the unknown internet
I hate not knowing – currently we have temporary slow internet, it’s slow between 5ish and 11ish every night. Simple i think it’s the broadband provider getting all slow – except it’s not because when...
View ArticleGrrr Arggg Slow Internet
Having slow broadband is like having your arm cut off; well that might be a bit harsh. It’s more like when you trap your thumb in the door, and then it swells up a bit and then every time you do...
View Articleout of the darkness
It’s like a huge weight has been removed from my computer – or someone has given the hamster some performance enhancing drugs! after almost 6 months of dodgy internet Virgin Media have actually got...
View Articlethis post will cost the UK Economy…
It winds me right up – every time anything, and I mean anything is seen as getting in the way of people being chained to their desks, it costs the UK economy. Never a mention of how driving people into...
View ArticleI might start buying real books again
It saddens my little heart when I pickup a book and see my Kindle lying unloved next to the bed, but until some quite fundamental things change, I think I will be do that more often in the future. A...
View ArticleVindictive legislation – really, is this what we’ve come to?
So, it’s all gone a bit quiet at theJumps, hasn’t it? I expect you’ll be wondering what’s been going on. Well, on the domestic front, we’ve just been pottering about. Seeing friends, learning about...
View Article(nearly) internet free
We’ve been living an Internet light life since Monday, when the cable modem started going on the blink – it quite literally blinks when it’s broken. I’ve had a quite irate call with Virgin over it –...
View Articlegreen balloon youth
look - secret signals! Is it just me, or is their something strangely unearthing about the green balloon club? I mean all the kids of the country of a certain age, are completely engulfed in...
View ArticleMissing the point (as ever)
I follow Ed Balls on Twitter. I don’t really get Twitter. I’m only following ten people, and one of them is Ed Balls. I would not like you to gain the impression that this is because I am a huge and...
View ArticleRanty McRanterson
The election is making me ranty. Today, the Tories announced their manifesto, the most newsworthy bit of which is about extending Right to Buy – from tenants in council-owned properties, to those in...
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