Don’t expect to see much from me online outside business hours. Our churn to Supernerd (or as I’ve lovingly started referring to them, ‘Supershit’ or ‘Superuseless’) has kind of gone through, but they can’t tell me what our new phone number is.
This has two effects:
a) I can make a phone call, but I can’t receive one.
b) Even though I believe my DSL modem is seeing an authentication server and attempting to create a PPP connection, I can’t supply the required username and password as they contain the phone number!
I’ve called Superuseless twice now, and both the tech support and accounts departments tell me that our number is still the one that we had on Telstra. I’ll call them again tonight and see if their story has changed, and if they repeat it I’ll ask them to call me on that number and see if I pick up. 
I’ll circulate the new number once I finally know what it is. Until then, enjoy your connection to the outside world.
Oh, I’ve removed the Twitter updates from the page as well, as Twitter is down more often than not, and it slows my site down. If you want to see what I’m up to on Twitter, please visit http://localhost – you’ll get much the same result as you do from the Twitter site right now.
