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Moved and Online

// January 24th, 2010 // Personal

Well hasn’t this just been an on-line hive of activity lately!

It’s odd but the older I get the less I’m inclined to blog. I guess it’s the combination of having more things going on in my life and Twitter to take care of the little link posts that would previously have taken up a couple of hundred posts per year. Either way I’m not planning on making any empty promises about updating regularly nor am I planning to shut it down. I’ll drip the posts out as and when I’m ready thank you very much … starting with this one:

So The GGF, myself and out two mogletts have moved house again. We finally found somewhere that met the requirements and moved in a couple of weeks before Christmas. We’re still in the phase of decorating and furnishing (You actually need a sofa? Who knew???) but the place is slowly becoming a home rather than simply a series of walls and windows.

Of course from a geek* perspective the most exciting thing about moving is simply that I am now in charge of my own Internet connectivity again without the need for a cursed VPN tunnel to ensure privacy and reliability of service. I know it will make (most of) you smile but we’re running on JTs 4MB line and I can’t believe how much of a difference it makes!

Given that we’re still Sky TV free, the majority of our household entertainment comes via teh InterTubes and having access to iPlayer content, 4OD and other *ahem* sources is a massive help! Not to mention because I have total control of the bandwidth up to the modem, we can actually run QOS which, thus far, has ensured hassle free browsing even whilst iPlayer is streaming and COD MWII is running with a perfectly reasonable ping!

It’s also wonderful to actually have a space to sit at the computer and work/play/muck about online rather than sitting in a damp hole in the corner of the bedroom in the old flat. In terms of said old flat, hopefully sometime this week we’ll be getting out deposit back which we’re promptly spending on … a sofa! That said, our previous land lord doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to being speedy about this kind of thing so fingers crossed…

There is one tiny downside to moving here though – a bakery downstairs means fresh pastries for breakfast are becoming something of a fixture and I can see my waistline suffering if we’re not too careful!

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* Seriously Firefox**? You don’t have Geek in your dictionary?

** Or Firefox come to that ???!!!???