Tony Sutton’s Blog!

Whoa, that was quick! I registered it at 1:15pm today and now it’s already in the WHOIS database! Fastest service I’ve ever seen… thanks to Virtualnames for setting it up quickly!

Finally, got all of the presents wrapped up!

Have you?

I had a great idea this morning, went off and got myself a new domain name. Now I’m setting up a new website for this. I’ll let you all know what I’m going to do when I get this up & running.

Just got myself 4 new DVD films, which are;

Starship Troopers
Demolition Man
Under Siege
Under Siege 2

It was an “buy three, get one free” offer from HMV. Can’t wait to watch them.

Got my replacement today. Perfect timing for Xmas! I hope it will work this time… will let you know.

Status on 24-7Freecall - still nothing.

“Crazy/Weird Stuff On the ‘Net”

If you found a website, with crazy and/or weird stuff, post the URL in this new
message board to share with everyone.

Hope to see you there to share your finding with us!

Still no fax from them. Meanwhile, The Register finally ran my story, see here

Ok, 20 cards all done. I hope I haven’t forgotten anyone! I.T. Services - done. Management - done, Hardware - done. Oh yes, the development team!

Arghhhh.. I forgotten all about this… so I’m writing loads of cards for work as they sent me loads. Can anyone do this for me? I’ll give you a list.

No reply. No Fax. Sod ‘em. However, I just got an e-mail from TheRegister, who told me that he will run a story on the e-mail I sent to them. I don’t know which article they was referring to, but it might be this one (thanks Scott!)

This might mean nothing to you, but I finally got my other computer up & running. It’s running Windows ME now. But I don’t like it. So, what O/S do you think I should put on? I have Windows 95, 98, 2000, Redhat and BeOS. I think I might go with BeOS as I liked it, but any suggestions are welcome. Oh yeah, and I have access to QNX O/S too.

Well, looks like I’m going to send it back to get a new replacement. The region stuff weren’t working right. It’s supposed to be free region, but for some reasons, it did not work. It got “locked” to one region. Ah well, hopefully they will send anotherone to me before Xmas!

Just found out they took my £20 and then telling me that they’re closing my account without any refund!

Cheeky sod.

My ISP, 24-7Freecall has disabled my account! Grrr… see email below.

Dear subscriber

We have reached the maximum number of subscribers that we can currently
safely cater for without it adversely affecting the service for all users.

We will therefore not be accepting any new subscribers until we can
increase the capacity to cope with new users.

Sadly as a subscriber to 24-7Freecall your patterns of usage are
inconsistent with the levels that we can support at this time. Your usage
is causing congestion on the network that is leading to problems for
thousands of other users.

Regretfully your 24-7Freecall account has been terminated on 13th December
2000.

No refunds will be given.

You can email custcare@24-7freecall.co.uk with your concerns.

24-7Freecall
Customer Care

I have complained to them, so I will keep you updated about this. I worked out the hours of usage. I worked out that I only use about 5 hours or so per day, with about 8 to 10 hours per day on Sat and Sun. This is normal usage, don’t you think so? Anyway, I think it’s not right if they advertise themselves as “24-7 ISP! Use it as long as you want!” and then cutting me off. Not fair…

Will keep you updated on this.

I got a free copy of Midtown Madness 2 from Microsoft today. The box looks good & big (USA version). I haven’t installed it yet, but I will try to over the weekend. This is a good timing as I’m currently redesigning my website and this game could help me to improve my MM2 section.

Speaking about my website, my domain name finally got moved to the new host, so you should see an increase of speed when visiting my website. So, enjoy!