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A windy Wednesday

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My BT Home Hub arrived yesterday, it’s a pretty naff looking device that is quite flimsy, the web based configuration software is not at all user friendly. The hub phone works very well though. One important thing with configuring the home hub is to locate the software CD and ensure it doesn’t go anywhere near the pc as all it does is load rather a lot of unnecessary software – fortunately I was aware of this before my hub arrived. In typical BT style the order tracking details on their web site shows that my hub is due to be despatched tomorrow for delivery the following day. Quite a few set up issues with the BT Home Hub mainly involving Windows networking. I think it’s all working at the moment.

Rachel was discharged from hospital today. 🙂

A very wet Thursday

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I’ve been catching up with the folk podcast run by Ken Nicol (Steeleye Span) and Phil Widdows, I’m quite new to listening to podcasts (the term comes from an amalgamation of i-pod and broadcasts although you don’t need an i-pod), the folk podcast is produced monthly and is in essence a ‘radio’ programme accessible on the web, you can listen to it in Windows Media Player (or any other media player) or copy it to a personal MP3 player. You can access individual programmes directly from the folk podcast web site or install a free RSS Podcast Client (rather like a blog aggregator) which will keep you up to date with selected podcasts. I downloaded the free Juice software which seems to work very well.

The heavy rain and high winds have continued through the day and we also had a brief power cut.

I managed to complete the upgrade process for BT Total Broadband today by telephone, having failed to make it happen on-line on the BT website, both times I tried on their web site I received a confirmation page that stated the upgrade had been accepted but that was where the upgrade process ended! Fingers crossed that everything will be working next week.

A mainly dry Sunday

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We had lunch at John & Ida’s in Pontypridd today, unfortunately they ran out of their excellent home made rice pudding but their home made trifle with massive strawberries was delicious.

I called over to my Mum’s later this afternoon and cut and mitred the replacement piece of skirting board.

A quiet evening but it’s back to making up albums again tomorrow and next week I’ll also be busy with month end accounts and preparing the next VAT return.