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Sun, 28 Aug 2005
[06:02] Hoorah For Gorman!
Date: 8/28/05 at 2:02PM
That would be gorman the ModBlog admin, not the hapless Lt Gorman from Aliens (just in case anyone was confused). And why is Gorman making me so happy? He's fixed the RSS feed problem! I've checked on http://planet.andrew.net.au and everything looks hunkydory.
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[02:23] BT giveth and BT taketh away...
Date: 8/28/05 at 10:23AM
At some point between 0745 and 1200 on Friday 26 August (GMT) the BT line to my house ceased to function. I tried to ring home at 1200 and it just rung and rung. We quickly ascertained that the bastard was no longer working because a) no ringing in or out and b) NO BLOODY ADSL!!!!!
I raised a fault on the BT website and after 2 hours of what I assume was automated checking it came back with this:
The green highlight started out at 1 and stopped at 4. I'm pretty sure this is bad because that means it's going to be a wiring issue or something. I called them up and after playing with nigh on every single robot they've got I finally managed to get ascertain that BT was working on the fault and it would be fixed....by the sixteenth of September! Hahaha, ahh - and I used to think Telstra was bad. I tried to find a human I could talk to and eventually got one by pretending I didn't have a TouchTone phone. They explained to me that this is the maximum amount of time it will take to repair/rectify the fault and that I can live with it.
I kept an eye out for people who'd crashed into poles/exchanges on the way but there wasn't anything obvious. I checked all the wiring I could access when I got home. The phone's OK but I tried isolating it from the modem and all that crap. I unscrewed the wiring box outside my front door and it looked OK to my laymans eyes, I followed the wires to the goddawful mess at the end of my floor which I have no clue as to how to decipher - I'm going to stick a photo here to prove what a goddawful mess it really is. I finally wandered downstairs to the BT Junction Box/Room. It was unlocked so I figured "What the hey" and opened the door....THE DOOR TO HELL aiiiiieeeeee
Again, the photo is coming, but let me describe the scene for you. The room is a small utility room and contains the telephone and electricity junction boxes and fuses. Now, when I say junction box what I mean in THIS case is the massive birdsnext of wires stapled to the wall. I swear that my first thought when I walked in there was "OK, here's the problem, someone has attacked the junction box with an axe" - seriously. There is shattered plastic all over the floor and wires writhing in all directions, some cut some connected. I investigated a little more closely and decided that due to the fact that some of the wires were painted onto the wall and some were twisted to hold what remains of the junction box together that it had probably been this way for a while. I would dearly love to see Mr BT working on this - how the hell he's going to know which wires connect to my house is a complete mystery to me...
UPDATE: Behold, in all its glory:
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