Posts by Wraith Black

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Re: Don’t their PR people ever read news stories?

Better than checking the Bank of Scotland service status page.

It was down as well.. with exactly the same error messages as the services it is supposed to be reporting the status of..

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

The Tomato Sauce Dispenser

Because ever since Mosaic they have been trying to ketchup?

Begone, Demon Internet: Vodafone to shutter old-school pioneer ISP

Re: Farewell Old Fiend.

Zen is looking like the way to go.. assuming that selling me out to Vodafone counts as enough of ai contract change to let me out without penalties.

Farewell Old Fiend.

Sad to hear, though it is true they have been a shadow of their former selves for some time now.

I've been using Demon since the 16k dial-up days with very few issues.

Ah well, so long as I can find someone else who'll give me a static IP and let me use my own router.

Might be the shove I need to dump the extortionate BT landline that has only been used for ADSL (and the occasional scam callers) for the past five years.

Motorist 'thought car had caught fire' as Adele track came on stereo

Meanwhile on the A1..

"Do not read texts while driving"