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The O2 Nightmare

O2Time for a rant I'm afraid. The other day I lost my mobile phone, I've no idea what happened to it but I suspect that it may have fallen out of my coat pocket when I put it up on the luggage shelf on the train to work. Even though it was annoying to loose my phone I was quite happy to buy a new phone, even if I could have done without the expense, as the one I lost was over 4 years old, was starting to be temperamental and was basically a bit rubbish really.

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Moving House

I haven't updated my site in a few months now as, at long last, we have moved house and I've been somewhat tied up with that. I say at long last because it has taken a year almost to the day to happen and has been one of the most stressful things we have ever done.

It all started a year ago when we were getting a little concerned that the area of Brighton we were living in was rapidly becoming the place for students to rent and property developers where buying up properties left, right and center in order to meet the demand.

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Finding A New ISP

When we were living in Brighton we used to have cable TV and Internet from NTL who, despite their bad reputation, I never had a seconds problem with and was always very happy with their service and would certainly recommend them to others. However the only reason we went with NTL was because we didn't have a BT phone line and BT wanted to charge us over £150 & dig up our garden to put one in. At our new house though we do have a BT line and rather than go back to NTL I wanted to choose a new ISP and take advantage of the various deals out there, many of which are cheaper than NTL anyway.

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