Today is apparently the most
depressing day of the year according to the TV, radio and internet. Some
boffins in coats came up with an equation that worked out that everyone will be
depressed today due to a number of factors smashing into each other.
For me it has pretty much lived up to its name. The day was fine apart from the
awful weather but after getting home I got a message from one of my house mates
saying the landlord has been round today to show some potential tenants round
for when we move out. To my knowledge at the moment none of us in the house had
been given the mandatory 24 hours notice. They also unlocked and went in my
room without permission only then to proceed to leave it unlocked with the
light on.
This leaves me with a room with no insurance due to it being insecure and
voiding my policy. I phoned Unicom tonight and got them to send someone over to
lock it but it is besides the point I shouldn't have to worry about the
security of my stuff that is left in a locked room because some idiot is
unable to leave things how they found them. I well worded phone conversation
will be required tomorrow to ensure it doesn't happen again.
My second rant for today is down to BT and their poor excuse for a
router!
The BT Home Hub the pride and job of BT Internet. If you type in them 3 words
into Google you will get a few weeks worth of reading on how pathetic this
device is. The BT Home Hub is a piece of hardware made by Speedtouch (Despite
what I was told when I asked the sales representative) and then programmed by
some under trained monkeys at BT.
They can't even seem to be able to allow an iPhone onto their openzone/fon
wireless community because it's too much of a challenge to write a simple bit
of code that redirects a DNS request from an external source to a login page
which creates a cookie. The iPhone works with pretty much every website I have
been on apart from some pathetic JAVA application based websites such as universities
e-learning systems... I'm still yet to find what the JAVA application is
required for I could have written the whole thing in PHP and even used a bit of
JavaScript to make it wiz and bang a bit.
Basically if you’re going to get a router get one off a company that actually
knows what their doing like Linksys (Cisco) or Netgear.
Tomorrow is another working day with a website to copy from the development
server to the live server and another website visual to code into a working
HTML/CSS template. I may even be lucky enough to have another day of solving
problems caused by IT companies and email spam filters that block everything
that isn't spam.