovel. :)
Telstra’s new adsl2+ plan
So Telstra released adsl2+ on 900 more exchanges yesterday. Lets have a quick comparison with how excellent their value is on this one.
Telstra
Internode
Monthly Cost
$69.95 (bundled: $59.95)
$59.95
Contract
12 - 24 months
none
Download Limit
0.6GB
20GB
Uploads Counted
Yes
No
Excess Usage
$150 per GB
Speed shaping
Mailboxes
$1 each. 15 max.
5 free
Webspace
20MB
50MB
Unmetered Content
link
link
Time to tear this scam to pieces.
The Download Limit
It is 600 megabytes. That means that you [...]
Pumpkins + Qotsa = Pant cream
Yes! An Adelaide show. And frigging Queens of the Frigging Stone Age supporting! I’ll be there. Hopefully. (and I’ll murder any scalpers on the night)
