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Disconnected

I'm not shunning you all. Tiscali, the total muppets, have done something nasty to our broadband and don't seem to have any answers beyond "it will be fixed sometime next week." Uh, thanks.

The good news is that I don't have to be anything more than mildly irritated about the situation as Alpha Male is angry enough for both of us. Noisy emails littered with terms like "breach of contract", "I demand a refund" and "compensation" are being fired at the doubtless cowering Tiscali crew practically on the hour, every hour. I do love a man with a mission.

So the posts I had lined up will have to wait until I can get back online from the comfort of my own home. Work is pretty busy right now and I doubt it will go down very well if I ignore my clients in favour of the blog, so I guess I'm in enforced time-out until next week.

Have a great weekend y'all, whatever you're planning and wherever you are.

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