Act Three
Right. Phone line reconnected, broadband back on, laptop working. It's been a fairly irksome couple of weeks. I thank you for your patience. It all started to slip away from me on Sunday 15 July, when flash floods in London brought water through the roof of the building where my office is, and, as detailed previously, my PowerBook was drowned. Once I had my new one installed and set up, on Monday 23 July, I enjoyed just two days in the sun before BT cut my phone off, on Wednesday 25. It is now a week later and all is well again, albeit only after my pram was relieved of a number of its toys. Over those two weeks I grew used to having no email connection and no Internet access unless I hopped on somebody else's computer. It's good to have your technological teat taken away, in order to appreciate it. (I didn't need it taking away, of course. I realise how reliant I am on broadband. When most of your work is done on a computer, this goes with the territory. It's not a profound discovery.) Anyway, normal service is, I hope, resumed.
My blogging, done in snatched moments on PCs in recording studios and at the convenience of people I know at the BBC, has been sporadic and unfocussed and under-par. As a result, traffic has slowed down. I hope to rectify that with some proper reviews and rants in the near future, and that you will be standing by with your usual zeal.
What you may not have noticed is that the website has had a spring-clean, courtesy of my web-guru Kevin. Just a modest brush-up, but I've organised my blogs:
1. Never Knowingly Underwhelmed. YOU ARE HERE. This is the main one. Always will be.
2. The Corner is now where you'll find news (it's under NEWSBLOG in the menu at the top) - stuff about what I'm doing, workwise, appearances, radio shows, the kind of entries that feel a little dry and self-serving for the main blog.
3. If there's an emergency and these two blogs freeze, as has happened twice in the past, due to server trouble, what used to be The Corner is now called I Think We Need Back-Up. No need to check in here, unless advised to do so.
Now, where were we?
posted by Andrew Collins @ 12:17 PM
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Good to have you back, but I think something has gone awry during the spring clean. The RSS feed for this blog shows the latest entry as being "Argos Bruce Parry?" from May the 9th. I'm pretty sure the problem's not at my end, but I'll stand-by to be corrected.
I'm glad to hear that all is well again. Although, that will learn you to have the hubris to go around saying things like 'greet the new dawn', when in fact it was a false dawn, with rainclouds.
Now I presumed that, as you had a laptop, sorry PowerBook, you would have been logging in to any open WiFi connection and staying in touch that way but apparently not. Any particular reason for this, or indeed not having broadband at home as well?
I don't mean to pry into your home arrangements, but it seems to me that for someone so reliant on the technology for your work you seem to be disadvantaging yourself a bit..? 'Cos it will surely go wrong again one da, as any fule kno.
AnotherAnon
I am against wi-fi. Don't trust them radio waves.
Home broadband is another tale of woe. Had to cancel home account with BT due to total failure to get up and running. Considering other options. (And actually, I like having broadband at work only, as it forces me to come home from work and forget about it, which is very healthy.)
Ah yes...and yet you make some of your living on the radio...
Hm.
All broadband connections are wireless anyway, somewhere along the line.
I think Sky offer some kind of service, piggybacked on their satellite signal. Yes, I know, MORE radio waves.
AnotherAnon
hay andrew I can recomend an amazing homeopathic treatment to protect you from the wi-fi. I know there are people with their "facts" and "evidence" who say it is safe but I know you are better than that.
Imagine if it had happened while The Apprentice was on.
And see http://www.ehponline.org/members/2007/10286/10286.pdf
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