I sent an email to our BT account manager. I attached two call recordings. The message size in total was only about 30MB. Our mail systems regularly deal with multi-hundred MB attachments. I’m not even sure they have a limit as such. SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<alex.bloor@aa.net.uk> SIZE=44091640: host smtpb1.bt.com [62.7.242.141]:…
Read More →Yesterday morning, as I left my flat for work, I noticed a Kelly Communications engineer in the hallway of my block of flats. Outside on the road, the familiar van was parked. Since I do love to post an amusing photo on FaceBook, no matter how small the audience that will “get” the joke, I…
Read More →This blogpost has been updated, please see the bottom for more recent edits. I work for an ISP, Andrews & Arnold Ltd. We are a small provider, catering for business users who value quality and technical adeptness over cost. That’s not to say we are expensive. We believe we offer “good value” even if that…
Read More →This one happened very suddenly. Natwest Bank (and RBS, and Ulster Bank) all had serious IT problems spanning several days. So on Friday night I cooked up the words for this song, recorded them on Saturday and made the video, releasing it Saturday Lunchtime. It’s now Sunday evening. We’re up to 3000 Youtube hits.. So…
Read More →Divine comedy’s Lady of a Certain Age
Read More →Chris and I had a go at Needle of Death by Bert Jansch. We thought it went well, and judging by the applause at the end, so did the people in the pub 🙂 A good night.
Read More →Sometimes you spend ages setting up a photo and it’s great and people love it. Particularly with portraiture. Sometimes you get lucky; shoot a few pics whilst out on a walk and one or two turn out well. Sometimes you point your camera out of the window, at nothing in particular, tweak the colours a…
Read More →I made another parody at last! Enjoy!
Read More →As is probably obvious by this blog, I work in IT. For this reason going abroad and travel in general has always been ‘of concern’ to me. I am responsible for servers, have clients who may need me to remotely fix something, or even visit them in person. Obviously, if I’m on the other side…
Read More →In my previous photography post I indicated I might do a limited edition print run of the two photos; the cows and the landscape. I might yet change the titles of both; certainly I’m going to drop the word England from the start of the title of the landscape, making it just “With all thy…
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