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Guy Kawasaki blogs about how he was charged by AT&T for a DSL service he never ordered and had to go through customer service hell to try and get it canceled. His experience sounds familiar.

The iPhone is released in the States today and the only network it is available on is crappy AT&T. My mobile contract with T-Mobile is up for renewal soon and I’m holding off upgrading my phone until I hear about the iPhone release in the UK. But if for some reason it turns out it is only available on a Virgin contract then you can bet I won’t be touching it no matter how cool it is.

By the way, having had no response from Virgin Media about the £25 they owe me for a service they never provided I have filed a complaint with the Communications & Internet Services Adjudication Scheme. Maybe they have the secret Virgin Media customer service number that connects you to someone who has a clue.

This guy has a great name for a sysadmin:

Daley’s view was backed by Tim Chown, systems administrator for the University of Southampton’s school of electronics and computer science and a member of the UK’s IPv6 taskforce.

You know how new cars always smell really nice? I don’t know why the fumes given off by all that new plastic and glue smell nice but they do. I imagine a new Ferrari with full leather interior would smell even better. The trouble is, no matter how clean you keep your car, that smell always quickly fades.

I’ve had my MacBook for a little while now and it still faintly has the same smell that wafted up when I opened the box and cracked open its lid for the first time.

Now, Kathryn thinks I’m weird because I also like the smell of books and magazines but I googled for “new mac smell” and it turns out I’m not the only one. Apparently it is:

a little bit of plastic bag with a hint of lindenberry followed by a rush of Styrofoam

I thought I may as well put some of the work I did for my MSc online rather than leave it languishing on my hard drive where it will never be seen again.

I’m not ready to publish my final project yet but here is a research essay I wrote about Mock Objects and test driven design.

I used the cool Pandora plugin for the GIMP to make this panorama of a 360 degree view from the top of Rannerdale Knotts in the Lake District.

Unfortunately it doesn’t work too well at a small size as the original is 16,654 pixels wide!