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The Joost is loose, around the, er, Internet

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Ever wondered what the next HUGE website will be? Ever thought it would be cool to get in on the ground level of a new Internet phenominon before it took off? Well, now’s your chance, and this isn’t some pitch for my own stuff either.

The creators of Skype (sure you’ve heard of that) are in Beta testing of their latest get obscenely rich scheme, this time named Joost. Check it out here, sign up for Beta testing and find out what will be selling to Google or Yahoo in a few years time for several hundred million dollars.

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1and1 Internet still buggered

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Internet nerd site The Register reported today that 1and1 Internet have been pissing off their customers for the second time this week.

Hosting and email provider 1and1 has annoyed its customers for the second time this week with patchy service.

The Register has been contacted by a dozen irate 1and1 customers, all complaining that their inability to access email, which the firm told us it had sorted on Tuesday, had resurfaced.

Many have had trouble contacting the firm. Our own call was sent to hold music for several minutes and then went dead. A recorded message informs callers the firm is working on a technical fault and is hoping to have normal service resumed “as soon as possible”.

Readers report both POP3 and SMTP are a no-go.

Reader Craig said:

The last email I received properly was 11:11 this morning, and I just get a send & receive error in Outlook when I try. Their webmail interface just gives a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error too!
And Mark asks asks what we’re itching to know too: “Any idea what’s behind their bullsh*t excuses?”

Of course, this isn’t the second time 1and1 have pissed off their customers this week. It’s the first, because they never fixed the sodding problem in the first place. I phoned them this morning, and got an engaged tone on their support line, so phoned their sales line – and naturally got through.

Someone promissed that everything would be sorted by this afternoon, and mumbled something about them jumping the gun with their earlier optimism about the problem being fixed. We’ll see about that eh?

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Don’t hassle the hoff, or me

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The HoffJust been looking for a costume for a Super Hero related pub crawl, and I came across this.

Is it not the greatest costume you’ve ever seen?

My good lady tells me that the Hoff isn’t a super hero, but clearly she’s mistaken. I’m not going to buy the costume from this shop, as I’ve got all of the seperate parts myself already, including the wig.

So if you’re out an about in Leeds on February 15th, and you happen to see the Hoff walking your way – it’s me!

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Don’t panic, everything’s ok says 1and1

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For the last few days I, like many thousands of people have been experiencing problems with my email through my hosting company 1and1 Internet.

Luckily, 1and1 says the problems are all sorted, the following is taken from Internet nerd news site The Register:

Yesterday, a number of UK customers experienced some delay in receiving inbound email. The delay was due to a surge in email volumes over our email servers. Our email system continued to receive all email during this time, with only its delivery to inboxes being delayed.

The email delay was handled according to set procedure, emails were queued and stored and no email was lost during this time.

The technical issue was resolved and all emails involved are being delivered safely. Only 1&1 email users were affected.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused to our customers due to the queuing of emails.

Today, 1&1’s UK Customer Control Panel was temporarily unavailable for a very short time whilst systems were maintained.

Well that’s nice to know isn’t it? Now, when I fail miserably to get my email I can take comfort in the fact 1and1 says everything’s hunky fucking dory.

Of course, it’s not. It still doesn’t sodding work, so their sticking their heads in the sand doesn’t make the problem go away. 1and1, get it sorted you muppets.

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Good job I brought my wip

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I’m really getting into this YouTube. Here’s a classic from circa 1995, where Swansea based Steven Gane dons the jacket, hat and wip of Indiana Jones – mixed with the make-up of Julian Clary.

The shit some people will do if you tell them no one will ever see it eh? Steven Gane as Juliana Clary, watch and weep.

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France becoming part of Great Britain?

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So it seems that in 1950 France wanted to unify with Great Britain. I’ve just been asked how I feel about that.

Well, it wouldn’t be so bad so long as there were a few provisos. We could have a new, unified name to display the unity between the two Countries. Something like ‘Great Britain’ would suffice. Then of course we’d need one single currency, something which many Brits are unsure of, but if we called it ‘The Pound’ for example I’m sure they’d come round.

We’d also need a single language to help the trade between us, English has a nice ring to it, we can use that. Finally we’d need a flag, something which embodies the Union Flag of the British Isles, and the White flag of French Surrendership… that’s it, I can’t entertain this crap any more! The bloody cheese eating, sheep burning, wine guzzling, Nazi collaborating surrender monkeys unifying with us???

The bloody cheek of it. Non monsier.

You snobby bastards were offered the chance by Churchill back in 1940 as the Bosch were trampling through your vineyards, and you shrugged your Gallic shoulders and turned tail to the Germans, then you’ve the bloody cheek to ask for it ten years later.

I need to lay down.

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Google PR Update

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Today is the day that many nerds all over the net wet their online pants about – Google has updated its visible toolbar Page Rank. Yay!

While this isn’t the most important aspect to a website’s success, it does show that things are heading in the right direction if you get an increase, as I did with the website www.okprintit.com. However, www.whatdvd.net went down from 5 to 4, gutted.

Thankfully the main site, www.thetransformers.net held firm at a PR6. MrDaz.com however is too new to rank at all, maybe next time. All the sites linking in here, it should score heavily in the next update.

So, whether the update has been kind to you, or not so kind, let me wish you all a Happy PR Update Day!

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How useless are the police, really?

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My sister had her car tyres slashed this week, while her Corsa (shit car, I know) was parked outside her house. She said every car in the street was done, about 30 in total, and when she called the police guess what they did.

Go on, guess…

If you said “Leap into action and get staight over there” you’re a twat. Oh no, the correct answer is: “Absolutely fuck all”.

That’s right, our taxes pay for these retards to do nothing, zip, scratch their balls and watch TV, etc, etc.

They said, and this is priceless, as there were so many crimes at once if they came out they’d be there all night. And the award for reaching new heights in incompetance goes to… Newport police.

Well done guys, you’ve amazed even me in my cynical life. I didn’t think the police could be quite that useless, but there you go.

So much anger, so little time