Posts by $till$kint

Blame everything on 'computer error' – no one will contradict you

Those kind of two-finger typos could get you into teouble if your name is Alan....

Scissors cut paper. Paper wraps rock. Lab-made enzyme eats plastic

Re: It is just me that's noticed.....

I think some readers may see that as inferring this is a problem of Chinese origin. It's not; their action has simply highlighted the scale of the issue. When China says "too big a problem for us to manage" we had all better sit up and pay attention.

BBC presenter loses appeal, must pay £420k in IR35 crackdown

A good, straight accountant is like a decent mattress; both help me sleep at night.

Dinosaurs gathered at NASA Goddard site for fatal feeding frenzy

Don't worry, someone in an NCIS lab* will be able to zoom in on that rock, rotate the image, extrapolate a full body view and reveal a reflection on the dinosaurs' eyeballs of a fast-approaching meteorite.

(*there'll be a dead marine somewhere in the story to establish jurisdiction. Probably crushed in the stampede.)

£60m, five years late... Tag criminal tagging as a 'catastrophic waste' of taxpayers' cash

Re: Radical Suggestion...

of?

Why did I buy a gadget I know I'll never use?

I was grinning along as I read this until I got to the bit about the drum of telephone cable. Too close to the truth for comfort....

Tech Hoarders Anonymous anyone?

Guy Glitchy: Villagers torch Openreach effigy

Re: Tradition

"I'll wager that a nice part of Dorset, with mainline access to London has more than a few well connected bigwigs, and that's why Openreach are doing it, nothing whatsoever to do with any "cluster of properties". "

You'd lose your bet. Mostly agricultural workers, families on benefits and retired folk with the remaining 1/3rd working in jobs ranging from school teacher to Project Manager. A number are able to work from home by nature of their work but unable due to.... Elastic band. What we do have is a sense of community and a determination to ensure the kids in our village aren't left behind with their homework, the tried can Skype their families and the rest of us can stop blasting carbon into the air with our unnecessary travel footprint

Re: Tradition

Narp. Oi be where the wildlings be, nestling on the Dorset Frome 'twixt Wool and Dorchvegas

Re: I regularly communicate with openreach

OpenReach actually correspond with you?!?! What super powers (or incriminating photos) do you possess?

Re: That's the price you pay...

H is for Horace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFU9HYyMVxQ

Re: Tradition

@ AC

BT are now rolling out FTTP using overhead in some areas. We're one of those locations in rural Dorset - 5km from the cabinet but a reasonably well concentrated cluster of properties and we have a mainline station for that there London, so the demand for service is pretty high.

OverReich have been stringing fibre through the trees for the last 5 weeks, with a few sections where foliage density requires a return to underground conduit. We're hoping for a switch-on later this month and it will be full FTTP.

I shan't be getting rid of my Draytek Vigo 2860LN any time soon as I suspect I will be making full use of the LTE fallback capability at some point...... Trees being prone to fall over and tractors having an unerring ability to knock over telegraph poles in this neck of the woods.

Icon? Because we drink scrumpy in Dorset too (see tractor driving capability)