I’m now in the land of dial-up while I’m between DSL providers. Smart Telecom seem to be jolly slow at getting me setup.
Two of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year happen on Friday:
- Apple release the latest version of Mac OS; 10.4. I probably wont get a chance to play with it properly for a while but it looks really great.
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy starts showing in cinemas. This also looks like it’s going to be quite good. With Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Bill Bailey and a gaggle of others, how can it be bad?
I happen to have the day off work on Friday so I think I’ll beat the rush and see H2G2 in the afternoon. I don’t have the day off especially to see it but there’s a rumour starting in work that I do. Speaking in work, they stiffed me for time I spent travelling on my last trip. I’ll make sure that the next time I travel I do as much as possible of it on the company’s time. Grumble.
[ Update ]
The Verdict: It’s Ok, but not smashing-super. It didn’t have enough jokes or passages from the guide which, for me, were the funniest parts in the originals. There are worse ways to spend 110 minutes.
Caveat: I’m a grumpy sod, you’ll probably enjoy it lots.
I’m thinking of going to hitch hikers tonight.
Generally delays in getting a new telecom provider are due to eircom being utterly uncooperative. Feckers. And when you switch, they’ll call to your house about twice a year trying to get you to switch back.
http://www.media-file.net/hhgg/zaphod.mov
that’ll hold ya
I like that.
Colm is entirely right.
Having written a large portion of the stealCustomerFromEircom() software for Smart, I can say that the bottleneck is at Eircom’s end.
If only I still worked in job-1, and I could bump you up the rankings a bit.