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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
A couple of weeks ago, I rang up Orange and told them I was off to T-Mobile. Last time I did that, they put me through to their customer retention department, and sorted me out with a fantastic deal which I was very happy with. I was therefore expecting at least some resistance this time, but no, the lady just said "Oh, ok, so you'll be wanting your PAC then?"
Bye bye then, Orange. No wonder they're sacking 15% staff to cut costs, she didn't even try to get me to sign up for a cheaper plan ...
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In case any of you are running it, I've just noticed a couple of small issues with my smess code for PG+, so here's a little bugfix: smess-1.3.tar.gz. The only changes are to smess.c.
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It's been a busy week and a bit - I'm still catching up on work from my last stay in Kent, but I'm nearly on top of everything now.
But you can't work all the time, so I took last weekend off. I headed up to Bath to meet up with lots of friends from Uni, most of whom I hadn't seen for at least 10 months - there were a few faces missing, and a few new ones, but it was great to get together again. We had a meal at Feast, then went off to ...
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First, a little history. Many years ago, I had a series of very large mobile phone bills. At the time I was on the legendary Orange Everyday 50 tariff - 50 free minutes every day? Nice. However, I was living in uni accomodation with no landline to use, so I was regularly overrunning the 50 minutes, as well as making cross-provider calls and sending lots of text messages. A change was in order.
I looked around, and settled on upgrading my orange contract to a new one. They were only too happy to do that - ED50 was bleeding them dry, and ...
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I'm still in Kent after my Gran's 100th birthday last week, and I've had a few days between meetings. That's given me time to start on my new framework, and I've been working on the JavaScript libraries - they're the most important thing for potential users of the system, so as long as I've got the UI finished the rest can follow when there's time.
The first three libraries are done, which leaves four to go. If nothing unplanned and urgent comes along, I should be able to start posting them some time ...
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