For somewhere between 1 and 2 years we have had the same BT account manager, Martin. This length of tenure is rare for us. We seem to wear them out or break them far faster usually. Prior to Martin, we had had two in just six months. Prior to that, we’d had none for ages…
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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 →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 →Much against my better judgement (see my previous rant about Spotify) I have resubscribed to Spotify Premium. Placebo are still not present on the system which is a massive pain in the backside, and as far as I know, it still doesn’t work on my old mobile phone… But I got a new phone (see…
Read More →I’ve now had the new HTC Desire S for about a week. My previous phone was the original HTC Desire. Lots of people have asked me whether it’s better, what changes have been made etc. So I thought I’d write a blog post about it. In summary : I am very pleased with the HTC…
Read More →Inspired by my friend James’ post on how annoyed he has become with Spotify, I thought I’d join the chorus. I too have become very fed up with Spotify, despite being one of the first people I knew to have a £10 a month premium account. Placebo – not as good as the real thing? …
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