Posts by BillyRayPreachersSon

Her Majesty's Secret Service opens a Q-Branch apprentice scheme

MI5 clearly need to hire new web developers (or QAers)

i've just clicked the "MI5 careers" ad on your site, which takes me to https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers/current-jobs/job.aspx?id=195. Scrolling to the bottom of the page, you can see DoubleClick ad code appearing in the copy for the job due to a closing body tag in a "comment". I guess they need better web developers, or better QA.

If they can't put out web pages without such basic, glaring errors, it makes me wonder what else they're cutting corners on...

TalkTalk goes silent

It's been down since 8:15pm last night

It's not just this morning - our broadband connection (initially with Bulldog, then Pipex -> Tiscali -> TalkTalk) to the Woolwich exchange has been down since 8:15pm last night, all through the night, and is still down now (1:20pm the next day - I'm sending this through my mobile).

This, along with the many, many service interruptions and shocking speed (paying for 16, having to connect at 8) have been enough to make me sign up with O2 for home phone and broadband this morning. Talking with neighbours, their O2 ADSL connection has been rock-solid for months, so if I can get good speeds without lining the pockets of these shysters, then all the better.

RIP TalkTalk - you will not be missed