‘Allo ‘Allo or Good Moaning as they say in certain sitcoms. It’s the end of the week and it’s also leap day or ladies day as some people call it.
Anyone out there born on this day happy birthday, they don’t come round very often, although not as rare as 30th February. More…
Half way through last year I had an idea: The Community Site needs some content, something for people to be interested in reading and checking regularly for more. I came up with the idea of ‘PlusNet TV’, where we get a bunch of people into the office, film chatting to them. We could talk about anything that was interesting and vaguely internet related: new technology, toys, problems, code and software etc. I mentioned it to Matt Grest and Ian Wild and we decided to ‘have a go’. More…
This week we had Mark Kacary from Cryptocard in to talk to about their managed 2 part auth services. We’ve been mulling over integrating it with a PlusNet OpenID system for a long time but have never been able to dedicate the time to progress it. The guys seemed quite enthusiastic about implementing it and were confident that it wasn’t going to be too taxing.
“It’s Friday 14th July 2000 and here is the news:”
Much work is going on behind the scenes in preparation for ADSL. This exciting new technology is eagerly awaited and will bring high-speed Internet connectivity to the desktop. More news on this very shortly.” More…
Over the past few weeks (months even!) I’ve been putting together a plan of what we (in the Web Development Department) would like to move forward with, in terms of improving the self-service convenience and self-help tools available on our http://www.plus.net/ website. We refer to such a vision as a roadmap. It gives us focus for the strategic activities we are expecting to undertake this year.
I’m a realist and I know that unexpected challenges, and conversely, opportunities, will come along and disrupt our plans. But there are things on here that we MUST deliver this year and we’ve already made a good start in the first two months of 2008.
Read on if you like.. it does go on a bit. 
Online Support Roadmap Spring 2008 (click image to download)
At the beginning of the year I was going to write about my technology predictions for 2008, but then feigned illness for a while and then forgot. However, PlusNet wouldn’t let me forget for too long and yesterday James threatened me with his pool cue so I thought I’d better get my act together.
My mother whole heartedly believes she has super natural powers and can predict the future (including the Lottery numbers), but unfortunately I really can’t claim to possess such a gift. After nearly 15 years of the National Lottery, my mother still can’t claim to be a millionaire so I guess her powers are not as strong as they could be either. Anyway, I’ll do my best!
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After reading and discussing some of the comments on our recent iPlayer usage blog and the follow-up I thought that for the next topic it would probably be useful to put together a piece on how UK ISPs like PlusNet are charged for the broadband services that they provide. More…
It’s nearly the end of the day and I’m hyper. I’m not entirely sure why. It’s not Friday and it’s not pay day (quite!). It must be the honour of being tonight’s editor 
Or maybe it’s just the fact that I’m still alive following yet another near death experience. Or something. Actually, it’s probably just the coffee. That’s boring. Sorry.
Wow! Just as I was posting to the forums the house starts shaking! Properly shaking.. with bottles rattling off the table.. Looks like the area has been hit with a bit of an earthquake. The local forums are already abuzz with it. Never felt anything like it.
Today’s been Tuesday, and it’s hard to believe it’s nearly the end of February already, which (hopefully) means before too long we’ll be able to leave the office at 6PM to daylight. It also means it’s my turn in the ‘Editor’ position – perhaps I’m being punished for asking for submissions for an ‘End of File’ yesterday rather than an EOD. Thankfully, today I did manage to ask for submissions for an EOD so on with the latest round of updates…
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