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Some things I agree with
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Thursday, June 28 Right. Because so many people have been asking me, "how come you don't get cable when they cabled right past your road?", here's my response. For the last time. I can't get cable (at the moment) because: Telewest cabled down the road next to my road. Which is a county-council-owned road. So that's ok. However, the road I live on is a private road - every house on the road owns the bit of road in front of it, and I'm the farthest away from the road's opening. This means that everyone who's in the way of any possible path for laying cable must consent to having Telewest dig up "their" strip of road, and if one person says no, that's it. No cable. Up until now, my neighbours couldn't be bothered with cable cuz the bloke had a nice 128k ISDN paid for by his company. However, with the sudden demise of RedHotAnt (his ISP) and lack of use thereon, his line got cut by British Telecom. It was damn expensive anyway... The people at the end of the road (closest to the cable dist box, and essentially the key players in the quest for cable on my road) said no to Telewest digging up their little measly patch of road. They couldn't give a rat's ass, from what I make of them. They have Sky Digital, a nice widescreen telly, and I'm pretty damn sure broadband satellite, so why would they want cable? They have digital telly, and (I suspect) satellite internet. So what do they care? However, with my neighbour hankering for a fast internet connection (I can see it in the way his eyes move nervously whenever I happen to drop in his lost ISDN line into casual conversation hehehe) and myself also dying for a cable modem so I can whoop my mate's ass in Unreal Tourney, we could be onto something. In 2 against 1 situations = the 2 usually win. So... I'll just pay my end-of-the-road neighbours a little visit.. Mr. Crowbar can come too. ;) Scuse me ppl - have to go clean Mr. Crowbar up, get him nice and shiny. Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 6/28/2001 06:21:00 AM. Roughly. Blog ID: 4279135· | Permalink |